Co-operatives
Internal communications for agricultural, worker and consumer co-operatives
You don't call an AGM with a notice pinned up in the store. Blastack puts the notice on every member's phone, keeps the record of who it went to and who opened it, and calls members members.
€1.00 per person per month · No card · No minimum term
What happens today
The four problems that keep coming up
Calling the AGM
The board has to give notice within the deadline and then be able to show the notice went out and to whom. A board in the store and a WhatsApp group are not a record.
A member is not an employee, and they can tell
In an agricultural co-op the member brings in a harvest and isn't on the payroll. Calling them an employee and filing them in a department is the fastest way to make sure they never log in again.
Sections run themselves
Grain, oil and farm supplies each have their own people, their own calendar and their own lead, and what one is told is no use to the others.
The news arrives late and unevenly
The settlement price, the delivery dates, a change to collections: whoever passes through the store finds out, and whoever doesn't hears it from a neighbour three days later.
Use cases
What it gets used for in Co-ops
- AGM notice to every member, with a record of who it went to and who opened it
- Each section with its own lead and its own people, and no noise for the rest
- The product's wording: members and sections, not employees and departments
- Settlements and documents with read receipts, without anyone coming into the office
- An anonymous survey before a vote, to find out where the room actually is
- Members join with a code at the store, no work email needed
What we don't solve
It isn't the formal notice and it doesn't count votes
Blastack does not replace whatever notice your rules require, nor formal service where that is needed: what it leaves is the record of who it was sent to and who opened it, which is backup and not a substitute. And there is no voting: no electronic ballot, no count, no quorum check. That takes something else; this is the channel people actually find out through. The invoice, besides, is a single one and the co-operative pays it: there is no per-section subscription.
Non-profit organisations
Half price for the first year
Co-operatives, associations, federations and clubs pay half for the first twelve months of service: the base fee goes from €1.00 to €0.50 per person per month, and the modules come down the same way. No statutes and no paperwork to send: it is enough to say what you are when you sign up.
It is a first-year reduction, not a new rate. After twelve months the usual price applies again, and the exact date is written on your billing screen from day one.
We called the AGM and for the first time we knew how many members had opened it before the day. It isn't the minute book, but it's far more than we had.
What's included
All of this, from €1.00 per person per month
The noticeboard and the directory are in the base fee. Analytics, surveys, documents and chat switch on separately, at between one and ten cents per person.
Noticeboard and announcements
Posts with photo, video and PDF, targeted by site
Reach analytics
What percentage of your workforce has read each announcement
Surveys and employee engagement
Ask your workforce, with breakdowns and real anonymity
Documents with read receipts
Payslips, procedures and policies with proof of reading
Staff directory
Who is who, by department and by site
Roles and moderation
Who publishes, who approves, and what gets logged
Try it on one site and look at the number
Fifteen days, no card. Hand the code out at one plant, publish two announcements and look at what percentage of people read them.
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