Membership operations become fragmented when public information, member accounts, resources, events and administration live in separate workflows.
The approach
IFDO connects a bilingual public website with distinct member and administrative workspaces. Membership records, account access and public profile visibility have separate rules, so an imported member record, an active membership and a published directory profile can be managed deliberately.
The work
Bilingual public website and member workspace
Membership and profile management
Public directory, resources and programs
Events and administrative workflows
Member import and account-access foundations
Membership finance review and certificate workflows
Email and WhatsApp notification foundations
An institution’s daily work
Public presence. Member participation. Staff oversight.
Public workspace
Make the institution discoverable.
The Arabic and English website introduces the organization, its activities and resources. The member directory makes published organizational profiles and individual expertise searchable without exposing private account information.
Member workspace
Give membership a practical home.
Members can work with their profile, membership information, resources, programs, events and certificates in one place. Imported membership records can exist before a person claims access, preserving the institution’s existing records during the move online.
Administrative workspace
Support the decisions behind participation.
Staff manage applications, members, finance review, content, events and communications. Activation follows payment confirmation or an administrative finance decision, while certificates and notifications support the resulting membership journey.
A consequential architecture decision
Three records with different responsibilities.
Login account
Who can sign in and manage the record.
Membership
The institution’s relationship with the member, including activation and finance review.
Public profile
What visitors can discover in the directory.
Keeping these responsibilities distinct lets the institution import existing members, grant account access and publish profiles deliberately. Public contact information also remains separate from verified notification recipients.
Inside the public platform
A searchable member directory
The live public directory brings organizations, companies and individual expertise into a searchable, filterable view.Explore the live directory ↗