Jimdo

Jimdo is a website builder from Hamburg, Germany. Matthias Henze, Christian Springub and Fridtjof Detzner founded Jimdo GmbH in February 2007. It is aimed at the self-employed and small businesses who want to be found online, booked and paid in one place. Registration is free and needs no credit card.

Features

• AI-generated websites: structure, texts, images and calls to action are drafted from a short description of the business
• Booking tool, AI-created forms for enquiries and an online shop with one-click checkout
• JimdoPay payment links that can be shared by messenger, email or QR code, plus invoices that meet e-invoicing requirements
• Customer management that connects bookings, forms and payments

Background and limits

In 2015 the US investor Spectrum Equity took a minority stake. Jimdo does not offer a telephone hotline, according to its legal notice. It is built for simple business sites, so projects with demanding design or many third-party extensions may be better served by Framer.