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We have recently released a new customer account area where our customers will be able to manage their billing contact information, payment method, purchase additional services and more. To access this area,...

We hold group trainings on an ongoing weekly basis through GotoMeeting. Our upcoming schedule is listed below. For links to the online training events and more information, please visit our 

We have recently released our new support portal and knowledgebase. You can also access this through the help link in the admin...

We have updated the Member Account Editor, located in the Member Area, to allow members to hide information from the directory as well as other listing pages, such as the Board of Directors p...

Best practices for keeping your organization's accounting records. It's important to keep accurate accounting records for your organization and StarChapter makes this process easier. Our ne...

All StarChapter sites have now been modified to use the new membership area. This update brings many new features to make managing your membership easier. For full details about features and capabilities, please refer to the user's guide, available thr

We are excited to announce that the new Membership section has been released to our beta testers. The Membership update offers many new features including: Expanded viewing options for the member and non-member rosters..

Are these goals compatible? Here at StarChapter we are in the unique position to observe the decision making process for many different organizations across many industries.  ...

We have released an updated Newsletter Archive layout and this new layout has been turned on for all sites.  If you would like to use the original layout, navigate to the...

Will your board be supportive of your changes? Getting support from your board is important. You probably will have a mix of members on your board - members that have been on the board for years and have a lot of experience and opinions about

Five ways to add value for your organization's sponsors. Sponsorship is a great way for businesses to give back to their communities and advance their associated professions, but many business...

On most association boards, every member has a specific job. This makes chapter management easier for everyone, until the only person who knows how to do an essential task goes on an unexpected leave of absence. Emergencies (and vacations, luckily) som

One of the great features of StarChapter is the ability to view detailed reports for each email sent. To view a report of a recent email, navigate to the ..

To send an email using the new Communications section, navigate to the Email Manager located under the Communications tab. Move your mouse over the Send an Ema...

We are excited to announce that the new Communications section has launched to our beta testers and we are receiving some good feedback about the new interface. We will be transitioning all StarChapter customers over to the new Communications section t

To create badges for a specific meeting, navigate to the Meeting Manager. Find the meeting in the list and click on the Badges button in the Actions column...

This month we released 2 small improvements to our interface: darker border colors on text fields and new buttons for downloads and printing. We have heard from a few customers that the border color for text input fields on the new Meetings int

To add photos for a particular meeting, navigate to the List of Meetings by clicking on the Meeting Manager link in the left-hand navigation. Find the meeting you would like to add photos for in the list and click on the

One of the new features of the redesigned Meetings section is the ability to add coupons that are redeemable during the registration process. To add a coupon, navigate to the Coupons and Vouchers page located under the Meetings s

In addition to our weekly training sessions, we now have full-length training videos for the treasurer training and the meetings and membership trainings available on our

We are excited to announce that all of our StarChapter customers are now using the new meetings area. To help our users with the transition to the new interface, we have published several videos that can be found

One of the great things about StarChapter is the integration between different sections of the software. For example, when you add a new meeting all of that information is automatically added to your calendar without having to take any additional steps

Thank you to everyone who participated in the test groups for the new meeting area! We're happy to announce that the testing is complete.  Your feedback and suggestions were much appreciated. We are now moving chapters over to the new meeting area

We are in the final testing phase for the new Meeting Manager section and will be releasing this update to our sites very soon. This redesigned section will make it easier to create, edit and manage your meetings and events as well as view charts and r

A great way to highlight your chapter and members is to add photo galleries to your website. To do so, navigate to the Photo Gallery page, under Content Manager. Click on the Create New Gallery

We have added the ability to download survey results as a CSV file. To take advantage of this new feature, navigate to the Surveys screen located under Communications. Click on the View Survey Results

It may be necessary for you to change the title of a page on your website (the title is the text that is displayed at the top of the page).

Our support team is now holding group training sessions every week on the core areas of chapter management with StarChapter. If you or a member of your board would like a refresher, please contact 

We have recently released an updated Order Manager that includes a more robust filter and additional spreadsheet options. The filter now includes options to filter by date, order status...

To send an email using the new Communications section, navigate to the Email Manager located under the Communications tab. Move your mouse over the Send an Email button to see the two emailing options: Send Now an

The new Communications area has been turned on for all StarChapter sites. As with the recent update to the Meetings area, this update offers an improved user interface and workflow, more detailed reporting, and the addition of new features such as savi

StarChapter has published its first video! Membership and association membership simplified.

Earn a $75 Visa gift card for any referral. We are excited to announce our new referral pr...

In order to create a page that requires a member to login in order to view it, navigate to Page Properties under Content Manager. Find the page that you would like to be login only in the list and click the checkbox under the Login Onl

In today's digital age it isn't enough to just have a website, that website needs to be easily found through search engines. StarChapter makes it easy to add meta tag information (keywords and descriptions) to individual pages located on your site. To

This week we released the new admin home page layout. This has some exciting new features such as Storage Space, Membership and Upcoming Meetings information and the Message Board.

A great way to communicate with your members is to add announcements to the member area. In order to add something like this, navigate to the Announcements section (under Content Manager). Click on the Add New Rec...

In order to change the order that links appear in your Quick Links menu on the front-end of your website, go to the Navigation Builder under the Content Manager section. Click on the Editbutton next to the Qui

This month we released the ability to add flyout (or drop-down) menus to any navigation menu on your website. This is a great way to allow user's easy access to sub-navigation menus. Please take a look below to see some examples of these flyout menus.

This month we are working on updating the Help page in the administration area. We are adding links to How To articles as well as adding a search function so administrators can easily search through the user g...

Will you get the volunteers you need to manage the chapter? You can't do it alone and neither can your board members. Some positions, more than others, need committee members and volunteers to get things done. M...

Adding a video to your website is a great way to give visitors more information about your chapter. To add a video to your website, begin by uploading the video. To do so, navigate to the Upload Videos...

Adding images to your pages is a great way to add interest to your website. To add an image to one of your pages, navigate to that page by clicking on the Page Content link (under Content Manager). Click on the link to the desired page

We are hard at work designing and testing the new Meeting Manager section of the admin area. While we aren't quite ready to show you the new design, we are dedicated to creating an easy-to-use interface for StarChapter and will keep you updated every s

One of the powerful features of StarChapter is the ability to customize your website to fit your chapter’s needs. Adding or changing navigational links is a great way to take advantage of this. For example, let’s say you would like to add a

Will you leave your chapter better than when you found it? It sounds like an obvious answer - but, in reality organizations, have what we call 'momentum' -- it is often much harder to change direction or improve a situation on something that

We have just released a new and improved layout for the calendar page. Please see below for an example of what this new layout looks like

StarChapter's Online Association Software makes Chapter Management Easy! StarChapter is an association software that allows board members to manage meeting registrations, payments, membership records, public and private communications, report

Sometimes it may be necessary to add a link to a downloadable file (such as a PDF or Word document) within some of the content on your site. In order to do this, you must first upload the file and then add the link. To upload the file...