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Is there a way to offer a multi-year option for membership types? I'm working with someone and they want to offer a discount if you renew for two or three years.

Also, is there a way to have a different price for a membership once it expires? They want people to renew before expiration, and as such they give a discount if you renew before your membership expires. After that it is regular price.

Thanks!

Did you figure out how to handle this?

For the multiple year option, i am doing it with price sets and membership types.

UPDATE

Maybe I misunderstood karenann and joanne, but I discovered you CAN do multi-year discounts using price sets alone (in version 4.4.5 at least), as long as you don't use auto-renewal on your membership type. For each price option in the set you enter the number of terms. In our case a term is one year, so the price for two terms represents a discount for two years, and so on.

To do the renewal discount I just have a separate checkbox in the price set for a "Registration Fee" of $20 with the label "Required for new or lapsed members" and checked by default. I can't think of a way to easily enforce it; for now we expect people to be honest and will follow up if they don't actually add the fee when they're supposed to. (I did experiment with having a different form for renewals with a different price set, but to make it work properly involves some trickery with PHP and/or JavaScript to show/hide the forms according to the membership status of the logged-in user.)