Registration front-end for organizations & memberships bridging into a 3-rd party web-app
United Star Distance Learning Consortium
Background
It was imperative to quickly build a replacement website to serve as a front-end at http://usdlc.org with at least a basic registration mechanism for the transition period. In the long run Allora Consulting had deploy new registration features based on CiviCRM modules.
Challenges
User databases at usdlc.org and usdlc-l2l.org must be perfectly synchronized. CiviCRM's organization / user structure must mirror a pre-existing data structure of parent Organizations and child Organization Members at http://usdlc-l2l.org Changes of user status on usdlc.org site must propagate semi-automatically to the management console of USDLC-L2L.
Solution
Community Builder and CiviCRM were the candidates. Advanced features of CiviCRM's Membership module and Organization / Individual relational management made this choice a no-brainer.
Functionality
- Registration interface for three types of accounts
- Annual Paid Membership
- Organization <-> Member management
- Ability to sync accounts with a propitiatory 3-rd party database