Your Klarr website has a Klarr address (klarr.net/restaurant/your-restaurant). If you already have a domain name, for example the one of an old website, you can connect it yourself: your Klarr website then shows at your address, with all its pages: your menu, your allergens, your booking page, your articles.
Why it's worth it
- Google asks for it to connect your business listing to Klarr: a website "on its own domain".
- Everything Klarr publishes for you (your menu, your frequent questions, your articles) counts for your domain in Google and in AI assistants.
- Your guests find the address they know.
Your old website, if you have one, is replaced by your Klarr website. To keep it and only add bookings to it, see below.
The steps
- In Website, Your domain name box, type your domain (myrestaurant.com or www.myrestaurant.com) then click Connect my domain.
- Klarr shows you two records: an A record for "@" (the domain itself) and a CNAME record for "www". At your domain provider (GoDaddy, Namecheap, OVH, IONOS…), open the DNS zone and create them, or replace the ones that already exist for these names. The Copy button avoids typos.
- Come back to Website and click Check now. Klarr calls your domain as a visitor would: as soon as it answers with your Klarr website, https padlock included, the domain goes live.
DNS takes from a few minutes to a few hours to update. Meanwhile, the box says what it sees: a domain that doesn't point to Klarr yet, a domain that still points to your old host, or a domain set up correctly whose padlock is being prepared.
The other form of your address leads to the same place: www.myrestaurant.com redirects to myrestaurant.com, or the other way round, depending on the one you typed.
What doesn't change
- Your emails. These two records only concern the website: your mailbox settings stay as they are.
- Your domain stays yours. It stays at your provider, where you keep paying for it (usually around ten euros a year). Klarr charges nothing extra to connect it.
- Your Klarr address still works, and tells Google your domain is the official address: one address for one restaurant.
Once it's live
Put your new address on your Google listing and your Instagram. All your pages now live under your domain, sitemap included.
The Monday check
Every Monday, Klarr checks again that your domain still leads to your website. If it no longer answers (DNS records changed at your provider, for example), you get an email and the box shows you the expected records again. If it's still the case the following Monday, your website goes back to its Klarr address, so that Google doesn't follow an address that leads nowhere. It comes back as soon as your domain is fixed and you click Check now.
A request that is still pending is checked again too: if you set up your records without coming back to click, it goes live on its own.
Removing the domain
In the same box, Remove this domain: your website no longer shows at your domain, only at its Klarr address. If you want to put another website there, also change the DNS records at your provider.
Keeping your website and adding booking to it
If you'd rather keep your current website, in Website, the "Already have a website?" card gives you the code for a "Book" button: it opens your Klarr booking on top of your website, without leaving it. The code ends with a "Bookings powered by Klarr" line: paste it in your website's footer. You can remove that line, the button works without it.