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What is TurnStile?

A community needs space of its own - a private palce for its members. At the same time any "club" needs to allow controlled access for visitors, guests and potential customers. Some communities also have layers of membership. TurnStile satisfies these needs.

TurnStile protected areas can be configured in numerous way to allow you to control access to resources: *

• Visitors' areas offer public access, but those entering have to be a member of the community or register a name and e-mail address with the community. This "Guest Book" registration is required only on their first visit. The visitor is recognised on future visits and a log of their visits stored.
• Members log in only once (unless repeat log in is demanded) and will be recognised on future visits. Visits are again recorded.
• Tiered members' areas can be provided to allow different categories of visitor to obtain access to separate sub-areas of the members' area. This feature is useful to serve Council members, executive officers or trade association industry sub-groups.
• Statistics giving information of the activity of individual visitors can be provided.
• A simple tool, Pollster, can be configured to e-mail visitors after they have made a certain number of visits inviting them to complete a questionnaire about the communities web site.

The TurnStile facilities are very easy for any community to use. Storing the relevant resources as web pages or files in predefined directories on the Main Highway server creates each configuration. These directories are in turn linked to the server programs providing the above functionality.

How do I get started with TurnStile?

Your first step is to give us an idea of the information flows you use and how these lead to the need for a private members area. We will then analyse the configuration of areas and permissions that suits your needs best. Implementing a TurnStile protected area is not a difficult or time-consuming task. You will have to provide us with a list of "members" that you wish to allow access to your private areas so that we can enter them into a members's database. They are then allocated user i/d's and passwords and provided with the permissions that you allow them.

How do I find out more?

This is only a brief outline of the TurnStile solution suite. Why not contact us to find out more?

Solutions in partnership:

The Main Highway community of communities wants to hear from any community that wishes to extend its presence on-line, perhaps becoming one of our local hosts as well. You will be surprised how quickly we can implement our solutions which will work to benefit your membership.

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TurnStile is suitable for:

Members only areas on your web site, including sub-areas for specialist groups.

Team working areas to store resources and other files.

Project work areas for remote team co-ordination.

Special download areas.

Private shops.

Corporate solutions with many users involved in transactions with others.

Close user communities using supply chain and audit tools.

Community solutions involving non-pecuniary transactions: e.g. area access or downloads that need auditing.

Corporate solutions involving non-pecuniary transactions: e.g. training, closed area access or downloads that need auditing.

TurnStile is a quickly implementable solution for both simple community private areas and for corporate multi-layer e-procurement and supply chain needs.