Resources · PTA & schools
Vendor comparisons, real costs, and switching advice — written for the board member who has to make the call. No jargon, no upsells.
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Apptegy sells districts a branded parent app plus notifications, with the website attached. For a single school, here's whether you're using enough of it to justify the line.
Blackbaud bundles the website with fundraising and CRM. If the website is the weak half, you can replace just that — here's how the split works and what it costs.
Edlio prices by enrollment and charges setup. For a single NYC school or PTA, here's the honest comparison on cost, migration, accessibility, and who owns the site.
Finalsite is built for districts with a communications office. If you're one school, here's the honest comparison: cost, contract length, migration, and who owns the site.
Givebacks handles PTA memberships and dues, but it isn't a website — and it adds its own fee on top of Stripe's. Here's where it fits and what to pair it with.
We checked the websites of the 100 highest-earning NYC public school PTAs. Nearly half are on DIY builders, 16 are on Educational Networks, and 1 in 5 has no identifiable platform at all.
Every year PTAs hand over the bank account and forget the domain, the DNS, and the recovery phone number. Here's the full digital inventory, and the one field that locks boards out.
Straight answers to what PTA and PTO boards actually ask about websites: what platform, who maintains it, payment fees, domains, PTA vs PTO, and what it should cost.
National PTA says get written permission first. Here's what that means in practice for a PTA website: releases, opt-outs, FERPA, and the name-plus-face rule.
Why districts usually won't host PTA content, why that's not obstruction, and how to decide between your own site, a page on the school's, or the link-and-disclaimer middle ground.
Educational Networks, Finalsite, Edlio, Wix and a custom build compared on the three things that decide it: continuity, migration labor, and ownership. Costs and sources included.
SchoolMessenger is a communications product with a website attached. For most schools the right move is keeping the notifications and replacing only the website.
Upper West Side PTAs run some of NYC's largest annual funds — here's what their websites need to actually convert that scale of giving, not just look nice.
What a Park Slope, Brooklyn PTA website actually needs — annual fund pages, event calendars, and multi-admin CMS — plus real cost ranges for the neighborhood.
A step-by-step plan for switching PTA website vendors without losing parent contacts, search rankings, or trust — URLs, email lists, calendars, and redirects.
Yes — here's exactly how a NYC PTA sets up Stripe: EIN, 501(c)(3) proof, board resolution, the nonprofit rate application, and the snags that stall approval.
A plain-English guide to WCAG 2.1 AA for NYC school and PTA sites — what the DOE and Section 504 actually require, why most cheap vendors fail it, and a 10-item self-check.
A NYC board's honest guide to Membership Toolkit vs a custom PTA website — what MT does well, where it caps out on design and fundraising, and the switch math.
A NYC PTA's plain-English guide to online donations — Stripe vs PayPal vs Donorbox fees, 501c3 reporting, and recurring giving — with the real per-dollar math.
A hosted NYC PTA website costs $900/yr from Full Stack Tech NYC, no setup fee. Educational Networks runs about $3,600/yr. The line-by-line math.
PTA websites die when the one volunteer who ran them leaves. Full Stack Tech NYC builds handoff-proof sites: multi-admin, owned repo, $900/yr.
Five ways school websites lose donations: buried donate button, broken mobile, forced accounts, stale content, no analytics. Fixes by Full Stack Tech NYC.
Educational Networks alternative for NYC schools: Full Stack Tech NYC builds a site you own for $900/yr vs about $3,600/yr for EN. Costs, ownership, migration.
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