The work is local. Your website should be, too.
Maybe your site was built years ago and no one maintains it. Maybe your print readers have nowhere useful to go online. Maybe your vendor does not understand a deadline. Cacti.News gives a community newspaper the digital tools and day-to-day operational support to keep serving readers.
A complete publishing operation, online
From a deadline to a durable archive.
Give your newsroom one place to publish the daily work and put each print issue online. Search helps readers find stories in born-digital issues long after publication.
- Article CMS with drafts, scheduling, sections, featured placement, and photo galleries with captions and credits.
- Issue dates, issue pages, PDF uploads, cover images, reader-ready e-editions, and archive issues.
- Dedicated large-file uploads and automated processing help make even big print editions reader-ready online.
- An editorial dashboard keeps stories, issues, and incoming community submissions organized.
Serve readers. Protect your revenue.
Build a reader experience around the subscriptions you sell and the local advertisers you serve — without handing control of your inventory to a generic platform.
- Reader accounts with email/password, Google sign-in, passwordless login links, and passkeys.
- Print and digital subscription offerings, regions, cart and orders, renewal notices, and reader access controls.
- Supported Stripe or PayPal checkout workflows for configured subscription products.
- Direct-sold campaigns, creative review, scheduling, sold-inventory priority, and impression/click reporting.
- Reviewed sandboxed HTML creative, structured AdSense controls with per-publication ads.txt, Google Analytics 4, and first-party article-read reporting.
Make the website part of community life.
Useful local tools give readers more reasons to return and give your staff organized ways to receive the information that belongs in a community paper.
- Configurable forms for news tips, obituaries, letters, announcements, and print-event requests, with private attachments and staff review.
- Browser push and email notifications for new issues.
- Weather pages, forecasts, National Weather Service alerts, local weather stories, and optional weather-video publishing workflows.
- Supported classifieds, legal notices, social links, contact information, and publication-day configuration where enabled.
The technical work has an owner.
Cacti.News operates the platform so your staff can focus on editorial and business work. Your website is securely hosted and maintained, while managers have the day-to-day controls they need.
- Secure, managed hosting and support for your custom domain.
- Staff access tailored to each person’s responsibilities.
- Manager controls for profile, sections, subscription offerings, staff invitations, selected analytics/advertising controls, and approved settings.
- Protected publication information and clear storage reporting.
Compare the capabilities that matter.
A community newspaper website platform for publishing, e-editions, subscriptions, advertising, and managed operation.
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A platform that keeps growing
We’re continually adding useful features for community newspapers. New platform features are included with your subscription as they become available.
A guided move, not a leap into the unknown.
- We talk. We learn what you publish, how often, what you use now, and what you need.
- You send us your material. Masthead, sections, staff list, subscriber and advertiser data, and back issues.
- We build it. We provision your site, branding, settings, payment and ad configuration on a staging domain you can review.
- We move your domain. We help move your existing domain and email so readers can keep finding you.
- We stay. We complete launch review and keep operating and supporting the platform afterward.
If you want to bring over a historical archive, we’ll discuss the right approach together before work begins.
Every publication has its own needs.
Tell us about your publication, and we’ll discuss pricing and the support you need.
Talk to us (512) 553-3597Built around the work of a real newspaper.
Cacti.News is built around the day-to-day work of a community paper, so the platform stays focused on what publishers and their readers need.
What publishers ask before they switch.
Ready to give your paper a stronger online home?
Talk with us about your publication, try the free ad-production calculator, or call us directly.
Talk to usTry NewsCalc(512) 553-3597