After a 27 hour stint working non-stop, I finally finished version 1.0 of the new mobile membership system for work this morning. In a nut shell, it allows our membership team and recruitment group to access details on our members while out on the road, completely optimised for the iPhone.

We had originally considered developing this system in Cocoa as an iPhone application, but found we would have greater success leaving it web based as we are expanding our internal systems over the next 12 months and would be forced to make continual application updates around any changes.

So what’s next? A meeting was held with our new Vodafone business manager this morning and we promptly ordered 15 brand spanking new iPhones! These units will be custom configured and staff will be assigned their ‘own’ handset. Not only does it make the staff more efficient out on the road which directly benefits our members but the staff see it as a definate perk.