Valacia, from Linko Vectis, is a fully managed unified central business platform that enables you to launch a tailored website for your business, whilst effortlessly managing customer records, bookings, and payments in one place.
Free for fourteen days, no card required. Then £18 a month for your website and customer relationship management (CRM) system, or £59 with bookings and payments.
Built On Google Cloud
Your Kind Of Business
A hotel sells rooms and a restaurant fills tables, so Valacia tailors itself to each: the questions it asks, the pages it sets up and the tools it switches on. Restaurants, hotels and any other business are covered at launch. Aviation and showrooms follow.
A restaurant, café or takeaway leads with its menus and opening times, and a hungry customer rings the order through in one tap.
On the Business plan, guests book a table for the time and party size they want, and pay a deposit if you ask for one. The same plan links Valacia to your till.
For a hotel, B&B or guest house, each room gets its own page, with photographs, facilities and rates, and each enquiry names the room and the dates.
On the Business plan, guests book direct on your own website, with a deposit or full payment. If you also serve food, your menus and opening times sit on the same website.
Valacia
If you cut hair, fix boilers or clean windows, this is your Valacia: pages for your services, and for the area you cover if you go out to customers.
The Business plan adds appointments, which customers can pay for up front.
Valacia For Aviation comes in two set-ups. General Aviation covers the aircraft, the services and the member roster of flying clubs, flying schools and aircraft groups.
Flight Simulation keeps the pilots or members of a virtual airline or simulator centre on one roster. Both take bookings on the Business plan.
If you sell or hire from a range, each item has its own page, complete with photographs, a description and a price if you choose to show one.
Mark it available or sold, and each enquiry names the item it is about. On the Business plan, customers can book a viewing and pay at the same time.
A hotel and a takeaway pay the same published prices, and only the plan you pick changes what you pay. Valacia offers each of them different pages, and you decide which optional pages go live.
What You Get
Valacia Studio works the same on a phone, a tablet or a computer. Use whichever is nearest. You change what customers see and keep track of everyone who gets in touch.
After Set-Up
Your website can go live as soon as your own words are in. After that, change a price, swap a photograph or put up new opening hours the day they change.
The CRM
A visitor fills in the form on your website. The enquiry arrives in your inbox and waits in the CRM with the customer who sent it and the page it came from, beside your notes and the follow-ups that are due.
The Business Plan
Your website becomes your booking system.
Send branded invoices that your customers pay online.
In a quiet week, email the customers who said yes to hearing from you. Two Site Seats for your staff come with the plan, with more available.
If your work takes you to your customers' doors, read about websites for trades and service businesses.
Your Website
Your name, what you offer and how to get hold of you come first. After that come the rooms, the menus or the services your customers came to see.
The words are yours, so the website sounds the way you speak to customers. A contact form comes as standard. On the Business plan, customers can also book and pay.
Each kind of business has its own pages. A hotel can add one for weddings and functions, a restaurant one for private hire, and a takeaway one explaining phone orders and where it delivers. Your answers switch on the pages that fit.
You can add others too: an About page, a gallery or the story behind your business. Your home page, contact page and privacy policy are always there. If you take payments, customers see your cancellation and refund terms before they pay.
Change your mind later in Valacia Studio, where every optional page has a switch.
Each page is structured for search engines to read and list. Where you rank still depends on your market, and no provider can guarantee it.
Your registered company name, company number and registered office sit in the footer of every page. A limited company has to publish them, and Valacia puts them there for you.
How It Works
Valacia handles the technical set-up, and you stay in control of what your website says and when it changes.
An on-screen guide asks what you offer, where you are, how customers get in touch and which pages you want.
Your answers are already filled in, whichever template you pick. All your website needs now is your own words and photographs.
Your website goes live on a valacia.site address with fourteen days of everything in Business. Choose Pro or Business before the trial ends, then connect your own domain, registered in your name.
Make changes in Valacia Studio as your business changes. Messages are filed under each customer's name, with bookings and payments beside them on the Business plan.
Kept Apart
Your website and its data are isolated. Each sign-in and access check runs on Google Cloud's own security services, and Valacia is engineered so that no business can reach another's website or data.
No system is perfectly secure, so we watch for problems and act on them quickly.
Check us before you subscribe. Companies House lists Linko Vectis Ltd as company 17200208, and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's data protection regulator, lists us under ZC153121. Linko Vectis and Valacia are registered UK trade marks.
How It Runs
Valacia is managed by the people who built it. When something goes wrong, nobody passes the problem to someone else: we find the cause and fix it ourselves.
Each Valacia website reaches its visitors through a fast global content delivery network (CDN), monitored by us. Pages load fast for a customer down the road and for a guest booking from abroad.
Valacia runs on Google Cloud, which adds capacity as visitors arrive. When a mention in the local paper brings a rush, your website stays online and keeps taking enquiries.
Each plan includes a monthly page-view allowance. Go past it and your website stays online, with lower-resolution photographs until the month ends. Valacia Studio shows your usage.
We watch whether your website is up. If it goes down, we act quickly.
We keep the platform current. Most updates cause little or no disruption, and planned work that could interrupt service is scheduled between midnight and 8am UK time, with notice first.
The website you are using now runs on the same Google Cloud infrastructure as Valacia. Our Infrastructure explains why we chose Google Cloud for everything we make.
What It Costs
Your first payment is due when you choose a plan, and the price you see is the total you pay.
£18/Month
Or £198 /Year
Your website and your customers, on a domain in your own name.
Recommended
£59/Month
Or £649 /Year
Everything in Pro, plus bookings, invoices, card payments, a till link, marketing email and two Site Seats for your staff.
Any change to the price of an active subscription is notified at least thirty days ahead by email, and you can cancel before it takes effect at no charge; there is one published price list for everyone.
The Limits
Valacia handles your website, customers, bookings and payments. Accounting stays with your accountant or your accounting software.
Valacia gives every business the same platform.
When yours needs software no one else has, we design and engineer a custom SaaS application (software as a service, used online) in house.
It is deployed inside your own Google Cloud project, held in your name and billed to you directly by Google.
Questions
Valacia, made by Linko Vectis, is a website and a CRM in one: a fully managed platform for your websites and customers, with bookings and payments on the Business plan.
Answer a few questions and Valacia sets up your website. You then manage your websites and customers in Valacia Studio, from a phone, a tablet or a computer. The platform runs on Google Cloud, and we manage it in house.
Restaurants, cafés and takeaways get pages for the way they work, and so do hotels, B&Bs and guest houses. Any other business, such as a trade or a salon, gets pages for its services and the area it covers.
Valacia For Aviation and Valacia For Showrooms follow after launch. See what each kind adds.
Valacia does, from your answers. An on-screen guide asks about your business and the pages you want, and you choose the look from templates made for businesses like yours.
Then you add your words and photographs. You do not drag boxes around a page builder.
You begin with fourteen days free, with everything in Business and no card required. After that, Pro is £18 a month or £198 a year, and Business is £59 a month or £649 a year. Pay for a year and you get a month free. Every figure is the total you pay.
Yes, on the Business plan. Customers book a table, a room or an appointment on your website and pay a deposit or in full. They receive an email confirmation, and the booking lands in Valacia Studio.
Payments go to your own payment account and never pass through us. Each card payment costs 2.5% + 20p on a standard UK card, the card processor's fee included, and there is no commission on a booking.
Yes, on either plan. Each person who signs in has a seat of their own. Business includes two Site Seats on each website.
On Pro or Business you can buy more, at the price shown in the price list. You choose what each person can do from the options we provide.
Yes. One sign-in covers all of them, and Valacia Studio adapts its pages, tools and branding to whichever website you switch to. Each website has its own plan, so one can be on Pro and another on Business.
On the Business plan, your till (point-of-sale system) can link to Valacia, as long as Valacia Studio supports it. Before you connect it, you see exactly what the link will share. Ask us whether yours is supported, and we will reply in writing within one working day.
Fast, yes. Speed is designed into every Valacia website, for visitors wherever they are.
The technical SEO is on every page, so search engines can read and list it. Where you appear depends on your market and on what you write, and nobody can promise a position.
Yes. Valacia is designed so that one business cannot reach another's website or data. Every business signs in to its own account, and its customers' details stay with it.
Each form enquiry is emailed to the address you choose and filed in the CRM under that customer's name. You can download your customer records from Valacia Studio as CSV files. We never sell, rent or share your data, or your customers', for anyone else's marketing.
We built Valacia and manage it ourselves, so no third party sits in the middle. We watch whether your website is up. When something goes wrong, we act quickly and fix the cause ourselves.
Valacia runs on Google Cloud, and Google publishes service level agreements for many of the services underneath it. Those agreements are Google's commitments to Linko Vectis. They are not a promise from us to you, and Valacia has no service level agreement or uptime guarantee of its own.
An outage at Google Cloud itself reaches many companies at once and is outside any single company's control.
We have not set a date, and we will not publish one until we can be held to it. Every plan, price and term is published now, so you know exactly what you get and what it costs.
The Free Trial
Use the fourteen days to share your new website with a few customers and see what comes in. Then choose the plan that suits your business.