Pricing · For municipalities

Activating your municipality is free.

With Rural DIGITAL we bring your municipality and its spaces online, remotely and at no cost: a municipality page, a page for each space with photos and map, visit and booking requests. You pay only if the municipality wants to collect payments online with PagoPA.

Pricing for municipalities

Activate your municipality.
For free. PagoPA if you need it.

Rural DIGITAL is free: we bring your municipality and its spaces online at no cost. You pay only if the municipality wants to collect booking payments with PagoPA, with one of these two options. No commission: the money goes straight into the municipality's treasury.

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Rural DIGITAL

0€ · forever

We bring your municipality and its spaces online, remotely: a municipality page, a page for each space, visit and booking requests.

  • Municipality page
  • All your spaces, at no extra cost
  • Photos, map and availability for each space
  • Visit and booking requests, already sorted
  • Guided digital onboarding, remotely

PagoPA

PagoPA Annual

200€/year per space

Start with one space and grow one step at a time. Renews every year, and can be cancelled every year.

  • PagoPA payments, straight into the municipality's treasury
  • From the 3rd space: €120/year each
  • Automatic receipts and reconciliation
  • Cancel any year

PagoPA

PagoPA Mandate

800€ one-off · 5 years

Five years paid at once, like a council term, with one year free. Can be funded with one-off budgets or grants.

  • 5 years of PagoPA for 1 space: one year is free
  • Extra spaces: €800 for the 2nd, €480 from the 3rd on, also for 5 years
  • A single order on MePA
  • No yearly fee to budget for
AcquistinretePA

The mandate package is purchased on MePA, in a single order.
If you can't find it on AcquistinretePA yet, contact us and we'll set it up together.

Booking System

Bookings and payments with PagoPA.

Whoever books pays with PagoPA, the official channel of Italian Public Administration, and the money goes straight into the municipality's treasury: no commission. The municipality pays Rural Pop-Up only the fee, which covers the payments infrastructure and automatic reconciliation.

Whoever books pays with PagoPA and 100% goes into the municipality's treasury. Separately, the municipality pays Rural Pop-Up a yearly fee.Resident or organiserbooks a spacepays with PagoPATown treasuryreceives the whole payment100%separatelyMunicipalityyearly feeRural Pop-UpNo commission on bookings

What changes with PagoPA

  • Automatic payments tracked through the official PA channel
  • Fiscal receipts generated and archived automatically
  • Automatic bank reconciliation for the municipality's treasury

Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)

How much does the service cost? Is there a fixed price?
Activating your municipality with Rural DIGITAL is free. You pay only if the municipality chooses to collect payments with PagoPA: €200 a year per space or €800 one-off for 5 years (you'll find all the details on the Pricing page). No commission: whoever books pays with PagoPA and the money goes straight into the municipality's treasury.
Which public spaces?
Anything goes, and everything will be properly regulated!

Any public space owned by the municipality that is worth opening up to the community: private individuals, companies and associations.
In particular, our project focuses on spaces for:
  1. Medium to large events (sports, concerts, retreats and corporate activities, etc.)
    Multi-purpose halls, squares, parks and scenic viewpoints.
  2. Small and medium events (courses, leisure activities, exhibitions, parties, etc.)
    Multi-purpose halls, gardens, offices, vegetable gardens and picnic areas.
  3. Hospitality Accommodation, hostels, hotels, campsites and picnic / equipped areas.
  4. Food and drink bars, restaurants, old premises, games rooms, etc.
  5. Sport sports fields, equipped sports areas, MTB trails, special routes,
  6. Kids swimming pools, adventure parks, sledging slopes, playgrounds, green areas
  7. Crafts (digital too) workshops, sawmills, small buildings, sheds, disused factories, etc.
  8. Remote work offices, meeting rooms, coworking spaces, etc.
...and we'd also like to map and flag:
  1. Historic places falling into disrepair castles, churches and places that need public involvement and awareness.
  2. Small businesses about to close, with the resulting risk of losing local services.
I don't trust this!
...and you're right to be careful!

We know these things happen and nobody likes them: trouble caused by heavy drinking, broken glass and doors, things that " go missing", or simply noise disturbing the peace of a small village.

We don't have a magic wand and we're not private investigators, BUT -for every booking- we contact the municipality to confirm the rules and what each space may be used for .

In short, we make sure responsibility lies with whoever should bear it, and there is always an agreement that sets out the arrangements between welance and the end user: everything in black and white!
How do you support yourselves?
We got started thanks to the 🇮🇹 PNRR grant we won in June 2024 (💰 €64,398.80 in total, of which €24,000 went to gathering content).

Since then we have supported ourselves through the PagoPA booking fee, paid by municipalities that want to collect payments online.

Activating the municipality is free: we only ask it to set aside about two hours, remotely, to show us its spaces and for an interview. Space prices are indicative (“from … €”) and can change with the number of guests, the conditions and the season. No commission: whoever books pays with PagoPA and the money goes straight into the municipality's treasury. To coordinate with the municipality we ask for at least 10 days' notice for visits and events.
Can I get more info?
We were hoping someone would ask, because there's something we'd like to show off:

We believe in transparency, because we use public funding and will help manage publicly owned spaces. You can take a peek at the documents we work with, where we note down everything about the project, including the more technical details.
Do you organize complete events?
We organize complete events with volunteers and pro loco associations from all over Italy, but only when the space has been abandoned. We turn up, clean, repair, paint, and put on an event that is free for residents, with a small fee for visitors. Workshops, music, dance, theater, food, art, sport and more – everything your community has to offer, to bring the area and the space back to life. An example? https://baia-blanca.com