# Your website

> The website Bookodile builds from your booking setup — switching it on, templates and looks, changing it by asking Bookodile, by hand or right on the preview, languages, photos and gallery categories, publishing and History, the yourname.bookodile.com address, connecting a domain you own, search engines, the Website visits report, and what it does not do.

_Last verified: 2026-10-17. Source: https://bookodile.com/docs/your-website_

Every location in Bookodile can have its own website, built from what you have
already set up for booking: your services and prices, your team, your opening
hours and your reviews. It lives at `yourname.bookodile.com`, or on a domain you
own at `www.yourbusiness.com`, and every **Book** button on it opens your
booking page at `bookodile.com/yourname`.

The website is part of every account, the free one included — the hosting, the
translations and connecting your own domain too. It is not an add-on and there
is nothing to buy; only a domain of your own, if you want one, is bought
elsewhere.

## What your website is

A set of ready-made pages for one location: by default a home page, your
services, your team, a gallery and a page for finding you, with your name, logo
and the words you choose. The pages are laid out for phones first, and on a
phone **Book** sits in the top bar beside the menu, which stays on screen while
the visitor scrolls — nothing covers the bottom of the page.

A website does one job beside your booking page: it is what someone finds when
they look you up, and it sends them to book. The booking itself always happens
on your booking page — the website never takes a booking or a payment of its
own.

## Switching your website on

- **A new business starts with its website on.** The last step of setting up a
  business, **Make me a website too**, is switched on unless you switch it off
  there. The same happens when you add a branch or a new workspace later. What
  it makes is a **draft**: nobody can see it until you publish it.
- **A business that existed before 17 October 2026 has its website off** until
  someone switches it on in **Settings → Website & booking page**, on the
  **Website** switch at the top. Switching it on builds the first draft from your
  booking setup in a moment, and the button under the switch opens the website
  editor.
- **While it is on, Website in the sidebar opens the website editor.** The
  arrow at the end of that row opens the website itself in a new tab — a
  preview until the first publish. On a computer the arrow shows when the
  pointer is over the row; on a phone it is always there.
- **Switching it off** keeps everything you made. While it is off, your website
  address opens your booking page instead, and switching it back on brings the
  whole site back as it was.

Until your first **Publish**, the website address opens your booking page too,
so a customer never lands on an unfinished page.

## What always comes from your booking setup

The website **points at** your booking data; it never keeps a copy. So nothing
is typed twice, and a change in one place is a change everywhere:

- **Services and prices**, with their durations and categories, priced by the
  same rules as your booking page: a fixed price, "from", a range, price on
  request or an hourly rate. A service priced per team member shows its lowest
  price as "from"; one priced per category of team member shows "on request",
  because the price depends on who is booked.
- **Your team** — every active, bookable team member, with their name, photo and
  bio, their Instagram and TikTok handles when they are filled in on the team
  member's own page, and a **Book** button under each person that opens your
  booking page with them already chosen. Every template shows it; a switch in the
  Team section takes the buttons off.
- **Your address, phone and opening hours**, on the page for finding you, with a
  **Directions** button. The map loads only when a visitor asks for it.
- **Your published reviews**, newest first, when the Reviews add-on is publishing
  them — and your rating, once your booking page shows it.
- **Your logo**, and your business description as the line under your name until
  you write one of your own.

Change a price in **Services** and the published website follows within a few
minutes, without pressing Publish. Restoring an old version of the website still
shows today's prices.

On the website alone you can hide a service or a whole category, star up to 12
services for the home page, change the order services and team members appear
in, and hide a team member. **Hidden on the website is still bookable** — the
booking page is untouched.

A team member can also have a bio and a photo just for the website, different
from the ones on the booking page — a website bio can run to 400 characters,
against 200 on the booking page. Left empty, the website shows the booking
page's.

A service works the same way with its photo. The photo added to the service in
**Services** is the booking page's, and the website uses it as the service's
cover until the website has a photo of that service of its own (see
[Photos](#photos)).

A team member can also have a **role**, a short line under their name on the
website only — "Owner", "Senior stylist", "Head coach", at most 60 characters. The
booking page has no such line. Left empty, nothing shows under the name. Roles are
translated with the rest of the website's words.

## Templates and looks

There are four templates. **Classic One** is the standard design, light, with
several pages. **Bold One** starts dark, with several pages. **Luxe One** starts
dark, in black and gold, and puts everything on one page. **Luxe Two** starts dark,
in black and white with fine lines, with several pages.

A template's name is its style — Classic, Bold, Luxe — and its number in that
style, in the order the templates were made; a new one takes the next number, and a
name is never changed or given to another template. Names are the same in every
language; the ready-made looks inside them are named by their colours (Clean,
Midnight, Black & gold…). **bookodile.com/templates** shows every template filled in
with a sample business of each kind, before anyone signs up, filtered by style and by
light or dark. Each opens full screen at its own address, every page clickable, with
the kind of business switchable at the top; *Start with this template* there signs up
with it, and the first website is that one. A sample business has no booking page, so
its **Book** buttons explain instead what they open on a real website: the business's
own booking page.

Style → Template opens a gallery of every template, filtered by light or dark,
one page or several, and trade, and searched by name, by style or by how it looks
("luxe", "luxe 2", "gold", "mosaic"). Open one to see it three ways, on a computer or a phone: **The
template** as designed, filled in with a sample business like yours; **Your
pages**, your own site exactly as it is in its design; and **Its pages**, your
words and photos in its own pages. Use does what the preview shows. History keeps
the site as it was just before each switch.

**A new website's menu fits your kind of business.** Onboarding asks what kind of
business you are, and **Settings → Business profile** keeps it (*Kind of business*). A
business that never said is asked on the website's first run instead, with a guess from
its services already offered: one tap saves it and gives the draft that menu, before
anything is public — Undo puts the pages back. A
new website — or a template taken *with its pages* — names its pages and orders its menu
the way businesses like yours do: a barbershop leads with *Barbers*, *Services* and
*Location & Parking*; a nail salon with its price list, its gallery and *Contact*; a
clinic with *Treatments & prices*; a personal trainer with *About me* and *Training &
prices*, a studio with *Classes & prices* and *Instructors*; a photographer with
*Portfolio*. Every kind of business has the same pages — services, team, gallery,
reviews where that trade shows them, the visit page (*Contact* for most) and an *About
us* page under More — only their names and order differ. After that the names and
order are yours, and a website you already have keeps its pages when you change your
kind of business. Not chosen, a new website starts with Services, Team, Gallery,
Contact and About us.

**Once your website has been published, a switch changes the design only.**
Use takes the new template's layouts, its first look and its menu; every page
stays, in its order and with its name and address, and so does every section —
hidden ones too — with its settings, your words, photos, bios, team photos and
custom touches. Your own building blocks keep their arrangement. Switching back
gives you the same site, and the look you had stays one click away in Style.

**A template's own pages are one click away.** Open a template in the gallery
and choose **Its pages** to see it with the template's own pages, then
**Use … with its pages** to take them. Before the first publish, that is what Use
does. Your content comes along: your texts and photos; the bios and team photos
just for the website; each section's settings, such as hidden or starred
services or the team's order; your own building blocks, text, and questions and
answers; the pages you added, with their names and addresses; and custom touches.
What it takes is the template's layout: its pages in its order, with the pages
you added after them; on each page its sections, in its order and its layouts;
whether a services list shows the starred services or all of them, and how many
reviews show; and its first look. So a section you removed comes back, and a
section showing your booking details that you put where the template has none —
your team on the home page, say — is left out, heading included. Your own
sections stay on their page: on the home page just under the top photo, on the
others just before the closing Book band. A one-page template's pages fold your
other pages into its one page; taking a template with several pages later brings
its pages back with their names and addresses.

**One page or several is yours**, the switch at the top of Pages, in every
template. One page draws all your pages on one long page, in their order, and
the menu jumps to each; only what would say the same thing twice is left out
there — the Book bands between pages, the home page's starred services when the
full list follows, and its few photos when the whole gallery follows. Once published, the pages' old addresses lead to the one page. Several
pages gives each page its own address again. Nothing moves either way, and
**+ Add a page** works in both: on one page, the new page is drawn after the
others.

Each template offers ready-made looks, and Style lets you change everything a
look sets: five colours, the fonts for headings and text, heading size,
corners, buttons filled or outlined, spacing, photos in colour, black and white
or warm, and the top bar: solid, see-through (the page shows through it,
blurred, as it scrolls under) or over the top photo. The
website's colours are its own — your brand colour stays on your booking page and
in your emails.

**The footer** shows your name or logo, every page — each one has *In the footer*
beside *In the menu* under Pages, on until you turn it off, because the menu
folds some pages away — where to find you and, in columns, your opening hours.
Under it, on every page, the crocodile and *Website made with Bookodile*.

**Details**, folded under Style, change the finer points of the design: small
labels over headings, cards filled, outlined or with a hairline edge, the lines
under the menu and over the footer, a footer in one line or in columns, photos
that zoom slowly under the pointer, a normal or wide page, and normal or tight
headings. Each starts as the template's; a new design brings its own. A template
may keep one it depends on, and Details then shows it without a switch. Every
detail is listed in [Every building block and its settings](/docs/reference-website-blocks#details-of-the-design).

**Publish waits for readable colours.** If text would be hard to read on its
background, Publish refuses and says to fix the colours in Style first.

## Changing it by asking Bookodile

In the website editor, **Ask Bookodile** is [AI Chat](/docs/ai-chat), beside a
live preview of your website. Say what you want — "make it feel warmer", "add
the questions customers always ask", "put a photo at the top of the team page" —
and it changes the draft:

- texts on any page, in any of the website's languages;
- the look — colours, fonts, corners, buttons and spacing — and the template;
- sections and pages: adding, moving, hiding and removing them, and questions
  and answers;
- which services and team members show on the website, and in what order;
- photos, by their descriptions: the cover, the order, a description, or which
  photo sits at the top of a page — and the gallery's categories: adding and
  naming one, linking it to a service, and moving photos into it. It sees a
  photo's description and category, never the picture, so a photo with no
  description is left for you to sort;
- a **custom touch** where no setting does it, such as rounder team photos —
  chosen from a fixed list of parts and values, never code.

The change lands in the preview straight away, with **Undo**. It changes only
the draft: **nothing is public until you press Publish**, which the chat never
does for you.

**Point at what you mean**: whatever you select on the preview goes into your
message, and "make this shorter" changes exactly that.

Ask it to **bring over the words from your old website** and it reads up to 20
pages of that site and proposes the texts for you to check. Prices, durations,
opening hours and the team always come from your booking setup, never from the
old site, and photos are not brought over.

## Changing it by hand

**Edit by hand** has four tabs: **Pages**, **Style**, **Languages** and
**History**. Ask Bookodile and Edit by hand change the same draft, so you can
switch between them at any time.

- **Pages** lists your pages; each one opens into its sections. Add a page (About
  us, Careers, Academy or a blank page), choose whether it is in the menu, rename
  it, and set its title and description for search results. Sections can be
  added, moved, hidden and removed: Top of the page, Services, Gallery, Team,
  Reviews, Visit us, a Book band, Text, Questions and answers, and building
  blocks of text and photos. The Team section is also where a team member's
  role and website-only bio are written. Every section's switches are listed in
  [Every building block and its settings](/docs/reference-website-blocks).
- **Undo and redo** go back a hundred steps.
- **Everything saves as you go**, into the draft. If someone else saved the
  website a moment before you, your save is refused and the editor offers to
  reload — it never overwrites their work.
- **The preview** shows exactly what a visitor will get, on a computer or a
  phone. **Book** in the preview opens your booking page in preview mode, where
  nothing is booked or sent.

Renaming a page moves its address; the old address keeps working and sends
visitors to the new one.

## Editing on the preview

Three tools sit at the bottom of the preview. **Select** (S): click a heading, a
card or a section to select it; a section gets a toolbar to move, change its
Layout, Change to another kind, duplicate, hide or remove it, and **Add section**
on its edges. **Text** (T): click your own text and type; Enter keeps it, Esc
puts it back. **Use the site** (U): links work as for a visitor. Booking details
(prices, names, hours) are never typed over: a click says where they change.
**Change to** keeps the words; when they must be split or joined, Bookodile
rewrites them ([details](/docs/reference-website-blocks#changing-a-block-into-another)).

## Languages

Your website's main language is your location's own, from Business profile.
In **Languages** you can add up to seven more. Seventeen languages are
available in all: English, Slovak, Czech, Vietnamese, German, Hungarian,
Polish, Ukrainian, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Romanian,
Croatian, Slovenian and Chinese.

- **Bookodile translates everything** as soon as a language is added — the
  website's own texts, and your service names and descriptions, categories, team
  bios and business description — in the way a local copywriter would rather
  than word for word. When a text changes, its translations are written again.
- **Corrections by hand are kept.** A website text you correct in another
  language is never translated over, even when the original changes —
  **Translate again** hands it back to Bookodile. A corrected service name,
  description, category or bio stays until you change the original, and is then
  translated afresh.
- **See and edit the texts** shows every original with its translation beneath.
- A new language goes live at your next **Publish**, once every text is written
  in it. Each language has its own addresses, such as `/de/` for German.
- **Your booking page stays in your location's own language**, whatever the
  website's languages.

## Photos

Photos make the biggest difference, and you add them where they show: the top
of a page, a building block, each card of a Photo columns block or of the Team
section's extra cards, the gallery, each service's cover and each team member's
portrait. In the editor's preview every one of those places has its own
**Upload your image** or **Change image** button. Add several at once to the
gallery, or drag photos in from your computer.

A team member's portrait and a service's cover each offer two photos:

- **A photo just for the website** — full quality, cut to fit the design, live
  when you publish. For a service, it joins that service's photos on the
  website, first.
- **The one from the booking page** — the team member's profile photo, or the
  service's own photo from **Services**. Changing it there or from here changes
  the booking page too, straight away.

The website shows its own photo when it has one, and the booking page's
otherwise. **Use this one** on the other switches it — the website's photo is
kept, just not shown.

Each photo is resized on your own device before it is uploaded, and its location
and camera details are removed on the way. A photo can carry a description, for
screen readers and search engines. Until you add photos, those places show a
plain placeholder.

A service with photos on the website gets its own page there, with them on it.
The service's own photo from **Services** alone does not give it one.

### Gallery categories

The gallery's photos can be grouped into **categories** you name — for example
Beards and Fades at a barbershop, or Galaxy nails at a nail studio. A photo is
in one category at a time, or in none. In the editor: Pages → the page with the
gallery → Gallery → **Categories**. **Add photos** inside a category puts new
photos straight into it, and **Choose from your photos** moves several photos
already on the website at once.

- **Link a category to a service** (its **Book button** setting) and opening one
  of its photos shows the service, its duration and price, and **Book** — the
  booking page opens with that service already chosen. Its photos are also that
  service's photos: they show on the service's own page, and the first of them
  is its cover. Two categories can link to the same service — say a cut and a
  signature style that is booked as the same cut.
- **Leave a category without a service** for photos that book nothing, such as
  the premises. Opening one shows its name only.
- **The name** shows on its tab and when one of its photos is opened. A linked
  category can leave it empty to use the service's own name, translated with the
  rest of your services. Category names are translated like every text on the
  website.
- **Photos in no category** show under All only, and any of them can be the
  photo at the top of a page.

Each gallery has its own switches, under Gallery in the editor:

- **Show a tab for each category** — on. Visitors tap a tab to see one
  category's photos. Tabs show once two categories have photos; a gallery that
  previews a few photos on Home has them off until you turn them on.
- **Start on an "All" tab** — on. Off, the first category's tab is chosen, and
  photos in no category are left out of that gallery; the editor says how many.
- **Photo descriptions: show them on the site** — off. On, a photo that has a
  description shows it when the photo is opened, and on a computer when the
  pointer is over it. Photos without one show nothing.
- **Show the service's price and duration** — on, beside Book when a photo in a
  linked category is opened. Off, the service's name and Book still show.

Visitors open a photo by tapping it: it shows large, with its category, and a
swipe on a phone or the arrows on a computer move to the next photo of the same
tab. Nothing is written under the photos in the grid. Each opened photo has its
own address, so a link to it can be shared.

**When a linked service changes.** A service that is switched off or deleted
leaves its category in place as a name only, with no Book button; switched on
again, Book comes back by itself. A service hidden on the website shows no Book
button either, and its photos stay in a category you named — but not in one
that only carried the service's name. A service offered only as an extra can't
be linked: the booking page never starts a booking with one.

## Publishing, drafts and History

Every change goes into a **draft** that customers cannot see. **Publish** puts
the draft live, usually within a minute.

Before it publishes, a quick check runs:

- your email address must be confirmed;
- the colours must be readable;
- the texts that changed since the last publish — every text on a first publish —
  are read by an automatic check for spam, scams, sexual services, attacks on
  people, illegal goods and pretending to be someone else. If it refuses a text,
  nothing is published and the editor lists what to change. Sometimes it
  publishes but keeps the website out of search engines until a person at
  Bookodile has had a quick look; the editor says so.

**History** lists the last 30 versions: each publish, each template change, each
restore, each change made from AI Chat, and a saved point at most every half
hour while you edit. **Restore** puts a version into your draft — nothing goes
live until you publish — and warns first if a service or team member it showed no
longer exists. A version keeps pages, texts and style; prices, hours, team and
reviews are always today's.

## Your website's address

Your website lives at `yourname.bookodile.com`, where *yourname* is the same
address name as your booking page at `bookodile.com/yourname`. Both are set in
**Settings → Website & booking page → Address**, and changing the name moves
both; the old addresses keep working and lead to the new ones.

Every **Book** button on the website opens your booking page at
`bookodile.com/yourname` — the same page, the same sign-in and the same
**My Bookings** your customers use everywhere. A service's own Book button opens
the booking page with that service already chosen.

The address stays the same when you publish, switch the website off or edit it,
so a printed QR code or a link in a bio keeps working.

## Connecting your own domain

Once the website is switched on, **Your own domain** in **Settings → Website &
booking page** connects a domain you already own. From the website editor,
**Settings** at the top right of the screen opens that page. The domain stays
yours, at whoever you bought it from: Bookodile only connects it.

### The two records

Type the domain as `yourbusiness.com`. Bookodile names your registrar when it
recognises it, and lists **two records** to add where your domain's DNS is
managed:

- a **TXT** record named `_bookodile`, whose value proves the domain is yours, so
  nobody else can connect it;
- a **CNAME** record named `www`, pointing at `connect.bookodile.com`.

**Your website's address becomes `www.yourbusiness.com`** — it is always the www
address. Beside the two records the screen lists a third entry, the **URL
redirect** that makes the name without www open it too (below). Nothing else
needs to change, and your email records stay as they are. If your DNS is on
Cloudflare, the CNAME must be set to DNS only, not proxied.

### The name without www

People type `yourbusiness.com` without www, so the screen lists its forward as
the third entry: type **URL**, name `@`, value `https://www.yourbusiness.com` — a
permanent (301) redirect, not masked or framed, set where the domain's DNS is.
Most DNS hosts call it *URL redirect* or *forwarding*; for the ones Bookodile
recognises (Namecheap, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Websupport, Active24, WEDOS and
Squarespace) the screen says where it is. Whatever is already on `@` — an old
website's address, a parking page — goes first.

- **Bookodile checks it like the records.** It opens `yourbusiness.com` over
  `http://` and `https://` and ticks the forward once it leads to the www
  address. It never holds the website back — www goes live on its own — but the
  screen keeps asking for the forward until it works, and on a live domain
  Bookodile looks again every two hours.
- **Not every DNS host's redirect does https.** Namecheap's answers
  `http://yourbusiness.com` and not `https://yourbusiness.com` (checked on 17
  October 2026). Typed into a browser, the name still opens the website; a link
  or a QR code should use the www address. The screen says so when it sees it.
  GoDaddy's forwarding and Cloudflare's (a proxied `A` record on `@` pointing at
  `192.0.2.1`, plus a Redirect Rule) cover https, by their own help pages.
- **WEDOS** forwards a domain to its own www address only with WEDOS web
  hosting, by its help pages; without it, the name without www cannot be
  forwarded there.
- Bookodile cannot answer on the name without www itself, so the forward is
  always the DNS host's.

### When someone else looks after your domain

Many owners did not buy their domain themselves, or have never added a DNS
record. Two ways out sit above the records:

- **Send instructions** writes a ready message for whoever looks after your
  domain — a web developer, an IT person or a friend — with both records and the
  forward exactly as they must be typed, where the DNS is (and, for the DNS hosts
  it recognises, where the forward is), and what to leave alone. It is in your
  dashboard's language, you can change the wording, and you send it yourself:
  share it, copy it, or open it in your own email. Bookodile sends nothing.
- **Ask Bookodile** opens AI Chat beside the records. It reads what your domain
  answers right now and says what is wrong — a record with the wrong value, an
  old website still on www — one step at a time. It cannot connect or disconnect
  a domain; that is done on this screen.

### How the check works

Bookodile checks the records every 30 minutes, and **Check now** checks at once.
Records usually take effect within an hour of being added. Once they are right,
the domain is secured — usually a few minutes, shown as *Securing your domain* —
then your website is put on it within about a minute (*Going live*), and the
domain shows **Live**. From then on your Bookodile address leads to your domain.

**The domain shows your website only once it is published.** The editor's
preview is only yours; until the first **Publish**, the screen says *Your
website isn't published yet* in red, above everything else, with a button to
the website editor, and a live domain shows *Not published yet* instead of
*Going live*.
**Disconnect** puts the website back on its Bookodile address.

### If your domain stops reaching your website

A live domain is checked again **every day**. It counts as gone wrong when www no
longer points at Bookodile, when another Bookodile website has proved the domain
is theirs, or when the domain cannot be kept secured. Then:

1. The domain shows **Needs attention**, with the records as they stand and the
   time your website will move, and an email goes out at once — with the records,
   ready to forward, when the fix is at your registrar, or saying there is
   nothing to do when the fault is on Bookodile's side.
2. While it fails, the domain is checked every 30 minutes, and one right check
   puts everything back to normal.
3. **If it is still failing after an hour** — in practice between one hour and
   an hour and a half — your website moves back to `yourname.bookodile.com`, so
   customers still reach it, and a second email says so. Nothing is lost: put
   the records back and the website returns to your domain by itself.

A TXT record tidied away on its own does not move the website — it still works
there — but the screen asks for the record back. A check that cannot tell, such
as when your DNS provider is down, changes nothing.

**Who is emailed:** the owner, and every active team member at that location who
can sign in and whose role opens Settings — at most two emails each time a domain
goes wrong. Each person can turn these emails off in **Settings → Notifications**,
under **Your own domain**.

## Showing up in search engines

**One switch covers your website and your booking page**: *Show my business in
search results*, in the Address section of **Settings → Website & booking page**,
on unless you turn it off. Off asks search engines to leave both out; anyone with
the link can still visit and book.

- **Every page has its own title and description for search results**, in every
  language. Leave them empty and the page's name and your business description
  are used.
- **A new website waits before it is listed**: until your business has had a
  booking made online by someone outside your team, or until 14 days after you
  first publish, whichever comes first — so a half-finished site is not what
  gets listed. A business that already takes online bookings is usually past
  this the day it publishes.
- A website the publish check is holding for a person to look at stays out of
  search until it has been looked at, and demo workspaces are never listed.
- Each website has its own sitemap, and search engines that support IndexNow are
  told when a listed page changes.

Search engines decide for themselves what to show and when. Nobody can promise
a position or a date.

## Website visits

**Reports → Website visits** shows, for the last 7, 30 or 90 days next to the
period before: how many people visited, how many pages they viewed, how many
opened your booking page from the website and how many booked; visitors by day;
where they came from — Google search, Google Maps, Instagram, Facebook, a link
they typed, and others — with how many of each booked; your campaigns; your most
viewed pages; and how many visitors were on a phone.

- **Counted without cookies.** Nothing is stored on a visitor's phone, no script
  runs on the website, and no IP address is kept.
- **Links to share** gives tagged links for an Instagram bio, a Facebook page, a
  Google business profile and a TikTok bio, so the report knows where those
  visitors came from — apps often hide it otherwise.
- The numbers update every few hours.
- **Honest limits:** a visitor who comes back on another day counts again, your
  own visits count too, and robots that pretend to be browsers can get through.

The report needs a role that sees every report.

## Announcements, promotions and events

Three add-ons reach the website as well as the booking page, and each item decides
for itself: an announcement, a promotion and an event each have a **Your website**
switch on their form, on unless you turn it off.

- **Announcements** run along the top of every page, above the menu — no section
  needed. Two at most, the first two in the Announcements list's order.
- **Promotions** show in a **Promotions** section, as cards with both prices.
- **Events** show in an **Events** section (the next three, or all of them), and on
  an **Events** page if you add one under **Add a page**.

Add the sections under **Pages → Add a section → From your add-ons**. When something
is set to show but the website has no place for it, its form says so with the fix as
one button — **Add it to Home** or **Show it** — which changes the draft; publish to
show it. Once the section is there, the website updates by itself as items start,
end or fill up, without Publish. Every setting of each block is in
[Every building block](/docs/reference-website-blocks#offers-events-and-announcements).

## Who can change the website

Anyone whose role can open Settings at that location can switch the website on
and off, edit and publish it, and connect a domain. Changing what comes from the
booking setup — a service's own photo, a team member's profile photo — also needs
the role to manage services or the team. Each location's website is
its own: a second branch has its own website, address and domain.

## Worked examples

**A barbershop with an old website.** The owner switches the website on, picks
Luxe Two in the gallery, and asks Bookodile to bring over the words from the old
site. The prices and the team are already there, from the booking setup. After
adding photos of the shop and publishing, the domain is connected: the nephew who
bought it years ago gets the message from **Send instructions** and adds the two
records the same evening.

**A physiotherapy clinic with many patients from abroad.** The clinic keeps
Classic One, adds English and German, and rewrites its German welcome line by hand —
that line is never translated over. The booking page stays in the clinic's own
language.

**A personal coach with no domain.** The coach uses `yourname.bookodile.com` as
is, puts the tagged Instagram link from **Website visits** in the bio, and a
month later can see how many visitors came from Instagram and how many booked.

**A nail studio with a signature set.** The studio puts ten photos of its galaxy
design in a category called Galaxy nails, linked to its gel manicure. A visitor
who opens one sees the price, taps Book, and lands on the booking page with the
gel manicure already chosen. A barbershop does the same with a Beards category
linked to its beard trim.

**A nail salon redecorating.** The salon switches its published website to
Bold One to try it: the design changes, and its pages, its price list and the
About page it wrote stay as they were. It keeps working on the draft for a week
while the published site stays as it was, and when the new photos are in,
publishes. History keeps the old design one click away.

**A personal trainer with little to say.** The trainer's site has Home, Services,
Team and Visit us, each a few lines long, so the trainer switches Pages to **One
page**: everything reads top to bottom, and the menu jumps down it. A yoga studio
on one page that later adds a teacher-training page switches back to **Several
pages**, and every page has its own address again, with nothing to rebuild.

**A salon and a clinic on the preview.** A hair salon turns its three promises
into three photo cards with **Change to**, word for word; a dental clinic turns
a long text into questions and answers, which Bookodile rewrites to fit.

## Limits

- **No blog and no online shop.** The website shows your business and sends
  customers to book; it does not sell products or take payments.
- **No code of your own.** No scripts, chat widgets, analytics tags, tracking
  pixels or custom CSS run on the website. Custom touches come from a fixed list,
  added through AI Chat.
- **No contact form and no videos** — photos, text, your phone number and your
  address.
- **Text typed on the preview is plain**, and sections move with arrows, not
  by dragging.
- **A photo is in one gallery category**, never several at once. An opened photo
  closes with its × or the back button, not the Esc key.
- **Announcements kept for customers who have booked before stay on the booking
  page.** The website is the same page for every visitor, so it cannot tell who has
  booked. At most two announcements show on the website at once.
- **Your old website's photos are not brought over**, only its words, and its old
  addresses are not redirected to the new pages.
- **The name without www is your DNS host's forward.** The website's address on
  your own domain is always www; `yourbusiness.com` opens it through the URL
  redirect the screen lists — over `http://` only where the DNS host's redirect
  does not do https (Namecheap's, for one), and not at all on WEDOS without its
  web hosting.
- **Domain names with accented letters cannot be connected yet.** One domain per
  website, and a domain can be live on only one website.
- **Booking is not on your domain.** Every Book button opens your booking page on
  `bookodile.com/yourname`.
- **Every page's footer carries *Report this site* and *Website made with
  Bookodile* with the crocodile.** Neither can be removed. A website reported for breaking the rules can be taken
  down by Bookodile; its address then opens your booking page and the owner is
  emailed the reason.
- **There is no "publish later".** Publish is immediate; your booking data, on
  the other hand, reaches the live website without Publish.
- **Translations are written by AI** and can be imperfect: read them, and correct
  any line by hand. Translation has a daily ceiling per business that only stops
  runaway use; past it, the rest follows the next day.
- **These limits only stop misuse**, and a real website sits far below them:
  12 pages, 25 sections on a page, 8 languages including the main one, 30
  questions and answers in one section, 1,000 photos on a website, 60 gallery
  categories, 200 photo uploads a day per location and 30 publishes an hour. A
  busy business shows a few dozen photos in three to six categories.
- **Search engines decide what they show.** A listed website is not a ranked one.