Hi All,

Welcome to this occasional Newsletter from Activity Exchange. Please circulate around your Club as you see fit.

A slightly late Happy New Year to you all. This month we have a bumper edition, and it's in HTML!


In this issue

1. Membership System                    New Feature
2. Renewals Online                      New Feature
3. Profile Improvements                 New Feature
4. Immediate Backups                    New Feature
5. Bulletin Labels                      New Feature
6. FAQ's



1. Membership System

After many months of hard work Activity Exchange has a Membership System

You can now record all the details of your members in Activity Exchange which opens up many more features and opportunities.

Every Club is different and to cater for all Clubs the system has been built to be quite sophisticated and flexible. You can choose which items of data you want to hold for your members and you can setup a number of parameters or variables such as what your Clubs Membership Rates are.

You can find out more here
http://ActivityExchange.com/MembershipSystem.asp



2. Renewals Online

If your Club uses the new Membership System and you use PayPal your members can Renew their membership online.

This is obviously very quick and simple for the Member and massively reduces the admin burden for your club.

Check it out here
http://ActivityExchange.com/RenewOnline.asp



3. Profile Improvements

The Profile feature has been expanded so it supports all the new data items introduced with the Membership System.

This means that your Members can easily see what information your Club holds on them. This is great for complying with the Data Protection Act and also of course builds your members confidence in you.

Many of the items your Members can change themselves which is self-service for the Members and zero admin effort for the Club.

You can see more about the Profile feature here
http://ActivityExchange.com/PersonProfile.asp

Everyone can see their Profile here
http://ActivityExchangecom/Profile.asp



4. Immediate Backups

For the safety and security of your Clubs data, Activity Exchange has long had a feature of automatically, Weekly by default, sending Backups to your Club of all your Activities and all your Person Data. This means that if Activity Exchange was to disappear one day your data would be safe (Activity Exchange has been running for 12 years now and has no intention of disappearing).

More information about Backups here
http://ActivityExchange.com/ActivityBackupEmail.asp
http://ActivityExchange.com/PersonBackupEmail.asp

These Backups are very useful but they do not allow you to get hold of a current copy of the data so you can do some offline processing of it.

For a while now this has been possible with the Activity Data, specifically targeted at Bulletin Production.

More here
http://ActivityExchange.com/DiaryProduction.asp

You can now do this with your Clubs Person data. This means you can download all your Members data on request and use it for whatever offline processing you want. This is quite safe - the data is encrypted and only goes to the same people who get the, normally Weekly, Person Backup.

More about this here
http://ActivityExchange.com/ImmediateBackups.asp



5. Bulletin Labels

Activity Exchange can now produce on demand Bulletin Labels for you to print.

They come in a variety of formats including as a PDF in up to three different popular label types.

You can even have them sent to whoever prints your Bulletin as a regular scheduled email - with a count of how many Bulletins you want.

Find out more here
http://ActivityExchange.com/BulletinLabelsfaq.asp



6. FAQ's

Activity Exchange has an extensive set of FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions).

If you want to get the best out of Activity Exchange then reading through some of the over 50 articles is a good place to start.

http://ActivityExchange.com/faq.asp




Hope this email has been interesting and useful. Feedback and suggestions always welcome.
http://activityexchange.com/feedback.asp


Kind Regards

Pete Norris
0788 599 4090