The Aplos Website Builder feature will be retired on August 31, 2025. After this date, customers with a website built in Aplos will no longer be able to access or edit that website. Your website will remain live until December 10, 2025, but you will not have access to manage or edit it.

Before the deadline, you must save all the text and images from your current website that you wish to keep and move your current website in Aplos to a new website building platform.

We recommend transitioning your website to Raisely a modern and secure fundraising platform designed for nonprofits to build and manage fundraising campaigns and websites.

Why Is This Change Happening?

We are making this change for two key reasons, both centered on providing you with the best and most secure service possible.

1. Focus on Our Core Mission: As a nonprofit accounting solution, we are dedicating our development resources to improving our core accounting and financial reporting tools to best serve the accounting needs of nonprofit organizations.

2. Modern Security & Technology: Removing the existing Website Builder feature ensures that every tool connected to your Aplos account meets modern security standards, protecting you and your donors.

    

Your Path Forward

There are a number of website platforms that make it easy for nonprofit organizations to build modern and customizable websites. We recommend Raisely as it is a powerful and easy-to-use alternative for your fundraising website needs. Raisely is designed for high-performance online fundraising, event ticketing, appeals, and more. Transitioning to Raisely will provide a more seamless donor experience and more powerful tools to strengthen your fundraising campaign performance, especially ahead of the end-of-year giving season.

As an Aplos customer, you do not need to be a fundraiser to use Raisely to create a beautiful website. However, Raisely works best for online fundraising.

Required Actions: Your Step-by-Step Migration Guide

You must complete the following steps before August 31, 2025.
 

Step 1: Audit Your Current Website

Before you begin, visit your current Aplos-built website and decide what content (text, images, page layouts) you want to keep. Note: For many users with inactive or demo websites, you may not need to save anything.

Step 2: Save Your Website Content

This is a manual process. Content from your existing Aplos website cannot be automatically exported.

• To Save Text: Navigate to each page of your website. Highlight the text with your mouse, right-click, and select "Copy." Paste the text into a document on your computer (e.g., Microsoft Word, Google Docs).
• To Save Images: Right-click on each image on your website and choose "Save Image As..." to save it to your computer.
• To Move Your Donation Form: If you are using the Online Donation Form in Aplos on your current website, you can use that same Online Donation Form URL in your new website. You can find instructions here.

Step 3: Build Your New Website

We recommend creating a free account with Raisely to begin rebuilding your site. You will use the text and images you saved in Step 2 to populate your new website pages.

Our Raisely Customer Education Manager has created a guide specifically for Aplos customers to move their website to Raisely. View the website builder guide here.

You can also view this article we created to help you understand the correlation to your experience in Aplos to what you will be experiencing in Raisely. 

Step 4: Update Your Custom Domain or Subdomain

If you own a custom domain name (e.g., www.yournonprofit.org), you will need to update your domain settings through your provider to point to your new website once it is ready. If you have an Aplos subdomain, it will no longer be accessible after December 10, 2025. You can either purchase a custom domain from the provider of your choice or if you are moving to Raisely, you can connect to a Raisely subdomain.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• Q: What happens to my website text and images if I do nothing?
  • A: If you do nothing, your website will be permanently deleted by December 10, 2025. This action cannot be undone.
• Q: What happens to my online donations during this change?
  • A: The Aplos donation forms on your existing website will continue to process donations. Even after the Website Builder is removed, your Aplos donation form will continue to operate as usual. However, you must move your online donation form to a new website in order for donors to access it.
• Q: You said Raisely is "free to get started." What does that mean?
  • A: Raisely offers a free plan that includes all you need for a standard nonprofit website and to run fundraising campaigns. For full details, please see Raisely's pricing page.
• Q: How do I move my custom domain to Raisely?
  • A: Pointing a custom domain to a new host is a standard process handled through your domain registrar. Raisely provides instructions in their help center on how to connect your domain to their platform.
• Q: I don’t want to use Raisely. Can you recommend anyone else?
  • A: I completely understand wanting to explore all your options. While you are definitely free to choose any website builder that fits your needs, the only platform we can officially recommend is Raisely. The reason for this is that we've vetted their platform and know it meets the security and functional needs of our customers. We want to be sure we are only pointing you towards solutions we can stand behind. For that reason, we aren't able to provide recommendations for other specific providers.
• Q: Can I copy the HTML from Aplos to my new website?
  • A: The Aplos website builder feature does not use HTML. Any content, images, or branding that you added to your website would have been built using our provided templates. If you added HTML to your website on your own, without the help of the Aplos Web Builder, you may copy it and use it on your new website.
• Q: What is the difference between the Aplos Web Builder and the Aplos Website? Are both of these going away?
  • A: The Web Builder is a feature in the Aplos platform that allows customers to create a customizable website. This feature is completely separate from the Aplos website which is where you access the support center, Aplos log in page, and other Aplos resources. The Aplos website is not going away.