Do I need to already have a website?
If you don't have a website, or you want to keep Pono totally separate, then we'll set your Pono system up on our ponoapp.com domain. Your site will be something like mysite.ponoapp.com.
If you already have a website then you can have Pono running the backend portal and the members-only areas of your website and keep your existing frontend website. That means that the frontend of your website, that anyone who visits it sees, can be powered by any popular system (such as WordPress, Shopify, Wix etc) and you can design it however you like. Somewhere on your site you would simply put a button that lets your clients log in to the Pono client portal, and that would run in a subdomain. If your main website is example.com then your Pono client portal might run in clients.example.com or members.example.com or portal.example.com or coaching.example.com — it can be any name you like.
That is the approach that we recommend for most businesses, to let you either keep your existing website or give you total flexibility in any type of new website that you want to create.
Alternatively though, you can use Pono to power your entire website. This capability is already built in, for example this website that you're looking at right now is of course 100% powered by Pono. It's easy for you to add in new pages with a modern and clean design. You can choose from a range of pre-built layouts and upload images or backgrounds, add in some text, and with a few clicks you can quickly put a page together.
Please contact us any time with any questions.