When the board asks why you still do not have a real website

Boards notice the gap at awkward times: a donor asks for the URL, a rival school’s open house looks polished, or a trustee’s grandchild could not find the enroll form.

You do not need a two-year digital transformation. You need a board-friendly choice between a rented working site and another DIY rebuild that will stall in October.

What the board is actually asking

- Can a parent finish enrollment without calling the office twice? - Does the public page match this year’s tuition and dates? - Who updates it after launch? - What does it cost, and what is the minimum commitment? - What do we keep if we cancel? - Does a vendor hold our tuition money?

Answer those in one page and the conversation gets shorter.

DIY rebuild vs done-for-you rental

**DIY / builder:** A trustee or teacher logs into Wix or Squarespace. Strong first month. Then school starts. Login is lost. Dates rot. **Agency rebuild:** Long timeline, large invoice, staff still trained on a CMS they will not open. **CCCM working-site rental:** We build and run a public Register site. You send approved copy and photos. Parents get a mobile enroll path. You are not buying a custom design to self-host.

- $149 first month, then $99/month - Three-month minimum - About one business day after paid checkout and complete details - One tweak round per month included - Families pay the school direct — CCCM never holds tuition or fees - On cancel after the minimum: export of text, photos, and contacts — **not** the design - Checkout: https://www.getcccm.com/checkout - Club programs: https://www.getcccm.com/sports

A one-paragraph board memo you can reuse

“We need a public Register URL before the next open house. A rented done-for-you site is $149 the first month and $99 after, three-month minimum. CCCM runs the site. Deposits go to our accounts. If we cancel, we export content and contacts; we do not own the layout. This is not a student information system. Staff-desk software, if we need it later, is a separate conversation.”

That is honest. It is also enough for most small boards.

What not to promise the board

- Rankings - Invented enrollment growth numbers - Fake case studies or live client URLs we do not have - That a website replaces hospitality - That Academy OS is included in the site rental (it is not)

Invented sample (not a client): “The board at Hillcrest Community School (invented) compared a $12,000 rebuild quote to a three-month rental and chose the rental to get Register live before January tours.” Sample look only.

Budget line

This is a marketing and admissions door, like signage. It is not a curriculum purchase. Put it on the public-facing budget, not on a software fantasy line.

Academy OS if they ask “what about attendance?”

Different product. Talk first at https://www.getcccm.com/academy-os. No online checkout. No public OS price on this page. Many schools need the site first.

Decision meeting, not a committee forever

Bring: current URL (or “we only have Facebook”), last year’s bounce stories you can tell without naming families, and the checkout link. Ask for a yes to a three-month minimum, not a website task force.

Plain next step

If a working public Register site is what you need, start at https://www.getcccm.com/checkout or email hello@getcccm.com with your school or club name, city, and what you run. If you need staff-desk ops instead, use https://www.getcccm.com/academy-os and expect a conversation — not a self-serve price button.