Use cases / Associations
Training software associations can offer their members
Your members join for the value you bring them, from preferential rates with trusted partners to best-practice guidance. Howio adds a training benefit to that list: software each member business uses to train its own crews on a phone, with a record of who’s completed what.
A national trade regulator runs its online CPD on Howio. 7,339 practitioners completed it in 2025.
Your members carry a lot of responsibility for people they can’t always see
A member business might have crews on several sites at once, new starters every few weeks and subcontractors who’ve never worked with them before. Health and safety law in both New Zealand and Australia requires each business to give its workers the training and supervision they need to work safely, and clients increasingly want to see the evidence before they award the work. Helping members get that right, and prove it, is a benefit they’ll use every week.
Bring Howio to your members in four steps
Agree the package with us
We’ll work out with you what your members get and how they sign up, so the offer fits your membership and sits alongside the other partner benefits you already have.
Share it the way you already reach members
Introduce it in your newsletter, at branch meetings and at your conference, and we’ll give you what you need to explain it.
Members train their own crews
Each member business builds courses from its own site rules, procedures and videos using the AI course builder, then sends them to crews and subcontractors as a link. There’s no app to install and no account to set up, and the business can search anyone by name to see what they’ve completed.
Add your association’s own guidance
Turn your best-practice guidelines, workshop recordings and technical updates into short courses under your association’s name, so members can find your guidance between events as well as at them.
Training that helps a member business win and keep the work
Site inductions crews and subcontractors complete before they arrive.
Procedures on a phone, there when the job needs them.
A record for every worker to show a client, a head contractor or an insurer.
Automated reminders before refreshers are due, and certificates that renew automatically.
A benefit members use all year round
A member benefit for the whole year
Training is something members come back to with every new starter and every new site, long after the conference.
Your guidance reaches more members
Workshops and branch meetings reach the people in the room, and a short course reaches everyone else.
Your name on your own courses
Association courses carry your logo, colours and fonts, and members can go from your website into them without a second login.
Case study
The regulator for 15,000 New Zealand tradespeople runs its CPD on Howio
The Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board is the national regulator for around 15,000 plumbers, gasfitters and drainlayers in New Zealand, none of whom are on its payroll, and it runs its online CPD on Howio. Practitioners sign in through the Board’s own website and complete their training in a browser on whatever device they have, and 7,339 of them completed it online in 2025.
Looking for something else?
If you run licence CPD for a register, see how Howio works for regulators.
If you’re a member business wanting to train your own team, see how Howio works for employers.
Questions about Howio for associations
- What is a member training benefit?
- It’s a service an association arranges for its members, so each member business can train its own people. With Howio, members get training software built for crews who work on site, with courses that open in a phone browser.
- What does an association package include?
- It depends on your membership and what you’d like to offer. We’ll work through the options with you and agree a package that suits your members.
- Does each member business own its own training?
- Yes. Each member business builds and owns its courses and learner records, and your association’s courses sit alongside them under your name.
- Can we put our own guidelines and workshops on Howio?
- Yes. The AI course builder turns documents, slides and recordings into draft courses you can edit, branded with your logo, colours and fonts.
- Is Howio a training provider?
- No. Howio is the software. Your association and your members write and own the training.
Talk to us about an association package
We’ll show you how Howio works for a member business, and how a package could sit alongside the benefits you already offer.