Wave Agency

Wave Community · The Membership Platform

Your members, your directory, your apps.

The directory every member is listed in, the portal where they edit it themselves, events with registration and paid tickets, a member feed, newsletters, and native apps. One record behind all of it, so a member updates their hours once and it changes everywhere.

500+
Members On It Today
iOS
and Android
One
Record Behind It All
In-House
Built, Not Licensed

Why It Exists

A chamber is more software than anyone expects.

Most membership organizations are running four vendors and a website nobody has touched in four years. This is what it replaced at the Melville Chamber.

The directory subscriptionUsually a separate vendor, usually out of date, usually keyed to nothing else.
The events toolRegistration and ticketing that never knew who was a member.
The email platformA second list, maintained by hand, drifting from the first.
The websiteBuilt by somebody else, edited by nobody, and last touched four years ago.

The cost of four systems is not four bills. It is that a member exists four times, in four states of correctness, and the person who has to reconcile them is usually the one person on staff.

What It Does

The modules, all of them running today.

Every line below is live at the Melville Chamber right now. Nothing here is a roadmap.

Member DirectorySearchable by name, category, town, or plain-language need, with a page and a map pin for every member.
Member PortalMembers sign in and edit their own listing, hours, photos, and contacts. Nobody emails the office to change a phone number.
Events and TicketsOne calendar for your events and theirs, with registration, seat caps, waitlists, paid tickets, and check-in at the door.
Member FeedMembers post their own news and it reaches the other members rather than an algorithm.
News and NewslettersA news desk with categories and a feed, and sends that go out to the membership you already hold.
iPhone and Android AppsNative apps sharing one account and one set of data with the site.

Events, In Full

From the first ticket to the door.

Member evenings, galas, expos and trade shows run on the same member record. Every line below is live at the Melville Chamber today.

RegistrationMember and non-member pricing applied from the membership, a real capacity, and a waitlist that promotes the next person by itself.
TicketsA code and a QR per registration, and an Apple Wallet pass signed in your own name that works on a lock screen with no signal.
The doorScan, search, or add a walk-in and check them in with one press, with the whole roster on the device before the doors open.
The moneyStripe into your own account with no cut of the ticket, plus checks and cash, in one ledger by kind and by method.
EmailThe confirmation carrying the ticket, the reminder before the day, and a write-to-everybody that goes out in waves.
The floorTables and sponsorship packages sold from your own page and priced on the server, with to-invoice kept apart from paid.
Your own appsiPhone and Android under your name on both stores, carrying the calendar and every ticket somebody holds.

Landing in October 2026: badges printed at the desk for walk-ups and name changes, and exhibitor lead capture at the booth. Neither runs yet, and we would rather you knew that before a demo.

The Proof

The Melville Chamber of Commerce runs on it.

Long Island's chamber in Melville, serving members since 2001. Their organization, their board, their voice. Everything underneath it is ours.

The Melville Chamber of Commerce home page, with the member count, the events bar, and the live markets ticker, all running on Wave Community.

A live capture of melvillechamber.org, running on Wave Community. See the partnership →

For The Member

The part that decides whether they renew.

A membership is judged on what a member can actually see and do. These are the four things they notice.

A page of their own

Every member gets a real page with their hours, photos, contacts, and a pin on the map, found by category, by town, or by what somebody needs.

They edit it themselves

Sign in and change it. Nobody emails the office to correct a phone number, and nothing sits wrong for a year because the request was missed.

They can be heard

Members post their own news to the feed and it reaches the other members rather than an algorithm deciding who sees it.

It is in their pocket

Native apps on both stores, sharing one account with the site, so the directory is there at the event rather than at a desk.

For The Office

Built for an organization with one person on staff.

An admin that makes sense

Members, events, news, and the mailing list in one place, with roles so a volunteer can be given exactly what they need and nothing else.

Money in, accounted for

Event registration with seat caps and waitlists, paid tickets for non-members, and dues handled without a second system to reconcile.

Revenue of your own

Wave Ads ships with the platform, so sponsor placements across the site and the apps are inventory you sell and count yourself.

Nobody chasing data

One record per member, read by the site, the portal, the newsletter, and both apps. Nothing syncs overnight because nothing needs to.

The Platforms

Four platforms, four live businesses.

Wave Community runs the Melville Chamber. Wave Publisher runs our three titles. Wave Workforce runs this agency. Wave Wellness runs a consumer health app we are a partner in, on both stores in October. Each one is licensable on its own.

Owned & Partner Properties

We run our own businesses on it first.

Four platforms we wrote, and the live businesses behind them. Three titles we publish on Wave Publisher, a chamber of commerce we run with its board on Wave Community, and Wave Wellness, a consumer health app we built and are a partner in, on both stores in October. Wave Ads is the ad server inside the titles and the chamber.

Wave owned

Long Island Wave

Digital title · Nassau & Suffolk

Our regional lifestyle and news title, with its own ad inventory.

40,000+Monthly viewers
  • Wave Publisher
  • Wave Ads
Wave owned

Gold Coast Wave

Digital title · South Florida

Long Island Wave's sister title for Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade, with its own ad inventory.

October 2026Launched
  • Wave Publisher
  • Wave Ads
Wave owned

Creations Magazine

Print & digital · NYC & Long Island

Holistic living in its fourth decade, in print and online.

80,000+Monthly readers
  • Wave Publisher
  • Wave Ads
Partner property

Melville Chamber of Commerce

Membership · Long Island

The chamber’s whole operation, from the directory to the apps.

500+Member businesses
  • Wave Community
  • Wave Ads
Partner property

Wave Wellness

iPhone & Android · United States

A consumer health app we are a partner in, designed, built, and run in house.

October 2026Launching, both stores
  • Built in house
Wave Publisher
The publishing platform: newsroom, print issues, events, directory, readers, and apps.
Wave Community
The membership platform: directory, member portal, events, feed, and apps.
Wave Ads
Our own ad server: inventory, rotation, targeting, and first-party reporting.

Common Questions

Questions boards ask.

Is this only for chambers of commerce?+
No. It is built for any organization whose product is a membership: trade and professional associations, downtown and business improvement districts, civic groups, and event organizations. The chamber is simply the one running on it longest.
Can we bring our existing member list?+
Yes, and it is part of the work rather than an extra. The chamber came across with its whole roster, and members were able to claim and edit their own listings from the first week.
Do our members get apps?+
Yes. Native iPhone and Android apps that share one account and one set of data with the site, so the directory, the events, and the feed are the same in both places.
Who owns the member data?+
You do, and you keep it if we ever part ways. It is your roster, not ours, and it is never pooled with another organization's.
What does the office actually have to do?+
Less than now. Members maintain their own listings, registration and payment run themselves, and the newsletter draws on the roster you already hold. We run the platform, the updates, and the apps.

Let's Talk

Run your membership
on one system.

Thirty minutes with a senior member of the team. We will walk you through the Melville Chamber from the inside, board view included.

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