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I've spent a good bit of time searching and haven't found the answer so I'm venturing a post.

I am looking for a Drupal based solution to build a website for an association of organizations. Finding CiviCRM I've gotten excited as it appears to me that CiviCRM has the majority of what this association needs. The one item I'm not sure about is in regards to how this association takes dues.

The dues are paid by the member organizations, not the individual members themselves.

I'm thinking there needs to be a special user who is the dues paying member of an organization. Then the regular members need to be assigned to that organization. I'm just not sure if permissions and subscriptions can be set so that if the organization is not longer paid up, the individual users will no longer have members access either.

I really like what I'm seeing with CiviCRM. I'd like to know what the limitations are in regards to this association's dues process before I recommend it.

thanks - Chris

So it provides 'inherited memberships' ie the Org joins and people with the specified relationship get a member by dint of that relationship.

When you set up a Membership page you can specify that it can be set up to provide/require 'on behalf of memberships' in which case the individual fills in form for the Org, buys the membership on behalf of the org. adds in their own details, and ends up with the relationship of 'employee of' created on the fly.

gotta fly

hope that helps

If by member access you means access to CMS then yes this can be managed via CiviCRM Member Synch module - and then if the Org fails to renew, all Inherited Members will also lose their 'role' in drupal and hence lose access to Drupal content