Beside builds your website for you, then keeps working on it: it watches what changes about your business and improves the site week after week.
You do not need to design anything or write copy - and you are not limited to saying yes or no either. You can ask for changes in your own words. It all lives under Website, in the Grow section of the left menu.
Your site gets built for you
Building your website is one of the eight jobs in Beside's first pass, so it happens without you asking. Beside works from what it already read about you: your business details, your services, your photos, your reviews.
It goes live on a free Beside address straight away - yourbusiness.beside.page - so you have a working site from day one, before any question of buying a domain.
The Website Builder
Opening Website gives you your live site on the left and the controls around it:
Tab | What it is for |
Analytics | What your site is actually doing - who lands on it and what they do next |
Domains | Your web address, and where you connect a domain of your own |
Theme | How it looks - colours and styling |
Review and publish | What changed, the check on the live site afterwards, and your earlier saved versions. Until you publish, what you are looking at is not what your customers see. |
Change it by asking
On the right, What do you want to change? is where you tell Beside what you want. There are shortcuts for the common ones:
Refresh my homepage copy
Change my color palette
Add a new section
And underneath, a box to type anything else - put the emergency number at the top, this photo instead of that one, we do not do boiler installs any more. You can attach a file or an image to go with it.
This is the part most owners do not expect. You do not file a ticket and wait, and you do not learn a page editor - you say what you want and look at the result.
Review it before it goes live
Ordinary edits are saved as a draft, not published. When there is something waiting, the panel reads Review changes. Open it and Beside shows you what is different, page by page:
Pages added, removed or changed
Page copy, before and after
Search title and Search description, the words that show up in Google results
You can open the preview alongside it. When you are happy, select Publish these changes.
💡 Read what comes back: Beside can get something wrong, exactly like a person you asked in a hurry. This review is the moment to catch it, before your customers see it.
The live website check
Publishing does not just upload the files. Beside then reads your live pages back and reports what it found under Live website check: Passed or Needs attention, how many pages it checked, when it last checked, and anything specific that is wrong.
Before your first reviewed publish it says Not verified yet, which is normal rather than a fault.
If a check fails, or an upload was interrupted, you do not have to invent a change to fix it: with nothing waiting, the button becomes Republish website, which sends the current version again and repairs the live site.
Go back to an earlier version
Under Saved version, pick an earlier version of your site and select Restore as draft. It comes back as a draft for you to review, so your live site does not change until you publish it. If there is nothing to go back to yet, it says No earlier versions are available.
Your web address
You start on a free .beside.page address, ready immediately and nothing to set up.
When you want your own domain - the one on your van and your invoices - connect it from the Domains tab. It is a separate step on purpose: your site is live and working long before you have to think about it.
What Beside does on its own
Once a week, the Website Health Monitor re-reads everything you have connected, compares it against your live site, and looks for gaps worth closing:
New photos of your business from your Google Business Profile or Instagram
New reviews worth showing as testimonials
Hours, phone number, or address that have changed somewhere else
Wording that does not match the ad currently bringing you the most customers
A service people keep asking for that is not listed anywhere
A typical proposal: callers keep asking about rescheduling an appointment across nine recent calls, but it is nowhere on the site - so Beside suggests adding it to your services list, in the words callers actually use, and only if you genuinely offer it.
Whether it applies them itself is your call
Your autonomy for Website decides what happens to those proposals:
Your level | What happens |
Ask first | Every change waits for you to approve it |
Routine | Beside makes the low-risk edits itself and brings you the bigger ones |
Auto | Beside edits and publishes on your behalf |
Whatever the level, everything that ships lands on your Beside Agent page with a record of who decided it. 📖 See what Beside did for you
Your photos and reviews on your site
Beside gathers every image it can find of your business - from your existing site, your Instagram and your Google Business Profile - and sorts them by what they actually show: your team, your work, your storefront, your logo.
A daily job then pulls your real photos and reviews onto your site. Your own photos fill the galleries on your home and service pages, and your strongest reviews become a testimonials wall in the words your customers actually wrote, attributed to them.
The reviews are also published in a form search engines can read, which helps them show up alongside your business in search results.
What it costs in credits
What ships | Credits |
An edit published live | 25 |
A new landing page or blog post | 250 |
A full site built and published | 1,500 |
Asking for a change, looking at what comes back, and reviewing it are all free. You are only charged when something is actually published.
FAQ
Can Beside change my site without asking?
Can Beside change my site without asking?
That is entirely your choice, and it is the Website setting in Autonomy. On Ask first, nothing goes live without you. On Auto, Beside publishes on your behalf - which is the point of choosing it.
Either way, nothing is untraceable: every published change is recorded with who decided it.
Can I edit the site myself?
Can I edit the site myself?
Yes - by asking. Use What do you want to change? in the builder and describe what you want in plain words. There is no page editor to learn and nothing to drag around.
I made a change and my customers cannot see it.
I made a change and my customers cannot see it.
Your edit is saved as a draft until you publish it. Open Review changes, look at what is different, and select Publish these changes. What you see in the builder is a preview until you do.
I published something I regret.
I published something I regret.
Open Saved version, pick the version you want back and select Restore as draft. It returns as a draft, so you can look it over and publish it when you are sure.
The live website check says "Needs attention".
The live website check says "Needs attention".
It means Beside read your live pages back after publishing and something did not match - most often an upload that did not finish. Select Republish website to send the current version again, then check once more.
Do I have to buy a domain?
Do I have to buy a domain?
No. Your site works from day one on its free .beside.page address. Connecting your own domain is something you can do later, from the Domains tab, whenever you are ready.
I already have a website.
I already have a website.
Beside reads it as part of your first pass and builds from what it finds, so nothing you have written is wasted. Your existing site keeps running on its own address until you decide to point your domain at the new one.