British Council for Offices

Business Background

Established in 1990, The British Council for Offices (BCO) is Britain’s leading forum for issues affecting the office sector. Their remit is to formulate best practice in all aspects of the office sector. Its members are organisations that are involved in creating, acquiring or occupying office space e.g. architects,surveyors, lawyers, financial institutions or public agencies.        

Solution

Subscribe360 launched a website and a Subscribe360 solution for the British Council for Offices. Subscribe360 members' portal was deployed to underpin the new membership system from the BCO. This has been fully integrated with the rest of the website at www.bco.org.uk .

The Subscribe360 members' portal solution was configured to provide:

  • Account & Contact management
  • Membership records
  • Payments & Invoicing with Sage integration
  • Committee
  • Events & Conference management

This has been complemented with a range of workflows to automate business processes and a full suite of management reports. In addition to putting in place the new membership solution, Subscribe360 were commissioned to undertake a full data migration from the previous membership solution.

The new website is fully integrated with Subscribe360 to allow for membership records to be automatically pushed through to the website - e.g. Events, Publications etc.

The online payment gateway is also integrated with Subscribe360 Finance Feature, ensuring that all outstanding payments can be paid online. Payments recorded in Subscribe360 are imported to Sage Line 50, ensuring a fully integrated solution.

In terms of the website delivery Subscribe360 were responsible for:

  • Creative Design
  • Site Skeleton Build
  • Membership Portal with Self Service functionality
  • Social Media Integration