PLATE P.3.2 — MULTI-LOCATION WEBSITES

Multi-location websites for branches, franchises and brands

A multi-location website is one site that serves every branch, franchise or brand you run: shared pages written once, a page for each location with its own address, hours, phone and staff, and enquiries routed to the office that will answer them. It suits businesses that have outgrown a single-office site. Ozwebnet writes it from scratch in Adelaide, South Australia, for businesses across Australia — source code and IP assigned to you, under one fixed quote staged against milestones.

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FIG. P.3.2 — THE WEBSITE PLATE: ONE PLATE PRINTS EVERY BRANCH, EACH WITH ITS OWN ADDRESS AND HOURS · HOVER TO POUR
GENERAL NOTES 02 / 07

What is a multi-location website?

One website, one set of code, presenting several places or brands as one business while giving each its own page. Head office writes the shared parts once — services, brand, policies — and each branch, franchise or brand carries its own address, opening hours, phone number, staff and local services on a page search engines can find for its suburb or town. A customer who opens the Mount Gambier page calls the Mount Gambier number and reaches the Mount Gambier office. A change to shared content appears everywhere at once; a branch's change stays on its own page.

SECTION A–A 03 / 07

Who should have one website for several locations rather than a site per branch?

BUILT FOR
A business with several branches, a franchise network that wants one brand and a page per franchisee, or a group that trades under more than one name from one office.
REPLACES
A separate site per branch with content that drifts apart; a single-office site with the other locations listed in the footer; a WordPress multisite that each office updates differently.
NOT FOR
A business with a couple of locations that share one phone number and one set of hours — a single site with a locations page serves that, and we will say so.
SCHEDULE OF WORKS 04 / 07

What is included in a multi-location website build?

01

One register of every location

Address, phone, opening hours, staff and the services offered at each branch, kept in one register that head office or the branch updates from one screen. Every location page, map link and footer reads from it, so a changed phone number changes everywhere at once.

02

A page for each branch, franchise or brand

Each location gets its own page with its own address, so search engines can list it for its own suburb or town rather than folding every office into head office.

03

Shared pages written once

Services, brand and policy pages are written once and carry through to every location; a local difference — a service one branch does not offer — is set for that location, not copied and edited by hand.

04

Location finder and enquiry routing

A finder that takes a suburb or postcode and returns the nearest branch, and call and enquiry links on each page that point to that branch's own phone number and inbox.

05

Structured data for every location

A LocalBusiness record on each page — name, address, phone, hours, coordinates — so Google Business Profile listings and AI answer engines can match each page to the right place.

06

One build, several brands or domains

Where locations trade under different names, the same code carries each brand's own logo, colours and domain, so one build serves several fronts and shared content stays in step across all of them.

07

Opening and closing a branch

Opening a location is a new entry in the register: its page, finder result and structured data appear from that entry. Closing one retires the page with a redirect, so old links and listings still land somewhere useful.

TYPICAL SCOPE FOR THIS KIND OF SYSTEM — YOUR EXACT SCOPE IS FIXED IN WRITING AT THE SPECIFICATION STAGE.

Not sure which? Ten minutes on 1300 699 321 tells you — Mon–Fri 9–5 ACST.

STAGES 05 / 07

How is a multi-location website built and priced?

One fixed quote, set in writing at the specification stage (02 Blueprint) and staged against the five milestones below. Each milestone ends with a working system; stop at any milestone and keep what has been built.

SEE THE FIVE STAGES ANIMATED 
  1. 01 SURVEY

    Discovery

    We list every location, brand and franchise, what differs between them, and who is allowed to change what.

  2. 02 BLUEPRINT

    Specification

    The location register, the page plan for shared and local pages, and the routing of enquiries are specified in writing; the fixed quote is set here.

  3. 03 FORGE

    Build

    The shared pages and the register are built first, then the location pages are generated from it; each milestone ends with location pages you can open and check.

  4. 04 TEMPER

    Testing

    Every location page is checked against its branch's real address, hours and phone, the finder is tried with real postcodes, and each enquiry link is confirmed to reach the right inbox before launch.

  5. 05 DEPLOY

    Launch

    Every location goes live at once, on one domain or one per brand, and you receive the source code with the IP assigned to you.

REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION 06 / 07

Questions before you call

RFI-01Does each location get its own page?

Yes. Every branch, franchise or brand gets a page with its own address, opening hours, phone number, staff and local services, and its own LocalBusiness structured data, so search engines can list it for its own suburb or town rather than folding it into head office.

RFI-02Can each branch update its own details?

Yes, where the quote includes it. Location details live in one register; a branch can be given a screen for its own entry — hours, phone, staff — while the shared pages stay with head office. Who may change what is settled at the specification stage, and the source code is yours whichever way it is set.

RFI-03Can one site serve several brands or domains?

Yes. The same code can carry a different logo, colour set and domain for each brand or franchise, so one build serves several fronts, and a change to shared content appears on all of them at once.

RFI-04What happens when we open or close a branch?

Opening one is a new entry in the register: its page, finder result and structured data appear from that entry, not from a new build. Closing one retires the page with a redirect, so old links and listings still land somewhere useful.

RFI-05How much does a multi-location website cost?

One fixed quote, set in writing before the build and staged against milestones. The scope depends on how many locations and brands there are and how much differs between them, which is settled at the specification stage. Source code delivered, IP assigned to you.

RFQ — REQUEST FOR QUOTE 07 / 07

Get a fixed quote for a multi-location website.

Call, or answer a few short questions — what you run, what breaks, when you need it working — and we reply within one business day. The quote is fixed in writing before any build starts.

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