I’ve recieved an awfully high number of messages and posts regarding Go High Level. Two themes keep coming up: how to set it up & will I need to pay a monthly subscription to run my business.
Short Answer:
- If you can’t setup GHL in under 2 hours, skip it
- If you don’t want to pay the subscription, skip it
What you’re actually asking is “Do I need a professional landing page and some basic automation for appointment booking/leads?”
Yes you do.
Making a website in 2026 with a calendar where leads can book appointments with you is easier than ever. And just to be clear, you do NOT need GoHighLevel for this.
Let me be direct. I hate GHL. I do not use it for my business and I never will.
The simplest solution is: Website + Calendly iFrame
You can make the website in WordPress, Wix, Square, Framer, or directly in HTML
My recommendation: vanilla HTML/CSS/JS; you don’t even need WordPress in 2026.
Nice to haves:
- Calendly Slack integration: get notified on slack when leads book appointments with you
- Calendly Google sheets integration: push leads data to a Google Sheet
And no, you do NOT need Zapier for this either.
Calendly’s free plan is good enough. And Calendly is a very good CRM.
Short answer: make a free website & add a Calendly iFrame (free plan) to the website.
How to make a free website?
Use Claude or ChatGPT with this prompt.
“I’d like you to help me make a website with 3 sections. Hero, Problem, Solution. You must keep the website simple and stop me strictly if I try to complicate the website or add more unnecessary sections. The hero must include a place holder for a YouTube video. The Solution must include a place holder for a Calendly iFrame. The design language I’d like you to use is that of shadcn. My brand colors are “{Enter your band colors here}” and I prefer “{Dark or Lighf— pick one} themed websites. Once you write the HTML file, I’d like your help adding my calendly for bookings, setting up a GitHub repository, connecting Cloudflare pages, configuring my DNS, adding the domain to the Cloudflare project and pushing the website live. ”
Cloudflare gives you free, unlimited hosting for HTML websites by the way.