APT Solutions

What APT Solutions does

APT Solutions is a UK-headquartered specialist supplier of membership and customer relationship management (CRM) software, founded in 1990 and now operating as a subsidiary of the ClearCourse Partnership group. The company serves membership organisations including trade unions, professional institutions, sporting bodies, charities, healthplan providers, and public bodies, with client scale spanning from 1,000 to 1.5 million members. Its core product, Stratum, is a proprietary browser-based, database-driven membership software suite that consolidates member communications (email, SMS, letter, online, and personalised home page) around a single member record and is extended by modules for ecommerce, staff access, website, reporting, member access, balloting, and mobile. A complementary product, Stratum Hawk, is positioned around intelligent data capabilities.

The company monetises through subscription-based Stratum licensing and Spectrum Managed Services, the latter providing outsourced UK-based administration including application processing, customer service agents, payment processing, balloting, and call campaigns. Pricing is quote-based with no public price points, and distribution is sales-led through regional offices in Birmingham (UK), Telford (UK headquarters), and Sydney (Australasia), covering the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Marketing relies on the corporate website, quarterly seasonal newsletters, and organic SEO, while security and GDPR compliance are positioned as differentiators via a three-tiered security architecture and world-class data hosting.

Name

APT Solutions

Legal name

ClearCourse Membership Services Limited

Website

https://aptsolutions.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

APT Solutions is a UK-based membership and CRM software provider serving trade unions, professional institutions, sporting bodies, charities, and public bodies via its proprietary Stratum suite and Spectrum Managed Services, with operations in the UK and Australasia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Membership Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Enterprise Work Management & Collaborative Workflow Platforms (HDAEAHAI)

Keywords

• Membership management software
• Customer relationship management
• Trade union software
• Association management platform
• Member engagement solutions

Headquarters

HQ city

Telford

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Licensing/Subscription (Stratum): Stratum is authored and owned by APT Solutions - a tried-and-tested membership software package. The company writes and supports core membership/CRM and CMS software systems for their customers.
2. Spectrum Managed Services: Focused administration solutions for UK clients including effortless membership application processing, highly-trained customer service agents, and uninterrupted membership administration.
3. Professional Services: Professional administration and support services including payment processing, balloting and call campaigns.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

APT Solutions sells and supports Stratum, a browser-based, database-driven membership and CRM software suite authored in-house, designed specifically for membership organisations ranging from 1,000 to 1.5 million members. The suite includes modules for ecommerce, staff access, websites, reporting, member access, balloting and mobile. APT also provides Spectrum Managed Services offering outsourced membership administration (application processing, customer service agents, administration) and professional services such as payment processing, balloting and call campaigns for UK clients.

Product overview

APT Solutions offers a unified product portfolio anchored by the Stratum suite of intelligent membership software. Stratum is a comprehensive, browser-based CRM and membership management platform that serves organisations ranging from 1,000 to 1.5 million members. The core Stratum Database/CRM product is complemented by multiple integrated modules including Ecommerce, Staff Access, Website, Reporting, Member Access, Balloting, and Mobile. Alongside the software suite, APT provides Spectrum Managed Services for focused administration solutions targeting UK clients. The company serves diverse sectors including Trade Unions, Professional Institutions, Sporting Bodies, and Charities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Stratum: Tried-and-tested membership software suite driven by a powerful and dynamic database, designed specifically for membership organisations.
• Stratum Hawk
• Spectrum Managed Services

Products and services

• Stratum Membership Software Suite An intelligent, browser-based, database-driven membership and CRM software suite authored and owned by APT Solutions, specifically designed for membership organisations ranging from 1,000 to 1.5 million members. Uses a Big Data relationship principle to enable personalised member communication across email, SMS, letter, online and personalised home page, with graphical reporting and dashboarding, multi-channel engagement, unified communication recording, and three-tiered security supporting GDPR compliance.
• Stratum Hawk Intelligent membership management sub-product from APT Solutions featuring advanced data capabilities within the broader Stratum suite, showcased through video demonstration for prospective customers.
• Spectrum Managed Services Focused administration solution for UK clients providing effortless membership application processing, highly-trained customer service agents, uninterrupted membership administration, plus professional services such as payment processing, balloting and call campaigns. Sold alongside the Stratum software package.

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• ClearCourse PartnershipcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAPT Solutions is part of ClearCourse Partnership, a group of innovative technology companies providing membership software to SMEs and organisations. The ClearCourse platform provides APT Solutions with enhanced integrated software opportunities, payment capabilities, and strategic and product guidance. This partnership enables APT to offer customers the best software and client service possible while maintaining focus on their core membership sector expertise.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Fonteva: Fonteva is a Salesforce-native association management solution offering membership, events, and ecommerce for associations and member-based organisations — overlapping with Stratum in trade bodies, professional institutions and similar vertical software use cases.
• YourMembership (Community Brands): YourMembership, part of Community Brands, is an established membership management platform serving associations and member-based organisations with CRM, event, learning and commerce functionality — competing head-to-head with Stratum in the trade union, professional body and charity verticals.
• MemberClicks: MemberClicks provides association management software (AMS) for small-to-mid sized associations and member-based organisations, including membership databases, event management, and member engagement — directly comparable to APT's Stratum suite for trade unions, professional institutions and similar bodies.
• Impexium: Impexium is an association management platform built on Salesforce, targeting trade associations and professional societies with member CRM, events, ecommerce and engagement — a direct competitor in the same trade union / professional institution segment APT addresses.
• Wild Apricot: Wild Apricot is a cloud-based membership management software aimed at small associations and nonprofits, offering member databases, events, payments and a website builder — directly comparable to APT's Stratum suite at the smaller end of the customer scale.
• Member Solutions: Member Solutions provides membership management and billing software for membership-based businesses and associations, including member databases, recurring billing and member engagement — closely comparable to APT's Stratum CRM and ecommerce modules.

Broad incumbents

• Salesforce (Nonprofit Cloud / NPSP): Salesforce's Nonprofit Cloud and Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) is a broad, general-purpose CRM used by many large membership and nonprofit organisations, offering extensible membership management capabilities that overlap with Stratum at the upper end of the customer scale.
• Microsoft Dynamics 365: Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a broad enterprise CRM and ERP suite increasingly used by trade unions, professional institutions and large associations as a general-purpose alternative to specialised membership platforms like Stratum.

Emerging players

• CiviCRM: CiviCRM is an open-source constituent relationship management platform widely used by nonprofits, charities and membership organisations for contact management, events, memberships and donations — competing with Stratum especially in the charity and nonprofit segments APT targets.

Others

• ClearCourse Partnership (sister companies): ClearCourse Partnership is the parent group of APT Solutions and houses other technology companies serving membership, payments, and association workflows; these sister entities are ecosystem participants providing integrated software opportunities and payment capabilities that complement (and could eventually overlap with) APT's offerings.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/APT_Stratum
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/apt-solutions-ltd

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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