Websites for professional societies, built and maintained.
Avistra suits a professional society because its site serves people: the practitioner renewing each year, the student deciding whether to join, the member looking for the next meeting and the hours it carries. We build it on the society's own domain, with member sign-in and meeting sign-ups in the same site, on one monthly plan, from $149 a month.
A site that outlasts the officers.
The board changes every year. The site, the domain and the member list stay with the society.
It belongs to the society
The domain, the email addresses and the site stay put when a president's term ends, and nobody inherits a login from a volunteer who has moved on.
Membership by category
Full, associate, student and retired, each with what it includes and one application. Applications can wait for the board's approval before anyone is charged.
Meetings with their own sign-ups
Each meeting has a page stating the hours it carries, a limit if the room has one, a sign-up form you change by describing it in words, and a list you can download.
A directory members choose
Members decide whether to be listed, and signed-in members can look each other up. Newsletters, recordings and the handbook sit behind the same emailed-code sign-in.
Found by the next member
Student membership, scholarships and the first-year rate, set up so a new practitioner searching for the society can find and read them.
A new board is not a project
An officer changes a date or a name on the page with the built-in edit tool. Anything bigger comes 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 professional societies usually ask.
Our national society collects our dues. Do we need member features at all?
Often not. Many chapters want a site that carries the meetings, the sign-ups, the news and the board, open to everyone. If members-only pages would help, the roster your national sends can be loaded from a spreadsheet when it arrives.
We are on Wild Apricot, YourMembership or a WordPress plugin. Can you take it over?
Usually. We rebuild the site on the society's own domain and bring the pages across. If the membership moves too, the member list comes over from a spreadsheet export, and members sign in with an emailed code from the first day. Software the society uses for credits or certification stays, and the site links to it.
The officers change every year. Who keeps the site current?
Whoever the society names. Unlimited content edits are included: tell us who is taking over and we change who can sign in, and they make small changes on the page with a code sent to their own email. Anything bigger they send to us. 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.
Ready before the next meeting is announced.
Tell us about the society and we will reply within a business day.
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