Although it is called the member database this is essentially where you would go to store information about your friends, supporters, basically anyone who has a relationship with your group. For the purposes of this set of help guides we will refer mainly to your members in the database but note that you can also include other individuals and even companies as well.
Making Music Platform is a sophisticated tool for managing your group’s membership. Your MM Platform database can handle many different membership scenarios, so you can keep track of your members’ unique situations.
To make this possible, the member database is divided into three parts:
- Members. This database stores details that pertain to a person – their name, contact details, birthday etc.
- Memberships. This database stores information about each member’s official Membership with your group, such as their joining date and Membership type.
- Participations. This database stores information about each member’s activities with your group’s performing Ensemble(s), such as the member’s voice part. Each member can have as many Participations as your group has performing Ensembles. E.g. if your group has a main choir and a chamber choir, a member can have a Participation with each choir and those Participations will each hold information about the member’s relationship with the ensemble.
We’ve created a graphic to illustrate the relationship between a member, their Membership and Participations with your group
