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Custom software for Aotearoa charities

Stop renting the tools
your charity runs on.

We build custom websites and apps for Aotearoa's charities — donors, volunteers, and the day-to-day in one system that's yours to keep. One flat fee covers hosting, ongoing development, bug fixes, and a roadmap set by your charity — not a vendor.

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$200
NZD / month, all-in
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No per-volunteer fees, per-seat fees, paid add-ons, usage caps, locked-in contracts, ticket queues, or sales calls.
Trusted by
Everybody Eats · Fair Food NZ · Compassion
The problem

Most charity software is built for vendors, not for the people doing the work.

Funders pay for software, software companies pay their executives, and the volunteers running the booking sheet still end up in spreadsheets at 11pm.

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SaaS bills that grow with you — punishing growth

Most charity tools price by donor count, contact list size, or transactions. Your reward for doing more good is a bigger invoice.

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Tools built for businesses, retrofitted for charities

Stripe with a charity skin. CRMs with a 'nonprofit discount.' None of it knows what a koha is, or how a volunteer roster actually works.

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Five tools doing the work of one

A booking system here, a donation widget there, a separate volunteer signup, an email list, a website that connects to none of it.

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C-suites paid out of charitable giving

When a SaaS company charges $400/month, a meaningful slice of that goes to executive compensation. Your funders didn't sign up to pay for that.

What we build

Five kinds of work, all built into one site you actually own.

A custom build replaces the SaaS subscriptions you'd otherwise stitch together. Pick a starting point — most charities end up with three or four of these in their first build.

Shifts that fit your crew, not a product roadmap.

Custom rosters for the volunteers who fill them — recurring slots, recognition, and reminders shaped around how your team actually works. No rigid SaaS workflow forcing your coordinators to translate every shift into someone else's idea of one.

Talk about a roster build
app.example.org.nz/rosters
Tuesday roster
Pay-what-you-can dinner
12 Mar
Kitchen prep
3:00 — 5:30pm
5 /6
Floor service
5:30 — 9:00pm
8 /10
Dish team
7:00 — 10:00pm
4 /4

Booking flows as simple — or specific — as your service needs.

Whether it's a weekly community dinner or a hundred different programmes, the booking experience is yours. Configurable rules, custom confirmations, and an interface your supporters can use without reading a help article.

Talk about a booking flow
app.example.org.nz/bookings
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14 Sat Mar
Volunteer training, autumn cohort
9:00am · Tāmaki kitchen · 12 of 24 spots

A supporter view that knows your people by name.

One source of truth for the people backing your kaupapa. Track giving, communications, and consent in a place that fits your team — not a generic CRM with three hundred fields you'll never use.

Talk about a supporter database
app.example.org.nz/supporters
Recent supporters
This month
RH
Rangi Hape
Monthly · since Jul 2023
$120
MO
Mere O'Connell
One-off · 12 Mar 2026
$500
TW
Te Āwhina Whānau Trust
Quarterly · since Feb 2024
$2,500
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James Sefuiva
Monthly · since Sep 2025
$45

The numbers your funders want, in one place you trust.

Reporting built around your funding agreements and impact stories — not bolted-on dashboards. Pull the figures you actually need to send, in the shape your reviewers expect, without exporting to four spreadsheets first.

Talk about a reporting build
app.example.org.nz/reports
Volunteer hours
Last 6 months · all programmes
Hours Donors
0 800 1.6k Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

A site that loads fast, reads clearly, and stays cheap.

Your public face, hosted on the same stack as the rest of your tools. Fast on slow connections, accessible by default, and editable by humans who don't write code.

Talk about a public site
example.org.nz
Community kitchen
Kai for our people, cooked together.
The work

Three charities. Three custom builds. Same flat fee.

Each of these replaced a tangle of SaaS subscriptions with a single purpose-built site. Hosted, supported, and built around how the charity actually works — not how a CRM thinks it should.

01 Pay-as-you-feel restaurants

Everybody Eats

A booking system, volunteer roster, and donation flow built around their three-course pay-what-feels-right dining model — plus native iOS and Android apps for volunteers to pick up shifts on the move.

9k+
volunteers
1.5k
weekly active users
23
restaurants and pop-ups
Talk about a build like this
Everybody Eats volunteer dashboard — shifts completed, hours contributed, and suggested volunteers
Everybody Eats volunteer app home screen — next confirmed shift, open spots needed, and the 'What's happening' feed
The volunteer site Everybody Eats had before the rebuild — a plain events list with little of their own identity
02 Food rescue for Tāmaki Makaurau

Fair Food NZ

A volunteer site and shift booking system for the crew who sort, cook, and share rescued kai in Avondale every day — browse open shifts solo, or sign up a whole team at once.

400+
volunteers
60+
shifts a month
100
Lighthouse performance score
Talk about a build like this
Fair Food volunteer site — 'Help turn leftovers into lifelines for whānau', with open shifts and team sign-up
Fair Food's volunteer signup running on SignUpGenius — a generic third-party form on a stock template, wrapped in ads and upsells
03 Hot meals in Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Compassion Soup Kitchen

A volunteer signup system and a mobile-first menu board, built with care for the dignity of the people who walk through the door.

Talk about a build like this
Compassion Soup Kitchen volunteer site, 'Every meal is an act of aroha'
Compassion's old volunteer signup — a long generic web form asking for title, four address lines and more before you can help
Who builds this

Fifteen years of engineering leadership across some of Aotearoa's largest public and private organisations — now sized for one charity at a time.

A Wellington developer with fifteen years leading large New Zealand engineering teams: Trade Me, ANZ, Stats NZ, Kiwi Wealth, Open Polytechnic, PartsTrader. Government, bank, e-commerce, education, B2B platforms. The kind of systems that have to be right — payments, bookings, reporting all at massive scale.

Charities deserve software built to the same standard. They rarely get it. The off-the-shelf market is priced for organisations with hundreds of staff, and the agencies who could build something custom quote like they're working for one. Āwhina is the in-between: a single experienced developer, working directly with the charity, at a price a charity can actually carry.

One developer, one flat fee, one charity at a time.

Rent or own

Rented software costs more as you grow. Owned software doesn't.

Most charity tools charge per seat, per contact, or a slice of every donation — so the bill climbs the moment your mahi grows. Software you own doesn't work that way.

Rented SaaS stack compared with Āwhina, at a glance
Dimension Rented SaaS stack Āwhina
Cost as you grow Climbs with every seat, contact and add-on Flat $200/month, whatever your size
Customisation Limited to the vendor's settings and themes Bent to your workflow, your brand, your reo
Integration depth Connects only where the vendor allows — often a paid add-on Connects to whatever you already use
The roadmap Set by the vendor — you wait, or you pay Set by your charity
Your data On their servers, on their terms Yours — data, domain, and code
If you stop paying It's gone You keep what we built; we help you move
The fee

One flat price. Everything in.

NZD $200 / month
No setup fees · No transaction fees · Cancel any time · Grant-fundable

One price. Fully custom software, hosting, a real human on the end of an email — and we'll help write the grant application.

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Custom build
Designed and developed for your charity, not configured from a template.
Hosting included
Fast, secure, NZ-friendly infrastructure we manage end-to-end.
Ongoing support
We answer the phone. We make changes. No ticket queues, no upsells.
No per-volunteer fees
Your reward for growing your kaimahi is not a bigger invoice.
Owned outright
Your data, your domain, your code. Walk away any time — we'll help.
Aotearoa-built
Built in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, in your timezone.
Get in touch

Tell us about the mahi.

We're a small team in Wellington. Write to us in your own words — no project brief, no pitch deck, no sales process. We'll write back, usually within a day, always within two.

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Te Whanganui-a-Tara · Aotearoa
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