Year 1 Feature List

This is the rough overview of what we want to build in year 1.

User area

1. User database

• ✅Database to save user data

2. Authentication

• ▶️Sign up / Sign in to access user protected area

• ❓user rights management, mainly paying members vs. non members

3. Email-Signup

• Capture an Email address and other information as “Lead”

• ✅Synch with email system (mailchimp) > consent

Different input channels/touchpoints

• event (manual or via live engagement)

• engagement sign up (e.g. fill in a form from crowd newsroom)

• ✅payment sign up

4. User profile

- ability to change certain personal data (eg. payment data)

• ✅easily login with my email address

• status based on membership status and interactions etc.

• Permissions: What can others see and search

• Manage Subscriptions/notifications

• delete my profile

5. User news stream/front page

• ✅See current “engagement opportunities” (e.g. call-outs, crowd research)

• access member content (e.g. financial reports, downloads), not paywall

6. Payment integration

Ensure that payment data can be handled in same place as user and member data.

• Integrate stripe for one-off or recurring payments

• ✅Allow to manually add user/ payment data

• ✅Autoreminders for renewal

• ✅sign up connected to payment

7. Mobile App

• Develop in a mobile friendly version or as an app.

8. Admin area

• Admin activation panel: Allow admin to access engagement tools and set up call-outs.

• Notification to user:

  • alert

  • ✅email

  • sms

  • whatsapp - telegram

  • notification on the phone

  • ✅postage

Track contacts/ overview on contacts

• ✅see all user profiles

• ✅be able to manually modify them if asked

• ➡️see/ track user activity

• ➡️manage verified expert status (expert for different topics)

• ✅see/ manage connection between experts & users

• Auto-update with integrated tools (e.g. mailchimp)

Customisable filters for segments:

• ✅contact information

• ➡️activity

9. Engagement Modules

➡️Minimal versions of the following engagement modules with templates to make the use easy.

• Voting

• Survey

• Crowdnewsroom integration

• Discourse integration

• Expert Circle

10. Further Integrations

• ➡️Eventbrite (via Zapier)

11. Analytics

• ➡️Engagement score

• Reporting on Activity, Communication and KPIs → Dashboard (To be defined)

• donor lifetime value

12. User data export

✅Export user data for use in other tools

✅Easy portability of data

13. Simple Referral system

• Allow to set up a referral campaign

14. Localisation/Internationalisation

• ➡️Software in German and English version

  • What is actually affected, looking at the feature list above? @sebastian (Translations of product copy, address fields in user profiles, but if payment is integrated via stripe, is it our problem?)