For associations, clubs and sports clubs

Running your members shouldn't be this hard

SociWeb installs into the website you already have and takes care of member records, payments, events and notices. No more spreadsheets by email, no more hunting for who had the latest copy of the list.

There is a genuinely free edition. It doesn't expire and it doesn't ask for a card.

If any of this rings a bell, we speak the same language

This didn't come out of market research. It came out of running an association of sixty-odd members with whatever was to hand.

The treasurer's spreadsheet

Which only they have, which is on version 14, and which nobody else can make sense of.

"Have I paid?"

Asked on WhatsApp on a Sunday, and answered by digging through the bank.

The committee changes

And half of what somebody knew, and never wrote down, walks out with them.

Emails bounce

And there's no way to know how many actually arrived, or who still needs telling.

How you get started

Three steps. None of them needs a programmer.

Install it

Like any Joomla extension: upload one file and press install. Five minutes.

The wizard sets it up

It builds the members' area menus, sorts out the permissions and checks everything is right. One button.

Bring your members over

They import from your spreadsheet. Before saving anything it shows you a report of what it found.

"The biggest difference isn't any one feature. It's that you stop being the place where the information lives."

Fran, who uses it every week in his own association

What it does, a bit at a time

All of it is included. There are no add-ons to buy separately and no features that appear once you pay more.

The members

The list stops living in a file and moves to where everyone can see it.

  • Member records with the fields you choose
  • Sections and categories you define
  • Import from your spreadsheet, with a preview report
  • Duplicate finder and record merging
  • Digital membership card with QR code and Google Wallet
  • Applications through the website, with photo and signed mandate

The money

Payments that generate themselves and a file your bank understands first time.

  • Yearly, quarterly or monthly fees
  • Different rates per section
  • Family discounts and exemptions
  • SEPA direct debits ready for the bank
  • Mandates and payers
  • Shop with sizes and card payment

The people who help

Each officer gets into their own corner without you handing over the keys to everything.

  • One panel per committee or area
  • Permissions per officer
  • All from the website, with no need to enter the admin area
  • Messages with members, as a thread
  • A directory of suppliers you trust
  • Suggestion box, with backing from other members

Day to day

What happens through the year: events, notices and photos of what you did.

  • Events with sign-up and capacity
  • Ticket sales
  • Notices in the members' area
  • Email to one section or to everyone
  • Photo and video galleries
  • Documents and bylaws, searchable

And the peace-of-mind part

The boring bits, which are exactly what you miss the day you need them.

  • GDPR kit , complete and generated for you
  • Right to erasure, with real anonymisation
  • Your data on your server, not ours
  • Export to CSV whenever you like
  • Configurable colours and logo
  • Automatic updates

This is what it looks like inside

Screenshots of the real thing, untouched. Tap to enlarge.

The costume in 3D: members spin it with a finger on their phone
The costume in 3D: members spin it with a finger on their phone
How many members actually reached the members' area, step by step
How many members actually reached the members' area, step by step
The directory of trusted suppliers, with a map
The directory of trusted suppliers, with a map
The Wizard: setup and installation health in one click
The Wizard: setup and installation health in one click
The digital membership card, with a verifiable QR code
The digital membership card, with a verifiable QR code
The members' shop, with sizes and personalisation
The members' shop, with sizes and personalisation
Membership applications through the website, with photo and consent
Membership applications through the website, with photo and consent
SociWeb Pro: the federation dashboard
SociWeb Pro: the federation dashboard
FOR FEDERATIONS

Your federation sees numbers, never people

When several associations group together, the federation can have its own dashboard without anyone handing over a single personal detail.

  • Each association decides whether to share, and it ships switched off
  • Totals only: sections, age brackets, joiners this year
  • Groups of fewer than three people are merged, so nobody can be worked out
  • Every reply travels signed and the dashboard verifies it
  • With no personal data involved, no data-processing contracts are needed between the parties
🏛 Example FederationSociWeb Pro
1.847 federated members · 12 associations
18–30 years531
31–45 years648
46–60 years442
Over 60226
✓ 12 of 12 replies with verified signature · anonymous data

What it costs

No lock-in and no small print. The price covers the whole product, the updates, and us answering you.

SociWeb

19,95 €/month per organisation
  • Everything above, with no paid extras
  • Automatic updates
  • A licence for your domain
  • We answer you by email
FEDERATIONS

SociWeb Pro

Tailored · depending on how many of you there are
  • All of the above in every association
  • A federation dashboard
  • Aggregated, anonymous data, signed
  • We help you through the rollout

Try it without paying anything

SociWeb Libre is free software under the GPL. You download it, install it and use it. It doesn't expire, it doesn't ask for a card and it doesn't phone home.

You need a website built on Joomla 6 with PHP 8.1 or later. Joomla 5 and earlier won't work, and the installer stops and tells you so before touching anything.

SociWeb Libre

Free · GPL v2 or later
  • Member records, custom fields and import
  • Events with sign-ups and attendance
  • Documents, notices and messages with the committee
  • Digital card with QR code
  • One panel per area, with permissions
  • Five modules for your front page

It has no fees, SEPA direct debits, shop, payments, lottery or mass email. They aren't crippled: they simply aren't in the package.

Download SociWeb Libre

A single file with the component and the five modules.

The template

Free · GPL v2 or later
  • Based on Cassiopeia, Joomla's official template
  • Makes the members' area look like the screenshots
  • Configurable colours and logo
  • Built to read well on a phone

It's optional: SociWeb works with any template. This one saves you fighting with the styling.

Download the template

Install it before the component.

What people usually ask us

I know nothing about Joomla. Can I manage this?
If somebody built your website, yes. Installing means uploading a file and pressing a button, and from there the wizard does the rest: it builds the menus, sorts the permissions and tells you if anything went wrong. And if you don't have a website yet, write to us and we'll help you get one up.
Does it work for a sports club?
Yes. The season doesn't have to start in January, fees can be monthly or quarterly, and you define the categories yourself: under-12s, juniors, seniors or whatever you use. The same goes for a social club or a cultural association.
Can I bring my members over from a spreadsheet?
Yes. You upload your list, and before saving anything it shows you what it found: invalid emails, minors with no guardian, duplicates. You decide whether to go ahead. Nothing goes in blind.
Where does my members' data end up?
On your server, in your database. We never see it and we keep no copy. And you can export your list to CSV whenever you feel like it: if you ever leave, you take everything with you.
What about data protection?
It's handled out of the box: image consent, access and portability, genuine erasure — anonymising, not hiding — and the Article 30 record of processing activities, which writes itself from whatever you have switched on. You review it, sign it, and it's done.
What happens if I stop paying?
You still have your data and your website. The licence is tied to your domain and we warn you well before it lapses, with a grace period in between. You are never locked out overnight.
Do the people running each area have to learn Joomla?
No. Each of them signs in through the normal website with their own account and sees only their panel: their events, their documents, their own corner. The Joomla admin area is left to whoever looks after the website.
How does it update?
By itself. The notice appears in your Joomla and one click updates it, checking first that the file really is the one we published and that nobody tampered with it on the way.
Can I see it working first?
Yes, there's a demo with a complete example association: members, events, shop and members' area. Write to us and we'll send you the login.

Shall we look at it together?

Tell us how yours works — how many of you there are, how you collect money, what's driving you mad — and we'll set up a demo with your own cases.

info@sociweb.es · you get a person, not a form

The costume in 3D: members spin it with a finger on their phone×
How many members actually reached the members' area, step by step×
The directory of trusted suppliers, with a map×
The Wizard: setup and installation health in one click×
The digital membership card, with a verifiable QR code×
The members' shop, with sizes and personalisation×
Membership applications through the website, with photo and consent×
SociWeb Pro: the federation dashboard×