Pro rata payment of membership fees

[penguinhead]

If someone pays half way though a membership year period, i it possible for the contributions payment system to calculate the membership fee on a pro rata basis?

[denishow]

Hi,

I have exactly the same question. I have fixed term memberships that start on 1st April, so if someone signs up now, I only want them to pay 4/12, not for the whole year.

The only way I can see to do this is to go in every month and reduce the membership fees by 1/12.

Does anyone have any better ways?

Thanks

[timfluhr]

My org could use this feature as well.  Does anyone have a working solution for this?

Thanks!

[EdP]

Just a thought - could you do it via price sets? They allow "Active On" and "Expiry On" functionality, so you would have a January, February, March (etc.) price set and they'd only be active during the relevant month.

Having said that, the reason i don't do this even though it would be useful for me is that it is a lot of work (setting up 12 price sets and then, inevitably, resetting them at the end of the year as membership fees change).

The other option is CiviDiscount - although I'm not clear whether that is now stable. That allowed percentage discounts, so you would just have to allow a discount code for e.g. July that was a 50% discount on calendar year memberships.

[davej]

See this thread for another approach, using hooks:
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php?topic=11762.0

Dave