Welcome to the MM Platform service hub. This area is for members who are already using the service and provides the latest news updates as well as links to the Making Music help guides for setting up their platform. If you are not currently signed up to the service and want more information then please go to the MM Platform overview page.

Latest MM Platform News

Take a look at the MM Platform News page to read all of the latest announcements.

User guides

Getting started

Time it takes to set up and how many people should be involved
The main areas of your Platform
Privacy and access levels

Customising your MM Platform

What can be customised in the Platform and how
Editing the colour scheme, the home page, logo, footer and sidebar and more!
Adding and editing website pages and the links to access those pages

Managing members, friends and sponsors

How to add/remove individuals
Creating member groupings to categorise your members in different ways.
Setting up your management team/committee
Creating logins

Events in MM Platform

Add events, venues, programmes and riser stacks
How to sell tickets for events and access booking information
Tracking members attendance and availability for events
Events summary and past performances pages

Finances in MM Platform

Creating and managing invoices and Gift Aid reporting
Selling Merchandise and viewing bought merchandise
Accepting and viewing donations
Setting up Paypal and Stripe

Emails and Mailing Lists in MM Platform

Understanding the Email and mailing lists page
Creating, managing and administrating mailing lists
Sending out email newsletters

Other information you need to know in your Making Music Platform

Using the Song Library and other features such as Member audits, sending text messages and tracking website visits
Making your Platform live

Additional Extras for MM Platform

Domain name management
SSL certificate
Additional storage space
Extra nightly back up
Scheduled tasks

Video guidance for using your MM Platform

View video guidance to help you use a range of funtions and aspects of your Platform