# Membership management software - useful?
**URL:** https://community.coops.tech/t/membership-management-software-useful/3224
**Category:** Technology
**Tags:** software
**Created:** [31 May 2022 17:48 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/membership-management-software-useful/3224 "2022-05-31T17:48:02Z")
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### Author:  [@calummackervoy](https://community.coops.tech/u/calummackervoy)
#### Post date: [31 May 2022 17:48 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/membership-management-software-useful/3224/1 "2022-05-31T17:48:02Z")
Startin’Blox wrote some software for managing memberships in a [co-op in France which supports/mutualises local renewable energy infrastructure](https://energie-partagee.org). The membership structure and the way contributions are levied (I believe) works in a similar way to CoTech
They had written the app to be reusable. Louis had asked me about whether I thought it would be useful in CoTech and I’d said that I didn’t think it would be, but I realised that I’m not that much involved in the management of fund contributions and I might have been wrong about this? Ping @SzczepanOfAnimorph who wrote the [pilot year report](https://community.coops.tech/t/cotech-fund-pilot-year-report/1948)
The code is open-source and the DjangoLDP package can be found [here](https://git.startinblox.com/energie-partagee/djangoldp_energiepartagee), the front-end can be found [here](https://git.startinblox.com/energie-partagee/sib-energiepartagee). Startin’Blox sells support on this software and I could enquire about costs and our software needs. I provided some support to the main developer and know about the back-end code and technologies used
If anyone has another use for the software then feel free to ping me a message
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### Author:  [@dajbelshaw](https://community.coops.tech/u/dajbelshaw)
#### Post date: [6 June 2022 11:27 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/membership-management-software-useful/3224/2 "2022-06-06T11:27:32Z")
Hey @calummackervoy thanks for the heads-up on this. So it’s kind of Open Collective meets Loomio? 🤔
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### Author:  [@calummackervoy](https://community.coops.tech/u/calummackervoy)
#### Post date: [9 June 2022 13:47 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/membership-management-software-useful/3224/3 "2022-06-09T13:47:24Z")
Hey @dajbelshaw ! To describe it quickly it’s mostly a kind of CRM with tracking of dues/payments via email reminders etc…
Basically the use case is to make sure that the members’ information is up to date, that the dues are automatically generated and sent and that the contribution status is up to date
I had this in mind for managing CoTech members and fund contributions (our contributions are optional, but standardised at a fixed-rate per member I think?), and I wondered if it would spark interest from another co-op or one of their clients
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### Author:  [@dajbelshaw](https://community.coops.tech/u/dajbelshaw)
#### Post date: [17 June 2022 10:19 UTC](https://community.coops.tech/t/membership-management-software-useful/3224/4 "2022-06-17T10:19:30Z")
Interesting, thanks Calum 🙂