For new businesses from Caloundra to Coolum and up to Noosa, whether that's a foreshore bootcamp, a coffee cart, a home studio in the hinterland or a tech idea heading for Sippy Downs: a first site built from your own words and photos, a .com.au registered to you and email set up on it. You pay once you've approved the draft.
Plenty of Sunshine Coast businesses start outdoors or on the move: a fitness class on the grass behind the beach, a mobile groomer, a surf coach, a consultant who swapped a city commute for a desk in Maroochydore. The first site has to tell people where to find you, when, and what to know before they turn up, and it has to be easy to keep current when those details change.
If you run sessions in parks or on the foreshore, name each location and the days and times you're there, in a list someone can read standing at the car park. Keep it to the places you're actually permitted to use, and send us the new list when that changes.
People here search by town: Mooloolaba, Kawana, Buderim, Nambour, Maleny. Noosa has been its own council since 2014, while Eumundi, just down the road, is still in the Sunshine Coast Council area. List the towns you serve, and if you work on both sides of that line, say so.
Outdoor sessions get called off. The website is the place for standing details; same-day cancellations belong where you can post in seconds, such as a Facebook or Instagram page. We'll put a clear link to it near the timetable so nobody drives to an empty park.
Council checks an applicant's public liability insurance and relevant qualifications before granting an activity permit, and clients wonder about the same things. A short about section naming your certificates, first aid and insurance answers that before anyone has to ask.
Small classes and limited places work better when people can reserve them. We can link a booking tool you already use, such as Fresha or Calendly, or build booking and payments into the site, quoted for your job.
Someone in Mooloolaba for a week wants a casual price and the next available session; a local wants a regular option. Give each its own short line so neither has to call to find out.
The Queensland-wide help, Business Launchpad for listing your licences and permits and the state's Mentoring for Growth sessions once you've started trading, is covered on our page for new Brisbane businesses. Locally, Sunshine Coast Council runs Level Up, a site that gathers resources from local chambers of commerce, industry groups and government, with sections on business planning, permits and licences, networks, grants and digital upskilling. It's a sensible first read before you register a name.
There are two councils to know about. The Sunshine Coast Region takes in Caloundra, Kawana, Mooloolaba, Maroochydore, where council is based, Coolum Beach, Nambour, Maleny, Montville and Eumundi. Noosa was part of it from 2008 until 1 January 2014, when the Shire of Noosa was re-established after a 2013 vote. So if you'll run sessions, trade or set up at home in Noosa, the permits and planning questions go to Noosa Council, not Sunshine Coast Council.
For working from home, Sunshine Coast Council's planning guidance for business says some home-based businesses may be accepted development and need no approval if they meet the planning scheme's criteria, while higher-impact home businesses, or those outside residential zones, may need assessment. Council is also preparing a new planning scheme to replace the Sunshine Coast Planning Scheme 2014, now in the final stages of adoption, so the details may change. Development Services takes questions on 07 5475 7272.
Parks and beaches have their own rules. Council says operating a business on community land, which includes parks, beaches and foreshores, requires a permit, and that community use comes first. Personal training and itinerant vendors are its examples of low-use, low-impact activity, while a refreshment van at a fixed spot counts as high-use. Low-use permits run until 31 July each year. In May 2025 council simplified its activity permits and added an Emerging Initiative Permit and a First Nations Cultural Tourism permit, and it checks applicants for public liability insurance, relevant qualifications, other approvals and a site map. The locations on your website should match the ones on your permit.
For tech start-ups, UniSC's Collider at the Innovation Centre, 90 Sippy Downs Drive, offers co-working and office memberships to start-up and scale-up technology companies developing their own IP, with priority for cyber-physical and autonomous systems, sustainable built environments and the circular economy, and health, sport and medical technology; you apply through an expression of interest, and its events are open to the wider founder community. We're an Adelaide team and work with Sunshine Coast businesses by phone and email, so whether you're at Sippy Downs or in a home studio in the hinterland, the draft arrives as a link you can check on your phone.
Neither of these is on the Sunshine Coast, 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 built around the person behind the business and their background: a practitioner who takes bookings online and a voiceover artist working from a home studio.
Confidential coaching for doctors, led by a Melbourne specialist anaesthetist. The site has a services overview, an about page covering her credentials, a contact form and online discovery-call booking linked from every page.
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A NSW voiceover artist recording from a professional home studio. Her single page carries four playable demo reels, about and studio sections, a contact form with project-type options and tap-to-call.
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$399
Enough for a mobile or one-person business: what you offer, the towns or locations you cover, your ABN and a contact or booking-request form, with the .com.au and email set up together.
A common choice for a first site
$899
A home page, a page for sessions or services with locations, times and prices, and an about page with your qualifications, insurance and photo.
$1,499
For a business covering several towns or both councils, or running separate programs, with a page for each, a news section and Google Analytics visitor stats.
Sunshine Coast Council says running a business on community land, including parks, beaches and foreshores, requires a permit, and it gives personal training as an example of low-use activity. Low-use permits run until 31 July each year. In Noosa, ask Noosa Council. We don't advise on permits; we make sure the locations on your site match yours.
Yes. Noosa has been a separate council since 1 January 2014, so its rules come from Noosa Council, but the website works the same way and costs the same. If you'll also serve towns further south, such as Eumundi, Coolum or Maroochydore, list them alongside your Noosa suburbs.
Yes. We build online booking and payment systems into sites, quoted for each job, or we link a booking tool you already use. Dr Tabara Dione's site, for example, links online discovery-call booking from every page. If you're still testing demand, a booking request form that comes to your inbox is a simple start.
Sometimes. Sunshine Coast Council says some home-based businesses are accepted development and need no approval if they meet the planning scheme's criteria, but higher-impact ones, or those outside residential zones, may need assessment, and a new planning scheme is on the way. Development Services on 07 5475 7272 can tell you where you stand.
Everything happens by phone and email. One call about what you'll offer, then you email your words, photos, locations and times, and we send a draft link. You ask for as many changes as you like 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 towns or locations you'll work from. 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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