Your website
Which website should I use?
You have three options and one of them is already live and free. The real question is whether you need WordPress at all, so here is the honest answer.
This applies to both workflows
What are the two workflows?Most operators arrive here assuming "my website" means WordPress. It does not have to. If you finished onboarding, you already have a live website that takes bookings, and a good number of operators never need anything else.
The short answer
Start on your free HaulHQ page. It is enough to start taking jobs today. Move to WordPress when you have a specific reason -- your own domain, multiple pages, or a real intention to publish content. Commissioning a website you did not need, getting no leads from it, and concluding the product does not work is the outcome this page exists to prevent.
The three options
| Option | Cost | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Your HaulHQ page (included, already live) | Free | One page on yourname.myhaulhq.com: quote form or booking widget, your services, service area, reviews, job photos, and the chat widget. A domain you already own can be forwarded to it. |
| Your WordPress site (you host it, we plug in) | Your hosting and domain, plus whoever builds it | Your own domain, as many pages as you like, full SEO surface. The bridge plugin supplies the forms, booking, reviews and galleries. |
| The HTML embed (your own site, and it is not WordPress) | Free | Your quote form (or container rental), products, reviews and photo gallery dropped into pages you already run. Copy the ones for your account from Website. See the HTML embed. |
The first option grows: the HaulHQ Website add-on turns your one page into a site -- the same address, extra pages, for $39 a month. Your site, your domain, your content; hosted and maintained. See HaulHQ Website (the add-on).
When WordPress actually earns its keep
- You want your own domain. This is the honest headline reason. Your HaulHQ page lives on a
myhaulhq.comaddress and cannot be moved toyourcompany.com. - You want more than one page. Service pages, city pages, an about page with real depth.
- You intend to publish content. The more you invest in writing, the more the SEO surface of a site you own is worth -- and that compounds, so it matters more the longer you do it.
- You already have a WordPress site. Then the question is not which to use; it is which shortcodes go where.
Be honest about whether you will publish content
A WordPress site earns its keep through content and links, and both take sustained work. If nobody is going to write the pages, a WordPress site is a more expensive version of the page you already have -- with hosting bills and updates attached.
Both at once is fine, and common
These are not exclusive. Plenty of operators run a WordPress site as their main presence and keep the HaulHQ page as the thing they paste into a text message or a Google Business Profile. The booking flow is the same one either way, so a job booked on either lands in the same place.
Common mistakes
"My page leads with junk removal and I am a dumpster company."
Website > Your HaulHQ Site, the Service Labels card: What do customers mostly come to you for? An account that has never answered leads with dumpsters whenever dumpster rental is one of its service types, so if yours leads with junk removal, either somebody picked that or dumpster rental is not on your account.
"I need a website before HaulHQ is useful."
You have one. Finish onboarding and yourname.myhaulhq.com is live, takes bookings, and can be linked from your Google Business Profile, your truck, or a text message. See Your HaulHQ page.
"The free page is just a placeholder until I build a real site."
It runs the same quote and booking flow the WordPress plugin embeds -- it is the same product, on one page instead of yours. What it cannot do is use your domain, carry more pages, or host a blog.
"I will point my domain at my HaulHQ page."
HaulHQ does not host on your domain -- the page lives at yourname.myhaulhq.com. What you can do is forward your domain to it at your registrar, so yourcompany.com lands visitors on your page; see Point your domain at your HaulHQ page. If you want your own domain in the address bar with pages of your own, that is WordPress.
"I am paying for the $39/month website add-on and nothing changed."
The add-on adds pages to your HaulHQ page; it does not change the page itself. Check Website > Pages: each page is published from its own editor, one at a time, and nothing goes live until you publish it. See HaulHQ Website (the add-on).