A modern cloud-based portal

Citizenserve is a fully cloud-based citizen portal and e-government platform for permitting, licensing, inspections, code enforcement, planning, public requests, and online citizen services. Streamline staff workflows with automation and intuitive tools to reduce paperwork and speed approvals—while delivering residents and businesses a seamless, mobile-friendly digital experience from any device. Boost efficiency, transparency, and community satisfaction with secure, modern government software.

Why choose citizenserve®

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Fully Cloud-Based Platform
Citizenserve is a cloud-based online portal that provides a seamless digital experience for local governments. Residents, businesses and contractors can easily apply for permits and licenses, submit requests or complaints, make payments, upload documents, and track statuses from any device, anytime.
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Online Payments & Renewals
Citizenserve's online portal offers seamless payment integration by connecting directly to your chosen payment processor, enabling residents, businesses, and contractors to make secure online payments for permits, licenses, fees, and more—via credit card or ACH—without storing sensitive card data.
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Smarter Portal with AI
AMIE, citizenserve's Automated Municipal Intellegince Engine, instantly answers questions, predicts the right permit type, and guides your applicants through the process—saving residents, contractors, and businesses time, reducing confusion and errors, and delivering faster, more reliable service.
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Available 24x7
A 24/7 Citizenserve portal gives residents, businesses, and contractors convenient anytime access to submit applications, file complaints, pay fees, upload documents, and track statuses—saving time, cutting office visits and phone calls, easing staff workload, and improving satisfaction through faster, more transparent service.
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Fully Integrated
Citizenserve integrates seamlessly with payment processors for secure credit card/ACH payments and offers two-way financial/ERP system integration via web services to auto-sync payments, receivables, refunds, and ledgers. It also supports GIS (ESRI, Google Maps API) and various third-party tools—minimizing manual work and boosting efficiency.
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Better, Faster Service
Citizenserve enables faster, better community service by letting residents and businesses manage permitting, licensing, payments, complaints, and tracking online from any device. AI-powered tools automate workflows, deliver instant data access, and enable electronic reviews—cutting wait times, reducing office visits and calls, freeing staff for priority work, and boosting approvals, transparency, and satisfaction.

What our clients say

“Three more communities are joining Citizenserve in 2020 after realizing the ease with which the other communities functioned during recent pandemic shutdowns. To be completely able to move your department’s business through online transactions including registrations, plan review and obtaining permits has been tremendous for us. Online registration renewals have been a game changer for us – Citizenserve not only saves time it has also reduced inaccuracies and keeps tasks scheduled for staff. We look forward to using Citizenserve for years to come.”

Jennifer in First Suburbs Development Council (FSDC), OH

“As a council of governments, I was working with six communities who were looking for a software system that would bring efficiencies to municipal building and housing departments. After looking at seven different systems, we selected Citizenserve and we are very pleased with the system, implementation and set up, customer service and the incredible connectivity to our County Real Estate Transfer and Appraisal Offices. We now have inspectors using tablets out in the field no longer losing valuable time to type inspection reports in the office – or worse yet, having someone else do that for them!”

Jennifer in First Suburbs Development Council (FSDC), OH

“We, as a municipality, work with a lot of contractors who spend minimal time, if any, in front of a computer. CitizenServe gets that. Because of their awareness and understanding to the fact that these contractors are out in the field as opposed to sitting at a desk, they’ve made the program EXTREMELY user-friendly. They’ve customized our program to fit our needs internally as well as the needs of our customers. We are constantly in contact with them; eliminating and adding fields, creating templates, and just asking simple questions. Sometimes we come up with ideas to improve the customer service (such as adding a phone app for contractors on-the-job, or creating a specific-type report), and they are receptive to these ideas, knowing that it would either improve work flow or customer satisfaction.
PS: The customer service is AWESOME! – I swear they respond to me before I’ve even hit the “send” button!!”

Kelly in Medway, MA

“We have been using Citizenserve for approx. 2+ years and considering we had a previous software program and now moving into Citizenserve we are thrilled. Everything they promised to do was done. Everything they say about the support response time and help is TRUE usually done immediately. I have no problem giving them an Excellent rating. It’s powerful, you can grow into it for Permitting, Inspections, Zoning Violations and it tracks the History of each file. It’s customizable and helps communicate to applicants and contractors by email to keep that record of inspections and communication. We haven’t missed a beat with the Pandemic everything is accessible online. We couldn’t be happier.”

Bob in Norfolk, MA

“We really appreciate Citizenserve’s unusual approach to costs: fixed-price services! We were able to start small with one area (Code Enforcement) and then roll out the system over time so that we addressed more of the functions for our Community Development Department: building permits, planning requests, and licensing. Citizenserve’s project manager was excellent and worked very hard to address all of our needs for a smooth implementation. Since the project their support team has continued to deliver quickly on all of the requests we’ve made, including building a whole new permit in a day when the Mayor identified an online outdoor seating permit as a priority for re-opening during the pandemic.”

Sanford in Urbana, IL

Bryan has always been so helpful, dedicated, and professional throughout this whole process. Whenever we have had any issues or changes needed, he has always made himself available to assist us. He always responds to emails, phone calls, and texts expediently. He has even responded after hours and on weekends.

Bryan has helped us understand how the system works – from our point of view and from the “behind the scenes” point of view as well. This has really helped us tailor the system to meet our city’s needs.

I just wanted to give him a shout out for all he has done for us and our city. He has really gone above and beyond to assist us with our implementation. We cannot thank him enough for everything!

Orange Beach, Alabama

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Years of Experience
Citizenserve has spent two decades helping municipalities modernize licensing, permitting, inspections, planning, code enforcement, and public-facing services with a fully cloud-based platform.
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Go Paperless with Online Services
Save hours every week with fast, paperless submissions from anywhere.
Get full transparency with real-time status updates and automatic notifications. Speed up approvals, slash errors and paperwork, and deliver a much better experience for both applicants and your team.
Ready to see it in action?
Try our live portal yourself — submit a test application, track its progress, and explore all the features your residents and staff would use every day.
Community Development Software, Simplified
The citizenserve portal transforms how residents and businesses interact with local government by delivering a convenient, 24/7 online self-service experience. Users can easily submit permit applications, upload supporting documents, make secure online payments, schedule inspections, and monitor real-time status updates—all without phone calls, in-person visits, or staff intervention. This intuitive cloud-based platform eliminates paperwork hassles, reduces wait times, and provides instant notifications for greater transparency and control, empowering applicants to handle permitting, licensing, planning, and code enforcement tasks efficiently from any device.
Municipalities benefit from the citizenserve portal through streamlined workflows, automated processes, and significant administrative relief, as over 80% of applications often shift online to cut staff workload and accelerate approvals. By going paperless, governments achieve faster turnaround times, improved accuracy, enhanced compliance tracking, and higher resident satisfaction while saving resources and promoting a modern, responsive digital government service that supports community growth and operational efficiency.
All-in-one Municipal Software
Citizenserve delivers a single, cloud-based platform for permitting, licensing, inspections, code enforcement, zoning, planning, public works, and community requests. Every department gains powerful, collaborative tools to manage workflows, automate routing, share data, and track cases seamlessly—without juggling separate systems.

This unified approach speeds up online permitting and approvals, cuts administrative time, eliminates silos, boosts accuracy and transparency, and modernizes local government operations while improving staff efficiency and resident satisfaction.
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Results that matter

See how communities across the country are streamlining services with citizenserve. From permitting to inspections, these stories show what’s possible when the right tools get out of the way.
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