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The Ultimate Job Board Builder's Guide

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Step-by-step blueprint for launching your job board in under 48 hours

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This is a job board build with Kardow, it can look like your brand can run your own domain and comes with jobs from day one. You don't need to start empty when you run it, because the site can come with jobs automatically imported from day one, so it goes true and is going to find the best sites which can be in Employers' sites, Career Feed, automatically for you based on what fits your website the best and just going to pre-fill your site automatically. You don't need to manage that and then your audience automatically gets the value of just having content to look at. Like in this example, you can just see it's already pre-built, a lot has salary and all the information and all the pages are actually pre-built for this.

Now if they want to actually go and you have employers, they want to go and post jobs on your website, they just come to main action and then they'll just fill out the form with all the information you want, then they'll just pick their pricing plan and you'll get paid for it. So they'll see it's check out, fill it out, you're paid. So what you can do is you can have one time payments, bundles, you can also do full on subscriptions like monthly or yearly. There are a few options you can run when you're doing full on pricing plans.

So you can do normal job posts, you can also do paywall for job seekers access or monetizing candidate access. We do when you fill it out, you have a few options. So you can do extras coming in from specific pricing plans like pin to top or I loaded some borders which can be charged extra for the customers. And then the main point is how they pay.

You can do the most like more basic setup like you use Stripe which is what most people do, but then if you're company needs something more custom, you can go and just choose like invoices. So you have like the leader, the customers, they post a job, the leader received the invoice automatically, you can do that or you can get a notification, people on your team to get the notification, then they'll set up the invoice. You need a specific way within like your own system and you send it to them. Also other pretty interesting part is your own payment link.

That's pretty useful if you cannot use something like Stripe. You can if you're using any sort of other like payment providers which can be like pay stack, PayPal, you can go in those specific ones and you just you create like a payment link or like a checkout session. They'll give you like a link that you can just copy and if you paste it here, what's going to happen is that when the customer comes in to fill out the form to post a job and then click like to add it, it sends them to your checkout automatically. So everything still feels like fully connected even if you're not using the most normal like Stripe integration.

So every job, so every job gets proper structured data. You get it for like, you can be indexed by Google for jobs. It's also all server side rendering. So it's really good to be indexed by DAI system these days.

You get like chat GPT, Gemini, the AI overview from Google, Claude. It systems already automatically optimized for that. It's your brand so it can be fully customized to really look like your website. And you can host it on your own domain or you can do a more traditional approach of doing it on your own sub domain.

Like so you can do like jobs like my website.com, which is most software will offer you. So you already have like your main website, then you want to have a job board. So you have a sub domain or what we can do is we can also do it on a sub path. So you keep your main domain, you keep all the SEO juice of keeping everything on domain because when you do it on sub domain, you kind of transfer it, Google consider it like a different site.

So you lose that advantage. So what you can do, it's also good for your users. You can just do my website.com/jobboard. So your entire site stays on it.

What you get is from that path forward, like from the job board, the entire job or can be accessible from it. So you would go job board slash jobs, you would get all your jobs automatically. You could go, let's say you have like a software engineer job would be like software engineer or whatever. You go real is a bit different, but it's the main concept.

It just automatically gets it on the core website. So it just it feels really smooth as an experience of like the entire site just follows through the path. And you don't need to like modify it. So day to day, you really you can approve jobs.

If you want to do it, you go to your dashboard few minutes a week, probably. So day to day, you approve jobs, check it. So your day to day operation on your board is fairly simple. You really just probably go a few minutes every week, just check things out.

And most of it's really just automatically handled for you from the jobs to system integration payments. Now, if you want to go like deeper into the type of system you want to be doing can always go and fully customize it to look like how you want it to be. So the systems really like so customized on its own. You can go.

Most people really spend just a few minutes a week on it. You can start a free trailer book a call and we'll do the setup for you. So we'll set it all out, make it we can change the design to look how you want. So we offer a way to.

If you need help with anything, just let me know. You can start a free trial or book a call and we'll do the full setup for you. You can also do migration here coming from an existing job provider. So you.

What you get

Everything a job board needs.

Your board arrives ready to take jobs, take payments and bring in traffic. Nothing to install, nothing to bolt on.

Never launch empty

Kardow imports listings from public careers sites and job feeds every day, filtered to your industry, keywords and locations. Your board has jobs on it before you sell a single post. How the job backfiller works

Get paid

Charge per post, sell bundles, run employer subscriptions or put listings behind a paywall. Take cards through Stripe, or send an invoice or your own payment link. Paid into your own Stripe account. Kardow takes 0%. Every way to get paid

Found on Google and in AI search

Google for Jobs markup, a sitemap and a page for every location and category. Pages are rendered on the server, so ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read your jobs instead of an empty shell. Analytics are built in and set no cookies. How boards get found on Google See how 13 platforms compare on speed

Make it yours

Your domain, your colours, your logo, your fields. Ask for any change in plain language and it happens, from a new section to a full redesign. Run it on a subpath like yoursite.com/jobs and the search authority you have built stays with you. Browse the templates

Employers and candidates

Both sides get their own account. Employers manage listings and review applicants. Candidates keep a profile, upload a resume and track applications. Accounts for employers and job seekers

Post and manage jobs

Add jobs yourself, let employers post their own, or import them in bulk. Approve anything before it goes live, and let listings expire on their own. See every feature
Also built in
  • Connect your own domain
  • Send email from your domain
  • Blog and custom pages
  • Company profile pages
  • Job alerts and newsletter
  • Saved jobs and candidate profiles
  • Custom fields on any form
  • Screening questions
  • Google and passwordless login
  • Multiple languages
  • REST API and webhooks
  • Zapier integration
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Build your board this afternoon.

Pick a template, tell Kardow what to change, and connect your domain. You can be taking payments before the trial is up.
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Switching platforms

Already have a job board?

Your jobs, your employers and your job seekers come across, and you keep selling while it happens. Tell us what you are on now and we will do the move with you. Moving from NiceboardJob BoardlySmartJobBoardWordPressA spreadsheet
What comes across
  1. Jobs By spreadsheet with your own column mapping, or from the XML feed you already have, kept in sync.
  2. Job seekers and employers With their original signup dates, custom profile fields and alert preferences. The importer reads other platforms' exports, including Niceboard's.
  3. Resumes Downloaded, stored, parsed and searchable on the new board.
  4. Companies From a spreadsheet, safe to re-run without creating duplicates.
  5. Google Your board verified in Search Console, your sitemap submitted and new jobs pushed to the Indexing API, with no Google account of your own to set up.

“I have consistently contacted customer service for questions and never has no one responded to me. Kardow has responded to me on the weekends and late at night after hours.”

Calvin D. Founder, Education Management Switched from Job Boardly
Before you buy

The questions we get asked most.

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Do you take a cut of what my board earns?
No. Kardow takes 0% of your revenue on every plan, including the cheapest one. Employers pay you directly through your own Stripe account, or by invoice or your own payment link, and the money never passes through us. You pay Kardow a flat monthly fee and nothing else.
Who owns the jobs, the applications and the audience?
You do. The jobs, companies, applications, resumes and job seeker accounts on your board are your data, and you can export all of it to CSV or pull it through the REST API at any time, including after you cancel. We do not sell it, resell your listings onto other boards, or market to your job seekers. Your board is its own application on its own domain, so nothing about it is shared with another customer.
Can our members get a different price from everyone else?
Yes, and this is why most associations end up here. Mark a company as a member and every person posting on its behalf gets the member price: a member rate beside the public rate for the same job post, a discounted or free employer subscription, or posting reserved for member companies entirely. You can also issue discount codes to individual employers. Companies are marked in the dashboard or by importing a spreadsheet, and your membership system can approve people and grant them a member plan through the members sync endpoint.
Can we bill our advertisers by invoice?
Yes. On Scale, a job package or subscription can be sold on an invoice or through your own payment link rather than card checkout, so a media buyer at an agency never has to enter a card. Invoiced sales and card sales appear together in the same payments workspace. Your own Kardow subscription is paid by card; if your finance team has to pay a yearly plan another way, ask us and we will sort it out.
Is the launch service compulsory, and what does it cost?
No, it is optional. You can set the board up yourself in an afternoon, and most customers do. If you would rather we did it, the launch service is included free on Pro and Scale, and $299 one-time on Starter. There are no setup fees on any plan either way.
Pricing

Simple pricing. No cut of what you earn.

Every plan includes hosting, updates and security. There are no setup fees and no platform fee on your revenue, on any plan.

Unlimited jobs, job seekers and employers on every plan

Two months free on yearly

Starter

$59/mo

$708 billed yearly

One board, everything you need to launch and take payments.

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  • Designer-built templates
  • AI editor for design and layout
  • Connect your own domain
  • Charge for job posts
  • Employer & candidate accounts
  • Applications & resumes
  • Blog and SEO pages
  • 2,000 import credits / month
  • 1 team seat

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Pro

$134/mo

$1,608 billed yearly

Your brand, your domain, your code. Sell more than one-off posts.

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  • Everything in Starter
  • Remove Kardow branding
  • Custom email domains
  • Subscriptions, packages & paywall
  • Google login & fast indexing
  • Custom fields & filters
  • AI screening questions
  • REST API access
  • Optional launch service, free
  • 8,000 import credits / month
  • 3 team seats

Scale

$284/mo

$3,408 billed yearly

Volume, a team, invoicing, and up to three separate boards.

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  • Everything in Pro
  • 25,000 import credits / month
  • Unlimited team seats
  • Invoices & payment links
  • Optional launch service, free
  • Priority support
  • Up to 3 separate boards

Enterprise

For media groups running several titles, and associations at scale. Quoted per case.

  • Single sign-on for your team
  • Invoicing and purchase orders
  • More than 3 job boards

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See every price: monthly and yearly, in USD, EUR and GBP

Kardow has three plans. Yearly billing is the same plan at a lower monthly rate, charged twelve months at a time, which works out as two months free. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial, no setup fee, and no platform fee on what the board earns. Prices exclude any local sales tax or VAT.

Kardow plan prices in USD
Plan Billed monthly Billed yearly Yearly total Import credits / month Team seats Job boards
Starter $79 per month $59 per month $708 per year 2,000 1 1
Pro $179 per month $134 per month $1,608 per year 8,000 3 1
Scale $379 per month $284 per month $3,408 per year 25,000 Unlimited 3
Launch service Optional. $299 one-time on Starter, included free on Pro and Scale.
Kardow plan prices in EUR
Plan Billed monthly Billed yearly Yearly total Import credits / month Team seats Job boards
Starter €69 per month €52 per month €624 per year 2,000 1 1
Pro €159 per month €119 per month €1,428 per year 8,000 3 1
Scale €339 per month €254 per month €3,048 per year 25,000 Unlimited 3
Launch service Optional. €279 one-time on Starter, included free on Pro and Scale.
Kardow plan prices in GBP
Plan Billed monthly Billed yearly Yearly total Import credits / month Team seats Job boards
Starter £59 per month £44 per month £528 per year 2,000 1 1
Pro £139 per month £104 per month £1,248 per year 8,000 3 1
Scale £299 per month £224 per month £2,688 per year 25,000 Unlimited 3
Launch service Optional. £249 one-time on Starter, included free on Pro and Scale.

Unlimited jobs, job seekers and employer accounts on every plan. Import credits are the only metered resource. Subpath hosting and help moving from another platform come with every plan. Enterprise covers more than three boards and is quoted per case: talk to us.

Optional launch service. We set the board up for you, with your domain, email, payments, branding and first imported jobs. Free on Pro and Scale, $299 one-time on Starter. Ask us about it.

See How We Compare

Curious how Kardow stacks up against other job board platforms? Explore the highest-intent alternatives first, then browse the full comparison hub.

Common questions

What is Kardow?

Kardow is job board software for publishers and newsletters. News sites, local newsletters and niche media use it to add a jobs section their readers use and the businesses already advertising with them pay to post on. You pick a template, connect your own domain, and launch. Payments, employer and candidate accounts, applications, job imports, SEO and analytics are built in. Unlike most platforms in this category, your board is a real application rather than a theme, so its design and behaviour can be changed without limits.

How is it different from Niceboard, JBoard or Job Boardly?

Those platforms give you a settings panel over a shared template, so boards built on them tend to look alike and you can hit a wall where the answer is "the platform does not support that". On Kardow, every board is its own application. You change it by describing what you want to the AI editor, or by pulling the code into your own editor. It is also priced well below the platforms with comparable design quality.

Do I really own my board's code?

Yes. Every board is its own Next.js application rather than a skin on a shared template. On Pro and Scale you can pull that code into your own editor with the Kardow CLI, change whatever you like, and deploy it back. No other job board platform offers this.

Do I need to be technical?

No. Most customers never touch code. You pick a template and describe the changes you want in plain language, and the editor makes them. Hosting, security, updates, SSL and backups are handled for you. If you would rather not set it up at all, the optional launch service does it for you and hands the board over ready to sell. It is included free on Pro and Scale.

How do I make money from a job board?

Charge employers for one-time job posts, sell bundles, run monthly or annual subscriptions, or put premium listings behind a candidate paywall. Connect Stripe for card payments, or bill larger clients with an invoice or your own payment link. The money goes directly to your account, and Kardow takes 0% of it on every plan.

Will my board have jobs on day one?

Yes. Scheduled imports pull listings from careers sites and job feeds, filtered to your niche, keywords and locations, in over 100 countries and any language. Every plan includes a monthly credit allowance for this, so your board is never empty while you are building an audience.

Can I connect my job board to ChatGPT or Claude?

Both. Kardow runs a hosted MCP server, so you can connect your board to Claude, or to ChatGPT as a custom connector, and manage it in plain language: post a job from a URL, approve pending listings, publish a blog post, or ask how the board performed last month. There is also a full REST API, webhooks and Zapier for everything else.

Can I move my existing board to Kardow?

Yes. Jobs come across by spreadsheet or by connecting the XML feed you already have, companies by spreadsheet, and your job seekers and employers with their original signup dates, custom fields, alert preferences and resumes. There are no passwords to move, because members sign in with a one-time code sent to their email, and employers on a subscription can keep paying through a custom payment link. Your old URLs will not redirect, so plan for the new board to be indexed fresh: we verify it in Google Search Console, submit the sitemap and push new job URLs to Google's Indexing API. We help with the move on every plan.

What happens after the free trial?

The trial runs 14 days. You add a card to start it, and you are not charged until the trial ends, so cancelling before then costs nothing. If you do cancel, nothing is deleted and you can pick a plan whenever you are ready.

Built for publishers and newsletters. See how it works for publishers and for newsletters, or read how to add a paid job board to your newsletter.

14 days free. Cancel anytime. No setup fees.