You own your domain. You own your email. Your current service provider doesn’t own anything that matters. We handle the migration, you approve the result, and your community never sees a broken link.
Here’s exactly what happens. No surprises.
We visit your office (or video call). 20 minutes to understand your community, ministries, schedule, brand. Within 48 hours we send back a custom homepage mock-up — not a template — so you can see what’s possible.
Pages, news posts, bulletins, calendar events, staff directory, photos — we extract it all. You don’t need to copy-paste a thing. We restructure it for the new site and you review.
The new site lives at a private URL (e.g. your-school.synthbridge.net). You click around, share with the principal, pastor, and advisory board. We iterate until you say go.
We set up the school’s Stripe account (you own it, not us). Email DKIM/SPF configured. Twilio for SMS if needed. Parents migrated from your existing email list. Test sends verified.
We swap a single DNS record. Your domain (yourschool.org) now points to SynthBridge instead of your old host. Email keeps working (it’s on Microsoft 365 or Google, untouched). The transition takes 15 minutes and your community sees no downtime.
One-hour training session with the office staff — how to post news, update calendar, send a blast, run a payment report. You have our direct line. We’re a text or call away, not a ticket queue.
We keep your old account live for 30 days as a safety net. Once you’re comfortable, we help you formally cancel. Most providers are month-to-month, no contract — you typically owe them nothing more.
No. Email runs on Microsoft 365 (or Google Workspace) on completely separate DNS records (MX). The website migration only touches the web record. We verify your email config before, during, and after — and we’ll send a test to your inbox once we’re done.
No — you already own it. We checked: most Catholic schools register their domain through Network Solutions or GoDaddy in the school’s name, not the vendor’s. Nothing changes about who owns the domain. We just update which web server it points to.
We set up automatic redirects so old URLs (e.g. yourschool.org/give or /payments) keep working forever. Bookmarks, prior bulletin links, Google search results — all redirect to the new pages cleanly. Nothing breaks.
Yes. If your school already has a Stripe, Square, or Authorize.net account, we connect to it directly. Your recurring tuition payments continue uninterrupted. If you’re currently on a bundled payment platform tied to your website provider, we’ll help set up Stripe and notify parents to update their recurring auto-draft — one email blast and we handle the questions.
Improved, not damaged. We set up proper 301 redirects from every old URL to the new equivalent — which preserves SEO authority. The new site loads faster, is more accessible, and uses better structured data — which actually helps ranking. Typical schools see a 20–40% improvement in Google PageSpeed scores after the move.
No. The office staff (typically the school secretary or business manager) needs only what they already know how to do today: type, drag a photo, click a date. We handle every technical thing — hosting, DNS, SSL, backups, security, updates — so you can focus on students and parishioners.
You can. Always. Your content lives in standard formats (HTML, Markdown, JSON) — not a proprietary CMS. We’ll export everything in 24 hours, no questions asked. We’re betting that our service speaks for itself; we’re not betting on lock-in.
For most parishes and schools, yes — vendor choice is at the parish or school level. The Archdiocese of Newark and the Diocese of Metuchen do not mandate any specific website vendor; they leave the choice to the parish or school. We’ll happily provide our security and compliance documentation if your diocese asks. (Hosted on Cloudflare with enterprise-grade DDoS protection, SOC 2 infrastructure, and SSL by default.)
If you’re a tiny mission parish or a very small school, talk to us. We make exceptions for small communities — a free site for the first year isn’t off the table if the fit is right. Our work is partly a ministry, partly a business; we don’t turn away communities that genuinely need help.
Yes — that’s exactly how Days 1–5 work. The new site lives on a private staging URL. You and the leadership team click around, share with the advisory board, the pastor, even the parents’ group. Only after everyone says yes do we flip the DNS. If you decide it’s not for you at the staging stage, there’s no fee — the only cost was our time and we’re happy to have met you.
The walk-through is free, the mock-up is free, and you’re under no obligation. We’d rather earn your community’s trust than rush a sale.