The Council became an operating platform.
Behind the public site is a working system for Council staff and member businesses. It brings membership, publishing, communication and discovery into connected journeys rather than separate tools.
COUNCIL OPERATIONS → MEMBER TOOLS → PUBLIC VALUE
Three distinct ways to use it.
Manage members, accreditation, publications, news, surveys and email circulars.
Maintain a profile and branches, access communications and carry an accreditation badge.
Search the directory, inspect branches and read the Council’s published material.
The platform supports work that used to sit apart from the public site. Staff can create, preview and send member circulars within the system, while editions of SA Jewellery News and related publications have their own paths to readers.
Compose → preview → send
Available to members in the portalIssues → editions → archive
Includes publication-specific routesApplications → accreditation → branches
Feeds the member and public viewsA jewellery business can have more than one location. The Council sets up its membership record; the member maintains branch details; the directory can surface each published location.
The Council manages the member and its permitted locations.
The business maintains profiles, descriptions and locations.
Search and branch pages make published details useful to buyers.
A digital route into membership, followed by a trust signal members can carry into their own channels.
Give staff one place to manage member records and publish content; give members tools to maintain their presence; let the public find and verify the right business. The same information should work across all three views.
- Membership & accreditation
- Admin publishing & circulars
- SA Jewellery News editions
- Member portal
- Public directory