TMS for Associations
Your Accreditation Review Wants Three Years of Records. Your Spreadsheet Has Last Quarter.
SimpliTrain is an association training management system (TMS) with a built-in learning management system (LMS). Run continuing education, certification programs, chapter workshops, and conference sessions across every chapter and every membership tier, so nobody on your education team is rebuilding a member’s CE transcript the week before an accreditation review.
Time your education team gets back from manual CE credit entry
Of historic CE records retrievable at review, without a rebuild
No developer needed. First cohort assigned within 48 hours
Every Chapter, One Calendar
Schedule Chapter Workshops and Volunteer Faculty Without a Single Double-Booking.
Most association training is taught by members rather than staff: subject-matter experts who volunteer a Saturday, then cancel when a client call runs over. SimpliTrain’s Training Scheduling engine holds instructor credentials and availability alongside chapter assignments. So a chapter education chair finds out three weeks ahead that the only credentialed instructor for the ethics module is already booked in another region that weekend, instead of finding out on the Thursday.
Credits That Add Up Correctly
Award CE Credit From Attendance, Not From a Post-Conference Data-Entry Marathon.
After a 40-session annual conference, credit reconciliation is usually two weeks of someone matching scanned sign-in sheets against a registration export. SimpliTrain calculates CEUs (continuing education units) from recorded attendance at session level, applies your credit rules by course type, and issues certificates automatically. Members see their own credit balance and renewal date in the member portal, which is where most of the “how many credits do I have?” emails go to die.
Accreditation Reviews Don't Ask for Notice
Pull a Complete CEU and Certification Record in Under 60 Seconds.
Reviewers don’t schedule around your calendar. SimpliTrain generates records formatted against what the ANSI/IACET 1-2018 standard asks providers to document: award criteria, instructor qualifications, attendance, and completion, per learner and per course. Filter by chapter, credential, date range, or licensing jurisdiction. The same record exports for a state licensing board submission, so you’re pulling evidence from one source instead of rebuilding it twice.
IACET is the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training, which sets the CEU standard most US associations award against.
After the Course Ends
Track Recertification Cycles Long After the Certificate Is Issued.
A credential doesn’t end at completion. It has a maintenance cycle and a recertification window, and a member who forgets both. SimpliTrain tracks Maintenance of Certification requirements across multi-year cycles and issues digital badges members can actually show an employer. When someone comes back to buy their recertification course, it reads their membership tier from your AMS (association management system) and charges the right rate, which is what stops a lapsed member checking out at the member price.
See the Difference
Most Systems Store Training Records. SimpliTrain Runs Your Education Program.
Associations usually run continuing education across a spreadsheet, an events tool, and a course library that don’t talk to each other. Here’s what changes when those three become one system.
| What You Need | Legacy System or Spreadsheets | 
Unified Platform |
|---|---|---|
| CE / CEU credit tracking | Manual spreadsheets | Calculated from attendance |
| Chapter and multi-region scheduling | Conflicts & gaps | Conflict-free, cross-chapter |
| Volunteer and member-faculty management | Email threads | Credentials & availability tracked |
| Accreditation reporting (IACET, licensing boards) | Days of manual prep | One export, filtered by chapter or credential |
| Recertification and MOC cycles | Calendar reminders | Tracked across multi-year cycles |
| Member vs non-member pricing | Two carts, manual overrides | One catalog, tiered automatically |
| Member self-service transcripts | Email the education team | Live in the member portal |
| Multi-chapter view | Spreadsheet tabs | One dashboard |
| AMS integration (iMIS, Fonteva, Nimble AMS, MemberClicks) | Manual data entry | Two-way sync |
| Implementation | Months of setup & IT load | Live in under 2 weeks. No developer needed. |
Case Studies
Proven Results in Aviation Training.
That’s how many new maintenance technicians global aviation needs over the next 20 years, and most MROs can’t train them fast enough.
“Our senior techs were spending more hours on paperwork than on the aircraft. Now a new hire’s authorization status is one click away.”
Director of Maintenance Training
Four bases. One dashboard. Zero flagged audits.
“We used to find out a certificate had expired the week it lapsed. Now we see it 90 days out, from one screen, across every base.”
VP, Training Operations
A Training Management System Built to Keep Every Credit Audit-Ready.
Bring your CE rules and your chapter calendar into the same system as your member records. Book a free 30-minute demo and we’ll configure it live for your credit structure, using your own course list.
Your Crew Grows.Your Bill Doesn't.
Per-Learner / Per-Crew TMS
Charged per crew member / year
Scales with headcount — growth penalises you
Hire 200 new crew this year? Your platform bill goes up. Every pilot you add costs you more. Growth penalises you.
Per-Learner / Per-Crew TMS
Flat Pricing
Scale freely – pay only for what you need
Starting from
Scale from 500 to 5,000 crew. Your platform cost stays exactly the same.
- Resource management
- Session scheduling
- Instructor management
Results That Speaks for Themselves
What happens when the platform fits the operation.
Independently Validated
Built for Aviation Operators. Recognised for Delivering.
From analyst evaluations to verified user reviews, SimpliTrain’s impact is documented by operators who measured real outcomes, not just feature lists.
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FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is an association training management system (TMS)?
An association training management system runs the operational side of member education: scheduling courses and instructors, managing registrations, tracking CE credits, and reporting for accreditation. SimpliTrain combines a TMS with a built-in LMS, so live, virtual, and self-paced training all sit in one member record.
2. What's the difference between an association LMS and a training management system?
An LMS delivers and tracks course content: modules, quizzes, completions. A TMS runs the operation around it, from session scheduling and instructor assignment through attendance, credit calculation, and revenue. Most association education is instructor-led, so an LMS on its own won’t touch the scheduling and credit work. SimpliTrain does both.
3. How does SimpliTrain track CE and CEU credits for certification renewal?
Credits are calculated from recorded attendance at session level, using your own credit rules per course type. Certificates issue automatically on completion. Members see their credit balance and renewal date in their portal, and get reminders at 90, 60, and 30 days.
4. Can SimpliTrain manage training across multiple chapters and regions?
Yes. Chapters run their own calendars and local instructors while the national office keeps one view of every course, credit, and completion. A locked master course version keeps the curriculum identical wherever it’s delivered, and reporting rolls up by chapter or across all of them.
5. How does SimpliTrain handle volunteer and member instructors?
Volunteer faculty are tracked like any other instructor: credentials, teaching history, availability, chapter assignment. The system flags a scheduling conflict or an expired instructor credential before the session is published, rather than the week it runs.
6. How does audit and compliance reporting work for IACET and licensing boards?
One export covers it, filtered by chapter, credential, jurisdiction, or date range. Records follow the documentation the ANSI/IACET 1-2018 standard expects, and the same underlying record supports a state licensing board submission.
7. We have years of CE records in spreadsheets. Can you migrate them?
Yes. Historic records and credits are imported as part of onboarding, usually inside the first two weeks. You send the spreadsheets, we handle the mapping and send back a reconciliation report before go-live so you can check it against your own numbers.
8. Does SimpliTrain integrate with our AMS?
Yes, including iMIS, MemberClicks, and Salesforce-based systems such as Fonteva and Nimble AMS. Membership records and tiers sync, members use a single login, and completions and credits write back to the member record without duplicate entry.
9. How is SimpliTrain priced, and how long does implementation take?
Most associations live in under two weeks with no developer, including the AMS connection and historic record import. Pricing scales with active learners rather than total membership, so a 12,000-member association that trains 2,000 people a year pays for 2,000.
