Member business
Sees only their own businesses.
- Pages
- Home, Calendar, My listing, Invoices, Member benefits
- Can start
- Upload a file
Chamber of commerce member portal & directory
A chamber of commerce portal is where local businesses apply to join, staff approve each new member, residents browse a public business directory, and members get the events calendar and renewal reminders.
Pattern: DirectoryDescribe it to Pory
“We're a town chamber of commerce. Businesses apply to join and staff approve them; we need a public business directory, an events calendar and renewal reminders.”
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Join Bayport Chamber of Commerce
Create your account as a member business. We'll email you a link to finish.
In plain English
How Pory sets it up
Pory gives every member business and chamber staff a sign-in of their own. Each member business sees only their own businesses. It covers business members & events. Businesses, invoices, uploads, events, from the chamber and chamber team live in Pory's own database, so there's no spreadsheet to keep in sync.
What it does
Local businesses sign themselves up instead of posting a paper form
Joining the chamber meant a PDF application, a phone call and two weeks of silence. In Pory a business owner creates their own account from the chamber's site, lands in the member business role, and adds the details staff need to approve them. The office stops chasing missing pages of an application form.
Self sign-up into a roleDone by: Member business
Chamber staff approve or decline each new business, reason attached
Applications waited in a tray until the monthly board meeting, and applicants heard nothing in between. In Pory staff open each application, check the business, its category and its proof of address, and approve or decline it with a note on the record saying why. Applicants stop calling to ask whether their form arrived.
Approve / reject with a reasonDone by: Chamber staff
Residents browse member businesses as cards on a public page
The member directory was a printed booklet plus a web page someone updated when they remembered. In Pory the directory is a public gallery of member businesses, each card showing the name, category and a line about what they do. A new bakery can be found the week it joins, not in next year's booklet.
Gallery & image gridDone by: Member business
Networking breakfasts, workshops and the awards night on one chamber calendar
Event dates went out in a monthly email that members read, meant to act on, and lost. In Pory staff put every breakfast, workshop and City Hall briefing on a calendar members can open whenever they're planning the week. Fewer members ask the office whether the breakfast is this Thursday or next.
CalendarDone by: Member business
Member businesses get a nudge ahead of their renewal date
Renewals were chased by phone in two busy weeks each spring, and a few businesses always slipped through. In Pory each member business carries its own renewal date, and its contact gets a reminder in the portal and by email ahead of it. Staff spend those two weeks on events instead of phone calls.
Notifications & remindersDone by: Member business
Who sees what in a chamber of commerce portal
Every person signs in to their own view. This is what each role in the demo gets.
Chamber staff
Sees every business in the portal.
- Pages
- Home, Businesses, Renewals, Uploads, Events
- Can start
- Ask for a file, Add an event
- Decides
- Marks businesses Approved or Declined, with a reason
What’s in the chamber of commerce portal template
The tables and fields Pory sets up for this portal. Describe your own version and change any of them in the editor.
Businesses
- Business (text)
- Category (choice: Retail, Food & drink, Professional services, Trades, Health & wellness)
- Contact (link)
- Renewal date (date)
- Status (choice: Applied, Approved, Declined)
- What we do (long text)
- Website (text)
- Decision note (long text)
Invoices
- For (text)
- Invoice (text)
- Issued (date)
- Due (date)
- Amount ($) (number)
- Status (choice: Issued, Paid, Overdue)
- Contact (link)
Uploads
- What we need (text)
- Needed by (date)
- Kind (choice: Logo, Photo, Proof of address, Insurance)
- File (file)
- Status (choice: Requested, Uploaded, Checked)
- Contact (link)
Events
- Event (text)
- Date (date)
- Time (time)
- Type (choice: Networking, Workshop, Awards, City Hall briefing)
- Venue (text)
From the chamber
- Title (text)
- Shared on (date)
- Kind (choice: Guidance, Newsletter, Public comment)
- File (file)
Chamber team
- Name (text)
- Role (text)
- Email (text)
The parts behind this portal
Each one reads and writes the same records, so a form, its approval and the status page someone checks are one system. How Pory builds a portal
Collect
1 partSelf sign-up
People create their own account and land in the role you chose for them.
Decide
2 partsApprove / reject with a reason
Decision buttons for whoever may edit the status. Who decided, when, and why stays on the record.
Reminders by date
Renewals, expiries and overdue work, in an in-app inbox and by email.
Share
2 partsCalendar
Records on a month or week view, by date.
Gallery & image grid
Records as cards or photos.
Control
3 partsWho sees which records
Each person sees their own records, the ones assigned to them, or the ones they manage. Fields can be hidden per role. Pory sets this up from your description, and you can adjust it in the editor.
Passwordless sign-in
A sign-in link by email, by default. Password sign-in if you'd rather.
Your brand
Your domain, your colors, your logo. Members see you.
Frequently asked questions
A member business signs in with a link sent to their email and lands on Home. They see Home, Calendar, My listing, Invoices and Member benefits, and only the businesses that are theirs. From there they can use “Upload a file”.
Chamber staff decide: they mark each one Approved or Declined and give a reason. Everyone else sees the decision and the reason on the record, without the buttons to change it.
The public pages: Business directory. Anything about a particular person stays behind their sign-in.
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