Case Study: United Star Distance Learning Consortium achieves streamlined registration, membership management, and automated database sync with CiviCRM

Registration front-end for organizations & memberships bridging into a 3-rd party web-app

United Star Distance Learning Consortium, a leader in satellite and blended distance education, needed a quickly deployed replacement website with a robust registration front end to support three account types, annual paid memberships, and parent organization/child member relationships. The project required perfect synchronization between the usdlc.org site and a proprietary third‑party database at usdlc‑l2l.org so that changes on the front‑end would propagate to the management console.

Allora Consulting implemented a CiviCRM solution—leveraging CiviCRM’s Membership and Organization/Individual relational modules—to provide the three‑type registration interface, organization↔member management, paid membership processing, and a sync mechanism to the proprietary database. The CiviCRM deployment enabled fast, reliable registration, semi‑automatic account synchronization, easier searching/editing of participants, clear participation status views, improved reporting and communications, and streamlined fee collection, effectively bringing the consortium out of operational chaos.

United Star Distance Learning Consortium

Sandy LaPlante

Business/Financial Director