Savvy CMS - developed by beweb

Savvy CMS is a simple, easy to use content management system that we tailor to meet the individual requirements of each website we work on. Our clients need a robust, fully customisable, rapidly deployable solution that works with their designs.

Many clients ask us to rebuild their sites with Savvy CMS after finding other content management systems too hard to use, too restrictive and too expensive to maintain. We've helped clients switch from Umbraco, Dot Net Nuke, ICE CMS, and several other systems.

Why do I need a content management system?

By including a content management system (CMS) in your site, key staff (who may be completely non-technical) can easily keep your site up-to-date. Savvy allows users to take control of their content, providing the appropriate level of flexibility and ensures content follows the styles set up by the web designer.

Savvy CMS features

Over the past 13 years we have developed and continually innovated on a series of different features that can be implemented for any site. We also have the flexibility to develop totally new and custom elements, as our CMS is developed in-house and is completely extensible. Here is a small selection of features that we have included in our clients' Content Management Systems. 

  • Reporting
  • Versioning
  • URL redirects
  • Custom styling
  • Customer relationship management
  • Resource management
  • Product management
  • Google maps integration
  • Enquiries
  • Blog/forum management
  • Custom surveys
  • Order management
  • Event booking and loading
  • Custom search functions
  • Data importing
  • Multi lingual pages/sections
  • Support for mobile versions

Cost effective 

Savvy is a cost effective system because you pay for only what you need, rather than paying for features that you do not want. Similar projects can take several times longer to implement using other content management systems, increasing cost, complexity and time to market. 

Savvy CMS follows the open source model with the product being free and the customisation time being all you pay for.

Based around your content 

We implement Savvy CMS for each client so that the system works for your design, your content and your processes. Instead of trying to fit your content into our system, we work the other way around, analysing your content and developing the system around that. Other content management systems require you to re-orient your thinking to fit their model.

Style-driven text editing

Savvy allows users to edit and format the text, including headings, bold and italic, and upload images and multiple documents (PDF, Powerpoint, Word and Excel) per page, where appropriate. It is designed to be simple to use, requiring very little or no training. Text can be pasted in from Microsoft Word (or any other program) and the basic formatting is retained, but the fonts and colours are automatically changed to fit the website style.


Savvy CMS is developed on the Microsoft .NET platform, which is fast becoming the prefered choice for enterprise level web applications. We use the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 framework, which is based on the very popular MVC architecture for developing modern web applications. We typically use Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Open source framework

Savvy CMS is released as Open Source under an MIT license. We receive community contributions and provide support to encourage developers to use our framework for their own projects. Please contact us for access details.

Full source code provided

We provide full source code of the entire project (at no extra charge) to give our clients peace of mind regarding their investment. The code is developed using standard Microsoft ASP.NET MVC code and our license terms allow you to take over development in future should you so wish. In addition the CMS is licensed free of charge, with you paying for customisation time only. This provides the advantages of an open source CMS, and with the bonus that we have written all the code ourselves so can make any modifications necessary and can provide full support.

New Zealand developed CMS

With the plethora of CMS products available, both open source and commercial, it is difficult to tell one apart from another. One feature clients often request is local support and preferably a CMS which is developed in New Zealand.

When you deal with beweb you are dealing with the actual developers of the CMS, and there is nothing we can't make it do.

Featured Web Development Work

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Client: Port Group
Role: Developer
Creative ideas company, Port Group, partnered with us to develop a full recruitment portal for bus companies Go Bus and Johnstons.

The portal is used to manage the entire recruitment process - from advertising jobs, through to receiving applications, shortlisting candidates, communicating with candidates, creating job offers, writing contracts, sending contracts, completing police checks and finalising employment details.

Once a person is employed, the portal is also used to obtain information for the HR section including IRD numbers and bank account details.

The portal requires different 'permissions' for different users, so security is an important aspect of the website build. For example, a manager would be able to manage vacancies in their department only and undertake tasks such as creating and managing job opportunities and managing applications. HR staff have a separate role enabling them to see all positions and applicants. HR staff also have the ability to filter by manager.

Port Group designed the portal, and beweb built and undertook testing of the site.

When you're busy setting up a new business, you need a web development company that quickly understands the brief and then implement this with the minimal amount of hassle. beweb fitted this bill perfectly, plus added value with suggestion and recommendations on how to create the functionality we required.

Evan Barnes, Funding Partners