Website builder for nonprofits

The annual number

Solo is $7/mo billed yearly — $84 a year — for 1 published website, 10 pages, 3 forms and 2 editors, 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 organisation’s name.

The seat arithmetic, if there is a committee

Solo includes 2 editor seats and Plus 4; the pricing page lists an extra seat at $4 on Solo and $6 on Plus, without saying whether that figure is monthly or whether it changes on month-to-month billing. Reading it as a monthly figure on yearly billing, six volunteers with edit rights come to $7 plus 4 seats at $4 — $23 a month — on Solo, $24 on Plus, and $24 on Pro with all 6 included, unlimited pages and unlimited forms. At that size Pro is the cheaper shape, so count the people before you pick the row.

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 licence, 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 organisation 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.

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

Roles are listed on every plan and each paid plan includes editor seats — 2 on Solo, 6 on Pro — but real-time co-editing is listed as upcoming rather than shipped. 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.

Does Siter.io have a nonprofit discount?

Not today, and nothing published suggests one is coming. Every organisation 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. Editor and viewer roles are listed on every plan and organise who changes what, and the paid plans include the seats — 2 on Solo, 4 on Plus, 6 on Pro. What each role actually permits is not documented publicly, and how many collaborators the Start plan allows is unsettled, so set a role up and check it in the app before you promise anybody access. Editors and roles goes through it in more detail.

What happens if the person who built it leaves?

The real risk for a small organisation, 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 organisation’s hands rather than a volunteer’s.