Sloba: Multi-function Community Website Development

Client: Sloba, or St. Lawrence Old Boys' Association, is the alumni association of St. Lawrence High School - one of the oldest and most popular schools of India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal.

The existing sloba website was a simple 5 page html website. A complete design overhaul was required along with several functional integrations.

Sloba had a huge number of existing members. However, their entire membership process was offline and it required excessive manual work to maintain. The entire membership process was required to be made online so that new members could easily register and become members through the website and their memberships could be maintained easily and smoothly.

The existing thousands of sloba members from across the globe needed to be incorporated into the new system.

A community feature was required which would be only accessible to the members.

The community would have user profiles, groups, communication systems and several checks so that only particular users could access particular features.

An easy donation system was required.

Since sloba hosts multiple events throughout the year, a full-featured events calendar was required.

A detailed FAQ section outlining how to become a member was needed to guide new members through the entire registration process.

The site had several pages, images and videos which needed to be displayed and often updated. Hence the use of a CMS for the content section was required.

The site was developed in Wordpress to provide easy content management for the large number of pages and media.

The community integration was done with the help of BuddyPress.

Membership and Indian payment gateway feature was integrated with Paid Membership Pro and Woocommerce plugins.

The entire membership system was seamlessly connected with the community features.

Existing members were provided detailed onboarding guide through the website.

Events system was developed and integrated with options for marking featured events.

Donation system was integrated with simple QR Code based payments.

Outcome: A new feature-rich website for Sloba with membership, events, donation and community systems was developed.