Q0100:00:30Service
Nonprofit gala and fundraiser website design earns its keep when a donor can buy a ticket, sponsor a table or give directly without hunting through a PDF, which means the design has to make each of those actions its own clear page.
What it costs
Q0200:02:00Notes
This year's gala details live in a PDF or an old post.
Sponsors cannot see table and sponsorship levels without emailing you.
Donors can only give around the event itself.
The page looks stale by the time invitations go out.
Q0300:04:00Casting
Answer: Nonprofit event teams, development offices and independent gala planners who need donors to buy tickets, sponsor tables and give, from pages built for a donor rather than a general audience.
Q0400:06:00Detail
Burying this year's ticket and sponsorship information in a PDF or an old post loses donors who would otherwise commit on the spot. Each option gets its own page with clear pricing or a simple inquiry path, built fresh each year as the event date and honoree change.
A clear ticket purchase page
Table and sponsorship packages, laid out plainly
A standing donate page, separate from the event itself
Q0500:08:00Detail
A new donor is more likely to give when they can see what past events accomplished. We design a past events and impact page around the figures you provide, sourced to your own reporting rather than an invented percentage.
Q0600:10:00Detail
A gala site that looks stale by the time invitations go out undercuts the event itself. Updating the date, venue and honoree each year is a standard revision through your client portal, turned around within 2 to 5 working days.
Q0700:12:00House
The old event production briefs PDF made sense on a printer and nowhere else. I can send the exact section someone needs, and they can read it without downloading anything. Callers have stopped apologizing for not being able to read it.
Got: Structured reference pages for event production briefs (Load-In)
We suspected our event production briefs content existed in two versions. The audit found more. Consolidation came with a checklist, so a change in one place is checked everywhere it matters. It is the least glamorous work they did, and possibly the most valuable.
Got: Content audit and update process for event production briefs (Load-In)
Q0800:14:00Case file
CS1710 working daysNorth Dakota
Charity gala production company, Fargo
CS1015 working daysOregon
Christmas market production team, Salem
CS1120 working daysTexas
Brand activation production company, Plano
Q0900:16:00Deliverables
Answer: the finished, hosted website below, built for you and then kept up to date every month.
Linking to the donation or ticketing processor you already use.
Packages and benefits laid out clearly for prospective sponsors.
For ongoing giving outside of the annual event.
Built around the figures and stories you provide, always sourced.
A clear path for people who want to help beyond attending.
Q1000:18:00Process
Answer: order, a 15-minute form, one call, then a live site in 7 to 15 days depending on plan, with the build fee invoiced only after you approve it.
First month charged; the $697 build fee is not.
About 15 minutes: event types, markets, brand, domain and CRM.
Gaps filled, launch date agreed, scripts agreed on AI plans.
7 on Load-In, 10 on Showtime, 15 on Encore.
The build fee is invoiced after you approve; then 5 revisions a month.
Q1100:20:00Scope
Answer: we build and run the website. The events themselves, payments and photography stay with you and the platforms you already use.
Q1200:22:00Guarantee
Answer: you pay the build fee only after approving the live site, every page is guaranteed 90+ on PageSpeed, local ranking is guaranteed within 3 to 5 months with free continued work if it is missed, and your domain and content stay yours. All sales are final otherwise, and the conditions are printed under each promise.
Nothing is charged for the build until your site is live and you have confirmed you are satisfied with it. If you cancel before the build starts, no build fee is charged at all.
Condition: Due within 7 days of the invoice once you have approved the live site.
On mobile and desktop, checked on an ongoing basis. If a page slips below it because of our work, we fix it at no charge.
Condition: Does not cover changes you or third parties make, or content published against our advice.
Your site starts ranking for local searches in your area within that window of launch, or we continue the search work at no additional charge until it does.
Condition: Covers your area and your services, not terms outside them. The remedy is the work, not a refund.
The domain is registered in your name. If you leave, we transfer it at no charge and send an export of your content and articles within 14 days.
Condition: Design and code stay ours; your words, photos and domain stay yours.
The full wording is in the terms and conditions and the refund policy.
Q1300:24:00Budget
Answer: from $127 a month plus a $697 one-time build fee invoiced after launch. Here is what moves the number, and what never does.
Q1400:26:00Patch
Answer: every plan includes the website, hosting, search foundations, articles and monthly care; Showtime adds the AI Engine (AI receptionist, missed-call text back, chat and text-message agents); Encore adds the Content Engine's faster article schedule.
Every plan carries the same $697 one-time build fee, invoiced only after your site is live and approved. AI usage on Showtime and Encore is billed monthly in arrears at what our providers charge us, with no markup. Text-message carrier fees are passed through at cost.
Q1500:28:00Q and A
We build the donate and ticket pages and link them to the processor you already use, such as a nonprofit-specific donation platform, rather than handling payment processing ourselves.
You send the update as a revision request through your client portal, and it is turned around within 2 to 5 working days. You never log in to edit the site directly.
We write around the figures you provide and always cite them to your own reporting. We never invent an impact statistic on your behalf.
Yes, a standing donate page separate from the event page is included so giving is not limited to the weeks around your one big event.
No. The plans are the same for every event business: from $127 a month plus the $697 build fee after launch.
Yes, with sponsor names or logos you have permission to display. It can be updated as sponsors confirm, as a revision.
No. Donations and ticket payments go through the processor you already use, so payment details never pass through your website. Forms only collect what your committee needs to follow up.
Yes. Each event gets its own page, with past events kept as recaps that show impact to new donors.
Q1300:29:00Curtain
A live walk-through of the site you would get, in about 30 minutes. Plans from $127 a month, the $697 build fee invoiced only after launch, and a person on the team replies within one working day.
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