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Custom software for Aotearoa charities

Software that doesn't
take from charity work.

We build custom websites and apps for Aotearoa's charities — the kind big SaaS vendors charge thousands for, and don't even build well. One flat fee. Hosting and ongoing support included.

Start a conversation See the work
volunteers.everybodyeats.nz
Live
$50
NZD / month, all-in
3
charities served
0
per-donor fees
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
JS
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 restaraunts

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. Replaced four separate tools.

37%
fewer no-shows
4 → 1
tools consolidated
iOS + Android
shipped alongside the web
Talk about a build like this
Everybody Eats homepage — 'Making a difference one plate at a time'
Everybody Eats volunteer app — open shifts and 'What's happening' feed
02 Food rescue for Auckland

Fair Food NZ

A logistics dashboard for 30+ donor partners, automated rescue scheduling, and a public impact ticker. Built to handle 60 tonnes of rescued kai a month.

60 t
kai routed monthly
12 hrs
ops time saved / week
30+
partner orgs onboarded
Talk about a build like this
Fair Food NZ homepage with programmes and impact statistics
03 Hot meals in Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Compassion Soup Kitchen

A volunteer signup system, mobile-first menu board, and a quiet donation page that respects the dignity of the people who walk through the door.

112
active volunteers
2 min
to sign up for a shift
92%
shifts filled in advance
Talk about a build like this
Compassion Soup Kitchen volunteer site, 'Every meal is an act of aroha'
In their words

Said about the work.

We were paying $480 a month across four tools that didn't talk to each other. Āwhina rebuilt the whole stack as one site for the cost of a tank of petrol.
Operations lead
Everybody Eats
It's the first time we've worked with a tech vendor who actually understood what a koha is, and didn't try to make us run it through a credit card processor that takes a cut.
Communications
Compassion Soup Kitchen
The fee

One flat price. Everything in.

NZD $50 / month
No setup fees · No transaction fees · Cancel any time

About the cost of a phone plan, for a custom site, hosting, and a real human on the end of an email.

Start a conversation See the work
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-donor fees
Your reward for serving more people is not a bigger invoice.
Owned outright
Your data, your domain, your code. Walk away any time — we'll help.
Aotearoa-built
Built in Tāmaki Makaurau & 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.

— Āwhina Tech
Te Whanganui-a-Tara · Aotearoa
[email protected] 021 209 5657

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Usually a day. Always within two.