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One platform. Fewer vendors. Lower total cost.

Why Pennsylvania municipalities choose one system that does it all over four products stitched together.

Parcel-centric by design

Everything attaches to one Master Property Record, so any department sees a property’s whole story — not a slice of it.

Mapping with no extra license

Managed GIS is built in and hosted by us. No GIS license fees, and no GIS technician to hire — which most small PA municipalities don’t have.

Document management included

Native document management on the record, with a path to migrate off your current document archive. No separate archive to license.

Operational breadth

Permits, code, rentals, land development, mapping, and your public portal in one system — with fees flowing straight to your finance software.

Unlimited users

Add every clerk, inspector, and department head. The price never changes with headcount.

Built for Pennsylvania

Configured for the Municipalities Planning Code, the UCC, and the township and borough codes — the way PA local government actually works.

Thirty years, one partner

You reach the people who build the system, not a ticket queue — and the company has done this for three decades.

Your data, portable

Your records live in a standard SQL database and remain yours — available to you at any time.

One system vs. a stack of tools

Most municipal software stays in a single lane and rents the rest — a mapping license here, a plan-review tool there, a separate document archive, a finance product that never sees the fees. You end up paying several vendors, per seat, and still stitching the picture together yourself.

CMIS: one platform

Mapping, documents, and every module included. One login, one partner, one source of truth — priced without per-seat fees.

The stack: many tools

Permitting + a GIS seat + a plan-review rental + a document archive + finance — four vendors, four bills, and the reconciling is on you.

That’s why CMIS usually carries a lower total cost of ownership — not because any one piece is cheap, but because you’re not stacking licenses to get a complete system. We’ll walk the numbers for your township in a demo.

See the difference on your own township.

We’ll show you one record doing the work of four systems.

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