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Membership Management

Upbeat, a modern membership system from Professional Advantage, uniquely harnesses Microsoft technology to streamline the critical functions of a membership organisation.

With Upbeat, membership organisations can immediately onboard and renew members, manage events and conferences, and schedule courses and track CPD without the need for customisations. Developed within Dynamics 365, Upbeat’s interoperability with Office 365, Power BI, Copilot, and the Dynamics 365 suite of financial applications is a must for any association.

Membership

Manage the entire member life-cycle with ease from application to onboarding, and renewals through to ongoing membership management.

Events and Conferences

Streamline event and conference planning with event templates. Manage member and non-member pricing, capacity, waitlists, ticketing, and seating.

Education and Professional Development

Provide comprehensive education offerings ranging from a single subject and micro-credentials through to full courses (certifications and credentials) with CPD tracking.

Relationship Management

One system that includes comprehensive functionality across all business streams allows for superior Relationship Management.

Marketing

Intelligently segment, target, and track your members and non-members to increase onboarding and engagement.

Financial Management

From membership, events, and conferences, through to course revenue and expense, provide full profit and loss and balance sheet reporting, from paying suppliers, through to all financial reconciliations.

Microsoft Copilot (AI)

Get a quick summary of your sponsorship opportunities and new member lead records, catch up on recent changes to their records, prepare for meetings, streamline customer service responses, and read the latest news about their accounts.

Member Portal and CMS

Provide your members with the real-time ability to self-service with registrations, purchases, content, and access and update ability to their associated information.

Data Insights

Gain deeper insights with a unified view of member interaction and engagement and measure the effectiveness of your campaigns to attract and engage members.

Advocacy

Track all advocacy interactions from phone calls, meetings, emails, etc, through to outcomes.

Financial Management

Revenue and Expense Deferrals

Automate the deferral process for accurate accounting period revenue and expense recognition.

Reconciliations

Save days of effort in mundane tasks of bank, general ledger, and credit card reconciliations with automated reconciliations processes.

CoPilot & AI

Speed through tasks, build momentum, and improve processes with Copilot, built on Microsoft cloud with enterprise security.

Key Financial Statements

Maintain transparency, ensure compliance, and build trust with members and stakeholders with built-in financial statements.

Budgeting and Forecasting

Leverage associations specific budget and forecast models to keep tabs on revenue and costs related to the association's activities.

Analytics

Don't rely on a hunch! Enable a data-driven culture with actionable data and insights that drive revenue and advance your association.

Data Analytics

Event Performance Metrics

Identify registration trends, monitor event profitability, and track your events’ performance against your goals.

LMS Engagement Analytics

Combine LMS data with membership data to gain valuable insights into the specific interests and learning preferences of different member segments, enabling you to optimise your marketing strategy accordingly.

Membership Analytics

Unlock actionable insights about new member acquisition, engagement, and retention trends from your membership data to help drive strategic growth and member retention.

AI

Microsoft Copilot (AI)

Embrace the AI-powered future of work. Leverage Microsoft’s next-generation AI-infused within the Microsoft cloud platform.

Copilot and Microsoft 365

Use AI assistance to draft emails and set up meetings in Outlook with data from your Dynamics 365 CRM platform. Generate meeting summaries in Outlook and Microsoft Teams and save them to your membership management platform.

Copilot and Dynamics 365

Get the most out of Copilot with predefined prompts in Microsoft CRM. Ask questions in natural language, receive quick summaries of sponsorship opportunities, track changes in member records, and prepare for meetings. These are only a few cases in which Copilot can help you improve productivity in your daily work.

Process Automation

The Microsoft platform provides a robust suite of fully integrated automation tools designed to help streamline processes, improve productivity, and enhance the member experience.

Automated Task and Workflow Management

With Power Automate, you can automate repetitive tasks across Dynamics 365 CRM and other applications in the Microsoft ecosystem. For example, you can send follow-up emails after a meeting, update member records based on external data, or alert team members when a task reaches a specific stage.

Automated Email Engagement Tracking and Follow-ups

Build automations to track email interactions (opens, clicks, replies) and schedule follow-ups based on engagement levels. Membership teams can better time their outreach and improve customer engagement by setting up automated follow-ups based on customer responses.

Marketing Automation

Dynamics 365 offers customer journeys, email marketing, lead scoring, marketing pages, and social posting, allowing you to connect your marketing and member processes seamlessly.

Copilot in marketing helps teams quickly build customer segments for email campaigns using natural language. Then, with the content ideas tool, they can generate tailored email content, adjusting the tone to suit their audience. This allows marketers to spend less time on segmentation and copywriting and more time on strategic marketing.


The benefits of interoperability within the Microsoft platform

Microsoft Dynamics 365 offers robust interoperability with other Microsoft applications, enhancing productivity and streamlining business processes.

Here are some key integrations:

SharePoint

Integration with SharePoint allows for document management and storage, making it easy to link documents to Dynamics 365 records.

Azure Services

Dynamics 365 leverages Azure for cloud services, enhancing scalability, security, and performance. Azure Logic Apps and Azure Functions can be used to create custom integrations and automate processes.

Power Platform

Dynamics 365 works seamlessly with Power BI, Power Apps, and Power Automate. This integration allows for detailed advanced data analytics and visualisations, custom app development with Dynamics 365 CRM data, and automated workflows.

Microsoft Teams

Integration with Teams enables real-time collaboration. Users can share Dynamics 365 records, chat, and conduct meetings without leaving the Teams environment.

Microsoft Office 365

Dynamics 365 integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 tools like Outlook, Teams, Excel, and Word, enabling users to access CRM data, collaborate, and manage tasks directly within these familiar applications, boosting productivity.

AI and Machine Learning

Integrated with Azure AI, Dynamics 365 CRM can enhance customer insights and operational efficiencies by leveraging AI models in applications like Dynamics 365 Customer Insights and Copilot. These applications support predictive analytics, customer segmentation, and real-time decision-making.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP

Bi-directional integration between Upbeat and Microsoft Dynamics 365 ERP enables users to automate finance functions, enhancing productivity and ensuring timely data for financial compliance and reporting.

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