Design and Implementation of a Custom, Web-Based Cooperative Loan Application Management System

Abstract

Cooperative societies are growing in Nigerian Educational institutions. Members of different groups within theseacademic settings have been coming together to support each other financially through saving and incidental accessto loans. A good example of such cooperative groups is ASUP SICHST Makarfi cooperative society limited. Oneof the key challenges that most of these societies face in their day-to-day administration is the use of manualtechniques for management of cooperative records. ASUP SICHST Markarfi cooperative society limited is used asthe case study in this work. The society is registered by government of Kaduna State and is operating at Shehu IdrisCollege of Health Sciences and Technology, Makarfi. Despite having some proposals for deploying ICT solutionsto manage cooperative activities, it was observed that there is paucity of works that specifically identify the needto provide solutions to loan application management problem in a custom scenario. This study proposed a webbased loan application management system that addresses the identified problems in the current manual system.The solution was developed with focus on features that cater for loan application management function in thecooperation society, in a custom manner. MySQL, PHP, HTML, CSS and JQuery were the tools used for theimplementation. The new system is found to be custom-developed and can promote the creation and managementof members’ loan applications in the cooperative society. It is believed that this approach is better when it comesto deploying solutions for the management of custom operations of cooperative society activities.