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Case study - Trade association
A member portal rebuilt without an hour of downtime
How Lantern Bay Digital moved 9,000 members, twelve years of records and every renewal onto a new platform while the old one kept running.
The problem
The association's member system was fifteen years old. Renewals needed a phone call, the events calendar was updated by hand, and only one person still understood the code. Two earlier attempts to replace it had stalled, partly because the system could never be switched off: members renew every day of the year.
Our approach
We started by mapping every job the old system did, including the ones nobody had written down. Then, rather than one big switch-over, we moved the system across a piece at a time. Each piece ran side by side with the old one until the numbers matched exactly.
Weeks 1 to 3: discovery, data audit and a written plan with a fixed price
Weeks 4 to 12: the new portal built in two-week cycles, demonstrated to staff every fortnight
Weeks 13 to 16: members moved over in groups, with the old system kept as a safety net
What we delivered
The technology
Chosen to be dependable and easy for the next developer to pick up.
Application
A modular web application with a documented REST API, so the association's other tools can connect to it.
Data
A single, cleaned database with nightly backups and a tested restore, replacing three spreadsheets and a legacy database.
Hosting
Managed servers with monitoring, automatic security updates and a staging copy for testing changes safely.
We had been told it could not be done without shutting down for a week. It was done without shutting down for an hour, and our members noticed only that renewing got easier.
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