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Your public community page

Claim a free public page for your business, build it out in private, and publish it when it is ready.

Available on all plans.

Admins, and members with access to the community page.

What your community page is

Your community page is a free public landing page for your business, hosted by OneTool at onetool.biz/communities/your-page-url. It can show a banner, your logo, a bio, a photo gallery, your services and pricing, business hours, credentials, and social links, and it includes a built-in form visitors use to request a quote.

Claim your page

  1. Go to Community in the sidebar.
  2. Enter a Page title. It starts as your organization name, and you can change it later.
  3. Pick a Page URL. Only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens are allowed, and the checker tells you whether your choice is Available or Taken.
  4. Click Claim your page.

Your page starts as a private draft. Nothing is public until you publish, so you can take your time building it out.

Claiming a community page with a title and URL

Build out the sections

Click Edit page to open the editor. Its nine sections are grouped into Essentials, the four a page needs before publishing makes sense, and Optional, the rest. Once the essentials are filled in, the sidebar says Ready to publish, but nothing stops you publishing earlier or later.

  • Main Page Settings: banner image, avatar or logo, page title, page URL, an optional tagline, and an SEO description for search engines. The tagline leads your page as its headline, like "Lawns worth coming home to". Leave it blank and your business name takes that spot.
  • Design: three tabs. Layout picks the shape of your public page, Brand sets light or dark and your accent color, and Sections controls the order your public sections appear in, the layout each one uses, and a switch to leave any of them off.
  • Business Info: your name and title, Licensed, Bonded, and Insured badges, year established, license number, certifications, business hours, and social links.
  • Bio: tell visitors who you are and what makes your business different.
  • Image Gallery: up to 5 photos of your work.
  • Services: describe what you offer and where, plus a short Service list of the jobs you take on. Those become the options a visitor can pick from on your quote form.
  • Pricing: structured tiers or a free-form pricing write-up. Each tier can list what is included, and you can mark one tier as Most chosen to draw the eye to it.
  • Common Questions: up to 12 question-and-answer pairs. Answer what people ask on the phone and they stop having to call to find out.
  • Team: up to 12 people, each with a name and an optional role, short bio, and photo. A visitor deciding who to let into their home is reassured by a face.

Watch the page change as you edit

On a wide screen the editor shows a Live preview beside the form. It updates as you type, and it always shows your draft, including changes you have not saved yet.

Switch between Desktop and Mobile above the preview to see how the page reflows on a phone. Most visitors arrive on a phone, so it is worth a look before you publish.

If a section is switched on but has nothing in it, the preview shows a note in its place with a button that takes you straight to the field that fills it. Those notes are only in the editor. Visitors never see them, and an empty section simply does not appear on the published page.

Save, discard, or walk away

The editor never saves on its own. An amber dot next to a section means it has changes you have not saved yet, and Save Draft (or Save Changes on a live page) stores all of them at once.

Changed your mind? Discard in the header takes the whole page back to how it looked after your last save. And if you try to leave the editor with unsaved work, OneTool asks first, so you can save it, drop it, or stay, but never lose it by accident.

Pick the shape of your page

The Layout tab under Design offers three shapes. They all use the same content you have already entered, and only the arrangement changes, so you can switch between them and watch the preview to see which suits your business.

  • Showcase: photos of your work lead the page, sitting beside your business name where a visitor sees them first, with the quote form pinned alongside as they read. Best if you have photos of finished jobs.
  • Storefront: your plans come first and the quote form sits above your sections, wide and hard to miss. Best if you sell set plans or price ranges.
  • Directory: a compact listing. Your hours, credentials, service list and area sit at the top next to a Call button, and the quote form comes at the end. Best if you have no photos yet.

Set your colors

The Brand tab under Design sets two things: whether your page is light or dark, and the accent color used for buttons, links and highlights.

Light or dark is your choice, not your visitor's. Everyone who lands on your page sees the one you picked, whatever their own phone is set to.

For the accent, pick one of the eight presets, use the color well to choose your own, or type a hex value such as #00a6f4. If you have uploaded a logo, Use my logo reads the main color straight off it.

Choose what appears, and in what order

The Sections tab under Design lists the six sections of your public page: About us, What we do, Plans & pricing, Our work, Common questions, and Meet the team. Drag a row to move it, and use the switch to leave a section off the page entirely.

Two sections offer a choice of layout, shown as buttons under the section name. Our work can be a Carousel, one large photo at a time, or a Grid that shows every photo at once. Plans & pricing can be Cards, one box per plan with its full feature list, or a Price list, one compact row per plan. Pick either and the preview updates straight away.

The quote request form is always last and cannot be switched off. It is how visitors reach you.

Publish and update

  1. While the page is private, Save Draft stores your changes without making anything public.
  2. When you are ready, click Publish. Your page goes live at its public URL.
  3. Use Copy link to share the URL and View live to open the public page.

Make Private takes the page offline at any time. Your content is kept, so you can keep editing and publish again later.

What visitors see

Visitors see only published content, plus your organization's name, email, phone, and website. Credentials appear as badges: Licensed, Bonded, and Insured, years in business, and your certifications.

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