Launching your website – Marketli Help

Your Marketli-built website starts as a preview. You can look at it, edit it and publish changes to its Marketli address for as long as you like, and nothing is charged. When you are ready for it to be your real website, on your own domain, you press Launch.

Launch is on your website page, next to Publish. Only the business owner or an admin can launch.

What Launch shows you

The Launch panel has two steps.

1. Your plan. Your website plan and your Marketli setup are arranged with you in an offer from Marketli. After a short call, Marketli prepares the offer and emails the business owner; it waits on the Billing tab.

The offer shows your website plan's monthly price, any free trial, and the Marketli setup with everything it includes, paid in full or over a few monthly payments. GST is shown on every figure, along with what is due today and each later payment.
A proposal and a contract can come with an offer. Anyone who can see the offer can read the proposal. When there is a contract, the owner signs it from the Billing tab before accepting, and the signed copy stays with the offer to download.
Accepting is for the business owner, on the web. You enter your card once, pay what is due today, and your plan starts. Admins can see the offer but cannot accept it.
Launch takes you to your offer on the Billing tab if you have one waiting. With no offer, Launch asks you to contact the person you spoke with at Marketli.

Your plan then renews each month. You can cancel your website plan from Company settings, and your site stays up until the end of the month you have paid for. A Marketli setup paid over a few months is a commitment and cannot be cancelled from Marketli; Billing shows the payments made and left.

Once your plan is in place, Appointments and Leads open in your Marketli menu. There is no limit on how many of your team can take appointments.

2. Connect your domain. Once your plan is in place, the domain step unlocks. It is the same panel described in Connect your own domain: you enter the domain you already own and prove you own it, then either bring your existing DNS across and switch nameservers (recommended, one change at your registrar) or add the records shown at your current DNS provider. Marketli watches for the change either way.

If your plan is already in place (through an offer, or an existing arrangement with Marketli), Launch skips straight to your domain.

When is it launched?

Your website counts as launched when a domain you own is verified, correctly pointed at Marketli, and actually answering over HTTPS. A published site on its Marketli address (yourbusiness.sites.marketli.app) is a preview, not a launch, even though visitors can reach it.

Once that happens:

The Launch button goes away and Publish becomes the main action on your website page.
Your website page says your site is live on your domain.
Tracking tags and SEO health checks start using your live domain.

If your domain stops working later

If your domain later stops pointing at Marketli (a registrar change, an expired domain, records removed), your site is still hosted and your plan is unchanged. Your website page shows that the domain needs attention, and the button reads Fix domain. It opens the same domain panel so you can put the records back. You are never asked to buy the website again.

Payment questions

Is the price inclusive of GST? Every price is shown both ways, for example A$97.00 plus A$9.70 GST, A$106.70 in total. Your receipt itemises the GST.
What if I cancel my plan during the instalments? Your site comes down at the end of the paid month, and Marketli will contact you about the remaining setup balance. Talk to us before cancelling if you need to.
Can I add an ABN? Yes. The payment page has a field for it, and it appears on your invoices. GST still applies to Australian customers.
Where are my invoices? In Company settings under Billing, with a PDF of each one. Your card is changed there too, inside Marketli.
Marketli app on your phone? Launching and paying are done from a web browser. The app shows you the preview but has no purchase buttons.