Publish your website

A site you build stays private until you publish it. Publishing writes real HTML pages to a public address and starts a daily hosting charge.

#What it costs to stay online

The first time you publish a given site, Tayon shows you the rate, the 30-day figure and how many days your current balance covers, and asks you to confirm with Publish website. You are asked once per site — unpublishing and publishing again does not ask a second time.

If your balance runs out, published sites are taken offline automatically and you are notified in the app and by email. Topping up and publishing again brings the site back.

#Where the site goes live

The first time you publish anything, Tayon asks you to choose your account address — the address every site, form and chat link you publish lives under. You pick it once for the whole account, then give this particular site a name of its own, and the two together make the public address:

acme-salon-booking.tayon.app

Publishing stops until that is settled, and it is a separate question from the cost notice above: the cost you confirm once per site, the address once per account. A site that has been live for months still stops on its next publish until the account address exists. See Your account address.

#Publish

Once live, the toolbar gains 🔗 Live (opens the public page) and Unpublish, and the Publish button becomes Republish.

Unpublish takes the public address offline and stops the daily charge. The site goes back to being a draft and nothing you built is lost.

#Site settings

The ⚙ button in the toolbar opens Site settings: the link preview image, browser tab icon, title and description, chat bubble, legal pages, languages and analytics. Everything there is baked into the published pages, and saving a change republishes a live site for you. See Set up your site before you publish.

#Sharing the live site

Once a site is published, these appear on its row in Websites and on its card in the AI Builder:

• Show website — opens the public page
• Copy URL
• Generate QR Code
• Connect Domain/Subdomain — point your own domain at the site

They are visible but inert while a site is unpublished, with a Publish your website first tooltip, so a private editor address can never be handed out by mistake.

#Your own domain

No domain yet? You can buy one inside Tayon, under Domains in the main menu — see Buy a domain. If you already own one elsewhere, Connect a domain you already own walks through pointing it at Tayon. Either way, the site keeps its tayon.app address too.

#Taking a copy away

⬇ in the toolbar downloads the whole site as HTML files. That is a free snapshot you can host anywhere — it does not unpublish anything and does not stop the daily charge.