Covington, Louisiana
Pelican Back Office builds websites and keeps the books for home service businesses on the Northshore. You own the site outright, and there’s no monthly hosting bill waiting for you.
Most small contractors are short on the same two things: a website that actually brings work in, and books that are current enough to tell you how the year is going. We do both, which means the person building your site already understands your numbers.
Fast, mobile-first, and built to turn a visitor into a phone call. Not a brochure nobody reads.
Six years in accounting, with hands-on reconciliation and tax compliance work. Monthly, quarterly, or a one-time cleanup.
The unglamorous parts that decide whether a service business grows or just stays busy.
The site gets built before you owe anything. That’s backwards from how most of this industry works, and it’s the whole point: you’re judging a real website, not a pitch.
You send prices, photos and hours. We build a working site on a private link and show it to you.
Click through it on your own phone. Tell us what’s wrong, or walk away owing nothing.
The site moves into an account in your name. We’re a guest you can remove any time.
New prices, seasonal updates, a service you’ve added. Send a message and it’s done.
Lawn Dawgs is a Covington lawn care company. It’s also ours, which made it the honest place to test everything before charging anyone.
It had been on a website builder for years, paying monthly, with a site that didn’t list a single price.
Nothing here is a trade secret. It’s just a different set of choices about who ends up holding what.
| The part that matters | What usually happens | Pelican Back Office |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the site | It lives in the designer’s account | It lives in yours, in your name |
| Monthly cost | $20 to $40 a month, forever | Free hosting. You pay your domain renewal |
| Paying up front | Deposit before you see anything | We build it first, then you decide |
| Small changes | Ticket, queue, wait a week | Send a message and it’s done |
| If you leave | Site goes dark, domain held hostage | Remove our access. Everything stays yours |
| Who you talk to | Account manager, then a developer | The person who built it |
Websites so good local businesses get found, and books so they’re still here in five years. The Northshore is full of people who are excellent at the work and buried by the paperwork. That’s the part we handle.
Tell us about your business and we’ll build a real sample page, free. No deposit, no contract, nothing owed if you don’t like it.
It depends on what the site needs to do. A straightforward site for a service business is a one-time build fee, and after that you pay only your domain renewal, usually $10 to $15 a year. There’s no monthly charge from us for hosting. We quote the number before any work starts, after we’ve seen your business.
Because describing a website is a waste of both our time. It’s faster to build the real thing and let you click through it. If it’s not right, you say no and owe nothing. That only works because we pick a small number of businesses at a time.
We build sites as plain, fast web pages rather than on a page builder that charges rent. Those pages are served by a network with a free tier generous enough for a local service business. You still own and renew your domain name, which is the part that’s genuinely yours.
Usually, yes. In most cases you keep your domain exactly where it is, we move the site and your email records over, and you cancel the monthly plan once everything is confirmed working. Business email bought through those platforms is usually billed separately and can stay. We check all of this before touching anything.
Not if it’s done in the right order. Email records get written down and recreated before anything is switched, and we send a test message afterward to confirm. That check is the reason moves go wrong when other people do them.
If editing it yourself matters to you, say so up front and we’ll build on a platform made for that instead. Most owners would rather send a message than learn an editor, which is why the default is us making changes. Either way, it’s your call.
No. Plenty of people want a website and nothing else. The bookkeeping is there when the shoebox of receipts stops being funny.
St. Tammany Parish mostly: Covington, Mandeville, Abita Springs, Madisonville, Folsom and Slidell. The work itself is remote, so further out is fine as long as you don’t need us standing in your shop.