What the website is
Deskie builds a public marketing website for your space directly from the data already in your workspace. You do not start from a blank page or write any code. The builder combines two things: content you edit (headlines, descriptions, images, colors, fonts) and live catalog data that Deskie reads straight from your workspace (bookable resources, assets, passes, and events). Because the catalog sections read your live data, the site stays current as you manage your space day to day.
You manage everything from the Website page in the admin sidebar. Editing the website requires the Manage Workspace permission, so only workspace owners and admins can open the builder. See roles and permissions for who has that access.
How visitors reach it
Your website is always available at your workspace subdomain followed by the public path (for example, your-slug.deskie.com/public/website). The builder shows you the exact URL at the top of the editor, with buttons to copy it or open it in a new tab.
You can also connect your own domain. On the Domain tab of the builder you enter a domain, then add a CNAME DNS record pointing your www subdomain to Deskie and set up a 301 redirect from your root domain to your www subdomain. After your DNS is in place you click Verify DNS Configuration. Until it verifies, the domain shows as Pending; once verified it shows as Verified. When a verified custom domain is in place, visiting the root of that domain serves your public website automatically. The subdomain URL keeps working as a fallback regardless. For the full walkthrough, see custom domain.
Publishing and going live
A new website starts as a Draft and is not visible to the public. Nothing is served to visitors until you press Publish. The status badge in the builder reads Draft or Live so you always know the current state.
You can take the site back offline at any time with Unpublish, which prompts for confirmation first. While unpublished, the public address returns a not-found response, so visitors cannot see your site. Publishing and unpublishing only flips visibility; your content and settings are preserved either way, so you can publish again whenever you are ready.
Templates
Deskie offers two templates, chosen under Global Settings:
- Classic is a single-page site with all your sections stacked vertically on one scrolling page.
- Multi-Page is a multi-page site with dedicated pages for spaces, memberships, events, and contact.
Switching templates keeps all of your content, colors, and fonts, and you can switch back at any time. In the multi-page template, the pages backed by live data appear and disappear on their own based on activity: the Spaces page shows when you have bookable resources, the Memberships area shows when you have passes or assets, and the Events page shows whenever your workspace has ever created an event (so it persists between event cycles). The Contact page is always available. You do not toggle these pages manually.
The multi-page template also has a Homepage Sections control. Each homepage slot can be set to show one catalog (membership plans, available spaces, bookable resources, passes, or events) or turned off, so you control what appears on the home page without rearranging the rest of the site. A slot hides itself automatically when its catalog is empty.
Sections you edit
The builder is organized into sections you turn on or off and edit individually. Content sections include:
- Top Bar: a slim bar for contact email, phone, address, and social links.
- Navigation: your logo plus optional Log In and Book a Tour buttons.
- Hero: the headline, subheadline, background image, and primary and secondary call-to-action buttons (with editable labels).
- About: a heading, body text, and image.
- Amenities: a list of amenity cards, each with an icon, title, and description.
- Photo Gallery: a set of images you upload.
- Testimonials: quotes with author name, title, and optional photo.
- FAQ: a list of questions and answers.
- Footer: closing copy, copyright text, and social links. The footer is always shown and cannot be disabled.
Every section can be toggled on or off (except the footer) and expanded to edit its text. For each catalog-driven section you can also set the heading text shown above the items.
Catalog sections pulled from your workspace
Four sections do not have content you type in. Instead they pull live records straight from your workspace, so they reflect whatever you currently offer:
- Resources (Bookable Spaces): your active, bookable resources, with their photos, type, capacity, description, and formatted rates for each enabled interval (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly). See resources.
- Assets: your active assets such as private offices and desks, including membership plans, with photos, size, description, and pricing. See assets and plans and memberships.
- Passes: your active passes that allow non-member purchase, with description, price (or Free when the price is zero), number of uses, and expiration. See passes.
- Events: upcoming published events, ordered by start time, with description, image, and price. Past events drop off automatically. See events.
Contact details and branding in the top bar and footer (company name, logos, email, phone, and social links) are pulled from your workspace profile, so updating your branding flows through to the site.
Availability and waitlists
Asset cards reflect real availability based on assignments:
- An asset with no active assignment is shown as available.
- A non-flex asset that is currently occupied with no scheduled end date is hidden by default, but it is surfaced when its waitlist is enabled so people can queue for a full space.
- An asset whose active assignment has a future scheduled end date is shown as Coming Soon with a friendly "available around" date (the day after the assignment ends).
- Flexible membership plans have unlimited spots, so they are always shown as available.
This availability logic applies to both templates. In the multi-page template, each space card and its detail page also chooses the right call to action (Sign Up, Join the Waitlist, or Book a Tour) depending on whether public signup or the waitlist is enabled for that asset, and shows the Coming Soon badge with the "available around" date. See assignments for how scheduled terminations work.
What members see
If a visitor is signed in and is an active member of your workspace, the public site adapts to them. They also see resources and events that are open to members in addition to those open to non-members, and the prices shown switch to member pricing wherever the offering allows member purchase (this applies to resources, passes, and events). Deskie uses the same price resolver here that the checkout flow uses, so the price shown always matches the price charged. A paused member is treated like a standard visitor, since the checkout would refuse a member discount they cannot use. See public sign up and checkout for how purchases are completed.
Controlling what appears
You have several levers over which items show on the public site:
- Section toggles in the builder turn an entire section on or off.
- Hide from website on an individual resource, asset, pass, or event keeps that single record off the public site even when its section is enabled. This control appears on the item once your website is published.
- Public availability flags on the item itself determine eligibility. Resources need non-member booking allowed (or, for a signed-in member, member booking allowed); passes need non-member purchase allowed; events must be published, active, set to allow purchase, and not hidden from the public listing.
- Access rules on resources are respected: a member sees resources whitelisted to them or their assets and is hidden from any they are blacklisted from, while anonymous visitors only see resources with no whitelist. See resource access rules.
Styling and global settings
Under Global Settings you control the look of the whole site:
- Site Title: the title shown in the browser tab. It defaults to your workspace name if left empty.
- Accent Color: applied to buttons, links, and accent elements across the site.
- Font Family: choose a font loaded from Google Fonts, or keep the system default.
The multi-page template adds a few extra controls: an optional Announcement Bar above the navigation, a page Background color (white, tan, or gray), a Corner style (rounded, soft, or squared), a Drop shadows toggle, and, when you have more than one location, a default Book a Tour location so the inline tour form can skip the location-picker step.
Previewing your work
The builder shows a live preview beside the editor as you make changes, with desktop, tablet, and mobile views so you can check how the site looks at each size. The Website Builder is designed for a larger screen; on a small device the builder asks you to switch to a desktop or tablet to edit.
Moving a site between workspaces
Global Settings includes Export and Import. Export copies all of your global settings plus every section's content into a JSON snapshot you can copy. Pasting that JSON into another workspace's import box replicates the site there, overwriting that workspace's website settings and content. External image links carry over, but images you uploaded to one workspace need to be re-uploaded in the other. Importing does not publish the site for you; you publish separately when you are ready.
Staying in sync
Because the resources, assets, passes, and events sections read your live workspace data every time the public site loads, you do not maintain a separate copy of your catalog for the website. When you add a resource, change a price, fill or free up an office, publish a new event, or update your contact details, the public site reflects it the next time a visitor loads the page. Your job in the builder is to set the framing (headlines, imagery, colors, and which sections are on); Deskie keeps the listings themselves current for you.