Townsy is designed to help small towns promote the things that make a town/region unique – highlighting the elements that create a community – while providing essential information to residents.
To do this, Townsy offers the following features—
Blog Module
Tell the story of your town, community, or region
The blog module makes it simple to share news, highlight local events, and showcase the things that make your town unique. With generous space for photos, you can visually bring your stories to life—in a way today’s audiences expect.
People are looking at your town as a place to potentially live or visit – the blog module is a great way to put your best foot forward.
Business & Attraction Listing
Promote the things to do in your town
Your town offers a variety of places to shop, dine, and see – you know, the "things to do" for both town residents and people coming into town to visit.
Townsy offers a simple interface for adding these locations – including images and addresses – and creating an automatically categorized list of places to go and things to see. This is also helpful for small businesses in your town without a website or social media presence!
Care Services Listing
Provide details on the support services in your town
Care services are a critical part of life for many towns, offering the support that families need to feel safe and secure – also providing the ability to keep loved ones near while working to support them.
Townsy offers the ability to customize the types of care services offered by your town (common services are senior care, child care, and health care) and offers an easy-to-use interface for creating, categorizing, and listing the location and contact details of these critical services.
Event Listing Module
Let everyone know about upcoming happenings
From parades and spaghetti feeds to art shows and bake sales, Townsy's event listing module makes it easy to broadcast not only events put on by your town, but by local organizations and businesses.
Posting an event is easy with Townsy – set your dates, add the event name, location, hours, and details and hit publish... and the events even "unpublish" when they're over!
Meeting & Agenda Listing
Post it once – your meeting records organize themselves
Your town has a public duty to post the agendas that drive your council meetings, as well as the minutes that record them.
With Townsy, posting a meeting document takes about a minute: add a title, upload the file, choose Agendas or Minutes, and set the meeting date. It appears on your Meetings & Agendas page right away – grouped by type, newest first, and filterable by year. No new folders every January, and no hand-editing the page.
Need a section for Planning Commission or budget documents? Add it once and it's ready to use.
Residents get a clean list showing each meeting date, file type, and a download button – and the page is built to work with screen readers, announcing filter results and clearly labeling every download.
Job Opportunities Module
Post available job openings in your town
Small towns rely on people to operate, and these jobs are often highly sought after by members of a community.
Townsy offers a job posting module that makes it easy to upload a job description, add relevant application dates, and automatically list the job on your town's employment page – expediting the time it takes for overloaded staff to post the job and provide a clear path for an applicant.
Document Management
Organize and maintain the documents needed by your residents
While documents and forms aren't the most exciting part of running a town, they're necessary – and keeping the latest versions correctly linked across your website can be a challenge.
Townsy keeps it simple. Add permit forms, maps, and fee schedules to any page with a couple of clicks, and they appear as a tidy list labeled by file type. When a document changes, just replace the file – every link to it, anywhere on your website, automatically points to the new version. No more tracking down every file location manually!
Townsy also reminds staff to check files for accessibility before uploading – an important part of meeting ADA Title II requirements.
Other helpful features
Townsy provides a number of features to inform website visitors, including:
A — Real-time Weather Widget
Delivers a notion of timeliness and real-world connection to the website, showing what the weather is like in your town, right now.
B — Notification Bar
Townsy allows a website manager to quickly add important notifications, then displays them – in a rotation – at the top of the site.
C — Indexed Pages
Available as an option when creating a new page, indexed pages allow for easy entry of a topic with associated information, and automatically creates a clickable list of topics that stay visible on the page as a user scrolls.
Watch this overview of a Townsy government website
See our library of videos demonstrating how simple it is to add and mange the content and pages in this video.
Simple pricing, designed for your budget
How much does a Townsy government website cost?