ISTOK is an ERP platform that

Automates document flow and reporting in a cooperative

The platform is installed on your cooperative’s website. Members sign up there like on any other website and join the cooperative remotely. The board adds apps from the catalog, and members use them to take part in targeted consumer programs. Every action a member takes in an app is executed by a smart contract, produces a document with an electronic signature and appears in the reports. This is how an ordinary cooperative becomes a digital one.

How it works Demo →

A member’s action enters on the left, the robot carries the document through seven stations, and the storage sits under the belt.

Process

The robot carries a document from an action to a report

The robot is built from seven stations, and each station performs one operation. Together they give the cooperative legally binding document flow and automatic accounting.

01 · Document factory

A member presses a button, and the factory issues a document

A member joins the cooperative, makes a contribution, places an order or votes. The factory picks the template for this action, fills it with data and produces a finished document.

02 · Electronic signature

The member signs the document on their own device

The signing key stays with the member. The board and the chair sign their documents the same way, and every document becomes legally binding.

03 · Anonymization

Personal data is separated from the document

The robot computes the document hash and hides the data. The next station receives the anonymized document and its hash.

04 · Smart contract

The smart contract accepts the anonymized document and executes the action

The smart contract expresses a cooperation standard in program code. It checks signatures, permissions and the conditions of the action, then changes the state. The member is admitted, the contribution is credited, the order is open.

05 · Blockchain

The hash and the result of the action are written to the blockchain

The record is stored on the network nodes and stays unchanged. Any participant verifies the authenticity of a document by its hash.

06 · Cooperative database

The document with its data is stored on the cooperative’s server

The full document with signatures is kept in the cooperative’s database together with the register record. The board and the member have access to it.

07 · Reporting

Reports and analytics are built from the records

Every action creates a ledger entry. The robot builds reports from the entries for the audit committee and government agencies and gives the board analytics on the cooperative.

For the board

The board gets a robot that produces electronic documents

ISTOK is built for the board of a consumer cooperative, its chair and board members. ISTOK works as a robot: it issues documents from members’ actions, keeps the accounts and builds the reports, while the board makes the decisions. Below is the path of one member through the ISTOK interface, from sign-up to the registers.

01 · Member admission

A member joins the cooperative through the website

Signing up on the cooperative’s website takes ten minutes. ISTOK admits individuals, sole proprietors and organizations, fills in the application automatically and guides the member through every step up to the entrance fee.

02 · Electronic signature

Every document gets an electronic signature

At sign-up ISTOK creates an advanced electronic signature for the member and protects it with the member’s password. The member signs the application on their own device, and the board verifies any signature in the document register.

03 · Board decisions

The board makes decisions by voting on the website

The application is added to the board agenda automatically. Board members vote from their own devices, the chair approves the decision, and ISTOK issues the board decision with signatures.

04 · Member register

The member register is kept automatically

After the board decision ISTOK adds the member to the register with the date of admission, status and documents. The board finds any member by name, tax ID or organization name.

05 · Wallet

The wallet accepts and returns share contributions

The wallet is the single entry point for share contributions and is linked to the cooperative’s bank account. A member tops up the wallet and receives refunds on their own desk. The wallet runs as a standard targeted consumer program and is part of the core, and the board sees every payment in the payment register.

06 · Document register

Every document opens with its signatures and checksum

The application and the board decision are stored in the register as one package. The board opens a document, sees the checksum and the verified signatures, downloads a PDF and presents it to the audit committee, a court or the tax office.

07 · Desks

Every role in the cooperative gets its own desk

The board, the chair, members and the accountant work at their own desks, and each of them sees their own pages. The “Switch desk” button opens a navigator across desks, pages, members and documents. An app adds new desks to the navigator.

Methodology

Regulations and procedures are part of the delivery

Targeted consumer programs, procedures and document templates are built into the platform. The methodology is standard, open to review and improved continuously, so the board passes any inspection with confidence.

Reporting

Reports are built automatically

Every member action creates a ledger entry. ISTOK builds reports from the entries for the audit committee and government agencies and gives the board analytics on the cooperative.

Growth

The cooperative’s growth no longer depends on the board’s manual work

A board can keep the paperwork by hand while the cooperative has up to a hundred members. Beyond that the volume of documents exceeds what manual work can handle, and ISTOK becomes the only way to run the cooperative.

Core and apps

Apps extend the cooperative’s website, the blockchain stays one

01 · Blockchain

The cooperative’s website runs on one blockchain

The blockchain executes smart contracts — cooperation standards in program code — and keeps a record of every action. Every action on the website enters the blockchain through its own smart contract.

02 · Cooperative website

The website provides four desks

Member, board, meetings and wallet are available to every cooperative from day one. Together with the cooperative’s database they make up the core, and the data stays on the cooperative’s server.

03 · Members

Members work on the website, documents enter the blockchain

A member presses a button on their desk. The website issues a document by the standard and collects the signatures, and the blockchain executes the action and keeps the record.

04 · Payments and reporting

Payments are recorded in the blockchain, reports are built from it

Contributions and payments from the cooperative’s bank account are recorded in the blockchain, and the reports are built from the records of members’ actions and sent to the regulators.

05 · Apps

An app adds a new desk to the website

Order Desk, Blagorost and Education Desk sit next to the core desks. Members get new actions, and documents and reports pass through the same blockchain.

06 · Growth

The website grows with every new app

The board adds apps from the catalog as needed. The blockchain stays the same, and the board runs the whole cooperative from one system.

Federation

An app connects the cooperative to a shared network

01 · Smart contracts

Cooperatives work on shared smart contracts

The blockchain is shared by all cooperatives, and it executes smart contracts — cooperation standards in program code. A cooperative performs every action through a smart contract, which checks the conditions, permissions and signatures on the documents. The smart contracts are the same for all cooperatives.

02 · One app

Cooperatives install the same app

Order Desk is installed on the website of each of them. The app runs on shared smart contracts, so its documents and actions are the same for everyone.

03 · App network

App documents pass between cooperatives

Orders, deliveries and acts pass from one cooperative to another through shared smart contracts. This forms a federation around the app: the Order Desk network, the Blagorost network, the network of any future app.

04 · Data

Each cooperative’s data stays with it

The smart contracts receive the actions and the documents of a deal. The registers and the database of each cooperative stay inside it, on its own server and under the control of its own board.

Pricing

Run it yourself or choose a plan

The open-source core is free for a cooperative to run on its own: the license allows this for non-profit organizations. Paid plans deliver ready-to-use ISTOK with apps and a monthly document volume. Federation adds all VOSKHOD apps and runs on a cluster inside the cooperative’s perimeter with no charge for documents.

Annual pricing

The plan is chosen by the monthly workload

On the self-hosted plan the cooperative gets the core for free and works without paying for documents or members. The delivery is limited to the core, so the cooperative builds, runs and maintains any apps and their smart contracts on its own. Such a specialist costs about $2,500 per month on the market. The Start, Standard and Scale plans include access to the app catalog with one app in the plan price, a server, launch, support and a monthly document volume. The cooperative spends this volume on new members or on document packages in any proportion. Other apps are added from the catalog. Everything above the included volume is paid separately at the price in the table. Federation runs on a cluster inside the cooperative’s perimeter with all apps, and its document flow is free at any volume. When the monthly workload regularly exceeds the included volume, the cooperative moves to the next plan.

Any volume

Self-hosted

$0
per year · your specialist
50 members or 75 packages

Start

$1,080
per year · $90 per month
160 members or 240 packages

Standard

$2,520
per year · $210 per month
480 members or 720 packages

Scale

$5,340
per year · $445 per month
Any volume

Federation

On request
per year · Enterprise
Core
member, board, meetings, wallet
App catalog
access to VOSKHOD apps
New members or document packages
included in the plan per month
50 or 75
160 or 240
480 or 720
any volume
Price above the included volume
per document package and per new member
$0
$0.24 and $0.36
$0.24 and $0.36
$0.24 and $0.36
$0
AXON price
$0
$0.12
$0.12
$0.12
$0
Launch and maintenance
by the VOSKHOD team
Technical and methodology support
answers on working with the platform, response time
within 2 business days
within 8 business hours
within 2 hours
within 2 hours
All prices are per year. Document flow is measured in AXON: a document package costs 2 AXON, a new member costs 3 AXON. The included volume is already in the plan price. The source code is open under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
Onboarding

A cooperative connects to ISTOK in eight steps

On the left of the diagram are the cooperative’s actions, on the right are VOSKHOD’s actions. On the self-hosted plan the cooperative launches ISTOK on its own following the documentation.

01 · Cooperative

Application to join VOSKHOD Cooperative

The cooperative joins VOSKHOD as a legal entity. The organization signs up in the member portal and fills in the application online, including the plan and the domain of its future website.

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02 · VOSKHOD

The VOSKHOD board decides on admission

The board reviews the application and admits the cooperative as a member. The decision is issued as a document with an electronic signature.

03 · Cooperative

The cooperative signs the connection agreement

The agreement sets the plan, the set of apps and the support terms. The chair signs it with an electronic signature.

04 · Cooperative

The cooperative’s domain is pointed to the server

The cooperative enters the server address provided by VOSKHOD at its domain registrar. The setup follows step-by-step instructions and takes a few minutes.

05 · VOSKHOD

VOSKHOD delivers ISTOK

The team installs ISTOK on the server with the apps of the plan. The cooperative’s website opens on its domain.

06 · Cooperative

The chair sets up and initializes the system

The chair completes the initial setup in the interface, invites board members and prepares the website for members. The setup goes step by step and needs no technical knowledge.

07 · Cooperative

The board adapts its document flow

The board holds meetings and makes decisions using templates, and existing members of the cooperative receive electronic signatures through an import.

08 · Together

The cooperative works with support

The VOSKHOD team maintains ISTOK, installs updates and advises on methodology under the terms of the plan.

Demo access

See how ISTOK works from the inside

Demo access to ISTOK is open on the public test network. Sign in as the chair and see how ISTOK produces documents and runs a cooperative. To see ISTOK through a member’s eyes, sign up and admit yourself to the cooperative. The ISTOK interface and documentation are in Russian for now.

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