Websites for trade associations, built and maintained.
Avistra suits a trade association because its site is read by three audiences at once: companies deciding whether to join, members looking for the next meeting, and legislative staff checking who speaks for the industry. We build one site for all three, with member sign-in, dues and event sign-ups in the same design, on one monthly plan, from $149 a month.
One site for the public and the members.
The public site and the member side belong to one organization, so they should look and work like one.
Membership that makes its case
Each category of membership, what it includes, and one application the board can approve. A card is saved when a company applies and charged once it is approved.
Member companies with seats
A company joins as an organization with a number of seats, and the person who signed it up adds colleagues by name and email address.
Sign-in without passwords
Members get a code by email, so there is nothing to reset. Committee materials, surveys and model documents sit behind it, and a lapsed membership steps out by itself.
Meetings people can sign up for
The annual meeting, regional meetings, the day at the legislature: each with its own page, sign-up form and calendar view, and a list of who is coming you can download.
Advocacy that can be found
Positions, bills being watched and industry news, posted as they happen and set up so search engines, reporters and legislative staff can read them.
A board change is an edit
A new chair, a new date or a new line of text you change on the page yourself. Anything bigger you send to us, usually live the same day.
Everything a well-made site needs.
Your site stays fast, secure and current without your attention. When something needs changing, you tell us and we handle it quickly.
Two plans. Everything included.
Design, hosting, security, backups and unlimited content edits on one monthly plan. Care covers what most need; Grow adds the membership and event modules, booking and intake forms, and room for a larger site. Compare the plans.
A fully custom-coded site, hosted, secured and edited for you. Everything most businesses need, and nothing to manage.
- Custom design, up to 5 pages, contact form
- Hosting, SSL, security, backups
- Unlimited content edits (how it works)
- SEO built in
- Linked to your Google listing, if you have one
Everything in Care, plus more pages, the membership and event modules, and the forms that bring in work.
- Everything in Care
- More than five pages
- Membership and event modules
- Booking, quote and intake forms
The longer you commit, the less you pay.
Every plan starts with a 12-month commitment and the setup paid today. Commit for 18 months or more and the setup is folded into the monthly instead, with nothing due today, and discounted up to 15% at 36 months. After the term, the price returns to the plan.
12-month commitment, then month to month.
Hosting, security, backups and content edits are part of the monthly plan. Anything outside it is quoted before it costs you anything.
Above ten pages, or where the site needs more extensive work, the one-time setup goes up. It is quoted before anything starts. Never a higher monthly.
The site is plain, durable code. If you ever leave, it goes with you.
What trade and industry associations usually ask.
We are on Wild Apricot, MemberClicks or GrowthZone. Can you take it over?
Usually. We rebuild the public site on your own domain, and if the membership moves too, the member list comes across from a spreadsheet export. Members sign in with an emailed code from the first day, so nobody needs a new password. Software the association relies on for other work can stay, and the site links to it.
Can members pay dues online?
Yes, through the association's own Stripe account, so the money goes straight to you. Dues can be paid once a year or as a subscription, and members who pay by check are kept current by hand. If your dues scale with company size, tell us how they work and we set it up to match.
How do updates work?
Unlimited content edits are included. Staff sign in with a code sent to their email and change words on the page themselves, add a news post or a new meeting, and send anything bigger to us, usually live the same day. Here is how an edit is sent.
What does it cost?
Care is $79 a month with a one-time $200 setup: the custom design, hosting, security, backups and unlimited content edits. Grow is $149 a month with a $500 setup and adds the membership and event modules, intake forms and room for a larger site. Both plans carry a 12-month minimum, and a longer term folds the setup into the monthly.
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