About Us

Our company

Why work with us?

Web Integrate Ltd is a small business that has been working on Simple Membership with the input of u3a groups since 2007. It has been incorporated for over 12 years with the sole purpose of building the Simple Membership product. We are passionate about our product and completely invested in the future and success of the system.

Being small doesn't mean that we can't deliver, we have a growing number of 'power users' from our existing u3as who have been incredibly helpful in assisting new u3as to get to grips with the system and also a forum full of like minded u3a users helping each other along their implementation journey.

We have invested significant hours into the system to get it where it is today and have worked closely and diligently with our current u3as to create a fully rounded system with support documentation in place as well as processes for handling new enquiries and trials. We continuously strive to improve the system and keep in close contact with our u3as in order to achieve this.

We are very excited to be able to offer this robust and comprehensive system to any new u3a groups and look forward to working with you. We also understand that every u3a is different, so the website content and the information held about members can be completely customised to meet the requirements of the individual u3a.


Timeline

From a simple u3a website in 2007...

2007

u3a Costa Brava

A family friend asked for help to make a simple website for their u3a. It soon became clear that this needed to be more than just a 'simple' website and version 1 of what is now called Simple Membership was born.

2009

UK Market

We looked at u3as in the UK but found that many members didn't have emails or devices for internet access so there was little appetite for a dedicated software product. The Costa Brava system was fundamentally rewritten to allow growth and scalability for when the time came.

2015

Milton Keynes u3a

A contact from Costa Brava moved back to the UK and joined MKu3a, this was our prompt to discuss what our system could do to help them. It quickly became apparent that what we thought was a fully functioning system only scratched the surface of what was needed and we agreed with MKU3A to enter into a development partnership to build on what we had and develop a powerful product suitable for UK u3as.

2017

Additional u3as

After several thousand hours of development the Costa Brava System became known as Simple Membership and we started to receive enquiries from other UK u3as. A small handful of u3as signed up and the system and it's features kept on growing.

2020

Development Group

The Covid-19 lockdown restricted u3a activities and a number of experienced users from our u3as began to meet regularly over zoom to discuss issues, bugs and new feature requests.

2021

User Forum

A user forum was set up to discuss issues and development requests, subsequently a second forum was created to assist new users with their implementation process.

2022

Lots more u3as

Simple Membership had not yet been actively marketed but we had our biggest growth year to date, mostly from word of mouth. Documentation from u3as began to be consolidated and processes were put in place to help all the new u3as get on board with the system.

2023+

The Future

We are looking forward to lots more growth and although the system is constantly evolving with lots of help from valued users, it finally feels fully rounded enough to consider a marketing approach to try and give many more u3as the great benefits that our other users enjoy.