Difference between saving changes and publishing your site

In véltica, two concepts work together but do different things: saving and publishing. Understanding the difference lets you redesign your pages at your own pace without visitors ever seeing a half-finished page.

What saves automatically while you work in the editor (draft)

While you are inside the editor moving blocks, editing copy, testing colors, or adding sections, you never have to click a button to save.

Every change you make is saved automatically to your working draft. In the top bar of the editor, you will see the status change from Saving… to Saved within seconds.

If you close your browser tab and come back tomorrow, you will find the canvas exactly as you left it.
If your internet connection drops briefly while editing, the editor keeps your changes in your browser and offers to recover them as soon as you are back online.
No one outside your team sees this draft: your public site continues showing the last version you published.

Which changes require clicking “Publish” to appear on the public site

Anything that changes the structure, layout, or global settings of your pages stays in your draft until you open the editor and click Publish in the top-right corner.

You need to click Publish when you change:

The layout of any page on the canvas: text, images, videos, buttons, added or removed sections, and layer order.
Your brand style: changes to your logo, color palette, fonts, button styles, or scroll animations.
Site navigation and structure: new pages, deleted pages, changes to the navigation bar or footer, or switching which page is the home page.
General site settings: browser icons (Light favicon, Dark favicon, and Web clip), turning on or changing the Site password, enabling the shopping Cart, toggling the Made with véltica badge, or updating your Google Analytics ID.

Whenever you have draft edits that have not gone live yet, both the Home screen and the Pages list remind you with an Unpublished changes notice.

What updates live right away without republishing the site (blog posts, offers, prices, stock, bookings, and policies)

So you do not have to open the editor and republish your site every time you run your business, dynamic records managed from the dashboard update live on your site as soon as you save or publish them in their own section:

What you change in the dashboard	When it appears on your published site
Blog posts (Website → Blog)	Immediately when you click Publish on the post (or automatically on the date and time you set as Scheduled).
Offers, prices, and variants (Catalogue)	As soon as you save changes to an offer that is already Published, or when you move an offer from Draft to Published.
Inventory (`Stock`)	In real time with every purchase or whenever you update the available units on a product record.
Booking hours and availability (Catalogue → Scheduled services)	The moment you save your schedule, add a date override, or a customer books a time slot.
Coupons and shipping rates (Sales → Coupons / Shipping)	Immediately at your site’s checkout when you create, pause, or edit a coupon or shipping option.
Legal policies and Business information (Settings → Policies)	As soon as you save and publish a policy (or update your business details when using the automatic policy template).

In short: page design and structure are prepared in your draft and go live when you click Publish in the editor; your catalog, booking calendar, blog, and policies update live from the dashboard once your site has been published at least once.

How to use Preview before publishing

If you want to test how your page will behave live—including scroll animations, dropdown menus, popups, or how it adapts across screen sizes—without publishing yet:

In the top bar of the editor, click Preview (or in Website → Pages, open the three-dot menu on any page and choose Preview).
Your site will open just as your visitors would see it, with a subtle badge indicating it is an unpublished preview.
From there, you can click through pages, test buttons, and check the layout before clicking Publish.