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Modernizing a Global Member Management Platform for an Australian Religious Organization

Modernizing a Global Member Management Platform for an Australian Religious Organization

Overview

A large religious organization headquartered in Australia faced mounting challenges with its legacy Member Management Platform. The system had grown outdated — both in technology and usability — and the internal tech team had disbanded, leaving the platform stagnant.

With members across five continents, the client required a responsive, secure, and scalable solution that could support weekly rollouts and address growing feature demands from global users.

The Challenge

  • An outdated user interface hindered engagement and usability
  • Unsupported technology components made the platform brittle and risky
  • No in-house development team left the system without enhancements or fixes
  • The organization required regional rollouts on a continuous delivery model across five AWS regions

our approachPlatform Modernization & Global Rollout

  1. UI Modernization:

    • Replaced legacy UI with a responsive template, ensuring ease of use on mobile and desktop
    • Boosted user experience and increased adoption across continents

  2. Tech Stack Upgrade:

    • Replaced deprecated controls and unsupported components
    • Introduced API-based modules for key functionality to accelerate timelines and reduce costs

  3. Multi-Tenant Architecture:

    • Designed a multi-tenant database structure
    • Rolled out to 5 countries with tenant-specific customizations, while maintaining codebase consistency

  4. Feature Enhancements & Weekly Rollouts:

    • Set up development, QA, and deployment workflows to enable weekly Sunday rollouts
    • Ensured each region’s updates were synchronized, secure, and region-specific
In-Scope Activities

✅ Replace outdated tech stack with supported components
✅ Introduce a modern, responsive UI
✅ Design & implement multi-tenant architecture
✅ Weekly rollout planning & support
✅ Ongoing feature development and customization

Tech Stack
  • Platform: ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET
  • Database: SQL Server
  • Cloud: AWS – Hosted across 5 regions (multi-country deployment)

Learnings & Insights

01

Tenant Isolation + Scalability

Regional rollouts required strict tenant isolation, while still maintaining scalable and secure infrastructure

02

Customization vs Standardization

To manage diverse regional needs, Softsell balanced tenant-specific features with a common codebase, optimizing long-term maintainability

03

Global Release Discipline

Coordinating Sunday morning rollouts across five continents required mature DevOps processes and cross-team collaboration

Results

✅ System stability with modern components
✅ Fully responsive platform adopted across global regions
✅ Weekly deployments enabled faster feature delivery
✅ Successfully synchronized with regional payment gateways and compliance needs
✅ Set a foundation for future scalability and regional autonomy

Engagement Highlights
  • Customer Since: 2016
  • Duration: 4 years (till 2020)
  • Scope: End-to-end platform modernization and global deployment
Impact
  • Reconnected a global user base through modern design, stabilized infrastructure, and regionally tailored solutions

Softsell delivered modernization with meaning — empowering a global faith-based organization to serve its members better, faster, and with confidence across five continents.