For business owners
Your customers are already talking about your place on JaxSide. A free business account lets you join in as “The Owner”, see how busy your area is, and reach people nearby with ads.
How to sign up
- Create your business account with your email and a password.
- Add your place and ask JaxSide to verify you. We check that it’s yours, then you’re in.
- You’re in: answer your customers, add your team and run your first ad. Your first 30 days are on Standard, free.
What you get
- Your place’s discussion
Read and reply to what people say about your place, from anywhere. Your replies show as “The Owner”.
- Notifications
See new posts and replies to you at a glance, with an optional daily email.
- Your team
Give staff their own logins. People see “The Owner”; only you see who wrote what.
- Insights
How many JaxSide users are around your place, by day and time of day. Counts only, never who.
- Ads in the app
Build an ad with a live phone preview, choose when and where it shows, and see how it did.
- Free to start
Start with 30 days of Standard, free. After that you stay on Free for as long as you like, or pick the plan that fits.
For event organizers
Festivals, markets, pub crawls, concerts and nonprofit days: put them on the JaxSide calendar, where Jacksonville looks for what’s on. No storefront needed.
- Create a business account, choose “I organize events”, and start adding events right away.
- Add your events with their dates, times, address and pictures. Weekly events take one form.
- People follow your event and get a reminder. While it’s on, the people there can talk in its own chat.
- Promote an event with an ad, and see how many people followed and showed up (counts only).
- Your first 30 days are on Standard, free: up to 20 events a month, seen all over Jacksonville.
For JaxSide users
JaxSide is a phone app. Download it, make a free account, and see what’s happening at the places around you.
- Post and comment about the places near you.
- See what’s new at your favorite spots, and hear straight from the owners.
- Your exact location is never shown to anyone.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play.
The JaxSide app is the only way to use JaxSide as a member. This website is for business owners and their staff.
About us
JaxSide is made for Jacksonville. It’s social media the way it should have always been: in the moment, close to home, and about the people and places right around you.
Say what you really think. JaxSide is a place to share how you feel without the pressure and scrutiny of the big social networks, where every post turns into a performance.
Your information stays yours. We never sell your personal information: not your name, not your email, nothing. Ads on JaxSide are local and chosen by area, never targeted at you based on who you are.
It’s made for neighborhoods. Post with your neighbors about what’s happening on your street, at the corner spot or down the road.
Lifelong Jacksonville locals get a place to speak up on the issues that matter here, and people new to town get an easy way to meet others and find out what’s going on around them.
No bots, no AI-written posts, no endless feed built to keep you doom-scrolling. Just real people in Jacksonville, talking about now.
And we keep it fair: only places in Jacksonville (Duval County), owners verified before they can speak for their place, and a real person from JaxSide looking at ads and every report.
Contact us
sign in and use Contact at the top of the page. A real person at JaxSide answers.
Open your Account in the app and choose Contact us.
A real person reads every message. Can’t sign in? Email us from the address on your account.