2002
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- First code written for Edit by founder and Managing Director Kyle Cottington
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2003
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- First website goes live and our Website software is officially launched
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2004
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- Catalogue feature launched
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2006
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- Kyle leaves employment to work on Edit full time
- Our first free seminar is run on creating effective websites
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2008
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- We locate to the Blythe Valley Park in Solihull (where our offices are still based)
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2009
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- Included social media integration within all pages
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2010
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- We develop a locator using Google mapping technology
- A new rota feature added to Edit
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2011
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- A new drag and drop homepage builder is added to Edit
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2012
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- Edit sponsor the website for the National Day of Prayer and Worship at Wembley Stadium
- We move to a bigger office
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2013
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- We love Chocolate so are pleased to create the website for the Real Easter Egg
- Following an upgrade of our servers we double MP3 storage space for clients
- Move to bigger offices to cater for future expansion
- Our customer survey gives us a 100% customer satisfaction from respondents
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2014
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- Edit Websites acquires another company that has created Charity Admin Software.
- A new video library feature is added to Edit
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2015
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- A busy August as we take on 4 new staff as our team continues to grow
- Implement a new support system as we take on our first dedicated First Line Support
- We add a new Customised Template design option for websites
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2016
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- 2 new developers join the team during the year
- We add a new Premium Design option for websites
- Our offices are getting quite cosy - we are going to need to move again
- We finish the year with most of our team going for Christmas Afternoon Tea
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2017
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- We move to larger offices that are 60% larger than our previous pad - still the same building we've been in since 2012
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2018
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- With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation we added a tool for recording consent for users added to a Charity Edit website
- Along with our sister product, iKnow we held 14 GDPR seminars around the country providing clarity and information as charities prepared for the new Regulation
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2019
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- Following 9 months of development we launched our brand new Global Office - a great new interface for updating your website
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2020
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- As COVID-19 brought the UK into Lock Down, our websites became busier than ever
- We started planning the new Design Builder module - a planning phase that lasted 6 months
- We added an optional cookie notice tool in partnership with Civic UK
- https/SSL Certificates are now free for all of our clients
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2021
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- We started developing the Design Builder and over the course of 2021 had between 2 and 6 developers working on this major update full time.
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2022
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- We launched the Design Builder - the biggest development we have ever added to Edit and the result of 18 months planning and development
- We launched our new Referral Scheme giving charities a saving EVERY MONTH for each organisation they refer
- Our sister product iKnow Charity launched a new donations module, dramatically helping charities accept new ways of receiving donations
- Following the devasting affect of COVID the last two years, Charity Edit launches its Bounce Back Offer giving charities a monthly discount for 12 months
- We launch Business Edit for businesses to sit alongside our Charity and School website software
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