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Hi

I'm trying to figure out the best combination of membership types/pledges/recurring contributions/automatic renewals to accomodate the following membership structure for our campaign group:

• We offer monthly memberships (which MUST autorenew) from £1 (with certain amounts above this giving you a gift like a member pack etc.)
• We offer 'one off' memberships (really yearly) which may autorenew or may not, from £8, or £5 if you are a current student. Again, higher amounts get you other stuff.
• Additional to this we want to offer a 'one off donation on top of your membership' option on the form. So you could choose the £5/month gift pack option, but might not make a one off donation, but someone else might choose the £1/month minimum, but give us £50 as a one off because they feel flush that day. We probably wouldn't use this on the yearly method, because they might as well just put it all in as their membership amount (that's why we call it a one off even though they could in theory have an auto-renewing yearly, we find that quite rare).

I can seem to figure out how to do any of these in isolation, but not put them together. Any ideas on best practice here? It's important that the one-off donation option is done during the same 'transaction' (by that I mean workflow for the donor, I don't really care how it comes out in the records) as the member dues as we find that gives higher conversion rates than asking someone to go back and donate through a different form to top up.

Thanks