For sole traders, home-based businesses and founders across Moreton Bay, from Redcliffe and North Lakes to Caboolture and Bribie Island: a first site made from your own words and photos, a .com.au registered to you, and an email address that matches it. We build the draft first, and you pay only when you're happy with it.
City of Moreton Bay is one of the most populous council areas in the country, and a lot of its new businesses are one person working from a spare room or a garage. Your first customers will often be neighbours, school parents and people from the next suburb over. The site has to tell them, quickly, what you do, whether you'll come to them, roughly what it costs and how to get hold of you.
The region runs from the Redcliffe peninsula and Bribie Island across to Dayboro, Woodford and the Samford Valley. "All of Moreton Bay" is a big promise for a one-person business. Name the suburbs you'll reach from home, and if you also cross into Brisbane's northern suburbs, list those too.
Pricing is hard in the first year, and it's one of the topics council's free SMART Foundations workshops cover. Once you've worked yours out, put a "from" price, a typical job or a package on the site. If it changes after a few months, that's a text change covered by hosting.
If you send quotes and invoices from accounting software, set them up with the same business name, ABN, phone number and email address as the website, and put the web address in the footer. A customer comparing three quotes should be able to check you out in one tap.
Most home-based businesses here go to their customers. In that case the site shows your area rather than your street. If people do come to you, for lessons, alterations or pick-ups, the address and parking notes live on the contact page, along with the hours you're there.
Plenty of people start a business while still working elsewhere or doing the school run. A short form that lands in your inbox, a line saying when you return calls, and tap-to-call for the hours you can answer are better than a number that rings out.
Start with one page that covers everything, then add pages as you learn what people ask about. A second service or a new area becomes its own page when it's worth it, quoted before we build it.
The Queensland-wide help, Business Launchpad for listing your licences and permits and Mentoring for Growth sessions once you've started trading, is explained on our page for new Brisbane businesses. Brisbane City Council's free business hubs at Nundah and in the city are set up for businesses in Brisbane, so if you're north of the boundary, the programs below are the ones built for you.
City of Moreton Bay's home-based business info sheet says that in most cases council approval isn't needed. A home-based business is accepted development, subject to requirements, in the General residential, Emerging community, Rural residential and Rural zones, the residential precincts of the Township zone, and some others; if it meets the benchmarks in the zone code, no application is needed. In zones not on that list it's impact assessable and needs a development application. The requirements sit in the zone codes and differ between zones and precincts, so check your property's zone in the planning scheme first.
Council's Business Boost initiative includes SMART Foundations, a free six-month business skills program for sole traders and home-based businesses in the city, with six workshops on topics such as tax, pricing, cash flow, business structures and invoicing. It also sponsors the UniSC Tax Clinic, where accounting students supervised by a registered tax agent give free tax help to small businesses and individuals; council lists the clinic, along with its tax workshops for small businesses, as available until 2027. An earlier Business Boost offer of six months' free Xero and Constant Contact for 1,000 local businesses filled up and closed in June 2026.
For founders with something to scale, council has funded Innovate Moreton Bay for more than seven years; since 2025 it's been led by a local Innovation Director with support from Creative HQ's team in Wellington, New Zealand. The UniSC Moreton Bay Launch Pad at 1 Moreton Parade, Petrie, next to Petrie station, is a collaboration between the university and the City. Council's economic development officers work from it, and it takes expressions of interest from businesses that plan to grow and are committed to the region's economy. People you meet through either will look you up afterwards, so a page that explains the idea in plain language is worth having before the first event.
We're an Adelaide team, and we work with Moreton Bay businesses by phone and email. You send your words, photos and the suburbs you'll cover; we send a draft link you can check on your phone, and you pay once you approve it. Our Queensland clients include M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas and Queensland Dance & Performing Arts on Brisbane's bayside.
Neither of these is in Moreton Bay, and we don't call them start-ups because we don't know how long each had been trading when it came to us. Both are family-run service businesses, the kind that many new Moreton Bay businesses grow into.
A family-run cleaning business in Lake Macquarie, NSW, that also covers Cessnock and the Central Coast. Its prices are published on the site, each service has its own page, there are suburb pages for its area, and the quote form offers a discreet call-back.
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A family-owned tree service in Western Sydney. One page holds its services, the areas it covers, customer reviews, two quote forms and tap-to-call throughout.
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Where most sole traders start
$399
Your services, a starting price if you choose, the suburbs you'll cover, your ABN and a contact form, with the .com.au and business email set up at the same time.
$899
A home page, a page for services and prices, and an about page with your photo and background, for a business where who you are is part of what people are buying.
$1,499
For opening with several services or covering both sides of the region, with a page for each, a news section, and Google Analytics visitor stats.
In most cases, no. City of Moreton Bay says a home-based business in the General residential zone and several other zones doesn't need approval if it meets the zone code's requirements; in other zones it needs a development application. Check your zone and the code, or ask council; we look after the website rather than planning advice.
There's no need. A one-page site can go up with your services and area now, and a starting price can be added once you've done the pricing work. Edits to text and images on existing pages are unlimited under hosting, so changing prices or wording later doesn't cost extra.
It's aimed at businesses that plan to grow and are committed to the region, and you apply with an expression of interest. A sole trader starting a local service will probably get more from SMART Foundations. Either way, have a simple site ready so people can find you after you've met them.
The suburbs you'll really travel to, written the way locals say them: Redcliffe or Kippa-Ring, North Lakes or Mango Hill, Caboolture or Morayfield. Add Bribie Island, the rural areas or Brisbane's northern suburbs only if you'll go there. A shorter honest list beats "all of Moreton Bay".
By phone and email. A call to talk through what you'll offer, then you email your words and photos and we send a draft link. You ask for changes the same way and pay once you approve it. Most sites are live within 5–10 days of us getting your words and photos; bigger sites (up to 8 pages) take 2–3 weeks.
Send us the business name, what you'll offer and the suburbs you'll cover. We'll check the .com.au is free, quote the site and build your draft; you pay only once you approve it.
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