PinPoint lets you start selling websites to local businesses from your phone: it finds open businesses with no website, builds a mobile-ready site from their own Google listing, and lets you set your price and hosting fee before sending a secure checkout link. On PinPoint Lite, PMV collects the client's payment and keeps 10 percent before paying you; on PinPoint Pro, the client pays you directly and PMV keeps 5 percent. Pindrop works in a similar way but pays 90 percent to your own Stripe account, and its own help center notes that an unpaid plan can lead to Pindrop taking over the client after 14 days.
If you want to start selling websites to local businesses, the practical question is not whether it can be done. It is how you find the businesses, build the site, set a price, and actually get paid. PinPoint was built to answer all four, and this post walks through each one, with a look at how Pindrop handles the same job.
How to start selling websites to local businesses
You do not need to know how to code or design. PinPoint runs on your own phone, on Google Play for Android or the App Store for iPhone. Open it near a shop, a contractor's office, or any local business, and it searches for real, open businesses nearby that have no website. It also checks the business's other Google listings under the same name and the same phone number or map location, and leaves it off the list if any of those listings already has a site. If that check fails for some reason, the business still shows up, so you confirm it yourself before you walk in.
How PinPoint builds the site you show the owner
Once you pick a business, PinPoint builds a complete, mobile-ready website straight from its own Google listing: its real photos, its hours, its services, and its reviews. There is no blank page to fill in and no waiting on a designer. You show the finished site to the owner on your phone right there, which is the same approach covered in more detail in how to find local businesses with no website. If the owner says yes, you set your price, add a domain name and a monthly hosting fee, and send a secure Stripe checkout link. Once they pay, PinPoint registers the domain, points it at the new site, and turns on the secure lock on its own.
Setting your price and your hosting fee
You are the one who decides what to charge, not PinPoint. A few rules shape that decision:
- You set the one-time website price for each client.
- You set the monthly hosting fee, which has to be at least $24 a month.
- The client stays yours, and the finished site carries your name, not PMV's.
- You can go back into the app any time and change a site's words, photos, or hours, and the live site updates in minutes.
How you get paid: PinPoint Lite and PinPoint Pro
PinPoint comes in two plans, and the difference mostly comes down to how the money moves. On PinPoint Lite, which includes 20 template sites and 300 searches a month, the client's payment goes to PMV first. PMV keeps 10 percent of the website price and 10 percent of each month of hosting, then sends the rest to you, less the card processing fee, seven days after the client pays. On PinPoint Pro, which includes 10 custom AI-designed sites, unlimited template sites, and 1,000 searches a month, the client pays straight into your own Stripe account, and PMV only takes 5 percent of the website price and 5 percent of each month of hosting. A full worked example with both plans side by side is in PinPoint Lite vs Pro.
How this compares with Pindrop
Pindrop is a separate app aimed at the same job: it builds a finished website for a local business in minutes so you can show the owner and sell it on the spot, on web, iPhone, and Android. On Pindrop, the client's card payment goes 90 percent to your own Stripe account each month, with Pindrop keeping the other 10 percent. There is a detail worth knowing before you rely on that split: Pindrop's own help center says the client's subscription is actually with Pindrop, not with you, and if you stop paying for your plan, a change request left unanswered for 10 days brings a warning, and at 14 days Pindrop takes that client over, ending your share of that account. Pindrop's own pricing study, as of October 17, 2026, lists 450 prices from 207 builders, with only 18 of those prices paid by the owner so far, a median build fee asked of $500, and a median monthly charge asked of $50. A fuller side-by-side, built from Pindrop's own published numbers, is in selling websites with Pindrop. You can read Pindrop's pages yourself at pindrop.host.
Getting started today
If you are weighing where to start, the honest version is that both apps do roughly the same job: find a business with no website, build one from its Google listing, and sell it on the spot. The differences that matter are in the search limits, how many custom sites you get, and how the payout and the client relationship are structured once the sale is made. You can see the full plan details on the PinPoint page, or download the app on Google Play or the App Store and run your first search this week.
PinPoint was developed from the app our own sales people have been using for over a year.
Questions people ask
How do I start selling websites to local businesses?
Download PinPoint on Google Play or the App Store, search for open businesses nearby with no website, and show the owner the finished site PinPoint builds from their own Google listing.
Do I need to know how to code to sell websites with PinPoint?
No. PinPoint builds the site from the business's existing Google listing, so you do not write code or design anything from scratch.
How much can I charge a local business for hosting?
You set the hosting fee yourself, and PinPoint requires it to be at least $24 a month.
How is PinPoint different from Pindrop?
Both apps build and sell websites to local businesses, but they differ in search limits, how many custom sites are included, and how the payout and client relationship work once a sale is made.
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