Feature Set

Every PoliticalInsight web site comes fully featured. And with regular new Insight releases, these features are only a snapshot.

Manage Content

Articles Create stunning articles using our powerful WYSIWYG browser based editor.

Media Manager Upload, store, edit and use images, flash animations, word and pdf documents, audio and video content.

Blogging Our blogging component draws together your posts, and incorporates comments, tag-clouds and permalinks.

Plotting and Maps Use Insight with Google to produce searchable and live updating maps, plotting people and events.

Embed content Place YouTube videos, Flickr photo streams or any other embedded content effortlessly. Host your own audio and video files, send to iTunes for podcasting.

RSS Feeds Our powerful RSS reader draws live content from other sites such as conservatives.com or twitter into yours.

Tagging Tag any documents, events, or AV content, search by tag or use a tag-cloud.

Manage Contacts

Membership manager Every user of your site, every contact you have, in one place. Each user can securely update their own details.

Group manager Let your website reflect your work by building groups and subgroups which your users can become members of.

Import tools Easily import contact information from Bluechip, Merlin or other databases. Insight even cleans up your data.

Export tools Produce processed data in exactly the format you want - telephone sheets, volunteer registers, csv, Excel and pdf formats.

Query builder Filter and sort members by any attribute then grant group membership, send mailings or save for future use.

Organisation reports Produce powerful reports that tell you whatever you need to know about your supporters, members or constituents.

Manage Communications

Communication manager Create, record and save every contact you ever make - by email, post telephone, and from Autumn 2009, SMS.

Email builder Send unlimited emails. Create your own HTML templates or use plain text with merged data for a personal touch.

Click tracking Include links and see who has clicked through; assess the success of your mailing was and follow up appropriate people.

Content insertion Insert the latest events, articles and other content in your mailings with the click of a single button.

Preference learner Insight allows each recipient to specify what they want to receive and how they want it delivered.

Merged mail creator Physical mailings made easy with our Avery label pdf creator and integration with your word processing application. Send by household, person or family.

Mailing channels Easy unsubscribe options for your users; multiple channels allow users to choose what they receive from you.

Manage Capital

Donations manager Take one-off or repeat payments securely from any debit or credit card using our integrated tools. Ensure a water-tight audit trail - all you need for the Electoral Commission is taken at the time of payment.

Event bookings Administrate complex events, specify options, with live updating prices based on what your guest chooses. Issue eTickets.

Event Office Use our PC based software to register people as they come through the door - securely integrated with Insight's event booking module.

eCommerce Create your own shop to take orders online. Sell talks, videos, PDF documents, or any other digital content with our Digital Delivery technology.

Business Office Our PC based software downloads and processes all financial data in your site and powerfully integrates with QuickBooks.

Capital Reports Track money through your site day by day and allow your users to download the payment history for their records. If money is involved, Insight makes itself invaluable.

Manage Community

Comments and polls Allow guests and members to add comments, create discussion forums allied to any group, easily manage inappropriate posts. Create polls that increase participation with advanced display options.

Rota manager Use Insight's Rota manager to manage regular rotas of volunteers or teams. Email reminders and on-site popups.

Online signups Create rich graphic signup sheets that allow users to say when and where they will help your campaign. Multiple display options.

Data collection Create online forms in any document with user fields already entered, unique to that user. Process data effortlessly behind-the-scenes.

Article intray Any user of the site can submit an article for publication but you control how, when and where that content is used.