Build your website with Morris

You do not need an account to start. The first screen says it is free to build and preview.

Steps

1. On the sign-in or sign-up page, follow New to Mortar? Build your website first. The next screen is headed Let's build your website.
2. Choose Find my business on Google ("We'll fill in your details from your Google listing.") or I'm just starting out ("No listing or website yet? We'll help you get set up.").
3. If you search Google, choose United Kingdom or United States, then use Search for your business on Google. The box shows the example "e.g. Smith Plumbing, Leeds". Pick your listing, or use Can't find it? Enter details manually.
4. On Check your details, correct anything that is wrong and press These are right. The address field is Postcode when the country is the United Kingdom, and ZIP code when it is the United States. If you chose I'm just starting out, the screen is Let's get you set up instead, and you press Continue.
5. On Add your logo, upload a file, press Make me a logo, or press Skip. If you keep one, press Use this logo.
6. On What do you do?, choose your trade and press Continue.
7. On Your opening hours, press Use these hours or Skip for now.
8. If you started without a Google listing, the next screen is Add a photo of yourself. Press Build my website, or Skip.
9. Wait on Morris is building your website…. If it fails, the heading is That didn't work. Press Try again.
10. On Choose your look, pick one and press Continue. Preview full screen opens a larger preview first.
11. On the preview, Try another look goes back. Press Save & continue editing. If you are already signed in, that button is Continue editing.
12. On the website page, the banner says Your website is saved. Press Go live free when you're ready — free for 14 days.
13. Press Go live free. The button's note says "Go live free — start your 14-day trial". After that, plan terms are on the pricing page.

If it doesn't work

If your email is not confirmed, the banner says Confirm your email to go live. Press Resend. The success toast is Confirmation email sent. Until then, Go live free stays unavailable and its note says Confirm your email to go live.

If publishing fails, the toast is We couldn't publish your site, with "Nothing changed on your live site. Please try again in a minute." Press Try again. When it works, the toast is Your site is published, with View live site.

If this organisation has already used its trial, or another of its sites is already live, the button is Go live – Subscribe. Its note says Your free trial has been used — subscribe to put this site live. If the site is paused, the button is Subscribe to go live. Prices are on the pricing page, not on this screen.

If an agency bills the account, the agency sees Go live. On the client's own screen, Publish can be unavailable, with the note Your agency puts this site live.

If the email is already registered, the screen says You already have a Mortar account.