What Does Gold Partnership Mean?
Becoming an Umbraco Gold Partner opens up a wealth of opportunities that will directly benefit everyone we work with. At the heart of this partnership is enhanced support and closer collaboration with Umbraco HQ. We now have direct lines of communication with the core Umbraco team, giving us faster access to technical support, deeper insights into platform development, and the ability to influence the roadmap of features that matter most to our clients.
This closer relationship also means greater product awareness and involvement. We'll be among the first to know about new features, updates, and best practices, allowing us to stay at the cutting edge of what's possible with Umbraco. This isn't just theoretical knowledge—it translates into real-world benefits for every project we undertake.
What This Means for Our Clients
If you're working with dotcraft—or considering partnering with us—here's what our Gold Partner status delivers for you:
Enhanced Support
Our elevated partnership tier means we can provide even more robust support for your Umbraco solutions. When challenges arise or you need technical guidance, we have priority channels to Umbraco's own experts, ensuring faster resolutions and more comprehensive answers.
Solution-Focused Features
With our deeper involvement in the Umbraco ecosystem, we're better positioned to architect solutions that leverage the platform's full capabilities. Whether you're running a content-heavy publishing site, a complex e-commerce platform, or a multi-site enterprise solution, we can tap into advanced features and configurations that deliver exactly what you need.
Bespoke Umbraco Implementations
Every business has unique requirements, and cookie-cutter solutions rarely deliver the results you deserve. Our Gold Partnership enables focused conversations with Umbraco specialists about bespoke use cases. This means we can explore innovative approaches to your specific challenges, validate our architectural decisions with the platform creators, and push the boundaries of what Umbraco can do for your business.
Our Journey with Umbraco
Our relationship with Umbraco didn't start yesterday. As a company, dotcraft has been working with the platform for over six years, and many of our team members bring even deeper individual experience to the table. We've grown alongside Umbraco, watched it evolve, contributed to its community, and witnessed firsthand how it empowers businesses to manage their digital presence with elegance and flexibility.
This Gold Partnership is a natural progression of that journey—a formal recognition of the expertise we've been building and the value we've been delivering throughout those years.
Walking the Walk
We believe in practicing what we preach. That's why our own website is built on the latest version of Umbraco—version 16 at the time of writing. We don't just recommend Umbraco to our clients; we trust it with our own digital presence. This hands-on commitment keeps us intimately familiar with every new feature, every performance improvement, and every enhancement that comes with each release.
Building on Umbraco 16 also demonstrates our commitment to staying current with the platform's evolution. We're not stuck in legacy versions or outdated practices—we're actively exploring the newest capabilities and understanding how they can benefit the projects we deliver.
Our Commitment to Open Source
At dotcraft, we're passionate advocates for open-source software, and Umbraco embodies everything we love about the open-source philosophy. It's a platform built on transparency, community collaboration, and the belief that great software should be accessible to organizations of all sizes.
Our Gold Partnership reinforces our commitment to this community. We're not just users of Umbraco—we're active contributors to its ecosystem. Whether that's through code contributions, sharing knowledge, supporting fellow developers, or providing feedback that helps shape the platform's future, we're invested in making Umbraco better for everyone.
Technical Expertise You Can Trust
Achieving Gold Partner status requires more than just enthusiasm—it demands proven technical expertise, successful project delivery, and a deep understanding of the platform's architecture. Our team has demonstrated this expertise across dozens of implementations, from straightforward content websites to complex, multi-tenant platforms serving thousands of users.
This recognition validates what our clients already know: when you work with dotcraft, you're working with a team that truly understands Umbraco inside and out.
Looking Ahead
As we celebrate this milestone, we're also looking forward to what comes next. Our Gold Partnership opens doors to deeper collaboration, early access to innovations, and the opportunity to help shape how Umbraco evolves. Most importantly, it means we can deliver even more value to the businesses and organizations that trust us with their digital platforms.
Whether you're already working with Umbraco or exploring your CMS options, we'd love to talk about how our Gold Partnership and deep platform expertise can benefit your next project.
Here's to open source, to community, and to building better digital experiences together.