Drag. Drop.
Your town has
a website.
Pick the modules your town needs — water billing, burn-ban alerts, events, trash schedules. Skip the ones you don't. Pay only for what you use. Live in under 30 minutes.
How it works
Three steps. No meetings. No contracts.
Pick your modules
Tell us your town size and what services you offer. We suggest the right starting set — water billing, events, burn bans, whatever fits.
Drag, drop, done
Drag modules onto your homepage. Pick a theme — Country, Modern, or Heritage. Add your photos, town seal, council names. No code.
Hit publish
Your site goes live at {your-town}.city.adaptensor.com in seconds. Bring a custom domain when you're ready. Cancel anytime.
Modules
Only add what your town needs.
Every module is optional. Don't need water billing? Skip it — your price drops. Add it later with one click when you're ready.
More shipping monthly
Water bill pay
Residents pay online. Auto-late notices. Stripe deposits straight to your account.
Why it mattersTowns that move billing online tend to see on-time payments rise and walk-in traffic drop — fewer late notices to mail, fewer Mondays buried in checks.
Burn-ban notice
One-click toggle. Banner shows on every page. Optional SMS blast.
Why it mattersSMS messages are read within three minutes about 98% of the time. The banner is your safety net for everyone else.
Trash & recycling
Weekly schedule, holiday shifts, what-goes-where guide for residents.
Why it mattersCurbside recycling contamination averages 17% nationally and almost all of it comes from people guessing — a clear what-goes-where page is the cheapest fix on the EPA's list. (The Recycling Partnership, 2020)
Events calendar
Council meetings, fish fries, parades. Residents subscribe to reminders.
Why it mattersMost council meetings pull single-digit turnout because nobody knows when they are. The fish fry, the budget hearing, the spring cleanup — all on the same fridge.
Town directory
Mayor, council, clerk, public works. Photos, hours, phone numbers.
Why it mattersWhen the mayor's number isn't on the site, every call lands on the clerk. The right phone number for water vs. streets vs. dog-at-large saves the front desk an hour a day.
Forms & permits
Building permits, dog licenses, FOIA requests — fillable, no PDF nonsense.
Why it mattersTowns that move permits online routinely cut processing time by 30–90%. Sea Girt, NJ (pop. ~1,800) reported a two-thirds drop in staff time spent chasing applicants.
Email subscribers
Residents sign up. You send updates. Bring your Resend key, no per-email fees.
Why it mattersGovernment email runs about 29% open rate — roughly double retail — because residents only subscribe to news they actually want from their town.
Report an issue
Pothole, streetlight, stray dog. Photo + map pin straight to public works.
Why it mattersThe 311 workflow big cities pioneered, town-sized. A photo and a pin go straight to the truck that fixes it — no game of telephone through the front desk.
Why towns switch
We checked the competition. Here's what we found.
Existing platforms target school districts and county governments. We’re built for towns under 1,000 people, where the clerk is the IT department.
| Feature | Adaptensor City | Apptegy | CivicPlus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup fee | $0 | ~$7,000 (app dev) | $5,000–$10,000 |
| Annual cost | $228–$1,068/yr | ~$10,000/yr | $5,000–$15,000/yr |
| Self-serve signup | Yes Live in 30 min | No Book a demo | No Enterprise sales |
| Online water bill pay | Yes Stripe Connect | No | Add-on |
| Permit applications | Yes Built-in | No | Add-on |
| Issue reporting (311) | Yes | No | Add-on |
| Email subscriber blasts | Yes Included | Yes | Add-on |
| Installable mobile app | Yes PWA | Yes Native iOS/Android | Some plans |
| No vendor branding | Yes White-label | No "Powered by Apptegy" | No |
| Drag-and-drop builder | Yes | Limited | Limited |
| Cancel anytime | Yes Monthly | No Annual contract | No Annual contract |
| WCAG 2.1 AA conformance | Yes Audited + published | Unknown Not published | Unknown Not published |
Pricing based on publicly available data and municipal reporting. Apptegy pricing from school district budget disclosures; municipal pricing may vary.
The $10,000 website
A typical small-town website contract runs $10,000 a year.
Five department pages. No online bill pay. No permit applications. No event calendar.
And another company's name in the footer.
Their residents deserve better. So do yours.
Pricing
Less than your courthouse coffee budget.
$0 setup fee. No annual contract. Cancel anytime. Start free, upgrade when you need to.
Hamlet
Towns under 500
- Up to 5 modules
- Custom subdomain
- Email support
- No Stripe needed
Township
Towns 500–5,000
- Unlimited modules
- White-label — no vendor branding
- Custom domain
- Installable mobile app (PWA)
- Phone support
- Subscriber email blasts
County Seat
Towns 5,000+
- Everything in Township
- Multiple department sites
- White-glove migration
- Priority support
I'm the city clerk and the librarian and I run the meals program. I do not have time to learn a website builder. This one I figured out before lunch.
Your town deserves a website.
Build your town’s first real online presence. Free to start. Live before dinner.