User management software

There are a lot of situations when you need to divide access on a site for a certain category of users. For example, such situations, when to access certain sections of a site you need to pay and situations when the certain information should be accessible only, for example, to VIP-clients. Also there are situations when you precisely wish to know about quantity of certain users (age or social categories), their activity, which can be represented in table or graphic forms.

There are several main facilities, needed for successful user management:

• - add/delete user accounts, edit their profiles, divide all users into groups, to assign to each user or group certain access and the rights, allows to group users in certain parameter;
• - the list of the fields filled with the user at registration, can be set arbitrarily
• - provides with a totality of tools for the control and monitoring of user's activity displaying detailed reports (in table or/and graphic form) about any kind of activity on a website, including billing statistics, product statistics, users/administrators logs, etc;
• - various tools for interaction with users, such as: inform members by e-mail, newsletter;
• - security settings: password protection, security tool kit that must guarantee the safety of all confidential information;
• - multilanguage support.

All of these components are necessary for qualitative user management software.
Here is a sample of simple script how to divide all users into groups:

There is a lot of the diversified user management software, because each developer allocates the program with different functions, but it is necessary to learn how to choose qualitative one.

It is necessary that user management software was released in several versions which allow to choose up accurately a necessary functionality without an overpayment for unnecessary functions or number of copies. Also presence demo or trial versions of user management software that you personally could estimate all advantages and disadvantages of the given software: you can estimate the application interface, stability and speed of operation, to learn and test offered functions. You should check for updates of the user management software, which allows to fix bugs and to add new functions in new versions of software. The last and not less important item is presence of competent technical support which will help you in case of occurrence of faults or other problems and lots of documentation.

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