Digital PTO sites are designed to expand with your PTO as it grows. All of our websites offer the same base functionality and our premium packages offer additional features above and beyond the Free Plan.
The beauty in Digital PTO sites is the simplicity and ease of use you will find as a user. It’s so simple to create your PTA or PTO website you won’t believe your eyes.
Our technology allows you to build a PTO website quickly, economically and professionally. We will help you organize your PTA or PTO online, get you started with everything you need to become a strong resource for parents online and provide you with a custom PTA website.
Digital PTO Overview Features
Post as much News as you Want! No Limits Here!
Unlimited News Posts
Your PTA website is built to manage and handle all the news and information you can throw at it. Post every month, post every week, post every hour, it’s up to you. One thing is for certain though, we won’t stop you!
Organized PTO with Lots of Information? We’re Ready!
Unlimited Informational Pages
Busy PTO’s have a lot of information to share and distribute. From Membership Drives, to After School Enrichment, to Fundraising Programs to Business Sponsorships. The list could go on and on. Digital PTO sites are built to accommodate as much information as you want to include. Need a page on Box Tops for Education? No Problem. Need to make a page about the Science Fair? It’ll take you 30 seconds. Posting Informational pages is easy and unlimited.
Add Images to Personalize your News
Add Images to News & Info Pages
We have seen in our testing that PTO websites with Images associated with the news are almost 5 times as likely to be active and succeed. Images add a connection for readers. Upload clip art, stock photos or your own photos to enhance your PTA’s website. Need to resize an image? Your website will take care of that with a few clicks.
Digital PTO is as simple as sending an email
Post News to your Site in Minutes
It’s true. If you can send an email, or create a simple Word Document, you can run a Digital PTOsite. They are that simple to use. First, decide if you need to add News or Information. News is something with a time-frame attached to it like “Science Fair next month!” and Information is something that you always want available on the site like “Contact the PTO”. Once your selection is made, type or paste in the text you want to use, click to add an image, preview your post & when you are happy with it, publish your news to the community. It’s really that simple.
Technical & Hosting Features
No Hosting Fee’s to Pay. It’s On Us. Forever.
Free Hosting Included with All Plans
We know that most PTO’s are on tight budgets, so we cover all of the hosting fee’s and only ask that you pay for the premium services if you decide to take advantage of them. You’ll never have to worry about hosting fee’s, domain registration, renewals and more. We can take care of all of that for you. Always.
PTA sites hosted on Super Fast & Reliable Servers
Super Fast & Robust Servers
Digital PTO websites are hosted on state of the art servers and are monitored and maintained 24 hours a day. Our delivery speed is fantastic and our uptime stats are off the charts. You can count on Digital PTO’s servers to load your website quickly and reliably.
Up to 5 Gigabytes of Space waiting for you
Loads of Storage Space Available
Every Digital PTO website comes with space to upload image and digital documents. Click a button, find the file on your computer and it’s uploaded. It is incredibly simple and beyond powerful. Our Premium Plans receive up to 5 GIG’S of space so your chances of running out are slim to none! Upload your Talent Show Entry Forms, your PTO Fun Race entry forms, your PTA Meeting Minutes and more.
You get what you pay for. An Advertising Free Zone.
Our Premium Plans have no 3rd Party Advertising
When you upgrade to one of our Premium Plans you will immediately notice that your site is an Advertising Free Zone. No 3rd party Advertisements will be shown on your site when you are a Premium Member. Our Free Plans will display one advertisement per page from a carefully screened and relevant advertising partner at the bottom of the page.
Ease of Use Features
You’re Up and Running in 60 Seconds Flat
The Digital PTO ’60 Second Installation’
Give us about 60 seconds of your time and you will have a new PTO website ready to start working on. It’s never been easier to get your PTA or PTO online for free. Once you determine your website name and sign up we will jump you right into your Design Wizard to select your theme and port your first news item.
Privacy & User Features
Require Usernames or Make it Public. It’s up to you.
Complete Privacy Controls
Some PTO’s make their websites open to the public to keep their communities informed and other PTO’s opt to require usernames and passwords to access the site. We offer you the privacy choice and allow you to grant public access or require registration.
Big School? No Problem! We Offer Unlimited Users
Add as Many Users as you Need
If you decide to make your PTO’s website private and require user access we provide you with the ability to create unlimited usernames and passwords.
Customization Features
Personalize your Website with one of dozens of Themes
Ready to use Themes for Customization
Just because your website is easy doesn’t mean it has to look like all the other ones out there. We offer around 50 different themes to use on your PTA’s website depending on your Plan level. All of our themes are designed to be able to work with every website you can create with little to no additional work on your part. Some of our more premium themes offer simple customization options like a school logo upload, selection of school colors and a other modifications like that.
Web Designer? Yep, you can Edit in HTML if you want to!
Edit with HTML if you prefer
Yes, we have made posting to your website incredibly easy, but we also have the option for more advanced users to switch to an HTML mode and code news posts and pages to their exact needs. You don’t have to edit in HTML at all, but it you want to, it’s there for you.
Add Latest News, Popular Links & More with a Click
Drag and Drop Widgets to Simply Add Content
Widgets are essentially little modules that you can drag and drop and arrange on your website. You can add things like your latest news posts, or the latest comments you’ve received. Post things like other PTO links and Resources, Create a call for volunteers and more. There are dozens of options based on the theme you are currently using and using them is as easy as dragging your mouse.
Need a ‘Contact Us’ form? It’s built in waiting for you
Easy to Use ‘Contact Us’ Forms Included
We’ve always said that “An Accessible PTA is a Successful PTA” and we believe that completely. Our Premium Plans all include a built in “Contact Us” form to make contacting the PTA as simple as can be. All you have to do as the administrator? Tell us where you want the emails sent. It’s that simple.
Menu’s & Navigation Automatically Created for You
Automatic Menu’s or Create Your Own
Your PTA Website will have a menu structure built into the theme. Almost every theme will automatically create these menu’s for you and some of the themes will allow you to override the menu’s and create your own. This is especially useful for PTA’s that have a lot of online data and need to keep things organized in order to effectively find things quickly. By customizing the menu’s items can be grouped and merged, etc. It all depends on your individual PTA’s needs.
Premium Themes offer Simple Customization
Pick a Theme and Customize it to your Needs
When you sign up for one of our Premium Plans you will have access to more customizable themes that allow you to make simple modifications like colors, logos and images, twitter integration and more. All of the customizations are optional but if you take the time to work with them you can craft a truly unique website.
Premium Features
PTA/PTO Events & Meetings Calendar Integration
Your PTA / PTO Schedule of Events Online
Our Premium Plans come with the ability to add a PTA/PTO Events Calendar to your website. You can add a new event with just a few clicks and be as detailed or as simple as you want to be. Events calendars can be displayed on the side bar of every page, as a large calendar or both! Parents and visitors can scroll through your PTO online events calendar month by month and quickly view all the upcoming events and meetings.
[View our Events Calendar]
Online PTO/PTA Family Registration Forms
Collect Family Information Online
Custom Built Family PTA/PTO Registration forms and additional custom forms are available to all Premium Plan Members. Dynamic Family PTO registration forms will collect Family Information, Student and Teacher Information and more. Completed forms are either emailed to you (Premium Plan) or the data can be downloaded in bulk and used on spreadsheets, mailing lists, etc. (Premium Plus Plans)
[Test out a Sample PTO Online Registration Form]
Online PTO/PTA Volunteer Interest Forms
Register Volunteers Quickly Online
Online Volunteer Interest forms are a great way to gather new volunteers. Especially as younger families start to enter the school system, they will be expecting technology and options online. Completed forms are either emailed to you (Premium Plan) or the data can be downloaded in bulk and used on spreadsheets, mailing lists, etc. (Premium Plus Plans)
[Test out a Sample PTO Volunteer Interest Form]
Additional Pre-Built Forms for Science Fairs, Talent Shows & more.
NEED A CUSTOM FORM? WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED.
Digital PTO offers a Pre-Built Form Library to our Premium Plus Members ranging from Science Fair Registrations, Talent Show Registrations, Newsletter Submission forms and more. In our two years of testing, we made a lot of forms to make life easier. Now all of these forms are available at no additional fee to our Premium Plus Members.
Visitors can read or download your PTA Newsletter online
UPLOAD YOUR NEWSLETTER WITH SIMPLICITY
Our Premium Plans offer embedded pdf documents to ensure compatibility and ease. In other words, you can upload your PTA’s newsletter as a PDF and with one simple command your PDF newsletter is right there on your website ready for your community to read or download and print.
[View a Sample Embedded Newsletter]
Dozens of Premium Themes Available
More Professional with a Premium Theme
While our Free PTA Website Themes are nice… let’s face it, you get what you pay for and our Premium Plan Themes are fantastic! We offer dozens of higher end themes, some from the top designers in the industry, with more advanced functionality, beautiful designs and perfect integration with your PTO.
Premium Plug-In’s Enhance PTA Websites Further
Better Websites with More Features
Digital PTO offers a variety of plug-ins to our Premium Members. Plug-In’s are small programs designed to add new functionality that you can add to your site with the click of a button. Example Plug-In’s would be Contact Forms, Events Calendars, Google Analytics, Twitter Integration, Facebook Integration, Various Theme options and more.
Access the Plug-In’s and Customize
Simple To Use with Advanced Functionality
Premium Members have the ability to customize functionality much further beyond our free users. Many of our Plug-In’s have advanced options and functionality that can only be accessed with a Premium Plan.
Google Analytics Integration
Track your visitors and view reports
If you don’t know what we’re talking about, you can skip this section, but if you are into the analytical side of things and want to integrate Google Analytics with your PTO website, it’s as simple as pasting your ID and you’re done. We take care of the rest.
Use Your Own Domain Name
Want to use www.YourSchoolsPTAname.com?
Premium Plan Members enjoy the ability to replace the standard schoolptaname.digitalpto.com format with their own custom domain name. Once you have registered your domain name you will need to have the ability to either add a CNAME to your hosting or add a DNS “A” record to use a brand new domain name.
Mobile Features
iPhone Specific Theme Integration with Auto-Detection
Keeping in Touch with Mobile Communities
Premium Plan Members will enjoy an additional theme that is built right into their site that is designed specifically for viewing of your PTA website on an iphone. We take all the content that your users need and wrap it up into a beautifully packaged iphone web application. You have customization and options galore to make it just right.
To see this iPhone integration in action, head to digitalpto.com on an iPhone.
iPad Specific Theme Integration with Auto-Detection
Taking Technology beyond today
In addition to a beautiful iPhone web application, Premium Plan Digital PTO websites also offer beautiful iPad interfaces. We know that iPads are not in every household yet (far from it!) but we also see the iPad and tablet computing as the future. Digital PTO is committed to providing the latest in technology relevant to today’s PTO’s.
To see the iPad web application in action, visit digitalpto.com
Add On Features
Download Form Data & Create New Forms Quickly
Complete Management of your Database in a simple online interface.
Our Premium Members have the ability to download all of the data that has been submitted through their forms online in a quick simple interface. Additionally, Premium members can create new forms, modify forms they already have and use forms we have already built for PTAs and PTOs around the country to meet very specific needs.
Online Payment Processing Integration
No more paperwork. Pay Fee’s Online.
Most busy PTAs & PTOs have a lot of checks and cash floating around between events and fundraiser’s. Imagine being able to allow parents to make payments to the PTA/PTO online. With Digital PTO, it’s possible! Collect payments for PTA membership, Annual Giving Programs, Carnival Tickets, Phone Books, Logo Clothing and much more. Perfectly Integrated with your Digital PTO website, Online Payment Processing is a dream come true. Option Available to all Premium Plus Members.
