Getting Started
By DEKO360
By DEKO360
Create your account and publish your first tour.
Creating Your Account & Signing In
DEKO360 doesn't use passwords. You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email, so there's nothing to remember or reset. Creating a new account 1. Go to the sign-in page and enter your email address. 2. We'll send you a 6-digit one-time code by email — it arrives within a few seconds and expires after 5 minutes. 3. Enter the code on the sign-in page. Entering the code both verifies your email and signs you in — there's no separate step. After that, signing in is always just email + one-time code. Signing in on a device you've used before 1. Enter your email address. 2. Check your inbox for a 6-digit code (it arrives within a few seconds and expires after 5 minutes). 3. Enter the code to sign in. If a code doesn't arrive, check your spam folder, then try requesting a new one — each code is only valid for a few minutes. Tips - Use the email address you check regularly — it's how you'll sign in every time, and it's where billing and account notifications go. - If you change your mind about signing up, you don't need to do anything — without entering the code, you just won't be able to sign in.
Creating Your First 360° VR Tour
A DEKO360 tour is a sequence of 360° panoramas ("scenes") that a visitor can walk through, jumping between rooms using clickable hotspots. You can also add a floor plan so visitors get a 3D dollhouse view of the whole property. Step 1: Create a tour 1. From your Dashboard, click Create your first tour (or Create New Tour if you already have one). 2. Enter a Tour title — usually the property address or a short listing title. You can rename it later. 3. Choose whether it's an Indoor or Outdoor property, pick the Property type (Apartment or House), and say whether the property has multiple floors. 4. Click Create tour. Step 2: Add spaces (rooms) A space is a room or area of the property, like Kitchen, Bedroom or Garden. Grouping scenes into spaces keeps your tour organized and is what the floor plan and 3D view are built from. 1. In the editor, click Create your first space (later: Add space). 2. Name it, pick a Category (Kitchen, Bedroom, Bathroom, Living room, Hall, Dining room, Garden, Balcony, Terrace, Garage or Other) and choose whether it is indoor or outdoor. 3. If your property has more than one floor, use Add floor (Above / Below) in Spaces & Floors and assign each space to a floor. Spaces are optional for a simple tour — you can also choose Upload without a space and organize later. Step 3: Upload your panoramas DEKO360 works with equirectangular 360° photos (the wide, 2:1 aspect-ratio panoramas produced by 360° cameras and most 360° phone-camera apps) — not regular photos. 1. Select a space, then drag one or more panorama files onto the upload strip at the bottom of the screen, or click it to choose files from your computer. 2. Supported formats are JPEG, PNG, and WebP, up to 100MB per file. 3. Each uploaded panorama becomes a scene inside that space. You can upload several at once. After uploading, DEKO360 automatically processes each panorama (generating the smooth 360° view and the depth data used by the viewer). This takes a little time — you'll see a status indicator on each scene while it's processing, and the scene becomes explorable once it's marked ready. If one fails, see Reprocessing & Fixing Scenes. Step 4: Add hotspots to connect your scenes Hotspots are the clickable markers visitors use to move from one scene to another. 1. Select a scene from the strip at the bottom. 2. Click Add hotspot, then click anywhere on the panorama to place a marker. 3. In the panel on the right, choose the Destination scene for that hotspot. 4. Repeat for every doorway or transition point — and don't forget to add a hotspot going the other way from the destination scene, so visitors can walk back. You can change the marker's look too: pick a tour-wide Hotspot Icon, or set the icon, Orientation (Floor or Wall) and Attention Animation for a single hotspot. See Customizing Hotspot Icons and Hotspot Orientation & Attention Animation. See Working with Scenes & Hotspots for the full editing workflow. Step 5: Polish the tour (optional) - Set the start view. Turn the first scene to the direction visitors should face when the tour opens, then click Set start view. - Set west. In each scene, turn the view to face west and click Set west to current view. This compass direction is needed for the floor plan and for the Walk transition. - Choose a scene transition. In Tour Properties, pick Fade or Walk. Walk needs at least two linked scenes, a finished depth map and a compass direction on each scene; Check Walk setup shows what's missing, and scenes that aren't ready fall back to Fade. - Blur faces and license plates. Use Blur area to permanently hide anything you don't want published. See Blurring Faces & Sensitive details. - Add a guided tour. Click Script to build an autoplay walkthrough. See Autoplay Tour (Guided Script). - Set a featured image. In Tour Properties, choose the preview image used when the tour is shared on social platforms. Step 6: Add a floor plan and 3D dollhouse view (optional) A floor plan turns your tour into a walkable 3D model of the property, painted with your own 360° photos. Visitors orbit the whole home, then tap a room to step inside. 1. Make sure every scene you want in the plan is assigned to a space and has its west direction set (Step 5). 2. Click Floor plan in the editor toolbar. 3. Select a room and click Draw, then click each corner of the room. Click the first corner again, or double-click, to finish. Use Undo and Redo as you go. 4. Drag the scene dots into the right rooms. For multi-floor properties, switch floors and use the Layers controls to see the outline of another floor. 5. Click Save. Outlines marked in red cross themselves or are too small and need fixing before they can be saved. Want a scene to stay in the tour but out of the 3D model? Open it and turn on Exclude from floor plan and 3D view. Once the tour is published, a 3D button appears in the viewer for visitors. Nothing to install. Step 7: Publish Once your scenes are ready and linked together, publish your tour so it's viewable by anyone with the link. See Publishing Your Tour. Your plan sets how many tours you can have published at once and how many scenes each tour can have — see Plans Overview. To share only with specific people, see Password-Protecting a Tour. Tips for better panoramas - Shoot at a consistent height (chest or eye level) across every room for a natural walk-through feel. - Avoid direct light sources in frame where possible — they can create bright blown-out spots in the panorama. - A tripod produces noticeably cleaner results than handheld shots, especially for the stitching seam.
Hosting a Single VR Image
Not every listing needs a full multi-scene tour — sometimes one great 360° photo is enough. A VR image is a single panorama with its own shareable link. Add a title, description and location, then publish in a few clicks. When you have several, group them into an album that opens from one link. Uploading a VR image 1. From your Dashboard, click Upload VR Image (or Upload a VR image if your dashboard is empty). 2. Choose a single equirectangular 360° photo — JPEG, PNG, or WebP, up to 100MB. 3. DEKO360 processes it automatically, the same pipeline as a tour scene. A Processing… label shows until it's ready. If it fails, you'll see Processing failed — check the file is a genuine 2:1 panorama and upload it again. Unlike a tour, a VR image has no scenes or hotspots — it's meant to be quick. The VR image editor Open any VR image from the dashboard (or choose Edit from the card's ⋯ menu) to reach its editor. The header shows whether it's Live or Draft, how many views it has, and buttons to Preview it, Copy link and View public once it's live. Details - Title — shown at the top of the viewer and in link previews. Untitled images appear as "Untitled VR image". - Description — a short line about the view. A counter shows how many characters you have left. - Location — type a place name and pick from the suggestions, or click the map to drop a pin and drag it to adjust. You can keep just a name with no pin, or use Clear location to remove it. Click Save details to apply your changes. Who can view it Use the Who can view this? panel to choose who can open the image. A new VR image starts as a Draft that only you and your workspace can see — pick the audience, then click Publish. Click Switch to Draft at any time to take it offline; nothing is deleted either way. Private, password-protected and specific-people access are available on the Individual plan and higher, and the private revocable link needs Creator or Agency. See Password-Protecting a Tour for how password protection works. Branding The Branding section controls how DEKO360 appears on your VR image. Both options require the Creator or Agency plan, like tour white-labeling. - Hide DEKO360 branding removes the "Powered by deko360.com" credit and the DEKO360 patch that covers the camera or tripod at the bottom of the image. - Custom nadir patch — upload your own logo (JPEG, PNG or WebP, up to 2MB) to show on that circle instead of the DEKO360 mark. Use Replace or Remove to change it later. If you hide DEKO360 branding and don't upload a logo, no patch is shown. The editor preview updates as you change these. Photos opened from an album follow their own Branding settings, and the album page itself shows the DEKO360 badge unless your account is on Creator or Agency. See White-Label Branding. Delete Delete VR image in the Danger zone permanently removes the image and everything generated from it. This can't be undone. Adding a VR image to an album An album groups several 360° photos into one shareable link — useful for a whole property, a trip or a portfolio. From a VR image 1. Open the VR image's editor and click Add to album. (You can also use Add to album in the ⋯ menu on its dashboard card.) 2. Choose one of your existing albums, or click New album with this 360° photo to start a new one. 3. A confirmation says Added to the album's name. From inside an album 1. Open the album from your dashboard. 2. Click Add 360° photos, tick the photos you want, and click Add. The picker shows how many more you can add to the album. Managing an album - Reorder photos by dragging them, or use Move earlier and Move later. - Use as cover picks the photo that represents the album. - Remove from album takes a photo out of the album. The photo itself is not deleted. - Give the album a Title and a short Description, then click Save details. Publishing an album An album needs at least 2 published 360° photos before it can be published. Photos that are still drafts stay hidden from visitors. If some are drafts, DEKO360 offers Publish all (publishes the photos and the album) or Publish album only. Limits by plan Plan Photos per album Published albums at once Free 5 1 Individual 10 Unlimited Creator 25 Unlimited Agency 25 Unlimited Drafts don't count toward the published-albums limit. If your account goes over its plan's limits, an album can be unpublished automatically; you can publish it again once you're back within your limits. Storage A VR image that isn't in an album doesn't use any of your plan's storage, and there's no cap on how many you can upload (just the 100MB per-file limit). Once a VR image is in at least one album, it counts toward your storage once, at its original size — adding it to a second album doesn't count again. Remove it from all your albums to stop it counting. Related guides - Creating Your First 360° VR Tour — for a multi-room walkable experience instead of a single image - Plans Overview - White-Label Branding
Creating a VR Album
A VR album groups several 360° photos into one page with a single shareable link — a good fit for a whole property, a trip, or a portfolio where each photo is a standalone 360° image and you don't need a walkable multi-room tour. Visitors see a gallery of your photos, tap one to look around in 360°, and move between photos without leaving the album. If you need rooms linked by hotspots instead, see Creating Your First 360° VR Tour. Before you start An album is built from VR images — single 360° photos you've already uploaded. If you haven't uploaded any yet, see Hosting a Single VR Image first. Photos only appear to visitors once they are published. Step 1: Create the album There are two ways to start: - From the Dashboard, click New album (the "Group 360° photos into one shareable link" card). DEKO360 creates an untitled album and opens its editor. - From a VR image, open its ⋯ menu on the dashboard (or the Add to album button in the VR image editor) and choose New album with this 360° photo. The album is created with that photo already inside. Step 2: Add details In the album editor, fill in: - Title — shown at the top of the album page. Albums without a title appear as "Untitled album". - Description — a short blurb shown under the title. Click Save details to apply your changes. Step 3: Add your 360° photos 1. Under 360° photos, click Add 360° photos. 2. Tick the photos you want from your account. The picker shows how many more you can add to this album. 3. Click Add. You can also add a photo from the photo's own page: open the VR image and click Add to album, then choose this album. Arrange the album - Reorder photos by dragging them, or use Move earlier and Move later. This is the order visitors see. - Use as cover picks the photo that appears as the album's header background. The cover is marked with a Cover badge. - Remove from album takes a photo out of the album. The photo itself isn't deleted. Photos that are still drafts, or have been taken down, are marked as hidden from visitors until they're published. Step 4: Publish A new album starts as a Draft. To make it public: 1. Make sure at least 2 photos in the album are published. If you have fewer, you'll see "Add at least 2 published 360° photos to publish this album." 2. Choose who can view it in the Who can view this? panel, then click Publish. 3. If some photos are still drafts, DEKO360 asks what to do: Publish all publishes the photos and the album together, Publish album only leaves the draft photos hidden. Click Switch to Draft at any time to take the album offline. Nothing is deleted. Private, password-protected and specific-people access are available on the Individual plan and higher. Step 5: Share your album Once it's live, use Copy link to share the album's link anywhere, or View to open it. Visitors see: - The album title, description and photo count over the cover image. - A grid of your published photos with their titles and locations. - When they open a photo, previous and next buttons, a counter like "2 / 6", and a link back to All 360° photos in the album. Limits by plan Plan Photos per album Published albums at once Free 5 1 Individual 10 Unlimited Creator 25 Unlimited Agency 25 Unlimited Drafts don't count toward the published-albums limit. Photos in an album count toward your storage (once, even if they're in several albums) — see Hosting a Single VR Image. The album page shows a small DEKO360 badge unless your account is on Creator or Agency. Deleting an album In the album editor, choose Delete album and confirm. The album and its link are removed, but your 360° photos are not deleted. Related guides - Hosting a Single VR Image - Plans Overview - White-Label Branding