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Self storage website design with the unit pool and the rates built in

Sixty-two pages for a Queens storage facility, and the software the trade actually runs on: a reservation that takes a real unit out of a real pool for a chosen move-in date, a size estimator that is arithmetic rather than a guess, an occupancy board the manager lives on, and a published schedule of every rate and every charge — which the City has required on a self-storage website since this autumn and which almost nobody has.

  • 8 unit sizes, from a locker to a drive-up bay
  • 366 doors in the building, and the pool knows how many are free on any day
  • 13 pages on what a storage facility should not claim
  • Unit pool + reservations + occupancy board

$1,780$890one time · live in ~10 business days

Includes your domain for a year, a year of hosting at MaiaHost, SSL, and every page rewritten around your business.

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Home page of the self storage demo website, Woodside Self Storage, LLC
Home page — Woodside Self Storage, LLC

Demonstration site. Woodside Self Storage, LLC is a fictional business invented for this demo — every phone number on it is literally 000-000-0000. The website itself is entirely real and built exactly as yours would be.

Why this design works for a self storage

Built for how your customers actually decide

Almost every storage website in the trade is a price list and a contact form. The reservation on this one is a reservation: it counts the units of that size actually free on the move-in date you picked, refuses the day if there are none, takes one out of the pool if there is, and holds it until seven days after the date. Nothing is paid and nothing is signed — which is exactly how the trade works — but the count on the page is the real count, so the form will not offer somebody a day on which that size is full and send them across Queens for nothing.

The engine underneath is a shape none of the other demonstrations in this catalogue has. A hotel books a range: a start, an end, and an overlap test between them. A storage unit has a start and no end — a tenant moves in and stays until they move out, and nobody knows in advance which month that will be. So occupancy is a COUNT on a date rather than an overlap, and the rule that falls out of it is the one every range engine gets backwards: releasing a unit on the twelfth frees the twelfth, and the eleventh is still let. That asymmetry is the whole model, and it is proved by a harness that really does race four people at the last unit and requires exactly one of them to win.

The other half is what the law now asks of a storage website, which changed this year and which the research for this build had to establish from the statute rather than from the trade's own habits. New York City licenses self-storage facilities from August 2026, and from November its rules require a master schedule of rates on the operator's own website and require any advertised price to carry — as prominently as the price itself — the conditions on it, how long it is guaranteed for, and the total of anything compulsory payable before you move in. This design does all of that as a component rather than as a footnote, because a footnote is the thing the rule was written about.

  • One end of the range is open, and that changes the engine

    Every other booking system in this catalogue reserves a span: a start, an end, and a test for overlap. A storage unit has a start and no end. So occupancy here is a count of the reservations live on a date, and the rule that falls out of it is the one a range engine gets backwards — a unit released on the twelfth frees the twelfth, and the eleventh is still let, because on the eleventh it was still somebody's. That sentence is a test, and it is the test that found the one real bug in this build.

  • The calculator and the sales copy come from one table

    Every size page says what fits in that size. Those sentences are not written; they are derived from the same volume table the estimator runs on, and each room belongs to exactly one size so the eight pages between them account for the whole list. Change the table and the calculator, the copy and the comparison all move together. The trade's usual version is a page written by a copywriter and a calculator written by somebody else, which agree until the first edit.

  • A published schedule of rates, because the City now asks for one

    From November 2026 a self-storage operator in New York City has to post a master schedule of rates on its own website: every occupancy fee for every class of unit and every other charge that can be added, each with a description, whether it is compulsory, and the amount in dollars. This design generates that page from the same rate card the rest of the site prints, so it cannot go stale — and it shows the promotion's conditions and the total due before move-in at the same type size as the headline figure, which is the other half of the same rule.

  • The insurance page, written the way it actually is

    Most storage websites say one of two things about insurance, and both are wrong. This one says the third: New York does license a storage facility to sell tenant insurance, many of them hold that licence, and this building does not — so it sells no policy and no protection plan, and it cannot advise you on your own cover either. That last part is the sharpest fact in the build: even a facility that HOLDS the licence must hand you a written statement saying its staff are not qualified to judge whether your existing cover is adequate.

  • Two lists about security, and no adjective in either

    Cameras at the gate, in the lift and on every landing, kept thirty days. A coded gate and a coded lift. A manager on site during office hours. And then the second list: no alarm on an individual unit, nobody watching a screen at night, no guard, and the gate is not open round the clock. A security page with only the first list is a claim by omission, and it is also the exhibit a plaintiff reaches for when the contract says something quieter.

Screenshots from the live site

A look through the 62 pages

These are screenshots of the real website, taken from the live demo. Nothing here is a mockup — open it yourself and every one of these pages loads.

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Pick a size and a move-in date, and one unit comes out of the pool of the self storage demo website, Woodside Self Storage, LLC
Pick a size and a move-in date, and one unit comes out of the pool — Woodside Self Storage, LLC
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The size estimator: rooms and large items in, cubic feet and a size out of the self storage demo website, Woodside Self Storage, LLC
The size estimator: rooms and large items in, cubic feet and a size out — Woodside Self Storage, LLC
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Every rate, with the promotion's conditions printed at the same size of the self storage demo website, Woodside Self Storage, LLC
Every rate, with the promotion's conditions printed at the same size — Woodside Self Storage, LLC
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The master schedule of rates, which New York City now requires on the website of the self storage demo website, Woodside Self Storage, LLC
The master schedule of rates, which New York City now requires on the website — Woodside Self Storage, LLC
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The page most of this trade gets wrong, written out in full of the self storage demo website, Woodside Self Storage, LLC
The page most of this trade gets wrong, written out in full — Woodside Self Storage, LLC
The self storage demo website on a phone screen

Mobile first, not mobile afterthought

Most of your visitors will see this version

Local service searches are overwhelmingly done on phones, so the phone layout is the one we design first and test hardest. Text stays readable without zooming, the phone number stays reachable with a thumb, and nothing needs a horizontal scroll.

Every page, listed

What is actually on the site

62 indexable pages, each with its own title, description, structured data and a place in the sitemap. That is 62 chances to appear in a search instead of one.

Eight sizes, and copy generated from the same table the calculator uses

  • Every size page says what fits in that size — and the sentence is derived from one volume table, so the estimator and the sales copy cannot drift apart
  • The assumption behind it is printed rather than hidden: floor area times the height you can safely stack to, times a packing efficiency, because you cannot fill a unit to the ceiling and you cannot tessellate a sofa
  • Each room in the estimator belongs to exactly one size page, checked at build time, so the eight pages between them account for the whole table
  • A locker and a thirty-foot drive-up bay are on the same ladder as the 5 x 10, priced from the same rate card

A reservation that holds something

  • Pick a size and a move-in date in the next thirty days; the form only offers a day that size is genuinely free on
  • One unit comes out of the pool and is held until seven days after the date, then released by a job that says what it did
  • No payment, no deposit, no card field anywhere on the site, and no account to create
  • The unit NUMBER is assigned by the manager at move-in — which is when a real facility assigns it — and the site says so rather than implying a particular door

A size estimator that will tell you it cannot help

  • Name the rooms you are emptying and the large items you are worried about; it adds the cubic feet and names the smallest size that holds them
  • It runs in the browser, on the server and at build time from the same definition, and a harness compares tens of thousands of inputs through all three
  • When the total is bigger than the largest unit in the building it says so and suggests two, rather than quietly recommending the biggest thing on the rate card
  • It makes no request, stores nothing and asks for no e-mail address before it answers

Every charge, printed twice

  • The monthly rate, the administrative fee, the lock and the late fee — on the pricing page beside the size they belong to, and again on a master schedule of rates of its own
  • A list of what is NOT charged, because an absence is a claim too: no deposit, no move-out fee, no fee to change size, no charge for the trolleys or the lift
  • The promotion carries its conditions, its guaranteed duration and the total due before move-in at the same type size as the figure, because that is now what the rules require
  • Three worked examples with the arithmetic shown, computed from the rate card so an example cannot disagree with the counter

Thirteen pages on what a storage facility should not claim

  • We sell no insurance — and the honest reason is not the one the trade usually gives: New York does license a facility to sell it, and this one simply holds no licence
  • A protection plan is a different instrument again, and the page explains the difference rather than blurring it
  • No adjectives about security: a list of what the building has and a list of what it does not, and neither carries a superlative
  • Nobody cleans an occupied unit — which has always been true and is now specifically unlawful to claim in this city

Included — not an add-on

A unit pool, a move-in diary and an occupancy board

One database holding what has been let, what is held and what is free — on any date, for any size. The count is not a number anybody keeps up to date; it is a question asked of the reservations themselves, which is why it cannot drift.

What your customers do

  • See how many units of a size are free on the day you want, before giving anybody your name
  • Hold one with a name, an e-mail address and a telephone number, and nothing else
  • Get a signed link to your own page: the size, the date, the hold expiry, the unit number once it is assigned, and what is due at the counter
  • Cancel from that page — and opening the link changes nothing, because a cancellation is a separate action carrying its own signature
  • Work out the size you need without talking to anybody, and be told when the answer is two units

What your staff control

  • A day board: who is expected to move in today, who has, and what has been given back
  • An occupancy board per size — let, held, free, and the percentage — which is the screen a manager actually lives on
  • Mark a reservation moved in and assign a door from the units genuinely free in that class
  • Release a unit, which frees the size from that date forward and not before it
  • Manager and assistant roles, with releasing refused to an assistant by the server rather than by a hidden button

What happens automatically

  • A hold that nobody moved into expires seven days after its date and the unit goes back into the pool
  • Two people reaching for the last unit of a size produce one reservation and one plain refusal — enforced by a database transaction, not by arithmetic
  • Reminders before a move-in and before a hold runs out, and a job that skips anybody with no address and says so rather than counting the skip as a success
  • The anti-bot timestamp is minted and signed per visitor, so a reservation cannot be refused because the build is a fortnight old

The software runs on your own hosting and belongs to you. There is no monthly licence, no per-booking commission and no third party holding your customer list — which over a few years is usually worth more than the price of the website.

What $890 covers

Yours, not a copy of the demo

You get the same structure and design system with your business in it — your name, logo, colours, photographs, services, prices and locations, and every page rewritten for you. Two businesses starting from this design do not end up looking like each other.

Pages you do not need come out. Pages you need that are not there can be added at $90 each. The local SEO — titles, descriptions, structured data and the copy itself — is retargeted from Woodside to wherever you actually work.

  • Your domain name

    First year included, registered in your name

  • One year of MaiaHost hosting

    Fast EU LiteSpeed hosting, daily backups, 24/7 monitoring

  • SSL certificate

    HTTPS from the first minute, auto-renewing

  • Your branding

    Your business name, logo, colours and typography

  • Your content

    Every page rewritten around your business, services and prices

  • Your photographs

    Your images placed and optimized — or we keep the demo imagery

  • Local SEO retargeted

    Titles, descriptions, schema and copy aimed at your city

  • Working contact form

    Spam-protected, delivering to your inbox

  • Google Search Console

    Verified and your sitemap submitted

  • One revision round

    Tell us what to change after the first build — included

  • 30 days of free fixes

    Post-launch corrections and small tweaks on us

  • You own everything

    Files, design, content and domain — move host any time

Who this suits

A good fit if you run one of these

  • Self-storage facilities of any size, single site or several
  • Anyone letting space by the month where the question is how much is free rather than which slot is free
  • Lock-ups, container yards, workshop units, studio and rehearsal space
  • Serviced offices and desks let by the month
  • Any business whose customers ask what size do I need before they ask what does it cost

Not quite your trade? Designs adapt more easily than people expect — the structure matters far more than the industry it was written for. Tell us what you do and we will say honestly whether this one fits.

Questions

About this design

Can somebody pay for the first month on the site?

Not in this demonstration, deliberately. A reservation holds a unit and costs nothing; the first month and the administrative fee are paid at the counter when the agreement is signed. Taking card payments brings in a payment provider, a refund policy and a dispute process — that is a real conversation to have, not a box to tick, and we are happy to have it.

We have about four hundred units across eleven sizes. Does that fit?

That is the shape it is built for. A size is a row with a quantity on it, and the pool arithmetic does not care whether the quantity is ten or four hundred. Adding a size, changing a rate, changing how many of something you have — all of it is one row, and the website, the estimator and the staff screens read it from the same place.

Our rates change. Does that mean a rebuild?

No. The rates, the fees, the promotion, the hold length, how far ahead somebody can reserve and the volume table the estimator runs on are all defined in one place that the page build, the browser and the server read. Changing a rate moves the size pages, the rate table, the worked examples, the master schedule and the reservation form together, and cannot leave one of them behind.

Do we have to publish a schedule of rates like that?

If you operate in New York City, yes — from 1 November 2026, and there is a penalty for not doing it. If you operate elsewhere, no, and you should consider it anyway: it is the single most useful page a storage website can have, and the research behind this demonstration found it is the thing customers of this trade complain about most when it is missing. Your lawyer should check the version you publish; ours is a demonstration, not advice.

Why does the site refuse to call itself secure?

Because secure is a conclusion and a customer is entitled to draw it from the facts. There is a page listing what the building has and what it has not, and neither list carries an adjective. On your site the tone is yours to set — what the design will not do is print a promise about an outcome, which is both the honest choice and the one your insurer would prefer.

The photographs — is that a real building?

No. Every photograph was generated by a computer: the building does not exist, the people do not exist, and the site says so on its own page. You will notice there is not a single unit number, lock brand, printed carton or sign anywhere in them, and not one face — which is a rule the build enforces rather than a habit. Your photographs replace them.

More general questions are answered on the sample websites page.

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