Supercharge your membership

The Professional Association app addresses challenges facing professional and trade associations.

How does the association effectively effectively engage with its members?

Our research has shown that members overwhelmingly vote for mobile apps as an effective solution to the challenges facing professional associations.

  • How does the association push out member benefits to its members?
  • Or how does the association monetise and offer additional services and resource offerings to its members and non-members, for them to purchase?
  • What is an easy way for members to receive notifications, publications, committee communications etc?

Maiona UK has developed an innovative solution leveraging Artificial Intelligence to offer a whole slew of benefits in one application. 

 

What does the App do?

Highlighted features of the app

Member networking chat

Your members will be able to chat with one another. These could be members of a committee, depending on the member's access

Events Calendar

Events or conferences that are organised throughout the year appear in a calendar, and tickets can be purchased outright, or, can be added to a favourites list, for later purchase

AI chat

The app has a chat function that is powered by ChatGPT-4. Members are able to access quick answers on a custom trained model

Online shop

Once logged in, members are able to browse through a series of featured committee events, social events and purchase tickets for them. .

Removing blockers, becoming part of the dna of the association

How we can help

There can be many blockers on the road to adoption of a mobile app solution for your association:

  1. Integration with existing backend systems with the Association
  2. Availability of technically qualified staff to on-board solutions
  3. Poor Business Analysis and planning
  4. Digital Agency fees are unreasonably high.

“We understand that there is no one size-fits all. Business analysis is key to understand who the app is for and what problem it solves.”

All in one

The app consumes and processes data from various data points via APIs seamlessly. In other words, we can integrate with existing systems (eg membership directories) via APIs.

App build – defining the scope with Agile SCRUM practice

The app is built iteratively. That is, we use Agile SCRUM practice to ensure that the app is built steadily based on the user journey and inputs from various stakeholders, in small working increments.

The possibilities of making mistakes this way is greatly reduced, as the stakeholders (the commissioners of the app from the association) are actively involved in all stages of the production of the app.

Secure

When the app is accepted for use as a production version, the app is fully transferred within the association’s secure environment, with the app developers having no further access to any data.

Multi-factor authentication can be enabled to meet the requirements of data protection guidelines and other governance principles can be met including accessibility.

Customisable

The mobile app that is presented to you, has the features listed above, based on our experience and knowledge of the Professional (Trade) Association sector.

But it is a prototype and can be heavily modified to suit individual needs based on the scope that is built through the Business Analysis framework.

“An app of this nature is no longer a luxury, but is now a necessity, a vital tool in the efforts to engage with members and to build trust.”