Your Community,
Custom Built For You
Our Custom Community Development Service delivers tools, services, interfaces and experiences, for your socially-powered website and apps, precisely tailored to your requirements.
Your Bespoke Community. No Compromise.
Our in-house development team are on hand to create a feature-rich community platform, built to your exact needs.
Your Bespoke Community
Zipline’s Custom Community Development Service is there when you need it. Launch your community today and evolve it tomorrow. It’s your community, on your terms.
Strong Foundations
The Zipline Community Package provides the foundations of your community; core website, app, CMS and hosting. Our in-house team then create your community up, ensuring you have:
A Proposal, For You
It’s good to know what you are paying for! That’s why every Custom Community Development project, no matter the size, is supported by jargon free proposal, backed by a fixed cost.
Community Planning
Planning is crucial. We listen to your needs. Our team then work collaboratively, uncovering opportunities, defining methods, to offer feedback, suggestions and recommendations. The result – a comprehensive plan, tailored to your community, supported by a fixed cost proposal.
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Interactive Wire Framing
We use the latest interactive wire framing technology to lay out key elements of your community website and app. This gives you the opportunity to experience your community at the very early stages of the development process, allowing for feedback, refinement and revision.
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Agile Development
Our in-house development team use the Agile Development methodology. One of the many benefits of the agile development is the ability to share elements of your community project in advance of final handover.
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Shared Project Management
Cutting edge online project management tools keeps you up to date with the progress of your project. You’ll be provided with early releases of your platform, ensuring you can get a feel for your community website and iOS and Android apps in advance of official release.
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Design, Fit & Finish
The final step of the development process is to apply the look and feel you want to the fabric of your community website, iOS and Android apps.
Talk to an ExpertCustom Community Development Examples
We pride ourselves in creating incredible solutions for a wide range of community projects.
Vinyl Record Crowdfunding
Create a community-powered platform for a vinyl printing company, looking to offer bands and artists a way to crowdfund vinyl prints with their fans and followers.
- Built in WordPress, using premium plugins, supported by highly customised code
- Bands and artists can create and manage their own artist page
- Creation of a vinyl ‘configurator’, allowing bands to price-up their vinyl
- Allow artists to create crowdfunding campaign to support printing their records
- Deep integration with third-party payment management and CRM platforms, allowing for automation of platform
E-learning Multi Site
Designed to allow a multi-national e-learning organisation to offer their partners their very own learning platform, from a centrally managed service.
- Utilises WordPress multisite to allow for quick deployment of new e-learning platforms
- Data portability allows students to move between platforms effortlessly
- Custom interfaces remove need to train partners to use WordPress CMS
- Integrated e-commerce channels and membership-based controls deliver
Social Investment Platform
Built for a small, high value investment community, this project looked delivered a custom built, secure platform where members could create and discuss trade investment opportunities in real time.
- Based on a customised version of the BuddyPress groups tool
- Creation of tools allowing members to post investment opportunities
- Creation of WhatsApp-like live chat tool, that automatically added a new chat channel to new investment opportunities
- Tight integration across website and native iOS and Android app
Benefits of Custom Community Development
Our team are on hand to create the community you want!
Feature Rich, Custom Tuned
You will be amazed at the range of features and functionality we can build into your community.
App Ready
Communities benefit from high quality apps. Take your custom built, feature rich community to the iOS and Android app.
In-house Development
We NEVER outsource development. This allows us to focus on developing the best solutions for you, with no compromises.
One Year Warranty
We believe in the quality of our work. That’s why every custom development project is backed by a one year warranty.
Your Community, for Life!
Your community website is built using WordPress. This means you can have full access and full control over every element that makes your website yours.
Development Partners
We pride ourselves on building strong relationships. We’re here to grow your community and support you with all your community needs, from launch.
Client Testimonials
Our clients have said lovely things about us!
“The team at Zipline have been our digital agency for our global subscription platform – they have an approach that positions them as partners rather than suppliers. They are flexible and critical for us as problem solvers, bringing a combination of strategic, technical and creative ability – we have a huge vision which they worked through to create something we are truly happy with.”
Katherine Plunkett
CEO, One Earth
“The Zipline team is talented and professional. Their way of working with me and my team has been just as important as the final product. They helped me think through what we wanted and needed, and the final product is much richer as a result of their approach. I would work with them again without hesitation.”
Michael Niconchuk
Program Director, Beyond Conflict
“The team at Zipline have driven our project forward with their support, planning and web development skills. Thanks to their enthusiasm and attention to detail we are achieving our ambitious targets and we couldn’t be happier with our new platform and the continuing service they provide. ”
David Todd
Commercial Director, Press On Vinyl
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It's good to talk! The Zipline Team are here to help with your community related queries.