beabee is the privacy-first platform to build, manage and grow those relationships — built by independent newsrooms.
Built by and for independent community and media organisations
How it works
beabee is your independent tool box to turn
audiences into collaborators, contributors, volunteers, experts and more
Organise
Keep track of who is in your community
All your community activity data in one central database (CRM)
Synchronises with other tools you use to interact with your community
Tagging and segmentation to activate sub-communities
Drive revenue
Manage your community revenue
Collect and manage membership, donations and subscriptions
Give members their own user area to manage their data
Allow people to sign up directly with you, not a third party
Collaborate
Crowdsource information an AI can’t find
Gather your community’s hints, questions, stories or feedback
Do Crowd investigations using surveys and our mapping tool
Use best-practice templates shared by other newsrooms
Analyse
Analyse your community activity
Stay on top of your community engagement and revenue
Keep track of the size and who is in your community
Get to know your community for deeper relationships
Own your community relationships
beabee users build their strategies and business models at their own terms.
Focus on trust
We build the tools that help you build relationships and trust with your community members. Your users will only interact with you, not with third parties. The data is yours.
Put privacy first
We put the power over your data back into your hands. We allow you to be independent from tools that sell out your data. You can move your data to other platforms whenever you want. Your data is hosted on servers in Germany.
Innovate together
By sharing one open-source platform, we save costs and pool knowledge between public-interest organisations. We share engagement best practices and develop new solutions together.
Spread community journalism
With our journalism and technology we want to strengthen our democracies from the bottom up. We empower local media entrepreneurs to do more and better community-engagement, and sustain themselves through community revenue.
beabee is open source
and also works out‑of‑the‑box
Either way, it’s yours: your tools, your data, your brand, your community.
Founded by leading community newsrooms
and trusted by 16 community partners
Frequently asked questions
Which synchronisations does beabee offer
beabee connects to payment providers, giving you and your readers a straightforward interface to manage subscriptions and billing.
beabee currently supports Stripe and GoCardless as payment backends.
Which synchronisations does beabee offer
Beabee can be set up to run on your own subdomain and styled according to your newsroom’s look and feel.
We can help migrate your existing subscriber data so that you can quickly take advantage of Beabee’s audience segmentation features.
What does beabee cost?
Yes, yes, Let’s write something about contributions and documentation and link you to the repository and maybe the slack channel?
Yes, yes, Let’s write something about contributions and documentation and link you to the repository and maybe the slack channel?
What does the pricing model look like?
You give us money, we give you joy. More money, more joy. Let’s do bizniz.
Which synchronisations does beabee offer
You definitely can: if your newsroom has the expertise to set up self-hosted applications, beabee is open-source and the installation process is well documented.
We can also run it for you and take care of everything so that you can quickly get up and running.
I have other questions!
Please get in touch, we would love to clear up any detail and help you get started with beabee. Or explore our full FAQ page.
“Building a community like our ‘Freundeskreis’ is a lot of work. With beabee we get a tool that solves our admin pain points and gain time for more journalistic community collaboration.”
Georg Watzlawek
Bürgerportal Bergisch-Gladbach
“We chose beabee because it was built by people experienced in community-powered journalism. It has made our lives easier and directly boosted our community revenue.”
Fred Rocha
Fumaça
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Or just get in touch and we’ll answer all your questions