The annual fee for Digital Towpath services is set by the Digital Towpath Cooperative members at their annual meeting each year. The current membership amount can be found at: Annual Cooperative Membership
There is no setup fee. The only cost the first year and all subsequent years is the annual fee.
The Digital Towpath Cooperative is a shared service formed through an inter-municipal agreement. Only local governments and local government organizations in New York State can become party to this agreement. Your organization becomes a member by registering for Digital Towpath and beginning to use Digital Towpath services. This membership is renewed each year when your annual fee payment is received.
If you have a domain and an exisiting website, when you register for Digital Towpath you will be assigned a sub-domain of digitaltowpath to use as a development site. You can build your new DTP site at that location and, when you're ready, we can move it to your current domain, replacing your old site with the new DTP site.
Note, though, that during the development process, until your DTP site is live at your domain, you will not be able to use DTP Email Service.
If you don't have a domain, the first thing we do is get one for you. You will be set up with a development site to allow you to prepare your content to go live. Logon information will be sent to the primary contact noted on your registration. This process normally takes 24 - 72 business hours.
An invoice for your first annual fee will be sent to the billing contact noted on your registration in PDF format, as an email attachment.
You are not limited. Support is available by contacting our Service Desk at support@digitaltowpath.org or be submitting an ticket at: Digital Towpath Service Desk
Most support requests are answered promptly, normally within 12 -24 hours.
Digital Towpath does not limit the number of email addresses you can use. You can set up regular email accounts, forwarding accounts (aliases) and distribution lists, as needed.
Digital Towpath is a shared service, formed through inter-municipal agreement. The hardware and software that members share are owned by the Digital Towpath Cooperative.
Digital Towpath's NYS Local Government Cloud includes not only a robust website content management system and municipal email addresses, but now also an electronic records management system (ERMS) and an email archiving extension.
For more information on these services see: Services
