Currently:
N/A

Desired:
The ability to charge dynamic membership dues. Currently you can do this by creating extra cost fields and assign different costs to different choices, but some organizations might have very complex formulas. For example:

An organization might charge their corporate members per employer per year x $16.50 per head. However, they may have a minimum annual dues of 40 employees x 16.50, and a maximum annual dues of 400 x 16.50. There also may be an annual facility fee for each corporate member $100 per facility with a minimum of one facility and a maximum of five.

This may seem like an elaborate formula, but it is based on one from one of our clients.

We'd like to get some feedback on this from you. Is the ability to create a dynamic membership fee based on a number of different factors something that your organization needs or requires?

I currently have a client with a similar issue here.

Their members are various organizations whose membership dues are calculated based on a formula related to the amount of grant money the organization contributed in the previous calendar year.  The formula would be "total grants x .0029" so each member would effectively pay a different fee.

I'd love to see the ability to base a membership fee based on a formula like this.  As a fallback, it'd even been great to create a membership level with a "to be determined" blank value that could be set manually for each member.

I'm going to change the title of this post because I think there might be a better way to think about this.

What is there were a special type of field that you could put on application forms - a CALCULATED field - which would work similar to an extra cost field?

When applying, the applicant would enter a number  to a field that you have either assigned a (a) percentage (like in JayBuys case above, or for tithing) or (b) a multiple (pay $10 for each employee in your organization).

You could make your membership level "free" then and have all your membership fees determined by the values they've entered.

Iam trying to set up an event registration form for our site. I want itto look and function something like this one on our old site: http://www.atlantayachtclub.org/AYCpages/AYC-regattas/AYCopenregatta-reg.html

I can't figure out a good way to do the"how many dinners do you want?" fields. Basically, I need a Dropdownlist with extra costs for each item. Right now if I use a DropDown, thecost is not added to the registration cost. I have tried checkboxes andradio buttons as extra cost items, but these both look bad andare hard to understand for the users. 

 A single-selection Dropdown list would be configured the same way that an Extra Cost Radio Button group is configured, but would be displayed as a Dropdown selection.  We would find this very helpful in setting up our events.

Jay, thanks for posting.

I would appreciate input from other users with a similar need. 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

We would use this feature as well. We wanted to offer event attendees the chance to pre-pay for meal tickets as well as to pre-pay for t-shirts, but it seemed like it would have been awkward with the current set up. We decided to wait on adding that until a future event, but if the event registration was reformatted, we would definitely use this.

 We would want people to add as many meal tickets as they want at $x per ticket, and as many t-shirts at $x price per shirt.

Thanks for considering this.

I need this also! We have multiple types of event registration (parent/child/non-member parent/non-member child) and each has a different cost and I need a drop down so people can register multiple people for one event with different costs for each.

Consider adding a variable dues rate option.  We have a group that pays dues based on hotel nights available throughout the year, the dues rate is HOTEL NIGHT x $0.02 = AMOUNT OF DUES YOUR COMPANY WILL PAY:

 5,000 NIGHTS x $0.02 = $100 dues for 1 year

 

 

This has been requested by other people quite a few times so I will promote this to the roadmap.

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

My organization has an interest in this feature, and would be most interested in seeing it implemented in the near future.

I think what we're looking for here is a selection and quantity multiplier field that can be added in either a radio button, drop down box or multiple choice boxes. 

Say that you're offering a banquet ticket to attendees at a cost of $40, but someone wants to buy 50 banquet tickets.  As your form works now, you have 2 choices either a radio button or a multiple choice field that lists  1 ticket at $40, 2 tickets at $80 and so on.  Now if someone wants to buy 50 tickets, the event form would have 50 lines.  That's just a pain in the butt. A quick fix for that would be to allow a drop down box with added cost and auto calculation. 

What we'd like to see is a one line box that says "Banquet ticket" PLUS a quantity (either a drop down 1-50, or a text area that you can input the # of tickets you'd like to buy, plus an option that automatically calculates the total cost.  It would look like this:

click here for banquet ticket - ____ # of tickets at $40 per ticket = ____

Where click here activates the line, then the user is asked to input the # of tickets just before # above and the system would automatically calculate the total for that line to the right of the equal = sign.  

Another example would be if your're ordering t-shirts.  Do you want a mens blue, mens red, ladies blue or ladies red, the sizes are small, medium, large, x-large.

There are so many combinations that would take up so many lines, merging those options into one or 2 drop down boxes would save entry time and space. 

 I have a lot of situations like that.  One is where we sell back issues of our journal.  There are many prices, 1 price for an individual in the US, one price for individuals outside the US, and another price for Intuitions in or out of the US.  ABOVE that the person or institution ordering may want to have more then 1 copy of each issue, and they may want to order multiple issues.  that's not an event registration situation but I could manipulate the event registration form to allow for that if the registration options were more flexible.

 

Thanks, appreciate your detailed post!

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

Several of our events have an extra charge for example a BBQ.  This charge is based on the number of people in that group/family that will be attending the BBQ after the event.  It would be nice to have a way to add a field that had a quantity dropdown and a price relation so if the cost is $25 per and 2 is selected from the dropdown the system would charge an extra charge of $50.  Right now I have to use radio buttons and hope I cover the maximum number of group/family members.

 

Dmitry,

Any chance this will be in a release this year?  This would solve a lot of our registration issues.

Thanks 

The chances of it do not look good, there are too many things ahead of it in the queue. 

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Dmitry Buterin, Chief Apricot

I can promise that as soon as it's done you'll get one new client out of it from me :)  We have a group that would probably be a professional pricing group that we will probably move to WA as soon as you add this feature.  I hope it makes it into the queue on future updates! :)

Chief_Apricot:

The chances of it do not look good, there are too many things ahead of it in the queue. 

 

 

That's hard to hear.  Lack of this one feature is causing us a great deal of pain with events.  We can't make the system correctly calculate a price, and so we can't use online payments.  We're getting a lot of bad feedback from our members on it.