In a small business, "the person who does the website" is often one person. When they are on holiday, busy or gone, the website stops changing.
A C Building website doesn't have to depend on one person. We are getting ready to let you invite others to work on it with you.
This feature is coming soon and is not open to customers yet. Today each website has one owner, and only the owner edits it and pays for it. What follows is how it will work once it opens.
How it will work
- Open the project's settings and invite the people you want to work with.
- Give each person a role: admin, editor or viewer. The role decides how much each person can do, from looking at the site to editing it to managing it.
- They see it in their project list. Shared websites appear alongside their own, marked "Shared" with their role, for example "Shared · Editor", while their own sites show "Owned project", so everyone knows which sites they own and which they are helping with.
Everyone works on the same website, in the same editor, with the same two ways to edit: telling the AI what to change, or clicking on the page and changing it directly.
Who pays for the AI
Once it opens, when collaborators ask the AI to make changes on a shared website or use its editing environment, the points come from the collaborator's own points, not the owner's.
Worth knowing before a collaborator joins: AI is charged in points by usage, and one round of chat with the AI uses at most 50 points. Clicking and editing the page directly uses no AI, though the website's editing environment uses about 24 points an hour while it runs. How points work is explained in how points work in C Building.
Ways small businesses use it
- The owner and the manager. The owner keeps the account; the shop manager updates opening hours, the menu and announcements.
- A business and its designer. Invite the designer who helps with your brand to adjust the look, without handing over your account.
- Several locations. Each branch manager can help keep their own location's pages current.
- A second pair of eyes. Invite someone to look over the site before you publish.
A few good habits
- Give people the smallest role that lets them do their job. You can always change it later.
- Agree who publishes. Edits stay in the working copy until someone publishes, so decide who presses Publish.
- Use the version history. If two people's changes cross, restore an earlier version and redo the change you wanted. See undo anything.
Common questions
Can I invite people to edit with me now?
Not yet. The feature is coming soon. Today each website has one owner, and only the owner edits it and pays for it.
Whose points do collaborators use?
Their own. Once the feature opens, the AI and editing time each collaborator uses on a website come from that collaborator's own points, not the owner's.
Wrapping up
A website stays current when more than one person can keep it that way. Once the feature opens, invite your team, give each person the right role, and let the website keep up with the business even when you are busy.