Publishing & Sharing

Publishing Your Tour

A new tour is a draft until you publish it. While it's a draft, only you and the members of your workspace can see it. Publishing makes it reachable at its own public link, and you choose who is allowed to open it. Publishing 1. Open the tour in the editor. 2. Click empty space (no scene selected) so the right-hand panel shows Tour Properties. 3. In the Who can view this? panel, choose an audience: Public, Private, Password or Specific people. See Who Can View Your Tour for what each means. On the Free plan, Public is the only option. 4. Click Publish. The badge next to the tour title shows the current state: Draft while it's offline, or the audience once it's live (for example Public or Password). Changing who can view a live tour Pick a different audience in the same panel and click Save access. The tour stays live. Taking a tour offline Click Switch to Draft in the Who can view this? panel. Switching to Draft doesn't delete anything — your scenes, hotspots and settings are all kept, and you can publish again any time. Previewing before you publish Use the Preview button in the editor toolbar to see exactly what visitors will see, in a new tab, before making it public. Publish limits Your plan limits how many tours can be published at the same time — Free and Individual allow 1, Creator up to 15 and Agency up to 50. Drafts don't count, and you can create as many tours as you like. If you reach the limit, publishing shows a "Publish limit reached" message. Switch another tour to Draft, or upgrade. On Individual you can also add extra active tours under Settings → Billing. See Plans Overview. If your tour was taken down In rare cases (for example, a violation of our content guidelines), a tour may be taken down by our team. A taken-down tour shows a distinct badge and can't be republished from the editor — contact support if you believe this was done in error. What "published" doesn't mean Publishing makes the tour reachable by its link — it doesn't submit it anywhere automatically. To get it in front of buyers or renters, share the link or embed it where they'll see it — see Embedding Your Tour and Sharing on Property Portals. Related guides - Who Can View Your Tour - Tour Properties

Who Can View Your Tour

Every tour, VR image and album has an audience: who is allowed to open it. You set it in the Who can view this? panel — for a tour, open Tour Properties (click empty space in the editor); for a VR image or album, it's in the editor's side panel. The audiences Audience Who can open it Search engines Draft Only you and your workspace. This is the unpublished state. Not indexed Private Only you and your workspace members. Not indexed Password Anyone with the link and the password. Not indexed Specific people Only people you invite by email. They need a DEKO360 account. Not indexed Public Anyone with the link. A public item can appear in the feed and on the map, and can be indexed by search engines. Can be indexed Draft isn't a choice you pick in the list — it's the state before you publish, and Switch to Draft takes a live item back to it. Choosing an audience 1. Open Who can view this? 2. Select an audience. For Password, enter a password. For Specific people, add emails. 3. Click Publish (or Save access if it's already live). Specific people 1. Choose Specific people. 2. Type an email address, then press comma or Enter, or click Add. 3. Click Publish or Save access. You can invite up to 50 people per item. Everyone you've added appears under People with access. Anyone who doesn't have a DEKO360 account yet is marked No account yet. Recipients see the item under Shared with me on their dashboard once their email is verified. Use Remove next to an email to take their access away. Password See Password-Protecting a Tour. Plans - Free: items can only be Public or Draft. - Individual and above: Private, Password and Specific people are available. - Creator and above: you can also create a private revocable link. If your account returns to the Free plan, items that use Private, Password or Specific people are switched to Draft, so they never become public by accident. Public items are unaffected. Related guides - Publishing Your Tour - Password-Protecting a Tour - Private Revocable Links

Password-Protecting a Tour

Available on the Individual plan and above. If you want to share a tour with only people who know a password — a client preview, a private listing — you can require one before anyone can view it. Setting a password 1. Open your tour in the editor. 2. Click empty space (no scene selected) so the right-hand panel shows Tour Properties. 3. In the Who can view this? panel, choose Password. 4. Enter a password in Set a password. It must be at least 4 characters. 5. Click Publish (or Save access if the tour is already live). Visitors now see a password prompt before the tour loads. The tour itself isn't otherwise changed, and the direct link and the embed code both respect the password. Changing the password 1. Open Who can view this? on the tour. 2. With Password selected, type the new password in New password (leave it blank to keep the current one). 3. Click Save access. Removing password protection Choose a different audience — for example Public or Private — and click Save access. Setting a password again later means choosing Password and entering one. Good to know - Password protection is one of several audiences. See Who Can View Your Tour to compare it with Private and Specific people. - It works for tours, VR images and albums. - On the Free plan, items can only be Public or Draft. If your account returns to Free, password-protected items are switched to Draft. Related guides - Who Can View Your Tour - Publishing Your Tour - Embedding Your Tour

Private Revocable Links

Available on the Creator and Agency plans. A private link is a revocable link you can send to anyone. Whoever has it can open the item — no account, password or invitation needed — until you revoke it or it expires. It's ideal for off-market listings and client reviews. It works for tours, VR images and albums. Creating a private link 1. Open the item in the editor. For a tour, click empty space so the right-hand panel shows Tour Properties. 2. Publish it first — a private link needs a published item. 3. In the Private link section of Who can view this?, choose when the link expires: Never expires, or Expires in 1 day, 7 days or 30 days. 4. Click Create link, then Copy. How it works with the audience setting A private link works alongside the audience you've chosen in Who can view this? — it doesn't replace it. For example, a tour set to Private is still opened by anyone you send the private link to. Items opened through a private link don't appear in anyone's Shared with me. Replacing or revoking a link - New link creates a fresh link. The old one stops working immediately. - Revoke turns the link off for everyone who has it. - If a link has expired, the panel says so. Create a new one. Revoking works on every plan, so you can always switch a link off. Plans - Free and Individual: the Private link section shows a lock. Upgrade to Creator or Agency to use it. - If your account moves below Creator, existing private links stop working. Related guides - Who Can View Your Tour - Publishing Your Tour - Plans Overview

Embedding Your Tour

Once a tour is published, you can drop it directly into your own website or a listing page using an embed code — no coding beyond copy-paste required. Getting the embed code 1. Publish your tour (see Publishing Your Tour) — the embed option only appears once a tour is live. 2. Click Copy embed in the editor toolbar. 3. Copy the provided snippet and paste it into your website's HTML, wherever you want the tour to appear. The embedded tour behaves exactly like the standalone version — full pan, zoom, and hotspot navigation, sized to fit the space you embed it in. Embed options The embed dialog lets you choose how the code is built: - Script embed (default) — a small snippet that loads the tour into a container on your page. - Plain iframe — click Use a plain iframe instead if your site or portal only accepts an iframe. Click Use the script embed instead to switch back. - Domain — if your workspace has a custom domain, choose whether the code uses it or the default deko360.com. Click Copy code when you're done. An embedded tour follows the same audience settings as the tour itself — see Who Can View Your Tour. Hiding the DEKO360 badge in the embed The embed dialog includes a Hide the deko360 badge checkbox that removes the small "Powered by DEKO360" badge from that specific embedded copy of the tour — like standalone white-label branding, this is a Creator and Agency feature. On Free or Individual, the badge stays visible even with that box checked. With the badge hidden, the embedded tour also drops the default DEKO360 patch under the camera (see White-Label Branding). This setting only affects the embedded version. If you also want the badge hidden on the tour's own standalone link (not just when embedded), see White-Label Branding — same Creator/Agency requirement, set independently. Sharing just the link You don't need to embed a tour to share it — every published tour also has its own direct link, viewable in any browser. Use whichever fits the moment: the direct link for messaging or email, the embed code for putting it on your own site.

Sharing on Property Portals

Published DEKO360 tours embed on any website that accepts an iframe — including real-estate listing portals, alongside your other listing photos. No portal allowlist Unlike some embed tools, DEKO360 doesn't restrict embedding to a fixed list of approved sites. Every published tour is embeddable anywhere — the same posture as embedding a YouTube or Vimeo video. If a portal accepts an iframe or embed-code field for its listings at all, a DEKO360 tour will work in it. How to add your tour to a listing 1. Publish your tour (see Publishing Your Tour). 2. Copy the embed code from the editor (see Embedding Your Tour). 3. Paste the embed code into the relevant field of your listing on the portal — most portals that support 360° tours have a dedicated "virtual tour" or "embed code" field in their listing form. If a portal doesn't offer a dedicated embed field, you can usually still share the tour's direct link in the listing description as a fallback — it works in any browser without needing to be embedded. If a portal's embed doesn't render Some portals sanitize or strip iframe embeds from user-submitted listing descriptions as a security measure, even when they advertise "virtual tour" support. If your tour doesn't show up after pasting the embed code, try the portal's dedicated virtual-tour URL field (if it has one) instead of a free-text description box, or fall back to sharing the direct tour link. Let us know which portal — we're always looking to improve compatibility.

Social Previews & Search Visibility

When someone shares your tour, or a search engine lists it, DEKO360 decides what they see. These settings are all in Tour Properties — open your tour in the editor and click empty space (no scene selected). Tour title and meta description - Tour title — shown at the top of the tour, in your dashboard and in link previews. - Meta description — shown in search results and social previews. If you leave it empty, DEKO360 uses a default description. Featured image The featured image is the preview picture shown when your tour is shared on Facebook, WhatsApp, X, Instagram and other platforms. 1. Under Featured image, click Upload image, or choose Use a scene thumbnail (scenes need to be processed first). 2. Recommended size is 1200×630px, in JPEG, PNG or WebP format, up to 8MB. 3. Use Replace or Remove to change it later. Share icon for mobile visitors Turn on Share Icon to give mobile visitors a button that opens their phone's built-in share menu. Search engines - A Public tour can be indexed by search engines. Private, Password, Specific people and Draft items are never indexed. See Who Can View Your Tour. - On Creator and Agency plans, Exclude from Google search in the MLS Compliance section keeps a tour out of search results. It's useful once a listing sells or is withdrawn but the link stays live. - The same section lets you add Listing/brokerage attribution, such as "Listing courtesy of Jane Doe, ABC Realty", which is shown on the public tour. Many MLS boards require it. Related guides - Tour Properties - Publishing Your Tour