One institution. One connected platform.

Overview

The Institute of Sustainability, Governance and Management needed more than a public-facing institutional website. The organisation required a coordinated digital system capable of presenting professional Programs, receiving applications, collecting processing fees, supporting admissions decisions and managing the certification journey from one platform.

Kemma Technologies designed and developed an end-to-end institutional platform connecting the public website, applicant experience and administrative operations.

The Challenge

Professional training and certification Programs involve multiple operational stages:

• Program discovery
• Eligibility review
• Applications
• Document submission
• Application-fee payment
• Applicant communication
• Admissions decisions
• Admission documentation
• Cohort coordination
• Certification
• Certificate verification
• Institutional publishing and reporting

Handling these processes through disconnected forms, spreadsheets, email threads and manual files creates delays, inconsistent records and unnecessary administrative work. The platform needed to make the process clear for applicants while giving staff a dependable internal system.

The Solution

Kemma Technologies built a unified platform covering:

• Structured Program discovery
• Online applications
• Secure applicant accounts
• Document uploads
• Paystack payment processing
• Applicant dashboards
• Status tracking
• Role-based staff administration
• Coordinator review workflows
• Admission decisions
• PDF admission-letter generation
• Admission-document verification
• Certificate management
• Public certificate verification
• Institutional news and publications
• Applicant and admissions analytics
• Transactional notifications

Product Experience

Applicants can

• Explore available Programs
• Review requirements, fees and Program outcomes
• Apply online
• Upload required documents
• Pay the application-processing fee
• Sign in to a personal dashboard
• Track their application
• Receive decisions
• Download admission documents
• Verify official records where applicable

Authorised staff can

• Review applications
• Search and filter applicants
• Access submitted documents
• Record internal notes
• Update application decisions
• Generate admission letters
• Manage certificates
• Maintain certificate audit history
• Publish institutional news and documents
• Review admissions-funnel analytics

Engineering Approach

The platform was built with:

• Next.js and React
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• Supabase Auth, Postgres and Storage
• Paystack payment integration
• Resend transactional email
• Server-generated PDFs (pdf-lib)
• Role-based access control
• Public verification systems
• Vitest and automated quality checks
• GitHub Actions
• Vercel deployment

Outcomes

The resulting platform gives ISGM a coordinated digital foundation for operating its admissions and certification processes:

• A complete online applicant journey at pisgm.org
• Centralised applicant administration with role-based workflows
• Automated admission-document creation
• Integrated Paystack payment processing
• Public certificate verification capabilities
• Infrastructure that can support additional Programs and cohorts