About CivVora

Built by people who chair things on the side.

CivVora started as a side project to help one garden club stop sending dues reminders by paper mail. It grew because every other small organization we showed it to said, "wait, we need this too."

The origin

A treasurer, a spreadsheet, and one weekend too many.

The Mayberry Garden Club has met every second Tuesday since 1947. Its treasurer — a retired engineer named Walt — kept the books in a spreadsheet that had outlived three computers. Renewals went out as a printed form, mailed twice a year. Event sign-ups came in on index cards.

His daughter, a software engineer, watched him spend half a Saturday reconciling that spreadsheet against the bank statement. She built a tiny Rails app that weekend so he wouldn't have to anymore.

The next weekend, the photography league asked if they could use it. Then the running club. CivVora is what that side project grew into.

Principles

Five rules we keep posted on the wall.

Volunteer time is sacred.

Every UI decision is measured against: does this give a board member their Saturday back? If no, we don't ship it.

Your data, your keys.

Export anything, anytime, in formats anyone can read. We help you migrate off CivVora the same way we help you migrate on.

Pricing that scales with the org, not the seat.

You shouldn't pay more because your treasurer added a bookkeeper. The platform fee meets you where you are.

Configurable beats clever.

A garden club and a yacht club do the same thing in different words. Custom fields and configurable workflows beat us guessing for you.

Boring tech for important work.

Postgres, daily backups, real export. The fun parts go into the product, not the infrastructure.

Want to chat?

We'd love to hear what you're chairing. Send us a note — a real human reads them, usually within a day.

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