Website builder for nonprofits

Design the site in Figma, publish it as a real website, point your own domain at it. Two things to settle before you read any further — Siter.io cannot take a payment, so donations run through a separate giving platform, and there is no charity pricing.

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Two answers, first.

Both decide whether the rest of this page is worth your time. A third catches people out as well — the Start plan previews privately and cannot publish to a public address, so a free charity website is not what is on offer here.

Donations live on a giving platform

Siter.io cannot take a payment. There is no shop and no checkout, and e-commerce is listed as upcoming with no date. Your donate button points at a hosted giving page, or at your provider’s widget embedded on a page of your own.
There is no charity pricing

A nonprofit pays $7, $12 or $24 a month billed yearly, exactly like everybody else. No discounted or donated plan is published, and this page will not suggest one appears if you ask nicely. If a charity rate is what makes the budget work, look at a builder that publishes one.

Where the money actually goes.

Receipting, recurring gifts and tax reclaim are a giving platform’s job. Siter.io holds the site the donor arrives on.

Pick which of the two routes below you are taking before you design the donate page — they lead to different layouts.
Two ways to wire it up

Link out. The donate button links to the giving page your provider already hosts. Nothing to test, and whatever your provider already does with card details, receipts and recurring gifts carries on unchanged. Choose this if the site has to go live this week.

Embed. There is an on-canvas embed element, so a provider’s widget can sit on your own donate page instead. How any particular widget behaves inside it is not documented, so publish a test page and put a real donation through it first.

Brand the handoff. Either way the donor lands on a page you did not design. Set your name, logo and colors in the provider’s settings, put one line under the button saying what the money does, and walk the whole path on a phone before you publish it.

How it gets built.

The Figma import is one-way. Nothing syncs back, so treat the handover as a handover.
1. Write the words before the design.
2. Design the pages in Figma.
3. Import the frames with the plugin.
4. Point the donate button somewhere real.
5. Connect your domain and publish.
Prototype animations and interactions do not come across with the frames, and the layout is set at three fixed breakpoints rather than fluid ones.
The page count, worked through

Six to eight pages is the shape to plan for at this size. Home, what you do, who you are with the trustees named, get involved, contact, donate. Add an events page and one pointing at your accounts, and you are at eight.

Solo allows 10 pages at $7 a month billed yearly, so eight fits with room. Plus raises it to 50 at $12 and Pro removes the cap at $24, both billed yearly. The first row holds unless the page count or the number of editors pushes you up — the seat arithmetic is below.

The arithmetic only breaks if you treat news as pages, and ten goes quickly at one a month. The accounts and the trustee report can live on the site itself: paid plans include file storage, and a PDF opens in the browser from a link on any page — 1 GB on Solo, files up to 25 MB each.

What it costs.

The number a treasurer needs is the annual one, so here it is — with the seats, and with the thing you still buy elsewhere.

The annual number

Solo is $7/mo billed yearly — $84 a year — for 1 published website, 10 pages, 3 forms and 2 editor seats, and it is the right row if one site of six to eight pages is what you need. Plus is $12/mo and Pro $24/mo on the same yearly billing; paying month to month costs $8, $14 and $28 a month instead. Hosting is part of the plan, and an SSL certificate is listed as included on every plan. A domain you already own points at the site at no extra cost on the paid plans, so the only other bill is the registration itself — roughly $10 to $20 a year, bought in your organization’s name.

The seat arithmetic, if there is a committee

Solo includes 2 editor seats, Plus 4 and Pro 6, and each extra seat is $4, $6 or $8 a month. Seats count everyone with access to a website, the owner included, separately for each website. So take one website with six volunteers on it: that is you plus six, 7 seats. On yearly billing it comes to $7 plus 5 extra seats at $4 — $27 a month — on Solo, $12 plus 3 at $6, $30, on Plus, and $24 plus 1 at $8, $32, on Pro. At that size Solo is still the cheapest row if 10 pages and 3 forms are enough; the bigger plans earn their price through pages and forms rather than seats. Either way, count the people who will really edit, and leave everyone else off.

There is no nonprofit discount

Registered charity, community interest company, unincorporated association, school parents’ group — the price is the same as it is for a commercial studio. No discounted plan, no donated license, no application form, and nothing published that suggests one is coming. If halving $7/mo billed yearly is what decides your year, shop on that basis rather than on the design tooling.

What you are paying for

The design you already have becomes the site, with no developer in the middle and no redrawing it inside somebody else’s theme. If your organization has a designer — a volunteer, a trustee’s daughter, an agency giving you a few days — that is the saving. If it has none, a template-driven builder gets you further for the same money.

Four things worth knowing.

None of these is hidden. All four are easier to read now than to discover in month three.

Nothing updates itself
No CMS, so no news feed, no events list and no blog that fills itself in. Every change is somebody opening the design and editing it. Fine at one update a quarter, wrong at one a week.
Count your forms early
Solo carries three forms, Plus five, and Pro removes the cap. Contact, volunteer sign-up and newsletter is already three, and the allowance covers the site rather than each page.
How forms work here
Volunteers get roles
Two roles on the paid plans: Admins manage the team and the website; Members edit and publish pages. There is no view-only role, so only add the people who will actually edit. Two people editing at once is not supported, so agree who is editing before you both open it.
Editors and roles
Analytics goes in once
Google Analytics and Meta Pixel are built in, and paid plans allow site-wide code in the head for a tag manager. There are no per-page body scripts, so a snippet meant for one page needs rethinking.

When this is the wrong tool.

Four organizations that should close this tab. Reading it here is cheaper than hearing it from a trustee in March.

You publish something every week

A group posting minutes monthly, a food bank listing this week’s needs, a theatre with a changing season. All of that wants a CMS and there is not one, so somebody with the design file makes every change by hand. The week they are away, the site goes stale.

You need the site in two languages

Multi-language is absent. For a group serving a community that does not read English at home that is not a nice-to-have, and a hand-built parallel set of pages doubles the maintenance and spends the page allowance twice.

You want to sell as well as fundraise

Raffle tickets, event places, Christmas cards, merchandise. There is no shop, and e-commerce is listed as upcoming without a date. Check whether the giving platform you already use sells tickets and goods as well as it takes donations, and price that gap before you commit to a design.

Several volunteers need to be in it at once

Each paid plan includes editor seats — 2 on Solo, 6 on Pro, counted per website with you included — and two roles, Admin and Member, but real-time co-editing is not there. A committee of six all fixing one page on a Sunday evening is a process problem this will not solve; agree who is editing before two of you open it.

Frequently asked.

Does Siter.io have a nonprofit discount?

Not today, and nothing published suggests one is coming. Every organization pays the same $7, $12 or $24 a month billed yearly. If charity pricing is a requirement rather than a preference, that is the answer you needed on the first screen.

Can I accept donations on a Siter.io website?

Not directly. The platform does not process payments, and e-commerce is listed as upcoming with no date. The page carries a button linking to your giving platform’s hosted page, or that provider’s widget in the on-canvas embed element. The money and the receipting stay there, which keeps donor payment details off a site you maintain yourself.

Is there a free website builder for a small charity?

Not this one, in the sense that matters. The Start plan lets you design and preview privately for as long as you like, but it cannot publish to a public address, so nobody outside your account sees it. Publishing starts from $7/mo billed yearly.

Can volunteers update the website without breaking it?

Within limits. There are two roles on the paid plans: Admins manage the team and the website — inviting and removing people, transferring and deleting the site — and Members edit and publish pages. There is no view-only role, so every volunteer you add can change and publish the site; make them Members and keep Admin for one or two trustees. The paid plans include the seats — 2 on Solo, 4 on Plus, 6 on Pro, counted per website with you included. The Start plan is just you, with no collaborators. Editors and roles goes through it in more detail.

What happens if the person who built it leaves?

The real risk for a small organization, and worth settling on day one. The pricing page lists ownership transfer on every plan, which moves a site to another email address, and version history is part of the product — though what a restore covers and how far back it reaches is not documented, so check it in the app before you rely on it as an undo. Keep the domain registration and the Figma file in the organization’s hands rather than a volunteer’s.

If you are building this for somebody else

Also useful: the plans in full, connecting your own domain, how forms work, and the Figma plugin.

A site a small organization can actually keep.

Build and preview the whole thing before you pay anything. Publishing starts at $7/mo billed yearly, the same price everyone pays, and your own domain is included from there.
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