Onelios is a free website builder for locksmiths: the AI drafts your site from your business name, trade and city, a Call button sits in the top bar when you give a phone number, quote requests land in one inbox, and customers write their own reviews.
Researched by the Onelios team at KCF LLC (about us) from the primary sources listed at the end of this page. Checked . A summary to help you check your own rules, not legal advice.
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What Onelios does for you
- Call button: Give a phone number and a Call button sits in the top bar of your home page and of every service page, with the number again above the quote form. If “More phone calls” is the only thing you pick under “What you want more of” during setup, the Call button is also the first button under your headline.
- Your own words: The AI drafts a headline, the line under it and a line for each service from your business name, trade and city. You can rewrite any of them yourself; the line under the headline holds up to 240 characters, room for a license number and the town you work from.
- Quote requests: Each request is kept in your dashboard inbox, and Onelios tries to email you an alert. When the customer left an email address, your reply to that alert goes straight to them, so a written price is one reply away.
- Service pages: Type a title such as “Car lockouts” or “Rekeying after a move” and a page is written and published with an intro, what’s included, common questions, a Request a quote button and, when you gave a phone number, a Call button.
- Reviews: Onelios emails a past customer a private link and they write the review in their own words; you can also add one a customer gave you elsewhere. Requests go by email only, and you cannot reply to reviews from Onelios.
- Monday email: Once a week: the quote requests, bookings and new reviews that came through your site, a short list of things worth doing, and one thing worth your time. Onelios has no phone line, so calls to your number are never in it.
Why do customers distrust locksmith search results?
Because fake listings have targeted this trade. A 2017 study by Google and UC San Diego found 11% of Google Maps search results for locksmiths were fraudulent, rising to 15.6% in New York. In July 2026 Connecticut’s Department of Consumer Protection warned of scammers posing as locksmiths who quote a low price, then raise it on arrival.
The study, presented at the World Wide Web conference in 2017, found scammers placing listings at fake locations so they looked close to the person searching, and on-call trades, notably plumbers and locksmiths, made up 40% of the fake listings the researchers found. The university’s write-up describes the scheme: a low price on the phone, a higher fee on arrival, and sometimes no license. UC San Diego says the work let Google reduce fraudulent business listings on Google Maps by 70%, so the percentages describe 2017, not today.
Google still treats locksmiths as a special case. Its advertising policy restricts ads for locksmith services in the United States and Canada: a locksmith must apply for advanced verification before an ad can run. For Local Services Ads it calls locksmiths an urgent category, because people often call while locked out of a home, car or office, and lists background checks on the business, the owner and its service professionals, liability insurance, and state licenses as applicable.
The Federal Trade Commission’s advice, from 2008, is to research a locksmith before you need one, the way you would a plumber or an electrician, and save the number in your phone. It warned that some locksmiths advertising in the local phone book may not be local at all, and that others may have no professional training.
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What should a locksmith website show a wary customer?
What consumer agencies tell people to check: a local phone number, where you are based, your license or registration number, a full price before work starts, and identification at the door. Put each one where a stranger sees it in seconds, and back it with reviews your own customers wrote.
Connecticut’s July 2026 alert gives the list. Check that the number is local, because fake operations route several numbers to one call center, often out of state or out of the country; hang up if the person on the phone cannot give an exact address; look the address up on street view; ask for the full price, including service and travel costs, and a written quote before work begins; and refuse service from anyone who arrives in an unmarked vehicle without identification or cannot give a registration number.
Here is where each check lands on an Onelios site. Your phone number becomes the Call button. The city or service area you type shows above your headline and in the footer; there is no separate street-address field, so if customers can visit a shop, put the address in the line under your headline, and if you work from a van, name the town you work from. Your license or registration number goes in that same line, typed by you, and how you charge goes in your service lines. Photos of you and your marked van go in the gallery, uploaded from your phone as JPEG, PNG or WebP files of up to 5 MB each.
Connecticut also tells people that scammers buy fake Google reviews, and to distrust five-star reviews with no detail about the job or the technician. Reviews reach an Onelios site two ways: a customer you email writes one through a private link, or you add one a customer gave you elsewhere. The site does not label which is which, so add only reviews you can stand behind. Google’s guidelines for Business Profiles ask for the name a business uses on its storefront, website and stationery, so use one name on your site, your van and your Google profile, and the name a customer checks is the same everywhere.
Which states require a license number in locksmith ads?
California does: every advertisement by a licensed locksmith company must carry its license number with its business name, address or phone number, and a first violation can cost $500. ALOA, a locksmiths’ trade association, counted 13 states that license locksmiths as of January 2025; check your own state’s rules. Onelios has no license field, so you type it in yourself.
California’s rule is Business and Professions Code section 6980.64. Its list of what counts as an advertisement names business cards, stationery, flyers, paid advertisements in any media form and directory listings; websites are not named in it, but a license number on your site costs nothing and answers one of the checks a wary customer makes. The fine can rise to $1,000 for each later violation. California’s Bureau of Security and Investigative Services licenses locksmith companies and registers their employees, each after a criminal history check through the state Department of Justice and the FBI.
The same California law says a locksmith who opens a home or business for someone must record that person’s name, address, phone number, date of birth and driver’s license or ID number on a work order they sign, and must record similar details and the vehicle’s registration number when making keys for a car. Saying on your site that you will ask for ID before you open anything tells an honest customer what to expect.
ALOA’s list, as of January 2025: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Virginia, with separate local licenses in New York City and Nassau County, New York; it also notes that Illinois’ requirements are scheduled to end on January 1, 2029. In Connecticut each individual who does locksmith work must be registered with the Department of Consumer Protection, which counted 293 registered individuals located in the state in July 2026 and tells customers to verify the individual, not the business, by searching the technician’s name on eLicense.ct.gov, so a Connecticut site does well to name the people who show up.
There is no license box in Onelios, and the AI has been told not to add a license or any other credential you did not give it. Type the number into the line under your headline, near the top of your home page, and check it on the live site after any AI rewrite. Service pages are written from the page title, your business name, trade and city, so they will not repeat the number; your home page carries it. This is a summary of what these agencies and laws say, not legal advice.
How should a locksmith website explain what a job costs?
Say how you price before anyone calls: what the service call fee covers, what changes the price, such as the hour or the type of lock, and that the full price is agreed before work starts. Connecticut’s consumer agency tells customers to ask for the full price upfront, travel included, and a written quote before work begins.
You do not have to publish a number. In the bait-and-switch Connecticut describes, a low price on the phone rises once the locksmith arrives, so a site that explains what the price is made of, and promises it in writing before any work, answers that worry directly. California’s locksmith law goes further: a licensed locksmith must not fail, in any material respect, to finish the job for the price stated in the contract.
On Onelios the place for this is your service lines. Each service on your home page has a line of up to 220 characters that you can edit yourself, for example: “Car lockouts: we quote the full price, travel included, before we head out.” The AI is instructed not to add prices, but it can still make mistakes, so read every line before you publish. When a customer sends a quote request with an email address, reply to the alert Onelios sends you and your written price goes straight to them.
Which pages does a locksmith website need?
A home page with your number, town and services; one page for each kind of job, such as house lockouts, car lockouts and keys, rekeying, safes and commercial work; a plain line on how you charge; reviews; and a quote form. Onelios builds the home page and quote form from three answers, and writes each service page when you ask.
Written for you from your business name, trade and city: the home page, with a headline, a line under it, your services and a quote form. The locksmith starting list is emergency lockouts, lock changes and rekeying, car keys and fobs, safe opening, security upgrades and commercial access; keep the ones you do. Written when you ask: a page for any service, from a title you type. Each has an intro, a list of what’s included, common questions, a Request a quote button that leads to the form on your home page, a Call button when you gave a phone number, and a link back. Yours to add: your license number, how you charge, where you work from and your photos.
A reviews section appears once you have reviews. Online booking appears only after you save your working hours, and each booking is a request you confirm. A time already requested online is not offered again, but Onelios does not check an outside calendar. It sends no text messages.
A service page can appear in Google only once your site is on a domain you own. The free Onelios address is kept out of Google on purpose, and connecting a domain you already own is free; Onelios does not sell domains. On your own domain, your home page and service pages are listed in a sitemap, which helps Google find them but does not decide whether Google shows them, and Onelios does not measure where you appear.
How does Onelios compare with Zarla and Siimple for locksmiths?
Onelios is free right now, including publishing and connecting a domain you own, with no card. Zarla’s locksmith builder is free to build and preview, but publishing needs its Premium plan, US$29 a month month to month. Siimple is free to build and $10 a month, or $8 a month billed yearly, once you publish. Prices read September 23, 2026.
Zarla’s pricing page, read September 23, 2026: Premium is US$29.00 a month month to month, or US$10.99 a month on a 36-month term (US$395.64 for the 36 months), and 12-month and longer plans include a free domain for the first year. Its locksmith page says building and previewing are free and publishing live starts on Premium, which includes hosting, online bookings, lead tracking, and quotes and invoices; the page also describes payment links and a WhatsApp chat button. Onelios has none of the money tools.
Siimple’s locksmith page, read September 23, 2026: you build free from its templates, with AI to help write the copy, and pay $10 a month, or $8 a month billed yearly, when you publish. Hosting, custom domains and contact forms are included, and the same price applies to each site you make.
What Onelios does not do, so you can compare fairly: no invoicing or payments, no text messages, no dispatch, no staff logins, and no posting to your Google profile. If you need those, a paid tool may suit you better. The full list of limits is at onelios.com/what-it-does, and the price is under Pricing on our home page.
Built for locksmith work
Your site starts with these services listed — ask for a full page for any of them:
- Emergency lockouts
- Lock changes and rekeying
- Car keys and fobs
- Safe opening
- Security upgrades
- Commercial access
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Common questions
Can a locksmith get a website for free?
With Onelios, yes: building, publishing, every tool and connecting a domain you already own cost nothing today, and no card is asked for. Your site carries a small “Site by Onelios” line in the footer. For comparison, Zarla’s Premium plan, needed to publish, is US$29 a month month to month, and Siimple is $10 a month; both read September 23, 2026.
Will customers find my locksmith website on Google?
Not on the free Onelios address: Onelios keeps that address out of Google on purpose. On a domain you own it can appear, but Google decides whether and when, and nobody can promise a position. Google’s Business Profile guidelines ask for the name you use on your storefront, website and stationery, so keep one name everywhere.
Does a locksmith website legally need a license number?
It depends on your state. California requires a licensed locksmith company’s license number, with its business name, address or phone number, in every advertisement, and ALOA, a locksmiths’ trade association, listed 13 states that license locksmiths as of January 2025. Onelios has no license field, so type the number into the line under your headline and check it on the live site. This is not legal advice.
How do I show what a lockout costs without publishing a price?
Explain what the price is made of: the service call fee, what changes it, and that the full price, travel included, is agreed before work starts. Write that into your service lines yourself; the AI is instructed not to add prices. When a customer leaves an email address, replying to the alert Onelios sends you puts your written quote in front of them.
Can I have separate pages for car lockouts, rekeying and safe opening?
Yes. Type each title and a page is written and published with an intro, what’s included, common questions, a Request a quote button and, if you gave a phone number, a Call button, linked from your home page. The AI writes it from the title, your business name, trade and city, so it will not repeat your license number or pricing; those belong on your home page.
Most of my work comes by phone. What will Onelios count?
Only what comes through the website: quote requests, bookings and reviews, which the Monday email totals for the week. Onelios has no phone line, so calls to your number, including calls made from your site’s Call button, are never counted, and the email says so rather than guessing.
Should my locksmith website show a street address?
Only a real one. Connecticut tells customers to check a locksmith’s address on street view and to hang up if the caller cannot give an exact address. If customers can visit a shop, put its address in the line under your headline. If you work from a van, name the town you work from; Google’s guidelines say a service-area business cannot list a virtual office unless it is staffed during business hours.
Sources
- UC San Diego Today: Pinning Down Abuse on Google Maps (April 18, 2017), read
- Google Ads policy: Other restricted businesses, Local services, read
- Google Local Services: Business screening and verification requirements, United States, read
- Google Business Profile: Guidelines for representing your business on Google, read
- Federal Trade Commission: FTC Urges Consumers to Use Caution When Seeking a Locksmith (May 30, 2008), read
- Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection: Locked Out? Be Wary of Scammers Posing as Locksmith Technicians (July 16, 2026), read
- California Business and Professions Code, Chapter 8.5 (Locksmiths), Article 7: sections 6980.55, 6980.64 and 6980.69, read
- California Bureau of Security and Investigative Services: Locksmith Company and Locksmith Employee Fact Sheet (revised July 2020), read
- ALOA Security Professionals Association: Advocacy and state licensing laws, read
- Zarla: Pricing, read
- Zarla: AI website builder for locksmiths, read
- Siimple: Locksmith website builder, read
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