
VERIFIED CUSTOMER STORY
Essendon Football Club
How one of Australia's most successful clubs took corporate sales from spreadsheets to a single automated platform
KEY OUTCOMES
1 platform
Replacing disparate corporate sales systems
End-to-end
Sales-to-fulfilment with no manual handling
Live portal
Corporate clients buy and pay online
The challenge
Essendon identified the need to better manage corporate data with a more centralised solution. Information for corporate sales, events and sponsorship sat across disparate systems, and connecting it into a single view meant automating a long list of manual processes.
EngageRM stepped through an exhaustive discovery process to make sure the solution selected would provide the right outcomes, and was chosen as the club's preferred partner after a clear set of requirements had been agreed.
What EngageRM did
EngageRM built out the ability to create assets tied to game-day functions and club events, automating tasks that had previously required manual handling and letting the club sell that inventory directly through a corporate web portal. The end-to-end process, from sale through to fulfilment, now runs without manual internal steps.
KEY CAPABILITIES ACTIVATED
- Corporate sales across game-day functions, club events, signage and player sponsorships, with guest allocation and Securepay payments built in
- A corporate web portal letting clients purchase, pay and update guest details directly, with Google Analytics integration for reporting and SEO
- End-to-end events management, from corporate sale through to seating allocation with PerfectTablePlan and automated RSVP
- Multi-year sponsorship entitlement tracking and fulfilment, visible to clients through the portal
- A dedicated external information website built for the club's Grand Final Comedy Debate, with integrated ticket sales through the corporate portal
- Reporting via saved views, standard EngageRM reports and Power BI dashboards
The outcome
Moving off spreadsheets to a centralised view of every corporate customer wasn't without its challenges, but EngageRM provided solid support throughout, working directly with staff from individual departments to bring the new processes to life.
The club used the platform to quickly stand up a vibrant new presentation for its Grand Final Comedy Debate event, fully linked to the corporate portal — a cost-effective build that gave Essendon full control of the environment and opened up new ways to promote future events. With the sales-to-fulfilment process now automated, Essendon has a platform it can keep building on with confidence.
They have continued to evolve and enhance the application. This ensures real security in the club's investment, and we look forward to the future with EngageRM.
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