Wordpress For A Policy And Procedures Site?

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I have the task of looking into purchasing a software program that can be a portal for a policies and procedures site for the company I work for.
We currently have 40 employees and are growing.

The better policy and procedure packages I have found have a few things in common.

• Web based so employees can access it from anywhere.
• Multi level password protection.
• Preformed templates.
• A way for people writing a new procedure to have it approved before it becomes live.
• Individual employee login with the means to stamp with a signature that they have read and acknowledged the procedure.
• A way of archiving older policy and procedures for reference and just showing the current one.

The best software I have found is PolicyTech and they want $5000 for it.
Other than that most of what I have found is a collection of word documents.

I'm thinking to myself here, why don't I just make my own policy and procedure portal on Wordpress?

It has all of the above features except the templates and I can buy those for $100.

Can you think of anything I'm missing here?
Do you know of any good plugins that can help?

I know I could use something else like Jombilia but I know Wordpress pretty well and can have this started in a few days.

Thanks for any insight or help you may have thinking this through.

[josh18ua]

That could be a good idea. It kind of depends on what your goal is. If you just want to show people policies and procedures, it would work fine. By using an actuall product however, you will have lots of other features made available to you that would take considerable resources to build. For example, with a software application, you can send things through a review and approval process automatically, track who has read what when, track changes, Buying an application, I believe, is the best bet. If you find anything else out though, please let me know.

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I was thinking the subscribe to comments plugin may help with the approvals process but it is still is a little funky. The full software package I like costs $3000 so that is not in the budget. If I could find something that does the job for $500 or so then we would probably go that way instead. Thanks for your input.

Originally Posted by josh18ua

That could be a good idea. It kind of depends on what your goal is. If you just want to show people policies and procedures, it would work fine. By using an actual product however, you will have lots of other features made available to you that would take considerable resources to build. For example, with a software application, you can send things through a review and approval process automatically, track who has read what when, track changes, Buying an application, I believe, is the best bet. If you find anything else out though, please let me know.