Questions & answers

On the Finance page, choose “I am a member” and enter your member number. We send a short code to the telephone already written next to your name on the register — no password to remember — and it works from any phone, anywhere in the world. Once you are in, you see the full list: every member’s dues and contributions, yours among them. Your member number is on your receipt, and the Registrar has it.

No — but fellow members can, and that is the point. The openness goes both ways: everyone on the register sees everyone’s contributions, just as the village already reads its books together, in the open, so that all can see who has paid. It does two things at once — it keeps the association honest, and it carries the work along, because seeing that others have already given is what encourages the rest to keep up. What this site changes is only who is inside that circle — the sons and daughters of Acha-Tugi, rather than anyone who happens to be in a public group. The totals stay public, so any donor may check the association is honest with money; the list of names opens to members alone. A visitor sees the totals, and never a single name.

The books are kept in the open. The Finance page shows the totals for anyone to read — what has been collected and what is still expected — and every contribution is recorded against a member and a dues cycle. Nothing is hidden behind a login. The figures a donor sees are the same figures the association keeps.

We keep it to the minimum and we guard it. There is no password of yours to be stolen — you enter with a one-time code sent to your own phone. The register and the payments are shown only to members who have proved themselves, never to the public. And the association’s most sensitive documents are kept encrypted, opened only by a few named officers.

The website is real and it is ours. While the association fills in its true records, some of what you see — members, payments, photographs — are clearly-marked placeholders that show how the finished site will work. They are replaced by the real thing as it is entered, and the notice comes down when it is.

Every member on the register has one — the card shown on the join page, in the association’s own colours. Enter the members’ area with your number and the code sent to the phone on the register, and you can open your card there, to keep on your phone or to print, front and back. A member who cannot do that themselves — a grandparent with no phone, or a family enrolled together by one of them — is given their card by the Registrar.

Every card carries a QR code, and the address atucda.org beneath it. Scan the code — or go to the site — and the association’s own register answers: it confirms a real, active member and shows only what is already on the card, never a telephone or anyone’s dues. A card cannot prove itself, because anyone can print one; the proof is the living register, which knows the numbers it has issued and shows a number it does not know as a card it never made.