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Hey All,

We collect a one time initiation fee from all members that they only pay once when joining.  How can I add an additional, optional fee?

Ideally, when a person clicks to join, we want them to be able to pay the dues and, IF they are a first time member, pay an additional initiation/administration fee (set amount, not open amount or "contribution").

I've tried to figure it out with no luck.  About to fiddle with Contribution Price Sets.  If is works fundamentally, maybe I can just change the tag from "Contribution" to "Initiation Fee".  But don' let that stop you from chiming in if you have a solution - Thanks!! 

Would a 'life membership' option work - not sure how you could 'require' that they check this as well as the other membership but could explain it in the 'new membership' header but leave it out in the 'renew header'

actually not sure if you can purchase 2 memberships on same page but expect you can

may be worth trying

you may have mis understood - i was suggesting to do the 'lifetime' to just cover the 'one time initiation fee' - and use your standard memberships for the other stuff

I ended up just creating extra "Membership Types" 1 says $100 and the other says $125 they just select which applies to them.

Thanks for all the help!

There are (2) Membership options "Active" & "Associate".

Are you saying that if a person ORIGINALLY signs up as a NEW Member ($125), that they will automatically renew at the same $125 (even though they don't need to pay the $125 again)?

EX:

* CENTRAL REGION: Active Member (NEW MEMBER)  - $ 125.00
   Includes One-Time $25.00 Initiation Fee     

* CENTRAL REGION: Active Member (RENEWING MEMBER)  - $ 100.00


* CENTRAL REGION: Associate Member (NEW MEMBER)  - $ 75.00
   Includes One-Time $25.00 Initiation Fee     

* CENTRAL REGION: Associate Member (RENEWING MEMBER)  - $ 50.00

Is there a way for them to have a choice of renewal options? When renewal comes, I would prefer they have a choice all over again and not be renewed for the exact same thing.  Some may opt after "Active" membership to go with "Associate".

Thanks for bringing it up - never thought about it. I'm going to set one of the test account to expire tonight so I can take a look at what happens tomorrow.

Thanks again!

So, it's not possible to offer a choice of membership types upon renewal?  It just renews the same mebership?

I worked around this issue by creating an 'Initiation' membership and a 'dues' membership.  Then I set the 'Initiation' membership to expire within a day, so if a member needed to re-initiate in a few years, we could do that.

The way my non-profit works, yea, members pay an initiation fee plus first month dues.  Then as long as they are current on their monthly dues, they won't have to 're-initiate', but if they fall behind, or drop out then want to re-join later, we can do that.

I guess we could do the 'initiation' as a 'contribution' instead of a 'membership', but I figure it would be easier to pull up both the initiation fee and monthly dues in one view if they were both 'membership types'.