Publish privately
Publish your app so only the people you invite can open it — for internal tools, client previews, and betas.
An internally published app is live at its usual address, but only the people you choose can open it. Everyone else is asked to sign in, and turned away if they are not on your list.
Who can open it
- You and your collaborators
- Anyone with edit access to the project can open the app.
- Invited users
- People you add by email. They can use the app but cannot open the project. Each one signs in with a Floot account on the address you invited, creating one if they do not have it yet.
It suits internal tools such as dashboards and admin panels, client previews before launch, and beta tests with a small group. Search engines are told not to index the app.
A sign-in in front of your app, not instead of it
The Floot sign-in decides who can reach the app at all. If your app has accounts of its own, people still sign in to the app as usual once they are through.
Publish internally
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Open the Internal publish tab
Open your project on floot.com, click Publish, and choose the Internal publish tab next to Web.
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Add the people you want
Under Invited users, add their email addresses. You can include a personal note and choose whether to email them now. Floot writes the rest of the invite: a link to the app and how to sign in with the invited address.
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Click Publish internally
If the app is public right now, Floot asks you to confirm before making it private. Anyone still waiting for an invite gets it when the publish finishes.
Your assistant keeps it private
Your assistant can publish updates to a private app, and it stays private. Only you can switch an app between public and private, on the Publish screen.
Limits
- Free accounts can invite 5 people in total, across all their apps. Someone already invited to another of your apps does not count twice, and collaborators never count.
- Paid plans have no account-wide limit; each project takes up to 500 invited people, added 50 at a time.
- Removing someone cuts off their access to the app's backend and data within about an hour.
Making it public again
Open Publish, stay on the Web tab, and click Publish update. Floot asks you to confirm, then republishes the app with your latest changes for anyone with the link. Switching between public and private, in either direction, leaves the site unreachable for a short while. Custom domains work the same on a private app as on a public one.
Private publishing covers the published app. The preview link your assistant hands you works the way it always does — see Sharing your projects.