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StarChapter deliver a number of strategic benefits designed to reduce the amount of time your organization spends on repetitive tasks.
Our Benefits
- Simplify your meeting registration process
- Increase your meeting attendance
- Decrease your meeting-related expenses
- Keep your members better informed
- Help your board run more smoothly
These benefits come from the key features we've incorporated into StarChapter, based on our research into the technology needs of membership organizations.
Our Features
 Web site design
We'll work with you to develop a web site that meets your needs and takes into account your national organization requirements and your local interests. Say, for example, you are in San Francisco and want to have the Golden Gate Bridge on your home page - that can be done. Once the site is developed, you'll be able to manage it yourself without learning HTML
- Professional design
- Customized to match your organization and your local area
- Easily self managed
- Photo gallery
- Easily navigatible web space
Meeting registration
Standardize and streamline your meeting registration process and take the hassle out of registering members and guests for meetings
- Register members, non-members, and guests online, and have them pay online for regular chapter meetings
- Generate automatic receipts and confirmations upon successful registration
- Charge members, non-members, and guests according to preset amounts
- Register and pay for people before, during, and after each meeting
- Print a "door list", an alphabetical list of members and guests, listing if paid or meeting fee owed
- Print name badges automatically without formatting or merging with other software. Preformatted PDF is generated to match Avery stock.
- Create meeting summary reports showing total counts, number of members and guest and how each paid
- Shut off registration at a preset date
- Update automatically to display new meeting information immediately after a meeting occurs
- Display future and past meeting information on web site
- Retrieve archived meeting info
- Post future meetings
Content management
Gone are the days of plain, text only newsletters, boring emails and the time-consuming task of reentering data that is the same from communication to communication, such as board member names and contact information. Enter the information once and upload it to different documents as needed and use formatting and graphics to create interesting and relevant content.
- Enter meeting information in advance, and auto update information after meeting date has passed
- Edit events calendar at any time
- Manage web site or chapter newsletter online; special formatting features allows images to be uploaded and text to be formatted without HTML knowledge
- Populate the newsletter in advance for as many months as information is available
- Archive newsletter automatically for review at the beginning of each month
- Bring information from the newsletter to the home page to draw attention to key articles
Chapter Communications
Standardize and streamline your communications processes. Make it easy for members and prospects to stay in touch with what's going on in your chapter.
- Send automatic email receipts every time someone registers for
a meeting, with notifications to registrant and chapter treasurer.
- Send current newsletter to member and prospect database through the Email Center
- Send regular email announcements or meeting reminders via the Email Center
- Select who receives emails - membership, prospects, board members or a combination
- Survey members and guests via online survey
- Receive questions and comments via general contact form
- Download membership application via online link
Member Database Management
Develop one online membership list. Do you have several membership lists and are not sure which is the most current? Members are responsible for maintaining their contact information in a password protected area. This information is stored in a central database with restricted access.
- Import member database to the web site as often as necessary
- Make member information available via the online member directory (with Opt Out option)
- Members log on and update their contact information
- Member updates and changes are automatically sent to national organization
- Email forgotten usernames and passwords to member's on file email address immediately upon request.
- Give access to a Member's Only section. Members can change their member info, download files, post classifieds, and more
- Easily track membership, as new members are automatically added to the local and national databases and old members are moved to the prospect database
- Manage prospect list more easily
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