Knowledge Base

What It Does

Without BYO Branding, Octavia looks like Octavia everywhere: its own logo, its own colours. With BYO Branding switched on, your teacher dashboard, the Family Hub and your emails show your studio's logo and main colour instead. The app itself is the same — only the branding changes.

BYO Branding is different from the basic logo upload described in School details and branding. That basic setup is available to everyone and puts your logo on the invoices you send to families. BYO Branding goes further, rebranding the app itself, the Family Hub and the emails your families get.

Where Your Branding Appears

In your teacher dashboard

• The sidebar takes your main colour as its background and shows your logo (or your school name, if no suitable logo is uploaded). When the sidebar is collapsed, it shows your square logo for your colour, or your wide logo if you haven't uploaded one.
• The dark banner at the top of many pages — for example My Students, Timetable and Manage Enrolments — is drawn from your main colour instead of Octavia's default navy and teal.
• A few highlighted cards — such as the makeup scheduling card and the "Get set up faster" banner — use your colour as their accent in place of Octavia's default orange or amber.

In the Family Hub

• The Hub's sidebar and header use your colour and logo for parents and students who are signed in.
• Pages families open from an emailed link — such as a news item, a consent request or an availability request — show your logo and colour at the top, even though the family isn't signed in.
• The dashboard welcome panel and the Practiceathon banner pick up your colour too.

In emails

Emails Octavia sends on your behalf show your logo, school name and colour rather than Octavia's:

• Invoices and receipts
• News announcements and consent requests
• Account-setup invitations for parents and students
• Availability requests
• Makeup booking notifications

What Doesn't Change

BYO Branding changes your branding, not how Octavia works. These stay as they are:

• Page content, buttons, forms and cards. Only the brand surfaces listed above change.
• Status colours. Warnings, errors and alerts — such as expired credit — keep their meaning-carrying reds, ambers and greens.
• Octavia's own emails and screens. Sign-in, subscription and support messages are still Octavia-branded.
• Web addresses. Your studio still uses Octavia's address — custom domains are not part of BYO Branding.
• Your logo on invoices. The logo on the invoices you send comes from your basic logo upload in School details and branding and isn't a BYO Branding feature.

Preview Before You Commit

You can open the BYO Branding tab, choose a colour, upload logos and see a live sidebar preview at any time — even if you haven't added the add-on yet. Your branding only goes live for you and your families once the add-on (or your free trial) is active and the on/off switch is on. Availability, trial and pricing explains who can use it and what it costs; Setting up BYO Branding walks through the setup step by step.

To see what other studios have done with it, browse the sample studios on the BYO Branding page of the Octavia website.

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