apcdt.ro: From Wix Brochure to NGO Platform

APCDT supports families of children with disabilities in Toplița, Romania, and funds its work through charity concerts, donations and volunteers. Its old Wix site was a brochure: a few static pages and an IBAN for donations. Everything else happened by hand: seats tracked on paper, volunteer contracts printed and scanned, reminders typed one WhatsApp at a time.

I rebuilt it from scratch as a custom web platform that now does that work for the team. I owned the whole project end to end: product scope, UX and visual design, front-end, database, integrations, deployment and security.

Live: www.apcdt.ro

Role: Product, UX/UI, full-stack development, DevOps

Timeline: January – August 2026 (built in phases, live since early 2026)

Stack: React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind, Supabase, Vercel, Cloudflare, Stripe, Twilio

No way to give by card, and no record of who gave

Every concert meant a paper seating plan, phone reservations and hand-written lists at the door

Volunteer onboarding was a stack of printed contracts, including extra paperwork for minors

Confirmations and reminders were sent manually, one message at a time

Romanian only, with no accounts and no data to learn from

The goal: one platform that a small volunteer team can run on its own, that is cheap to host, and that is safe enough to handle payments and personal data.

I used Lovable to get a clickable prototype in front of the board within days: the information architecture, the look and feel, sign-in, the admin shell and RO/EN/HU switching. People react far better to something real than to a mock-up, and it locked the scope early.

I then took the code in-house and continued in Antigravity. I migrated the content and past events from the old Wix site, then built the parts that make the site useful: an events CMS, a seat map of the venue, ticket generation, Stripe donations, WhatsApp messaging, volunteer contracts and email marketing.

Free tickets for the 2026 Easter concert were handed out online from apcdt.ro. Running real events surfaced real bugs (timezones, seat numbering, how WhatsApp replies were read), and each was fixed before the next event.

Because the site takes payments and stores personal data, I ran a full audit: tightened the database access rules, enforced a strict Content-Security-Policy, upgraded the build toolchain, fixed 10 QA issues and added off-site log backups.

One-off and monthly card donations through Stripe, confirmed by webhook

Preset amounts tied to concrete impact, automatic thank-you email, donation history in the donor's profile

Online Form 230 for redirecting 3.5% of income tax to the association

Events CMS with posters, descriptions, video links and photo galleries

Interactive seat map built from a reusable venue template, with temporary holds that release automatically

PDF tickets with QR codes, delivered by email and WhatsApp

A door scanner page that validates tickets at check-in

CSV import for offline reservations, plus RSVP tracking

Online sign-up that generates the volunteer contract automatically

ID document upload and a parental-consent flow for minors

Signed contracts stored in private storage and emailed back automatically

Email campaigns and event automations (confirmations, reminders)

WhatsApp campaigns, automatic RSVP reading, and a two-way WhatsApp inbox inside the admin

Blog with a rich-text editor for the marketing team

Sign-in with email, Google or Facebook, with password recovery

Roles for admins, marketers and members

One dashboard for events, seats, registrations, donations, volunteers, content and messages

In-house page-view analytics alongside Vercel Analytics and GA4

Editorial look in APCDT's violet identity (Playfair Display + Inter), fully responsive

Romanian, English and Hungarian

Labelled forms, named links for screen readers, an accessibility toolbar, and a unique title and description on every public page for SEO

A serverless setup that costs almost nothing to run and has no servers to maintain.

Vercel serves the React + Vite single-page app from its edge CDN, with strict security headers

Cloudflare handles DNS and stores media in R2

Supabase provides the Postgres database, authentication, private file storage, scheduled jobs, and Edge Functions for tickets, PDFs, payments, contracts, email and WhatsApp

Stripe for card payments, Twilio for WhatsApp, SMTP for email

GitHub Actions backs up logs every 6 hours

Database rules open to anonymous visitors cut from 33 to 4, and those 4 only read public data

High-severity dependency advisories cut from 12 to 0 (Vite 5 → 8 upgrade)

QA score raised from 77 to 99 after fixing 10 issues in accessibility, SEO and UX

Content-Security-Policy switched from report-only to enforced, after testing it live page by page

28 automated checks confirm that admins and members still see exactly what they should

Logs exported every 6 hours with 180-day retention, so incidents can be investigated

510 event registrations managed in the platform

447 seats mapped for reserved seating

7,900+ page views tracked in-house

14 volunteer contracts processed online instead of on paper

230+ WhatsApp campaign messages sent from the admin

3 languages, 26 pages and views, 592 commits over 36 build days

Most importantly, a small volunteer team now runs donations, events and volunteers from one place, without spreadsheets or paper.

I build websites that do real work for nonprofits, event organisers and small businesses: online donations or payments, bookings and ticketing, member and volunteer flows, automated email and WhatsApp, and an admin your team can actually use. I prototype fast so you see your product early, then I engineer it properly and secure it before it handles real money or real data.

Send me a message here on Contra with what you need, and I'll reply with a scope and a quote.