What Does Concorder Do?
Welcome to the complete guide to Concorder’s features. This page is designed as a practical manual to discover every tool available on the platform and understand how to use it effectively, whether you are a citizen, an association, a public authority, a business, a shared building, or a group of friends or colleagues.
Moderation and Management
Concorder provides advanced tools for moderating proposals, comments, and documents. Moderators can:
- Edit proposal content directly from the editor
- Manage lateral contributions through the dedicated right panel, approving or rejecting them with a click
- Approve participant contributions based on the consensus each contribution receives
- Appoint co-moderators within a proposal or group
- Make the proposal public or keep it private
- Allow participation only by registered users or extend it to guests with just a nickname
- Enable or disable comments
- Add voting options and manage voting groups
This ensures a balanced and inclusive participatory process, with moderation tools that guide the proposal’s evolution without imposing top-down decisions.
Collaborative Proposals
Proposals are the heart of the platform. Every user can:
- Create a proposal with clear objectives as a moderator, choosing from three models:
- Simple Proposal: the most flexible model, showing both text and voting groups
- Collaborative Document: prioritizes writing and text revision, initially hiding voting groups
- Poll: hides the text and focuses on voting options
- Contribute by suggesting modifications to proposal paragraphs
- Propose additional voting options
- Vote on the proposal or poll
- Discuss and comment on the proposal
🎯 Supported proposal types: thanks to mixed options, you can create a wide variety of proposals and collective decisions with extreme flexibility, from shared buildings to associations, from businesses to groups of friends:
- Shared building and condominium decisions: assemblies, interventions, regulations, expense allocation, and work priorities
- Quotes and projects with suppliers: compare multiple alternative offers, intervention packages, or services for condominiums, authorities, or businesses
- Business and team planning: define project priorities, choose tools or processes, discuss internal policies and roadmaps
- Participatory budgets and budget allocation: projects with descriptions, amounts, beneficiaries, and supporting materials
- Candidacies and nominations: present candidates with profiles, motivations, skills, and structured references
- Events and appointments: combine alternative dates, times, locations, informational attachments, and logistical notes in a single voting group
- Action plans and alternative strategies: compare scenarios, operational phases, required resources, and expected outcomes
- Simple choices among friends or colleagues: decide on activities, trips, schedules, or shared preferences quickly and transparently
Proposals are an essential tool for facilitating shared decisions quickly and transparently. Concorder makes it easy to create a proposal, share it with groups or publicly, and invite community participation.
Users can contribute to the text with suggestions that other participants can vote on, and participate in voting on proposed options. The best received contributions can be integrated into the final text by the moderator.
Lateral Contributions and Collaborative Review
Each proposal paragraph is connected to a lateral contributions system that makes review immediate and contextual:
- When a user adds a suggestion or modification, a numbered balloon appears next to the text
- Clicking on the balloon opens the right panel showing all contributions related to that paragraph
- Participants and moderators can read, vote (approve/abstain/reject), and discuss each contribution
- Moderators see the same elements but with immediate acceptance or rejection tools in the proposal editing area
- Approved modifications can be integrated directly into the text
This system transforms each paragraph into a participatory object and makes collaboration fluid and transparent, clearly separating discussion from final voting.
Voting Groups and Mixed Options
Voting groups allow you to organize voting on different aspects of the proposal. Concorder uses a mixed options system that allows combining heterogeneous elements in the same container:
- Text: write options using the advanced HTML editor
- Dates: single dates, with time or complete time intervals
- Locations: OpenStreetMap integration for geolocation and visualization
- Images and Attachments: upload supporting materials directly into the options
For each group you can choose the voting type:
- Single choice
- Multiple choice
- Approve / Abstain / Reject
Each option can include pros and cons to encourage informed evaluation. Content can be organized by drag & drop according to the group’s needs.
Practical example: to organize an event you can create a group with two alternative dates, each with its own location, informational materials, and logistical notes, all votable on a single screen.
Collaborative Documents
Concorder allows you to create true participatory documents:
- Each paragraph can be commented on or modified by users through lateral contributions
- Contributions can be voted on to determine their relevance
- The text evolves over time thanks to group participation
- It is possible to add a final vote to approve the document
This tool is ideal for statutes, regulations, manifestos, or action plans that require a collective and transparent writing process.
User Profile and Groups
Each user has a public personal page that shows:
- Created or endorsed proposals
- Groups they belong to
- Interests, values, and skills
- A button to receive communications
Groups allow organizing proposals into thematic or territorial communities, public or private. Any user can create a new group directly from proposal creation. The group creator assumes the administrator role and can:
- Manage group member roles (Administrator or Member)
- Add or remove members
- Choose whether to make the group public or private
- Decide whether to allow external users to participate in proposals
- Publish group proposals on the group page
These features make groups a powerful tool for organization, coordination, and facilitation of collaborative activities within the platform.
Comments and Forum
At the bottom of each proposal is the comments section, which functions as an ordered forum where participants can:
- Start open discussions on the general theme of the proposal
- Reply to other users’ comments creating conversation threads
- Ask questions to improve the proposal text
- Share additional information to complete voting options
Moderators can manage comments to keep the discussion constructive. This space encourages public deliberation and opinion exchange in a structured way, separating general discussion from specific paragraph contributions (managed through lateral balloons).
Sharing
Each proposal or document can be:
- Private or Public on Concorder
- Made visible only through a link (for private proposals)
- Shared on social networks
Important note: public proposals are accessible only to registered users to ensure participation quality. Private proposals can instead allow guest access, according to the settings chosen by the moderator.
This promotes content dissemination and transparency, while maintaining control over participation quality.
Multilingual Support
Concorder is multilingual by nature:
- User interface in multiple languages (Italian and English, with the possibility of adding others)
- Translatable proposals managed in parallel versions
Ideal for international, multicultural, or cross-border contexts.
Want to Contribute?
Concorder is an open project. If you want to suggest new features or improve the platform:
👉 Contact us or create a proposal on www.concorder.net