Membership Organizations

Membership organizations promote the interests of their members. This includes business associations, labor unions, professional and political organizations. Membership organizations are integral to the social fabric of society as mechanisms to pursue shared interests or address common concerns.

Membership organizations can create massive amounts of paper as they process membership information, but even more so, as they make efforts to communicate information to each other. The use of document management software in these organizations can help them eliminate costs associated with mailing and faxing information.  

Document Management Software Case Studies

Document management software can serve as a central repository of the organizations history such as in the case of the Foursquare Church who deployed FileHold Software to manage their historical archives of information gathered since 1920.  This archive is searched up to 200 times per day for specific information relative to the churches history.

"After we participated in the FileHold webinar we knew it was the perfect system for us, so much so that we didn’t even bother with demos of the final two products —FileHold was that good,” said Steve Zeleny, Foursquare Church Archivist.

Document management software can also be used to convert cabinets of documents into electronic information such as in the case of Union local CAW 4209 who were out of space in their office, and were having difficulty finding documents. It was time to clear the office of the five filing cabinets that took up much of the space in their office. 

“It’s so much easier to look something up than the way we were doing it previously (checking filing cabinets and storage boxes). What a time saver! FileHold will eliminate ¾ of our filling cabinets in my office,” said Don Lajoie of CAW 4209. 

Features of the Document Management System

There are many features document management software features that can help membership organizations go paperless. The following are a few that are especially important for membership organizations.

• Full Text Search: Find what you need based on Powerful Full-text and Tag Based search. The document management software allows users to save simple or advanced search queries as Saved Searches. When opened, the search is run providing users with an up to the minute view of the content in the document management software that matches the search criteria.
• Document Archive: Retain document, data and usage history needed to stay in compliance with SOX, HIPPA and your own membership requirements..
• Version control: Document version control software provides: check in / checkout ability preventing documents from being overwritten or deleted as documents are updated by more than one party. All versions of a document are maintained by the document management software in the event that a rollback is required. Users are able to check out/in documents from any FileHold client including a standard web browser, from within Microsoft Office applications or using the FileHold Desktop Application.