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Pricing

Simple pricing. No surprises.

One site, one price. No tiers, no subscriptions, no maths.

Per-site licence
$49

One-time payment. No renewal ever.

  • Full source code — no black boxes
  • Unlimited editors and admins
  • Unlimited pages and editable regions
  • Revision history with in-place preview and restore
  • Inline image replacement with file history
  • Background image replacement (data-cms-bg-image)
  • Global regions — change once, updates everywhere
  • Draft, unlisted & published page statuses
  • Page hierarchy with nested navigation
  • Per-page SEO title, description & auto sitemap.xml
  • One-click page cloning
  • Global partials — reusable HTML blocks
  • User management with role-based access
  • 2FA — TOTP and email OTP, recovery codes
  • File revision history for CSS, JS, and partials
  • Export/import snapshots and templates
  • Coming soon mode with editable holding page
  • Standalone updater — upload, run, done
  • All future updates for the licence version
Dev & staging? One licence covers one production site. Use it freely on as many local or staging environments as you like — we're not watching.

30-day money back guarantee. Not happy? Email us within 30 days for a full refund. No questions, no forms, no waiting — just reply to your receipt.

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FAQ

Good question.

One licence = one publicly accessible domain. If you're building a site for a client, you buy one licence for that site. You can run it on as many local dev and staging environments as you like — only the live production domain is "the site" for licensing purposes.
Yes. Each client site needs its own licence. There's no freelancer or agency tier — just one simple price per site. At $49, most developers factor it into their project quote without a second thought.
Standard shared PHP hosting. You need PHP 8.2 or higher, MySQL 5.7 or higher (8.0+ recommended), and the ability to set a document root (or use a subdirectory). If it can run WordPress, it can run RuntCMS. We've tested it on SiteGround, Cloudways, and various cPanel hosts.
Yes, full source. It's a PHP application with no obfuscation. Your licence key is validated once during installation — after that, the software runs entirely on your server with no ongoing checks or callbacks. You can read every line, modify it, and understand exactly what's running on your client's server. The only restriction is redistribution — you can't resell or redistribute RuntCMS itself.
All updates within the current major version. If we ever ship a v2.0 with a major rewrite, that would be a new purchase — but we'd make it a discounted upgrade for existing customers. Security patches are always free for all versions.
Email us within 30 days of purchase. We'll refund the full amount, no questions. We process refunds within 1–2 business days. That's it — no support ticket, no form, no explanation required.
That's the entire point. Log in, see the purple "Click to edit" highlight on editable areas, click, type, save. Most clients need zero explanation — the UI is that obvious. For image replacement, hovering shows a replace button. We've had clients edit their first region within 30 seconds of logging in.
Editors — the people updating content — never see an admin panel. They log in and land directly on the live site. Admins (you, the developer) do have a clean admin area for managing pages, users, navigation, SEO fields, settings, and the image library. Two audiences, two experiences: clients get simplicity, admins get control.
Yes. You can create as many pages as you need, organise them in a parent–child hierarchy, and drag to reorder. Use the template tag to output the navigation automatically — it includes active-page, parent, and has-children CSS classes so you can style it any way you like.
Not currently — it's $49 per site. If you're running 10+ sites and a volume discount would help, get in touch and we'll work something out. We'd rather have your business than lose it over pricing.
Security is built in, not bolted on. Every release is pen-tested before shipping. The highlights: Argon2id password hashing, CSRF protection on every form, Content Security Policy with per-request nonces, 100% parameterised SQL (zero string concatenation), DOM-based HTML sanitisation on all user content, HSTS, brute-force lockout, and two-factor authentication (TOTP for admins, email OTP for editors) with recovery codes. Sessions enforce both idle and absolute timeouts, and all security events — logins, password changes, 2FA changes — are logged with IP addresses and exportable as CSV.
Yes. The RuntCMS admin panel meets WCAG 2.2 Level AA. That covers keyboard navigation, screen reader support (ARIA roles, live regions, focus management), visible focus indicators, accessible form labels and error messages, and motion reduction for users who prefer it. If you build sites for clients who have accessibility obligations, RuntCMS won't be the weak link in the chain.