// USE-CASE · MEMBERSHIP MANAGEMENT
Membership management is more than just tracking payments.
One platform for your entire membership organisation. Smooth communication, engaged members, transparent information and operations that don’t slow down — but get stronger.
CRM for basic details, Excel for registrations.
Mailchimp for newsletters, WhatsApp groups for working groups.
Documents scattered across SharePoint, Dropbox, Teams and personal drives.
And nobody really knows who needs to know what.
One platform. One membership organisation. One source of truth.
// THE COMPLETE MEMBERSHIP ORGANISATION
One platform. Everything your organisation needs.
From complete member profiles to targeted communication, from working groups to registration forms — Ishtar365 brings it together in one central environment on your own Microsoft 365.
Modular deployment, managed without consultants, with all data on your own tenant.
A complete member profile
All information in one place. Thanks to metadata, you find everything quickly — without folder structures or searching.
- Details, roles & articles
- Memberships & history
- Communication preferences
- Documents & agreements
Targeted communication
Not everyone needs to read everything. With interest groups and targeted channels, every member only receives relevant information.
- Tailored communication
- Update notifications
- News via Updates
- Transparent internally & externally
Organising working groups
Volunteers, project teams, theme groups? Every working group managed digitally — with external members via the extranet.
- Documents & tasks
- Minutes & attendance
- External members via extranet
- Permissions per group
Activities & registrations
Information evenings, sports activities, training sessions, general meetings — managed via digital forms with automatic follow-up.
- Online registrations
- Automatic confirmations
- Overviews for organisers
- Documents linked to member
Transparent access rights
Everyone only sees what they're allowed to see. Work safely with external members, volunteers and temporary partners.
- Volunteers & external members
- Subgroups & temporary partners
- Ad-hoc working groups
- Integrated permissions structure
Document management (DMS)
Articles, contracts, reports, newsletter archive — all in one place, searchable via metadata, linked to the right member or working group.
- Automatic version control
- Searchable via metadata
- Linked to every member
// THE STRONGEST POINT
From scattered to one central organisation.
"A membership organisation is only as strong as its communication. But when your member profiles are in CRM, registrations in Excel, newsletters in Mailchimp and working groups on WhatsApp — you lose structure, knowledge and engagement."
- One member profile with everything on it: contracts, payments, roles
- One click on a member shows all activities, documents, communication
- Working groups with external members via a secure extranet
- Registrations with automatic follow-up and confirmations
- AI-ready: structured data ready for Copilot & Power BI
For every organisation with members.
Whether you have 100 or 10,000 members — Ishtar365 grows with your organisation.
For a fixed annual price you get an unlimited number of visitors.
Fixed price per year. Unlimited visitors.
100 or 10,000 members — the price stays the same. No surprises, no scaling costs, predictable budgets.
Membership management that moves your organisation forward.
Want to leave behind manual follow-up, scattered tools and fragmented communication? Discover how Ishtar365 strengthens your membership organisation — book a no-obligation demo and get inspired.
Questions about the Membership Management module.
Everything you want to know about membership management on Microsoft 365: from implementation time to working groups, communication and GDPR. The answers your board wants before booking the demo.
What is the difference between Ishtar365 Membership Management and Salesforce (Nonprofit Cloud)?
Ishtar365 Membership Management runs on your own Microsoft 365 and SharePoint environment, so member records, working groups, documents and communications live where your team already works: in Outlook, Teams and SharePoint.
Unlike Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, there are no per-seat licenses for advanced features, no multi-year implementations and no army of consultants needed. You pay a fixed annual price for unlimited visitors, and your data stays inside your own tenant instead of an external cloud.
How quickly is the Membership Management module implemented?
Implementation typically takes days to a few weeks, depending on the number of modules and the complexity of your membership operations. Thanks to no-code configuration, your team can adapt member fields, membership types, working groups and workflows without developers.
Most organisations start with a base setup and expand in a modular way.
Can one member belong to multiple working groups or organisations?
Yes. A single member record can be linked to multiple roles, working groups and organisations at the same time. For example board member in the main association, volunteer in a working group and external advisor in a temporary project.
A change to the email address or contact details is automatically applied everywhere, and distribution lists respect the role per group.
Does Ishtar365 Membership Management support reporting and KPIs?
Yes. Built-in DataGrids give you real-time overviews of active members, membership fee payments, attendance at activities and evolution per category or working group.
Reports are exportable to PDF for the board, and you can generate documents such as certificates or badges directly from the member record without leaving the platform.
Is my member data GDPR-compliant and secure?
All data stays inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant. Ishtar365 inherits the Microsoft security standards, supports rights management at metadata level and offers a full audit trail per record.
The platform is GDPR-compliant by design, without an external data warehouse and without shadow IT. External members and volunteers work via a secure extranet with separate permissions.
Can the Membership Management module be combined with other Ishtar365 modules?
Yes, that is the power of the modular approach. Membership Management integrates seamlessly with Document Management for statutes and contracts, with Workflow Automation for registrations and approvals, with Intranet and Extranet for member and group portals, and with Communication for targeted newsletters.
Start with Membership Management and add what you need, when you need it.
Is Ishtar365 Membership Management AI-ready?
Yes. Because all member data is stored in a structured way in Microsoft 365, you can layer AI on top via Copilot or Power BI. From automatic classification of incoming emails to member segmentation and the automatic drafting of working group minutes.
The central data structure is what makes AI actually work, instead of hallucinations on scattered data.
