beabee is your independent toolbox to build those relationships: manage contacts, collect community revenue, and collaborate with the people you serve.
Built by and for independent community and media organisations
How it works
Manage your community relationships in one central place. No matter where engagement happens, no matter where you publish your content.
Gather and get to know people over time
Never lose a contact you’ve worked hard for
One central database (CRM) for all your community activity data
Synchronises with the tools you use to collect contacts
Tagging and segmentation to activate sub-communities
Allow people to support you
Manage 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 with people
Crowdsource information only your community can provide
Gather your community’s hints, questions, stories or feedback
Do Crowd investigations using surveys and our mapping tool
Use best-practice templates shared by the network
Analyse community activities
Spot opportunities to deepen engagement and grow revenue
Track engagement in one dashboard
Understand if your engagement funnel is working
Keep track of the size and who is in your community
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 pioneering community-centered organisations
Frequently asked questions
How do I get started with beabee?
Getting started is easy: choose our hosted version and we’ll set everything up for you within about two weeks, or install the open-source version yourself via GitHub.
Book a free demo or contact us at support@beabee.io.
Does beabee work with my CMS?
beabee doesn’t directly integrate with your CMS but works alongside your existing tools. It provides a separate subdomain for user logins, contributions, and surveys, and syncs with tools like newsletters, messaging, and event sign-ups.
What does beabee cost?
beabee offers three pricing tiers starting at €29/month, depending on your number of contacts, plus a 2% fee on processed revenue. The open-source version is completely free.
Which synchronisations do you support?
beabee currently integrates with Stripe and GoCardless for payments, Mailchimp for emails, and includes Crowdnewsroom as a built-in survey tool. More integrations are in development–get in touch to discuss your needs.
Who is using beabee?
beabee is used by community-focused organisations of all sizes, especially in media–from local newsrooms to larger investigative outlets like CORRECTIV and Fumaça, as well as community builders like Goldspirit.
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.
“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.”
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Fred Rocha
Fumaça
“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.”
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Georg Watzlawek
Bürgerportal Bergisch-Gladbach
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