--- title: "FAQ" url: "https://miow.me/faq" updated: 2026-10-12 description: "What small-business owners ask about miow: how a site is built, moving from Wix or Squarespace, payments, domains, and what it costs." --- # Questions about miow ## What is miow? miow builds and hosts websites for small businesses. You describe the business, or give the address of the website you have now, and miow makes the pages; you then change them from your phone and put them on your own domain. ## How does miow build my website? A model writes the pages from your description of the business: what it does, where it is, when it opens and how to reach it. It uses only what you wrote, so it adds no prices, opening hours or claims of its own. Start under Describe it on the [home page](/#start). The pages appear at the site's own address on miow.me when the model has finished. ## Can I move my Wix or Squarespace website to miow? Yes. Give miow the address of your Squarespace, Wix or other website with a sitemap, and every page comes across word for word at the same address, with its pictures copied to miow. Links to your old pages keep working once your domain points at miow, and the site no longer depends on the old account, so you can close it. ## Can I edit my website from my phone? Yes. Sign in at [miow.me/edit](/edit) on your phone, then either say in a sentence what should change, and a model makes the change, or edit any page directly. The editor saves as you work. ## Do I need an account to start a website? No. You start a site on miow.me without signing in, and miow then asks you to save a passkey, which makes you its owner. A site nobody claims is deleted after seven days. ## Who can sign in and change my website? The site's owners, each with a passkey: a key their phone or computer keeps and unlocks with a face, fingerprint or screen lock. miow has no passwords and no email sign-in. An owner adds another owner under People on the site's owner page, with an invite link that works once, for two weeks. Someone who has lost every passkey is invited back the same way. ## Can I sell products and take payments on my website? Yes. Connect the site's own Stripe account under Payments on its owner page, and every product priced as an amount, and every donation box, takes card payments into that account. Stripe is the payments company that takes the cards and pays the money into your bank. miow takes nothing from a sale. ## Can I use my own domain name? Yes. Each site starts at its own address on miow.me, such as yourbusiness.miow.me, and when you are ready you enter a domain you own on the owner page. miow lists the DNS records to add where you bought the domain, and the site moves there once they work, from a few minutes to a few hours later. Its miow.me address then forwards to your domain. ## How much does miow cost? Starting and building a site costs nothing. Hosting is a monthly card payment, at a price miow sets for each site and shows under Hosting on its owner page before anything is taken. Stripe takes the payment each month and emails a receipt; there is no invoice. To change the card or cancel, press Manage payment under Hosting. ## What happens if I stop paying for hosting? The site pauses a fortnight after payment stops: visitors see a notice in place of its pages until hosting is paid again. Nothing is deleted, and paying puts the site back at once. When a card payment fails, Stripe tries again and emails whoever pays before it comes to that. ## Can an AI agent build and edit my website? Yes. Claude, or any AI agent that connects to MCP servers (the standard way agents use outside tools), can make a site through miow.me/mcp and write its pages, with no account. The agent then gives you a claim link, and opening it on your phone saves a passkey that makes you the owner. To let an agent work on a site you already own, make it a token under Agents on the owner page. ## Can I see how many people visit my website? Yes. Stats on the owner page shows how many people visited, which pages they read, which sites sent them, and their countries and devices, over anything from a day to a year. miow counts visitors without cookies and keeps no one's address. Each visitor is a one-way code made from their address and browser under a key that changes every day, and the old key is deleted. ## Can I take my website with me if I leave miow? Yes. Press Download the site under Take it with you on the owner page for one zip holding the site as data, every page as markdown, and every picture. ## Can I undo a change to my website? Yes. miow records every change to a site and who made it, and History on the owner page undoes any one of them along with everything since. An undo is recorded as a change too, so it can be undone in turn. ## Start a site Describe your business, or give the address of the website you have now. [Start a site](/#start)