Author Topic: Proper way to set membership periods (Read 912 times)

narayanis · February 25, 2010, 03:24:40 pm

The way our membership structure works, buying a membership entitles you to one year, extended to the end of the month. Examples:
join on 2/10/10 - expire on 2/28/11
join on 2/28/10 - expire on 2/28/11

I can't find a combination of fixed/rolling with 12 months or 1 year that will extend the expiration date to the end of the same month. This is fine for new memberships because i can set expiration manually; however for renewals I can't set the expiration until after the renewal is saved, so it's emailing members the wrong expiration date.

Is this setup possible with CiviMember?

adixon · February 25, 2010, 04:22:13 pm

but maybe this isn't a problem, since a renewal will start at the end of the last membership, which is already the end of a month?

narayanis · February 25, 2010, 04:29:33 pm

That is only the case when a member renews early. If the membership has expired, the renewal starts from the day payment is received; otherwise members would not get their full year. For example, a membership expired on 1/31/10. If it is renewed today (2/25/10), then a renewal always seems to set the new expiration to 3/24/11, not 2/28/11.

adixon · March 01, 2010, 08:06:47 am

Well, a cheap trick would be to create a custom email template that calculates the correct expiry, and then manually correct the actual expiry in the database.

But I think you probably want to look for an appropriate 'hook' to really do the right thing.

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