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News
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Social media integration
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Events
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Map
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Email integration
Achieve more in your club
with your own club app.
Finally bring all your members on board and communicate quickly & easily.
With your own club app, communication within your club becomes straightforward and effective.
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News
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Private messages
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Profile settings
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Social media integration
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Search by name
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Events
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Documents
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Group chats
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Map
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Email integration
200,000+ users in associations, clubs and communities of all kinds
The 6 biggest problems most clubs face
#1 Important club communication runs through channels that don’t reach everyone (e.g. WhatsApp).
#2 You can’t keep your members fully informed quickly and from anywhere.
#3 Signing up for events is often complicated, when it should be simple.
#4 Outsiders miss many events, because social media is time-consuming and doesn’t reach everyone.
#5 Managing member data takes up far too much time and energy, even though it could be handled efficiently.
#6 There’s no simple way to attract people interested in the club and turn them into members.
#1 Important club communication runs through channels that don’t reach everyone (e.g. WhatsApp).
#2 You can’t keep your members fully informed quickly and from anywhere.
#3 Signing up for events is often complicated, when it should be simple.
#4 Outsiders miss many events, because social media is time-consuming and doesn’t reach everyone.
#5 Managing member data takes up far too much time and energy, even though it could be handled efficiently.
#6 There’s no simple way to attract people interested in the club and turn them into members.
The solution:
your own app
With your club app, you reach all your members instead of just small groups within the club. Younger users get push notifications, while older ones are kept informed by email.
Managing your members’ data takes hardly any time, because it is tied into your club communication.
Every member has the club with them at all times, keeps their details up to date and can get actively involved.
What your own club app can do:
Simple.
Everyone finds the app intuitive. Important information and features are right there when you need them.
Clear.
The club app is refreshingly clear at a glance. Everything is clearly labelled and structured, so members find their way around easily.
Feature-rich.
Anyone who wants to do more than read posts can:
events, group chats, map, documents and more – features that everyone can use.
Connacted.
The club app connects with your systems (CRM, member data, website) so you can manage everything in one place.
And much more...
Interviews with
our customers.
A small selection from over 100 partnerships.
BEST OF
The most relevant voices from these customers:
- Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Alumni e.V.)
- Landesfeuerwehrverband Bayern e.V.
- Soroptimist International Deutschland e.V.
- Unisono, Projekt3 gGmbH, LandFrauen Pfalz and many more
Alumni-Verein der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
Dr. Alexander Bode
- “The members are – there’s no other way to put it – thrilled.”
- “Usage keeps growing steadily.”
- “The app has been a huge step forward for us.”
Soroptimist International Deutschland e.V.
Anne Dörrhöfer
- “Even we were pleasantly surprised by how lively the exchange was.”
- “Without the app, we could never have changed the venue of the World Convention.”
- “Effort – low. Cost – fair. Benefit – HUGE!”
Deutsche Musik- und Orchestervereinigung e.V.
Jan-Christian Hübsch
- “We deliberately named the app ‘unisono social’ because it’s how we connect and engage with our members.”
- “The app went down well with every age group.”
- “Connact works quickly and professionally – hats off to them.”
LandFrauen-Verband Pfalz e.V.
Sarah Ludy
- “Through the app, our members get inspiration from other local groups – that’s really important to us!”
- “The app lets the association engage directly with its members – that just wouldn’t work by email.”
- “Working with Connact has always been very professional and focused.”
Kiwanis International Deutschland e.V.
Achim Härterich
- “The app lets me communicate across every level of our club.”
- “Data protection was particularly important to us.”
- “If working with every service provider were like working with Connact, it would be a dream.”
What our customers say
“Before we introduced the app, we found it hard to reach our grassroots – that has improved significantly. Within a short time, we had far more app users than newsletter subscribers.”
“Connact is a true partner. The app could be flexibly adapted to our needs, and Connact has supported us closely from launch right up to today.”
Landesfeuerwehrverband Bayern e.V.
Isabelle Fenske - Deputy Managing Director
“With the app, I can communicate across every level of our association. Data protection was especially important to us.”
“Working with Connact is going brilliantly. If every service provider were like this, it would be a dream.”
Kiwanis International Deutschland e.V.
Achim Härterich - Governor (Chair)
“Our Ambassador app is our central communication and management tool.”
“The app makes us more modern, faster, livelier and more transparent – and with its guest feature it’s a big help with attracting new members, too.”
“Working with Connact is enjoyable and professional.”
International Ambassador Club
John M. Callahan - President
“Information used to get lost or arrive very late. The app has solved that problem.”
“There’s always a great atmosphere in the app, too – it’s our internal marketing channel.”
“We were one of your first customers, and it’s incredible how much has happened since then.”
Projekt3 gGmbH
Uwe Berens - Managing Director
Working with
Connact GmbH in 3 steps
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Together, we develop your tailor-made club app.
- In your club’s design, for smartphones and PCs.
- We build the app and its features – you give feedback, we make adjustments.
- Once the app is up and running, you can customise everything else yourself.
What should the app look like? Who can read, write and comment on what? What structures are there? Which roles and permissions do you need? We configure all of this together in the app.
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The app takes off, with new users joining every day
- Your members will love your app – we guarantee it.
- We support you in communicating and establishing the app
- Even after the launch, we stay in close contact with you about the app
You’re the expert on your club, and we’re the experts on apps and digital communication. Together, we’ll make the app a success in your community.
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Your club comes alive and you can win over new people
- The app is established and having its full impact.
- We regularly discuss which adjustments to make.
- You and your members can now communicate faster and more directly
Once the app has taken hold among your members, they won’t be able to imagine life without it. There’s a bit of work ahead of us until then, and we’ll be by your side every step of the way.
We had the same problems in our club.
Before founding Connact GmbH, our founding team worked in various clubs and associations ourselves (both professionally and as volunteers). Everywhere we went, we ran into the same problems: too little exchange and too little networking among members.
So, as a kind of grassroots movement, we developed our own app for clubs – and it turned things around! Our successors in the club say so too. Because it was introduced “from the bottom up”, it is tried and tested and popular with members.
After this successful start in our own club, other related clubs approached us to roll out the club app too. Following these successes, we founded Connact GmbH in 2016. Since then, we have been developing and running apps for over 100 clubs and associations.
Jonathan Hildebrand · Managing Director, Connact GmbH
Member of the Bundesverband
Community Management e.V.
100,000+ users in clubs across every sector.
With your own club app, you bring everyone on board – young and old – and have more time for what really matters.
All your questions answered.
Yes, you get a real iOS and Android app, plus a web app for use in the browser (on a PC/Mac). A “real” app means a genuine, native app – not just a progressive web app (PWA). Your own app can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play as usual.
Yes, the app is 100% compliant with the GDPR & data protection law. See “How is members’ data protected?”
In short: Because it gives your users added value they wouldn’t have without the app.
In detail: The average smartphone user in Germany has 66 apps installed. So apps are a real success story. Why? One big advantage is push notifications. They let you reach your members faster and more directly than ever before, and your members can also communicate with each other in real time.
- People install apps to try them out or because they’ve been recommended. They stay on the phone if they offer the user added value. Your app will definitely deliver that added value, because it offers features and content that didn’t exist before. These are:
- Interaction: with the app, members don’t just read information – they can get involved themselves: write posts, like, comment, share and much more.
- Posts from others: in the app, users find content they can’t read anywhere else – above all, posts by other users written specifically for the app.
- Push or email? Unlike with email, users can control exactly which topics they want to read posts about and which they don’t.
- With the search function, they can find members by lots of different categories, e.g. by location, industry, company, hobbies and much more.
- A map shows them all the members near them
- In the events calendar, they can create events themselves and also see events by others, e.g. from other local or district clubs. That means they see far more events than before – on other channels such as WhatsApp, the individual local clubs are usually much more separated from each other, and “looking beyond your own patch” is harder to organise.
- Under Documents, they’ll find a well-structured overview of all the important documents – both official club documents and documents from other members.
- In their profile settings, they can keep their own details up to date without having to write to the head office.
- New contacts: because it’s an association’s official app, the club or association will usually promote it heavily – so users find more members there than on other platforms.
The bottom line: Be bold and launch your own app with real added value – with us, you’ll pull it off, and your members will thank you for it!
By the way: the app doesn’t just reach the members who have actually downloaded and use it – it reaches ALL members. You can run a member import and set the app up so that it keeps all members informed about news from time to time – the classic way, automatically by email. That way, you also reach members who haven’t downloaded the app (yet).
If you’re worried you’ll need to hire someone just to handle moderation: no, you won’t. We specialise in associations, and associations usually have limited staff. Our app is designed with that in mind. Most tasks are automated or taken care of by us, namely:
- Approving users: of course you want to make sure only members use the app. This can be automated in two ways: either via a member import at the start of the project, or via an encrypted invitation code that you send out to your members.
- Writing posts: thanks to our email interface, this step is automated too. Any information that goes out to your members by email (circulars, newsletters and much more) can automatically appear in the app as well. You can write posts specifically for the app, but you don’t have to. Your members will provide extra content anyway.
- Moderating content: the app we develop becomes your official association app. Thanks to the real-name policy, set netiquette rules and much more, the tone in these official association apps is different from typical WhatsApp or Facebook groups. You should certainly keep an eye on what’s happening in your app from time to time, but you don’t need to read every post – let alone comment on every one.
We asked our customers – on average, they invest a maximum of 1–2 hours of one employee’s time per week. So the effort is very manageable.
We currently have 12 employees and we’re growing steadily.
Here’s a selection of our customers.