Website

What it is for and who it is for

Website gives each business a simple page of its own at its ERPlora address (https://<your-business>.erplora.com/). The owner picks one of four designs, fills in its sections (name and logo, title and cover photo, a few words about the business, its catalog, a photo gallery, its Google reviews, how to get in touch, where it is) and its colours, hides what she does not use and publishes. Whoever opens that address without having signed in sees the page; the team signs in from its Log in button, which every template has and cannot be removed. While the page is not published (or has been taken offline), the address still leads to the team's sign-in, as always.

It is meant like the pages of Square Online, Wix or Squarespace, but reduced to what a salon or a restaurant needs: fixed sections, no dragging blocks around, no HTML or code of the user's. Changing the design loses nothing: the content and the design are kept apart.

Before you start

• The app is in the Organization category and needs no other app. If the business has Inventory or Services, the Catalog section can show its products on sale or its offered services.
• Only the owner and the admin change, publish or take the page offline; the manager sees it and shares its address and its QR; the employee does not see it.
• For the Google reviews, the business needs its listing on Google Maps (its Google Business Profile): the link of that listing is pasted and ERPlora reads its rating and reviews from Google.

Screens

Website (/website)

At the top, the status: «Your website is not online yet…» (never published), «Your website is offline…» (taken offline) or «Your website is online at …» (with the address), and «You have changes that are not published yet.» when the draft has changed since the last publication. Next to it, Save, Publish, Take offline (only when online) and Share and QR, and whether everything is saved or not.

Below, the editor and the preview. On a computer, side by side; on a tablet or a phone, an Edit / Preview tab switches between the two.

• Design: four cards with a drawing of each template in the palette's colours: Classic (centred and warm: the cover across the whole header under a veil, a serif title over a rule in the second colour and each section centred), Modern (a split header: title, tagline and buttons beside the framed photo, a heavy tight sans, a strong grid), Minimal (one narrow column with plenty of air, a serif reading face, light headings, thin rules between sections and the photo wide under the title) and Bold (a dark bar, a full-width header in the main colour with the photo tinted in it, huge capitals and strong buttons). All four suit a restaurant, a salon, a shop or a service.
• Colours: eight palettes as cards showing their colours on the light and the dark page, the chosen one highlighted: Ocean, Forest, Terracotta, Slate, Rose, Sand, Midnight and Olive. Under them, two colour fields (Main colour and Second colour) with the chosen palette's: changing them makes the palette yours, and Reset colours then appears and gives the palette's own back. Choosing another palette shows its own (the changes to the previous one are dropped). Each palette has a light and a dark version and reads well in both (WCAG AA: text, links and buttons); with changed colours, the page, the bands and the text come from the two colours, and a colour that would not read is adjusted just enough.
• Page background: Light, Dark or Auto (the default): auto follows each visitor's device, dark when it is in dark mode and light otherwise; a note under it says so.
• Sections, in this order, each one folding:
• Top bar (always on the page): business name (up to 80) and logo; Log in always.
• Header (always): title (up to 80), tagline (up to 160) and cover photo.
• About us: Show switch, heading (empty = «About us»), text (up to 4000, with bold, lists and links in Markdown; no HTML) and a photo.
• Catalog: Show, heading (empty = «Our products» or «Our services»), What to show (Nothing, Products or Services; only those of the apps the business has), the Categories (none chosen = all) and Show prices.
• Gallery: Show, heading (empty = «Gallery») and up to 12 photos, in the order they will be seen: each with Replace image and Remove and the Move up and Move down arrows; Add a photo puts another one at the end while there is room, and a counter says how many there are («3 of 12 photos»).
• Google reviews: Show, heading (empty = «What our customers say») and Google Maps link or Place ID: the link of the business's listing on Google Maps (the address bar's or its Share button's, https://maps.app.goo.gl/…) or its Place ID (ChIJ…). Below, a note says how they stand: «Paste the link…» (empty), «Google will be asked for this place once it is saved» (changed and not saved), «Your reviews will show… once Google answers» (no answer yet), «Google did not answer for this place…» (a failure; tried again after 10 minutes), «Google reviews are not available yet…» (the server has no Google key) or «Rating 4.7 out of 5 · reviews on Google: 128» (ready).
• Contact: Show, heading, phone, WhatsApp (with the country code), email, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and X (https:// links) and, if Show opening hours is on, the week's opening hours: each day open or closed and up to three time slots (a closing time earlier than the opening one runs past midnight).
• Location: Show, heading, up to four address lines and a map link (https://, opened apart).
• Footer (always): one line of text (for example, the company's legal name) and Log in. Below it goes the credit «© ERPlora», linked to https://erplora.com: it is the same on every site and is not edited.
• The images (jpeg, png or webp, up to 5 MB and 8000 px a side) are uploaded from each image field: Choose image, and then its thumbnail, Replace image and Remove.
• Preview: the page as customers will see it with the current design and draft, at a computer's or a phone's width, and Reload. It reloads by itself after each save.

Share and QR

The website's address with Copy link, its QR code and Download PNG (to print) and Download SVG (to scale up without losing quality). It warns that, on the device where you signed in, the address opens the app (to see the page: your phone or a private window) and, if the page is not online, that the address still leads to the team's sign-in.

The public page (the business's /)

The chosen template with what is published (modern redesign of 2026-10-22): a sticky see-through top bar with the logo, the name, the sections' menu (folded on a phone) and Log in (an outline pill); a header with the cover photo (or, without one, a soft gradient of the palette, never empty), the title in large type, the tagline and two pills: Chat on WhatsApp (or Contact us, to the contact section, without WhatsApp) and Find us (to the address); without contact or address, one to the first section. Each section has a small line over its heading («Who we are», «What we offer», «Take a look», «Google reviews», «Get in touch», «Visit us») and its content in rounded cards: About us with its photo framed beside the text; the catalog as a grid of cards (a gradient with the initial, since items have no photo; the price in a pill; pills to jump between categories when there are two or more); the gallery as a grid of square, rounded photos (two a row on a phone, three on a tablet, four on a computer) that grow a little under the pointer and open whole apart; the Google reviews with the rating in large type, its stars (rounded to the half star) and «128 reviews on Google», the See on Google and Write a review buttons (they open on Google) and up to five cards with the author's initial and name (linked to their profile), when they wrote it (linked to the review), its stars and its text as written (cut at 280 characters, whole under the pointer), and below «Rating and reviews from Google Maps. The most relevant first, as Google orders them.»; the contact as chips with an icon (phone, email), WhatsApp as a button and the socials as pills; the opening hours as a list with today highlighted (the business's day, in the hub's time zone; Madrid's without one); the address in a card with Open the map. A footer in columns: the name and the footer's line, links to the sections and Log in, and last the credit «© ERPlora» (opened apart). Motion is only a hover's transition (and none when the system asks for less). It adapts to phone, tablet and computer (Bootstrap 5.3) with no sideways scrolling, in the chosen palette, light or dark; in auto it follows the visitor's device, also when it changes with the page open (without JavaScript it shows light). The catalog is painted with what was published and, when the page opens, refreshed with the products or services of that moment and their prices in the visitor's language. The rest of the page's texts (Log in, the days, the default headings) come out in the browser's language (English or Spanish); what the owner writes, as written.

States of each screen

Flows

WEBSITE-F01 Fill in and save the draft

Status: done (server and screen) Actor: owner, admin, assistant, API Screen: Website Steps: 1. Open Website and unfold a section. 2. Type: the draft saves itself two seconds after the last change, or when you press Save; also when you leave the screen if something was left. In: the template, the colours and the full content of the nine sections. Images are named by their id; the address they are served at is written by the server. Out: the saved draft; customers see nothing until it is published. Notice website.site.updated (only if something changed). If it fails: under each field, without losing what was typed: texts that are too long, a link that does not start with https://, a phone or an email that is not one, a reviews link that is not Google Maps, two equal times or a repeated day in the opening hours, «This image was not uploaded to this business's website: upload it again.»

WEBSITE-F02 Choose the design, the palette and the background

Status: done (server and screen) Actor: owner, admin, assistant, API Steps: press one of the four Design cards; one of the palettes and, if wished, change its two colours (Reset colours gives its own back); the background, Light, Dark or Auto. It is saved as in F01. Out: the same content in another design or other colours; nothing is lost when changing. If it fails: a mistyped colour is not saved and the field says so: «Write the colour as #RRGGBB, for example #1A73E8.»

WEBSITE-F03 Show or hide a section

Status: done (server and screen) Steps: in About us, Catalog, Gallery, Google reviews, Contact or Location, the Show switch. The top bar, the header and the footer cannot be hidden. Out: what is hidden is not painted on the page nor given by the public API; it is kept to show it again. A section that is shown but has nothing (no text nor photo, no catalog, no photos in the gallery, no Google reviews, no contact details, no address nor map) is not painted either.

WEBSITE-F04 Upload an image

Status: done (server and screen) Steps: on the logo, the cover, the About us photo or the gallery's, Choose image; Remove leaves it empty (in the gallery, takes it out of the list). In: jpeg, png or webp, up to 5 MB and 8000 pixels a side; the content is checked, not only the name. Out: the image kept in the business's file store (S3 in AWS) under a name taken from its content; the same image twice is a single file. Notice website.image.uploaded. If it fails: «The file did not arrive whole…», «The file is empty.», «The image may weigh 5 MB at most.», «This file is not a PNG image.» (or JPEG, WEBP), «The image may be 8000 pixels a side at most.».

WEBSITE-F05 Show the catalog

Status: done (server and screen) Steps: in Catalog, What to show: Products (Inventory's on sale: active and not sold out) or Services (the offered ones); if you want, the categories and whether prices are shown. Out: on publishing, the catalog is copied into what is published, grouped by category in their order (what has no category, last), up to 200 items. The public page refreshes it when it opens. Prices: «€15.00», «From €40.00» and «€20.00 / hour» (services priced from or by the hour), «Free»; a variable price is not shown.

WEBSITE-F06 See the preview

Status: done (server and screen) Steps: the preview is beside the editor (computer) or in the Preview tab (tablet and phone); Computer or Phone changes its width. Out: the draft painted by the same code as the public page, with the catalog of that moment; links are not followed and search engines do not index it.

WEBSITE-F07 Publish

Status: done (server and screen) Steps: Publish → «Publish your website?» → Publish. If something was unsaved, it is saved first. Out: what is published = the current draft (design, colours, content and the catalog's copy), one more version and the page online. Notice website.site.published (with the version). The draft can keep changing without touching what is published. If it fails: «The website could not be published» and what was published stays as it was.

WEBSITE-F08 Take the page offline

Status: done (server and screen) Steps: Take offline → «Take your website offline?» → Take offline. Out: the address leads to the team's sign-in again; nothing is lost and publishing again goes on with the next version. Notice website.site.unpublished. Already offline, it does nothing.

WEBSITE-F09 Share the address and the QR

Status: done (server and screen) Actor: owner, admin, manager Steps: Share and QR → Copy link, Download PNG or Download SVG. Out: the business's public address (as the browser sees it: https://<business>.erplora.com/) and its QR.

WEBSITE-F10 Visit the public page

Status: done (server and e2e) Actor: anyone, without an account Steps: open the business's address. Log in leads to ERPlora's sign-in and, back, to the app. Out: the published page in the browser's language, without cookies, with its own security policy (no user scripts: only the page's bundle, Bootstrap and the catalog's refresh). With a session open, the address opens the app as always.

WEBSITE-F11 Show a photo gallery

Status: done (server, screen and e2e) Actor: owner, administrator, assistant (ordering or removing photos already uploaded), API Steps: in Gallery, Add a photo (one by one, up to 12); Move up or Move down change their order and Remove takes one out. It saves as in F01 and shows once published. In: the photos, by their upload id (F04), in their order; the server writes their address. Out: on the page, a grid of square photos in that order (2, 3 or 4 a row depending on the screen), served by the Hub (/p/media/…, cached for a year); each one opens whole in another tab. Without photos, or with the gallery hidden, there is no section (nor a link in the menu). If it fails: more than 12 photos are not saved; a photo that is not an upload of this business: «This image was not uploaded to this business's website: upload it again.» under the gallery.

WEBSITE-F12 Show the Google reviews

Status: done (server, screen and e2e) Actor: owner, administrator, assistant (the link), API Steps: in Google reviews, paste the link of the business's listing on Google Maps (or its Place ID). It saves as in F01; the note below says whether the reviews are there yet. In: the link or the Place ID. The address bar's (https://www.google.com/maps/place/<name>/@…), the Share one (https://maps.app.goo.gl/…), one with place_id= or q=place_id: and a Place ID (ChIJ…) all work. Out: ERPlora asks Google from its server, never the visitor's browser: when a new link is saved, when publishing (what was kept is dropped and Google is asked again) and when painting the page if nothing is kept. A link by name is searched with that name and the address of the Location section, near the link's point. The answer is kept a day per business and place, and the last good one in the website too (valid for 30 days): if Google fails or the cache is emptied, it still shows. On the page, the rating, the number of reviews, up to five reviews (the most relevant, as Google gives them) and the See on Google and Write a review buttons. The published page refreshes them when it opens. Without a link, hidden or with nothing from Google, there is no section; the preview says where they will be. If it fails: a link that is neither Google Maps nor a Place ID is not saved: «Paste the link of your business on Google Maps, or its Place ID.». If Google does not answer (5 seconds at most), refuses the key or does not find the place, it is logged and not asked again until 10 minutes later; meanwhile, the last good answer shows, or nothing.

Services: what goes in and what comes out

Everything can be asked for through the screens, the assistant (by voice or by text, with the session of whoever speaks) and the API, with the same rules and the same permissions.

What it offers: queries (they read, they change nothing)

The three public ones answer only with the page online (otherwise, 404 website.not_published) and count each visitor: 60 reads a minute per address, then 429 base.rate_limited. The public catalog is kept for a minute.

What it offers: actions (they change data)

Assistant

The assistant (by voice or by text) uses, with the session and permissions of whoever speaks, website.site.get, website.site.save, website.site.publish, website.site.unpublish and website.catalog.categories. Every field of the draft carries its description (name, tagline, about text, gallery, Google reviews link, contact, opening hours, location, template, palette and background), and the save's description tells it the draft is sent whole: it reads it first with website.site.get, changes only what was asked and sends it back. Example: «Put on the website the opening hours Monday to Friday from 9 to 8 pm» → it reads the draft, puts the five days with the interval 09:00–20:00 in contact.hours (leaving the rest as it was) and calls website.site.save; if she adds «and publish it», website.site.publish. Not assistant tools, on purpose: the preview (website.site.preview, an HTML page), the image upload (website.image.upload, a file in base64 up to 5 MB) and the QR (website.qr.get, an image in base64), which are used from the screen, nor the visitors' three public reads (website.public.*).

What it announces

What it reacts to and what it needs from other apps

• It reacts to no notice of other apps and requires none (requires = []).
• Inventory and Services, only if installed: the catalog reads them by the name of their queries (inventory.product.list_for_sale, inventory.category.list, inventory.product_category.list, service.service.list_for_sale, service.category.list), with a context that can only read them; without the app, the catalog comes out empty, never an error.
• From the platform: the hub's registry (its id, for the file store; base.operations.hub_id), the store storages["hub_files"] and the /p/media/… view (base.storage, base.media), the per-visitor limit (base.throttle) and the / entry (base.public_home, which calls apps/website/public_home.py).
• From outside: Google's Places API (New), with the platform's key (GOOGLE_PLACES_API_KEY), from the server only: Text Search (the id only: Google does not bill it) and Place Details with reviews (billed by Google as «Place Details Enterprise + Atmosphere»: 1000 a month free and then about $25 per 1000; with the one-day cache, about 30 a month per business with reviews).

Who can do what

What it does NOT do, on purpose

• A single page per business: no additional pages nor /p/<page>.
• No custom domain per business (ADR-0502), no HTML, CSS or JS of the user's and no more templates than the four.
• The opening hours are not imported from Schedules; there is no booking link until Online booking's page exists in /p/….
• Images are kept as they are (no size variants nor cropping, and their EXIF metadata is not removed); the ones that are no longer used and the old versions are not deleted.
• No sitemap nor robots beyond the preview's noindex tag.
• The gallery has no caption per photo nor a full-screen viewer: each photo opens whole in another tab.
• The Google reviews are the ones Google gives (five at most, the most relevant): not all the reviews, no replying to them from ERPlora, no reviews of its own and no author's photo (the page loads no outside images: their initial goes instead). Without Google's key on the server nothing is asked.
• The footer's credit «© ERPlora» cannot be removed or changed: the business's name and legal details go in the footer's line.
• The real activation of the module per business (AppActivation) comes in phase 2.