A municipal website your town actually owns.
We design your municipality's complete website, configure it for your staff, and launch it in 6–8 weeks — accessible, bilingual-ready, and built to your brand. Then we hand you the keys: the code and the content are yours forever. No annual platform fee. No 5% renewal hike. No rebuild required to ever leave.
When updating the website is somebody else's job, it doesn't get updated.
Most small municipalities run their website through a single tech-savvy staff member, an outside contractor who's hard to reach, or a vendor's support queue. That's a fragile system — and residents feel it every time the information is wrong.
Every small change requires a phone call
A new council member. An updated department phone number. A cancelled meeting. Changes that should take two minutes end up on a waiting list for the one person with access — or a support ticket with a vendor.
The bill goes up every single year
The big platforms write a 5% annual increase right into the contract, then auto-renew it unless you cancel inside a narrow window. Five years in, you're paying far more than you signed up for — and you still don't own a thing.
The ADA deadline is now a legal obligation
A federal rule requires your website to meet WCAG 2.1 AA. Towns under 50,000 have until April 26, 2028. Most government sites fail accessibility testing today — and the liability sits with your municipality, not your vendor.
Built so your team can run it without help.
Munikit puts the right tools in the hands of the person who actually updates the website — your clerk or administrator — not just the developer who built it.
Post an update in 3 minutes
Your clerk manages everything from one admin panel — news, events, meeting notices, job postings, permits, FAQs, bylaws. Fill out a form, hit publish. It appears on the right page automatically.
Nothing goes live by accident
Staff write drafts. You — or your director — review and publish. A clear approval step means a summer student or new hire can contribute safely without risk to the live site.
Emergency alerts, site-wide, in under a minute
Post a boil-water advisory or road closure once. It appears as a banner on every page immediately — and clears itself on the date and time you set. No approval queue.
Accessible & bilingual without extra work
Every component meets WCAG 2.1 AA out of the box, tested on every page before it ships. English and French are built in. No overlay widget, no accessibility consultant, no separate French CMS.
Every other vendor rents you your own website.
With the subscription platforms most towns use, you pay to build the site — and then you pay every year for permission to keep using it. Stop paying and the site goes dark. Your content sits in a proprietary system you can only export "for a fee, quoted at the time of request." To switch vendors, you rebuild from scratch.
Munikit is software you license once and own. We deliver the code to your own repository and the content to your own database. Renew annually for updates if you want them — or don't; your site keeps running either way. You can hand it to any developer, any time.
See the 5-year cost comparison →- The full source code, in your own git repository
- Your content in a standard PostgreSQL database — exportable any time, free
- A custom theme that looks like your municipality, not a template
- The freedom to re-bid maintenance to any developer
- A flat, predictable cost with no annual escalator
What you're probably paying now — vs. what you could be paying.
Whether you're on a subscription platform or a WordPress install held together with plugins, you're paying either in escalating annual fees or in the time it takes to run a platform that wasn't built for municipal content.
| Munikit | Subscription platform | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to launch | 6–8 weeks | 16–28 weeks |
| Code & content ownership | ✓ You own it forever | ✗ Platform owns the system |
| Annual platform fee | $0 (optional $600/yr updates) | $5,700–$30,000+/yr |
| Flat, predictable pricing | ✓ No escalator | ✗ ~5% increase every renewal |
| WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility | ✓ Built in | Often a paid add-on |
| English & French | ✓ Built in | Extra configuration |
| Content updates without IT | ✓ Any staff member | Varies by platform |
| Switch vendors without rebuilding | ✓ Hand the code to anyone | ✗ Must rebuild to leave |
Fee ranges and timelines reflect figures published in vendors' own statements of work and signed public contracts. See the sources →
Up and running in 6–8 weeks. Then your team takes over.
We handle the setup. You get a website your staff can manage themselves from day one.
Tell us about your municipality
Request a demo. We'll ask about your current website, who manages it today, what's frustrating your staff, and your timeline. No commitment, and we'll sign an NDA before you share anything internal.
We design, migrate, and train
We design your custom theme, configure your content types, migrate your existing content, set up hosting, and train your staff. You approve a fixed-scope quote before any work begins.
Your team runs it. You own it.
Go live in 6–8 weeks. Your staff post updates, manage meetings, and handle emergencies without calling anyone. The code and content are yours — no annual fee, no renewal trap, no lock-in.
See Munikit running before you decide anything.
Explore the live demo yourself, book a 30-minute walkthrough, or read the actual how-to guides your staff would use. No sales pressure.