CommonsFor cities, counties, and towns
Your residents check the website first. Make it right — and keep it that way.
Commons is the government website that keeps itself up to date. Enter a meeting, notice, bid, or job once and it shows up everywhere it should, then takes itself down when it's over. And your site becomes the place your community finds out what's happening.
See how your website looks to a resident — free, in 20 seconds:
Or start your free month — no card, no sales call, set up in an afternoon.
Sound familiar?
It's not your staff's fault.
Updating the website is a second job on top of the real one. The meeting gets held, the notice gets posted on the courthouse door — and the website never hears about it. So it falls behind, and residents stop trusting it.
- The calendar still shows a meeting from years ago.
- Pages that just say “Coming soon.”
- Agendas live in a binder at the courthouse.
- Residents call to ask what the website should have told them.
How it works
Enter it once. It goes everywhere. It cleans up after itself.
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Enter it once
The clerk adds the meeting, notice, bid, or job on one simple desk. Two minutes, no web skills.
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It shows up everywhere
Your website, a calendar residents subscribe to, email to subscribers, and the open-bids feed for local businesses.
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It takes itself down
When the date passes, it leaves the front page by itself. Nothing on your site is ever years out of date again.
What you get
Everything residents come to the website for.
Meetings and agendas, on time
Put the meeting on the calendar once. The desk counts down to the agenda deadline (in Georgia, close of business the day before) and reminds you before you miss it. Minutes attach to the same meeting.
Open records requests with the clock built in
Residents ask online. Each request shows its due date (three business days under Georgia law) and gets a tracking link, so nobody has to call to ask about it.
Report a problem
Potholes, streetlights, drainage, trash. Each report reaches the right inbox with its location, and the resident can follow it until it's fixed.
Bids that local businesses actually see
Post a bid with its due date and documents. It closes itself, and it goes to the open-bids feed that local businesses on Operate watch for work. More local bidders, better prices.
Alerts and email updates
Boil-water notices, road closures, storms. A banner on every page plus an email to everyone who asked for one. Residents choose what they want: alerts, meetings, notices, bids, or jobs.
Nothing stale, ever
Every notice, bid, and job has an end date. When it passes, it leaves the front page by itself and stays in the archive.
Jobs and board seats
Open positions with pay, schedule, and how to apply. Closes itself on the date you set.
Accessible by design
Readable type, real headings, keyboard navigation, and image descriptions — designed to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard the federal ADA Title II rule sets for state and local government websites.
Keep your current website
Paste one line into the site you have, and its meetings, notices, and bids lists update themselves. Or use your Commons site as the whole website.
More than a website
Turn your county into a community again.
A government website usually stops at government. Yours doesn't have to. Commons brings in what's happening around you — festivals, ballgames, library programs, church suppers, farmers markets — and connects residents with neighbors who can help and need help. Without extra work for your staff.
See the community sideCommunity events, live
This weekend's events near you appear on your site automatically, from the region's event calendars.
Neighbors helping neighbors
Your town gets its own Neighborly board: needs, offers to help, tools to borrow, food pantries.
Local businesses at the table
Your open bids reach local shops on Operate, so the work and the money stay in the county.
One front door
Residents find their government and their community in the same place, and they come back.
Self-serve, start to finish
No sales call. No setup fee. Live today.
- Sign up in five minutes and get 30 days free. No card.
- Prove you're the official government with your official email, or one line pasted on your current site.
- Add your offices, your next meeting, and anything current. Your site is live as you go.
- Pay by card, bank transfer, or an invoice with your PO number. Cancel any time.
Priced by the people you serve
A town of 900 and a county of 90,000 get the same product, priced for their budget.
- Town$149/mo
- Small city or county$299/mo
- City or county$549/mo
- Large city or county$999/mo
- Metro$1,999/mo
Pay yearly and get two months free. Starts at $149 a month.
See full pricingHow does your website look to a resident today?
The free checkup reads your site the way a resident does: the newest date it can find, empty pages, missing agendas, phone readiness, and image descriptions. You get a plain report in about 20 seconds.