OpenCommunity
Your community, without the paperwork.
OpenCommunity is member and program management software for community hubs, nonprofits and publicly funded organizations. It brings memberships, attendance, kiosk sign-in, scheduling, payments and funder reporting into one system, so staff spend less time on admin and more time with people.
The problem
Community hubs, family centres and nonprofit programs serve whole neighbourhoods, yet many still run on paper sign-in sheets, copied spreadsheets and staff memory.
The pain peaks at reporting time. Funders and boards want unique visitors, demographics and program trends, and producing them by hand takes days of reconciling.
Who OpenCommunity is for
- Family and community centres
- Drop-in programs and neighbourhood hubs
- Social and recreational service providers
- Nonprofits and government-funded programs
What OpenCommunity does
- Program memberships and attendance in one place
- Recurring drop-ins and sessions with auto-generated rosters
- Reception kiosk sign-in with a personal PIN
- Payment tracking
- Funder and board reporting: attendance, demographics, unique visitors
- Multiple locations under one account
- Role-based access and encryption in transit and at rest
Why I'm building it
I co-founded Solunar to focus my industry experience on the place where I live and the communities I’m part of. Community centres, drop-in programs and nonprofits are the organizations that hold those communities together, and they deserve modern software.
At Aspire, I worked with companies that each build software for one specific industry, and I saw how much a focused, modern system changes the day for front-line staff. Community organizations deserve that too, at a price that works for nonprofits.
OpenCommunity puts memberships, attendance, kiosk sign-in, scheduling, payments and funder reporting in one place, with role-based access and encryption, because these organizations hold sensitive information about families.
What people say about working with me
Customers and colleagues from software I've built before, in their own words.
“The growth you oversaw at DockMaster revolutionized the game for marina management. It was an honor to work with you!”
“It was always a pleasure to work with you. The tech innovations that you brought to DM was truly amazing.”
“Andrey led with more care than anyone I’ve worked for. Genuinely invested in the work, and more invested in the people doing it. That combination is rarer than it should be.”
Questions and answers
What is OpenCommunity?
OpenCommunity is member and program management software for community hubs, nonprofits and publicly funded organizations. It brings memberships, attendance, kiosk sign-in, scheduling, payment tracking and reporting into one system.
Who makes OpenCommunity?
OpenCommunity is built by Solunar, a Greater Vancouver software company co-founded by Andrey Safonov.
How does kiosk sign-in work?
Visitors sign in at a reception kiosk using a phone number or another chosen field, confirmed by a personal PIN.
Does OpenCommunity help with funder reporting?
Yes. It generates attendance summaries, demographic breakdowns, unique-family counts and program statistics for funders and boards.
Can multiple locations use one account?
Yes. Each centre gets its own programs, staff and kiosk, and reporting rolls up across all locations.
Do families need to download an app?
No. The family portal runs in a web browser.
Try OpenCommunity
Book a short demo or start a pilot.
OpenCommunity: member and program management for community organizations
For more background, read Running a community centre on spreadsheets: what breaks first.