The Professional Website provides a simple, clean foundation for telling the story of your practice and engaging with your client base. It automatically pulls key details from your SimplePractice account settings, and can be enabled and published by the Account Owner or a practice manager when it’s ready.
In this guide, we'll cover:
Note: For help connecting a custom domain to use for your Professional Website, see Connecting a custom domain.
Enabling the Professional Website
Before customizing your Professional Website, the Account Owner or a practice manager will first need to enable it for the practice.
To do so, navigate to Marketing > Website and domain and click Turn on website.
Once this feature is enabled, you can begin customizing your practice’s Professional Website. The site won’t go live until you click Publish. Publishing will be the last step to take once you're ready for your website to be seen by your clients and potential leads.
Note: Publishing your Professional Website will replace the landing page for the Client Portal. If you need to unpublish the site, the Account Owner or a practice manager can select Turn off website from the Website and domain page. Doing so will revert your Client Portal to its original landing page, and any customization to the Professional Website will be restored when you enable the feature again. Turning on your website again will not publish the website.
Making adjustments to your account settings
The Professional Website uses smart defaults that pull from your existing account settings. This is designed to streamline the set up process and get your Professional Website looking polished.
If you'd like to update the default for the following fields on your Professional Website, you'll want to do so by making the adjustments directly from your SimplePractice account settings before you create your Professional Website. For a step-by-step walkthrough of adjusting these settings, you can click on the section below to take you to the associated guide:
Important: When you enable these fields in your SimplePractice account settings, they'll carry over to your Professional Website by default. When you make edits to a free text field from the Professional Website editor, there will be a disconnect and changes made from your SimplePractice account will no longer carry over.
To learn more about customizing your website directly in the website editor, see Customizing your Professional Website.