2 and 3 year renewal periods options

• 09-30-2008, 5:57 PM

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  rmillstein Joined about 3 years ago Posts 83

  2 and 3 year renewal periods options Our society is on a two year cycle.  We have conferences every other year, and that is the time that most people renew.  We fear that switching to annual renewal might mean that people have on again and off again memberships.  It seems that all the ways to prevent this under the current version of Wild Apricot involve manual work from our end, but manual changes are exactly what we are trying to avoid by going with Wild Apricot.  So, we'd like to see an option to renew membership every other year ("biennial" renewal).  It would seem like this would be a relatively easy change?  Maybe?

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• 10-29-2008, 10:38 AM

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  jerrylanejohns Joined about 3 years ago Posts 6

  Aditional Renewal Periods options [5157] Currently, a membership level has one price and associated dates for due, grace period, etc. Our association allows people to join over a six month period. Each month, the price increases, then applications are discontinued. Please consider changing the current approach by enabling an administrator to create one or more "time periods" for a membership level. The features that you currently support for *specific* timeperiods, such as messages for the grace period, etc., could be continued. The enhancement is that the adminstrator can have multiple periods with various prices. This more flexible approach would support your current approach and my needed approach. Thanks. Jerry

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• 11-12-2008, 1:14 PM

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  Chief_Apricot Joined about 5 years ago Toronto Posts 4,186	Re: Time-based membership fees Can you elaborate a bit on this, I have not come across this setup before and can not quite understand it. Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot
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• 11-30-2008, 2:30 PM

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  VCOMA Joined about 3 years ago Posts 62	Re: Time-based membership fees I agree completely.  We currently offer a two year membership and with wild apricot there is no way to have the renewal not be annual.  Very frustrating.
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• 11-30-2008, 2:55 PM

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  VCOMA Joined about 3 years ago Posts 62	Re: Allow renewal every two years (or every 'x' years) Yes, I listed the same thing on another post!  We have this too and need an easier solution.
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• 12-12-2008, 5:54 AM

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  Art4Peace Joined about 3 years ago Posts 4	Re: Time-based membership fees We will really need the option for members to pay either monthly, semi-annually, or annually.  Is this not currently available in any of WA levels?  If not, please add this feature right away.
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• 12-13-2008, 2:02 AM

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  rmillstein Joined about 3 years ago Posts 83	Re: Time-based membership fees VCOMA: I agree completely.  We currently offer a two year membership and with wild apricot there is no way to have the renewal not be annual.  Very frustrating. I put this on the wishlist here: http://community.wildapricot.com/post/9794.aspx You might express your support of the feature there.
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• 12-13-2008, 2:04 AM

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  rmillstein Joined about 3 years ago Posts 83

  Re: Time-based membership fees rmillstein: VCOMA: I agree completely.  We currently offer a two year membership and with wild apricot there is no way to have the renewal not be annual.  Very frustrating. I put this on the wishlist here: http://community.wildapricot.com/post/9794.aspx You might express your support of the feature there. Oops, sorry -- I see you already did.  I tried to delete my posting, but couldn't.  :-(  :-(

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• 01-18-2009, 7:14 PM

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  Stacey Zeitlin Joined about 3 years ago Posts 2	Re: Allow renewal every two years (or every 'x' years) I agree. We have one and two year memberships and it would be great if Wild Apricot supported various time-limit memberships.
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• 03-10-2009, 4:27 PM

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  jerrylanejohns Joined about 3 years ago Posts 6

  Re: Time-based membership fees [5157] I would like to amend my earlier post below and say that it is no longer needed. We've simplified our approach. Thanks for all of the work you do to make the system better. Please consider changing the current approach by enabling an administrator to create one or more "time periods" for a membership level. The features that you currently support for *specific* timeperiods, such as messages for the grace period, etc., could be continued. The enhancement is that the adminstrator can have multiple periods with various prices.

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• 03-10-2009, 4:32 PM

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  Chief_Apricot Joined about 5 years ago Toronto Posts 4,186	Re: Time-based membership fees [5157] Appreciate your follow-up. Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot
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• 03-11-2009, 2:20 AM

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  lighthouseDM Joined about 3 years ago Posts 7	Re: Allow renewal every two years (or every 'x' years) I would also welcome this feature. My client's society has it's main meeting tri-annually and therefore, requires a membership level with a 3 year renewal period. I think that having a numbered spin box and allowing the membership level administrator to select the number of years for a renewal period would possibly be the way forward.
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• 06-24-2009, 10:48 AM

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  astrid Joined about 2 years ago Posts 3	Re: Allow renewal every two years (or every 'x' years) Our society also offers 3 and 5 year memberships with reduced pricing, so that option would be highly appreciated if not necessary!
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• 06-29-2009, 3:13 PM

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  ConnieAIIP Joined about 3 years ago Colorado Posts 23	Multiyear renewals My assn wants to be able to offer multiyear renewals, with a discount incentive. What are our chances of this being available in 2009?  Thanks!
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• 06-29-2009, 3:20 PM

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  Chief_Apricot Joined about 5 years ago Toronto Posts 4,186	Re: Multiyear renewals Can't tell yet - depends on votes/comments this thread receives vs. all other requests in the pipeline. Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot
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• 08-12-2009, 5:40 PM

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  CJoeG Joined about 2 years ago Posts 23

  Re: Multiyear renewals Our running club as 1 year and 3 year memberships, and we provide a discount for 3 year memberships. The only way that we can find to work around this issue is for an administrator to monitor registrations and for anyone who registers for a 3 year membership the administrator must manually edit the renewal date for those members.  This is the type of work that we are trying to automate with the WA services. With thousands of members this is not a trivial task. We need an enhancement soon that will allow us to specify membership periods and prices and which will eliminate the manual work around mentioned above.  Joe

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• 08-25-2009, 10:37 AM

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  Teri Joined about 2 years ago Posts 71	Re: Multiyear renewals Using WildApricot for the trial period, this is one of the first things that I noticed was needed. We offer 3 yr memberships at a discount.  I know that I can go in and change each one manually, but I am looking to make my job easier, not more complicated. Is this a difficult fix?   Thanks
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• 08-25-2009, 10:57 AM

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  Chief_Apricot Joined about 5 years ago Toronto Posts 4,186

  Re: Multiyear renewals The biggest challenge is renewals 'specific' date (vs. join date) For Teri and all of you using multi-year renewals: 1) Do you renew on member join date anniversary or a specific date? 2) If specific date (e.g. Jan 1), do you 'normalize' all multi-year memberships to renew on the same date - or have normalize them to the closest date next year? For example, let's say you offer 2 year renewal on jan 1st. John joins in Jan 2009 and Mary in Jan 2010. Would you have John renewal in Jan 2011 and Mary in Jan 2012 - or would have them both renew in Jan 2011 and prorate Mary's first year payment? Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

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• 08-25-2009, 11:27 AM

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  CJoeG Joined about 2 years ago Posts 23

  Re: Multiyear renewals We are looking for 'join date' multi-year renewals with discounts based on the renewal period (1 year, 3, years, 5 years).  This missing feature is causing us to ask our clients to manually change every multi-year renewal date to the correct date.  This is not a selling point for our clients.  Besides this manual work-around there is another issue related to this and that is that the members see the following when registering:  "New 3-Year Membership $60.00 (USD)  Subscription period: Year Automatic renewal: no" The 'Subscription period: Year' is confusing to the user and there is NO work around for this!

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• 08-25-2009, 11:43 AM

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  Teri Joined about 2 years ago Posts 71	Re: Multiyear renewals Renew on the join date.   John renews in 2011 and Mary in 2012   Teri
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• 08-25-2009, 12:41 PM

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  rmillstein Joined about 3 years ago Posts 83	Re: Multiyear renewals We renew on the join date.  And yes, we still really need multi-year renewal.
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• 08-26-2009, 7:02 PM

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  Teri Joined about 2 years ago Posts 71	Re: Multiyear renewals But I go back to a previous question:   Is this a difficult fix?   Teri
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• 08-26-2009, 7:43 PM

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  Chief_Apricot Joined about 5 years ago Toronto Posts 4,186	Re: Multiyear renewals It's all about the details. It's not the easiest fix but no the hardest, that's not the question. The question is whether we should do this vs.  other things in our work queue. We do our best to weigh all the votes and comments to pick top priority items for every release. Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot
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• 10-07-2009, 2:43 PM

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  Anonymous	Re: Aditional Renewal Periods options We are looking at adding two-year and three-year renewal periods for membership levels. We are planning to release this in version 3.3 of Wild Apricot, which is scheduled for the end of 2009

• 10-17-2009, 12:28 PM

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  plainbreeze Joined about 2 years ago Posts 4	Re: Aditional Renewal Periods options Our organization would also love to see multiple membership options.  Our members can join for one or two years.
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