Why i-portal?
Spider's iPortal solution provides an Interactive Members Portal that brings together all your member's communications and documents in one place.
Associations can now provide a new Member's Portal allowing the free exchange of ideas and documents, online Media Centres to broadcast events and interviews, an Event Centre, Document Management, Discussion Forums and more…
Housing Authorities can now provide a Resident's Portal providing an area giving notice of all plans, uploading new terms and collecting rent. Residents can now see maintenance forecasts, local area statistics, download newsletters, white papers & development plans and communicate amongst themselves for the benefit of the community.
Our powerful suite of applications allows member based organisations to create and customise their own online environment.
Interactive Centres
Provide multiple, distinct areas for the Association, its members, internal staff and committees to interact. For example, a Research Centre or Tenants may have their own area, with their own discussion forums, live chat rooms, shared address books and calendars, public and private file storage for their important documents, association branded webmail, photo albums, polls and much more.
Online Media Centres
Stream full audio/video coverage of every press conference, interview, important event, featured broadcast and Association news to the desktop or laptop of every subscriber. Industry experts can provide added value to your members. Your online radio station and TV station provides on-demand insight and information never previously available to your members.
Online Event Centre
Where members can schedule their own events, the Association can co-ordinate an events diary, corporate partners can access a hospitality diary, the Association can alert members to the next training sessions and more... All from one integrated view. These can be enhanced with appropriate photo images to make your event come alive.
Document Management
Every member is provided with a private area online for storing documents or files of any type, they are also given a “public” area which they can use to allow others to access files from anywhere. Shared areas can also be created, allowing the Association to provide a secure means of storing key documents online.
Association Branded Email & more
Internet services for every member - a personal, association branded email; john@yourassociation.com, online hard drives with file storage, calendars, address books, web photo albums and more.
Membership Management
Gives you complete control over your new Interactive Members Portal. All aspects of access control, user grouping, resource sharing, domain management and much more are controlled from a single management interface, and Spider will work to optimise these settings for your own needs. We allow you to shape and mould your own online environment.
Online Registration
Allows you to gather the information you require from each of your members to better segment and target the right information to the right person. You define the information you would like to collect.
Online Collections
Provides for a simple Worldpay credit card collection for each of your members.
Online Support Centre
Allows you to be more responsive to your members support needs.
Benefits
- Adds a new online members area that compliments your existing website & members offering
- Lowest cost solution
- Creates new revenue streams, reduces churn, recaptures past members
- Get members more involved in the affairs of your Association
- Become the de-facto industry specific portal where all members and key constituencies go to communicate with the Association and amongst themselves, and access new information
- Provide more effective administration support for members and key interest groups
- Download newsletters, white papers, development plans, etc
- Give notice of all plans & gain valuable feedback quickly and effectively
- Anytime, anywhere access via the web for all your global members
- Fully managed service, so no impact on your resources
- No hardware or software required
- Easy to implement