A public address for the community
Announcements, the events calendar, the governing documents and how to reach the office — on the community’s own subdomain, kept current because it is the same data the portal uses.
Its own address, live in a minute
Give the community a slug and it has a site at that address immediately, with a certificate already issued. There is nothing to build, host or renew.
A wildcard certificate covers every community, so a new site is served over HTTPS from the moment it exists.
The site is generated from what you have already entered — name, tagline, about text, address and contact details. You fill in a form, not a page builder.
The site shows only what you mark public. Resident records, ledgers and private documents are never reachable from it.
Every document a member finds is an email you do not answer
Boards are regularly required to publish their documents, and the usual answer is a volunteer's free hosting account that stops working when they move away. This is the same job, done once and kept current because it reads from the records you already keep.
The things people actually visit for
Three questions bring someone to a community site: what is going on, when is the next thing, and where is that form. This answers all three.
Post a notice and pin the one that needs to stay at the top. Published from the same screen the board already uses.
Meetings, maintenance windows and social events with times and locations, so the noticeboard in the lobby is not the only copy.
Bylaws, minutes and rules made public individually, downloadable without an account. A document attached to a resident cannot be flipped public.
Published listings can appear on the site with one toggle, so a community that rents units markets them from the same place.
A public face for the community, without a web project.
Boards are regularly required to publish documents, and the usual answer is a volunteer’s free hosting account that stops working when they move away. This is the same job, done once.
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The site already exists
Every community gets one at its own address on villagely.io. There is no build step, no template to choose and no launch — it is there from the day the organisation is.
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You publish what the members need
Documents, announcements, minutes and the calendar. Published is a deliberate act, separate from having written it, so a draft cannot appear in public by accident.
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It stays current on its own
Because it reads from the same records the board is already keeping. A community site goes stale when it is a second copy of everything; this one is not a copy.
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Members find things without asking
Which is the entire point. Every document a member can find is an email the manager does not answer.
The rest of it.
Reads the same records
There is no second copy to update. Change an announcement in Villagely and the site has changed.
Readable on a phone
Which is where a resident checks whether tonight’s meeting is still on.
Findable
Each site carries its own title and description, so a search for the community name reaches it.
Custom domains are not here yet
Today every site lives on a villagely.io subdomain. Bringing your own domain is on the roadmap, and we would rather say so than let you find out after signing up.
Before you ask us.
- Can we use our own domain name?
- Not yet. Every community site is on its own subdomain of villagely.io today. Custom domains mean per-tenant DNS verification, certificates issued on demand and a permanent support burden, and we would rather do that properly for a customer who asks than half-do it for everybody.
- Do we need someone technical?
- No. There is no builder to learn, no theme to pick and nothing to deploy. You publish a document and it is on the site.
- Is the site public?
- The parts you publish are — that is what it is for. Anything you have not published is not on it, and resident ledgers, documents shared with individuals and board discussions are never on it at any setting.
- Is it included in our plan?
- Yes, on every plan including the free one. A community that cannot publish its own documents is not a community you have helped.
Give the community somewhere to look
Rent, leasing, maintenance, the association and the books — one system, set up in an afternoon.