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How IBNCR works

Everything a member needs to be found.

A designed website, a listing in the directory people actually search, and referrals from members in your own chapter — one platform, not three subscriptions.

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Individual and business members

27designs, every one a finished site
11industries with their own directory
5tools you switch on, included
0lines of code you will ever write

The path

Six steps between joining and being found.

Not a feature list — the actual route your site takes. What each step decides, and what it deliberately leaves alone.

  1. Join

    You join as yourself, or as your business

    Tell us which one you are. That single choice shapes everything after it — the designs you can pick from, and what your site is built to show.

  2. Directory

    You land in a directory

    You're placed alongside the other members who do what you do, inside your chapter — the people most likely to send work your way.

  3. Tier

    Your tier is set

    Base, Advanced or Premium. It decides how much site you get — how many pages, how much motion — and never which of your content you're allowed to show.

  4. Theme

    You choose a design

    Any theme on your tier, every one a fully built site. Change your mind in a year and your words and photos come across with you.

  5. Content

    You fill it in

    Never from a blank page. Empty sections show sample content while you work — badged, so you always know what a visitor would really see.

  6. Live

    You go live

    Your site is public, your listing is searchable, and the members around you can start sending work your way.

01 — Themes

Designed sites, not one template wearing your logo

A clinic's five-page practice site and a designer's single-page portfolio were built separately, by hand, for those businesses. Every one is a live page you can scroll at full size before you decide — no account, no screenshot standing in for the real thing.

02 — Your editor

Run your whole site from one page

Every member gets the editor the day they join. Click a headline, a photo or a price on your own site and the panel that edits it opens right there, already on the right field. Write the words, choose the pictures, done — the design holds itself together no matter what you type into it.

And nothing ever starts blank. Sections you haven't reached yet show an example while you work — badged, so you always know what a visitor would really see — with a checklist keeping score of what's left.

No code, no theme files, no pluginsEdit from your phone or your deskChanges go live when you save
See the designs you'd be editing

03 — Modules

Switches, not add-ons bolted on later

Every one of these comes with your site, on from day one. A business nobody can contact — or buy from — is a brochure, not a business website, so none of this is something you unlock further up the ladder. They're just on.

Business hours

Your opening times on your site, with a live open-or-closed badge that follows your own timezone — so nobody turns up to a locked door.

Enquiry form

A contact form built into your page. Every enquiry lands in your dashboard and hits your inbox the moment someone sends it.

Appointments

Booking straight from your own site, in your own hours. A customer picks a time you have actually got free, and it lands in your calendar.

Online store

Sell from your own site. Products, stock and orders in one place, with checkout built in — no separate shop platform to run on the side.

AI scheduler

Tell it who you need to meet and when. It checks the calendars, picks the slot and sends the invite — meetings booked without a single back-and-forth email.

Turn one off and nothing is lost. Every enquiry you have already taken and every order you have already filled stays yours, on your dashboard, whether the module is switched on or not.
Appointments

Booking, built in.

Appointments taken straight from your own site, in your own hours — no third party in the middle, and no separate booking link to hand out.

Your hours, your rules. The same opening times running on your site decide what a customer can even see.
On your own page. Customers book where they found you, instead of being sent somewhere else to finish.
Synced with your calendar. Connect the calendar you already use and new bookings land in it, so nothing gets double-booked.

Integrations

Connected to the tools your business already runs on.

Your site doesn't sit apart from everything else you use. Connect what you already have and it keeps itself current, instead of becoming one more thing to update by hand.

Calendars

The calendar you already use

Connect your calendar and bookings taken on your site land in it. Your existing commitments block out the slots customers can pick, so two things never land on the same hour.

Google CalendarOutlookApple Calendar
Reviews

Your reviews, on your own page

Pull the reviews you have already earned elsewhere onto your site, where someone deciding about you is actually looking — and keep them current without copying anything across by hand.

GoogleFacebookTrustpilot
Property listings

MLS listings, straight onto your site

For agents and brokerages: bring your listings in from the MLS so your site shows what is on the market now, without re-entering a single property.

MLS feedAuto-updatingFor realtors
Payments

Take payment with the gateway you already use

Your online store checks out through more than one payment gateway, so you connect the one you already have an account with — cards and wallets, settled to you.

Multiple gatewaysCards & walletsSecure checkout
Your other store

Already selling somewhere? Bring it across

Connect the store you run elsewhere and its products, stock and orders flow into the one on your site here — so both stay in step without you keeping two catalogues by hand.

Product importStock in syncOrders in one place

04 — Being found

People can find you — by what you do, and where.

A site only the people who already have your link can reach is a brochure. The directory is the other half: someone who has never heard your name narrows the list down to what they need, in the place they need it, and ends up looking straight at you.

05 — Referrals

Business you didn't have to chase

Every member here is someone who can send you work — not a stranger clicking an ad, but someone in your own network who thought of you by name because you were the right person for it. You're not starting from zero and hoping to be found; you're joining people who are already looking out for each other.

And it runs both ways. The work you can't take is exactly the kind of thing someone else here can — so nothing has to end in "sorry, that's not what I do."

06 — Marketing

Getting found isn't something you have to learn to do

Most website builders hand you a page and leave the rest to you. Here, a team works on your visibility alongside your site — the six things below, done for you, not handed to you as a to-do list.

  1. 01

    On-page SEO

    Your pages built and tuned to actually rank, not just to look good. Titles, structure, speed and the technical groundwork search engines read before anyone does.

  2. 02

    Local & Google listings

    Your Google Business profile and local listings set up and kept current, so you show up in local search and on the map when somebody nearby goes looking.

  3. 03

    Content & blog

    Written for you on an ongoing basis — nothing sits blank because writing isn't your job, and the pages that bring people in keep arriving.

  4. 04

    Social media

    Your channels posted to and managed, not left untouched for months between the times you remember to look at them.

  5. 05

    Paid ads

    Campaigns set up and run across Google and social for when you're ready to put budget behind growth, with someone watching what it returns.

  6. 06

    Backlinks & authority

    The slow, compounding kind of SEO most businesses never get around to, built in the background so it's already working by the time you need it.

See the site you would actually get.

Every design in the gallery is a live page, not a screenshot — scroll one the way a visitor would, then apply to join.

Active members
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Active members
Verified businesses
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Verified businesses
Member directories
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Member directories
Countries represented
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Countries represented
Designed sites
27
Designed sites
Industries covered
11
Industries covered
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