Here is a list of critical features organizations should look for, when choosing an efficient member management system:

• Customizable Site Templates: A member management system should offer numerous customization options for ensuring a user-friendly environment that matches the organization’s requirements. Make it a point to choose a member management system that offers one click template selection and other customization features including the option to select a different layout for each theme.
• Users & Groups: Users are an integral part of a member management system. An efficient member management system should offer features such as uploading users from active directories, creating user groups, granting different access levels to different user groups, managing role permissions, managing user modules, etc.
• Import User Listing: Manually updating the details of an individual user requires a lot of time and is prone to errors. Thus, the capability to import user details from an existing list is a critical feature of an efficient member management system. It should allow uploading and publishing of user details on the app and site.
• Apps As Building Blocks: It is common to use different apps for creating different forms of content such as videos, images, documents, etc. This creates a need for the member management system to allow easy upload of the content generated by different apps. The system should allow integration of apps as building blocks for seamless creation and publishing of videos, photo gallery, news, calendar & events, announcements, etc.
• Content Sharing: In order to serve the rightful purpose, a member management system should allow users to share content with each other. The content generators should be offered the facility to share different content with selective user groups.
• Administer Surveys: User surveys are an important tool for promoting business growth. A member management system should offer a platform for survey administration by providing necessary forms for gathering required information and feedback from the members. This helps in cost management by ruling out the need for a separate software.
• Hosting & Security: A member management system has a lot of data including personal details of users and content shared across the platform. Thus, choose a system that offers extensive hosting & security features to ensure data protection.

At Scope7, we make sure to design customized Member Management System for your organization. Our focus is to deliver easy to setup systems that facilitate a smooth transformation. The Member Management Systems designed by our team offer various benefits including convenient administration, scalability, mobile-friendly design, rich content creation, and extensive reporting.

The available eCommerce solutions can be broadly classified into 3 categories:

• Open-Source: In case of open-source platform, businesses can modify all aspects of the code. The business stays responsible for PCI compliance, hosting, manual patch/update release from the platform provider, security, and QA for additional applications. Additionally, the responsibility for building new tools for the site including discount/promotion engines, also lays on the business itself.
• SaaS: SaaS stands for Software as a Service. Instead of building or developing a custom solution as in case of Open-Source solution, the businesses rent the SaaS solution from a provider. So, the tasks such as product update, security, hosting, and PCI compliance are managed by the platform provider.
• Headless Commerce: It is a type of Commerce-as-a-Service (CaaS) eCommerce solution. In this type, the shopping cart is decoupled from the Content Management System (CMS). The business makes use of a Design Experience Platform (DXP) or a CMS and then plugs in the decoupled shopping cart solution. This results in lower overall cost and reduces the timeline in which the solution can be made available to the market.

For choosing a suitable eCommerce solution, organizations need to consider some basic features in addition to the type of eCommerce solution:

• Hosting environment, domain name, average uptime and bandwidth
• Unlimited API call volumes
• Website builder with free and user-friendly themes
• Numerous applications with built-in integrations
• Mobile optimized and fully customizable site and checkout process
• PCI compliance
• SEO features and fully customizable URLs throughout the site
• Built-in basic eCommerce features including catalog management, analytics, etc.
• Social media integration
• Easy scalability to include different payment gateways and options
• SEO tools
• Easy product search
• Integrated ratings & reviews
• Multiple product photos

Customer experience is an important factor that governs the success of an eCommerce business. So, make it a point to ask the eCommerce solution provider for features such as ability to handle subscriptions, recurring product orders, real-time shipment tracking, reward points program compatibility, and ability to send abandoned cart emails.

At Scope7, we utilize our experience to analyze your business requirements and help you choose a suitable eCommerce solution.