Custom systems
Custom member portals and association management software for associations and manufacturers.
Old Plank Group builds the system behind the website: member and customer portals, online payments, stores, directories and association management software. Your members or customers sign in, pay, register and find what they need. Each build has one fixed price, then a flat monthly fee for hosting, security, updates and support.
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Membership
Active through June 30
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Continuing education
18 of 24 hours this cycle
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Spring Education Day
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What we build
Systems we build and support
- Member and customer portals
- A sign-in area where people renew, update their details, register for events, download certificates and see their history. For a manufacturer, the same idea becomes a dealer or customer portal with order history and price sheets behind a sign-in.
- Online payments
- Card payment for memberships, event tickets, sponsorships, job postings and products, with receipts sent automatically and a clear record for your bookkeeper.
- Association management software
- Membership, renewals and reminders, events, continuing education credits, a job board, member email and staff tools in one system your staff can run. We run our own association work on it every day.
- Online stores
- A store for your products or samples, built around how you sell and ship.
- Web and mobile apps
- An app built around one job your members, customers or crews do often, such as reordering, checking in or looking something up from a phone.
- Directories and databases
- Searchable listings of members, products, projects or dealers, kept current by the people listed in them.
Built and used
Our association software runs a professional association every day.
The same system we offer handles sign-in, renewals and reminders, event registration without an account, continuing education credits, a job board, firm plans and membership certificates. Staff and members use it every day.
When something needs to change, you talk to the team that runs the work and wrote the code.
Questions and answers
Questions about custom systems
Why custom instead of an off-the-shelf system?
A packaged system makes staff and members work around what the software cannot do. We build around your dues structure and your rules, and the same team that built the system makes the changes you ask for.
Who owns the data?
Your organization owns its domain and its member and customer data. If you ever leave, we export everything in standard formats and help with the move.
How is it priced?
The build has one fixed price, agreed after a scoping call. After launch there is a flat monthly fee for hosting, security, updates and support. There is no hourly billing.
Is it secure?
Sign-in uses one-time codes sent by email. Card payments are handled by the payment processor, so card numbers never touch our servers. Data is backed up nightly, and we review the code for security before each release.
Tell us how your organization works.
We will tell you what we would build and what it costs. We answer within one business day.