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I thought I remember someone saying something about this at a talk at Drupal Dallas where an organization could pay for a "seat" amount of memberships. Is this possible and if so anyone want to give me a place where I can RTFM. I'm not been able to find it anywhere.

Basically we want a company (hospital in my case) to pay for 10 memberships, and have 10 people from that hospital be able to come in and claim it (one way or another).

If I understood you and the help in the membership type page well, then you could do this with a membership type that grants 10 memberships to contacts with relationship type "Employer of". See the fields “Relationship Type” and “Max Related”. I haven’t tried this, but it should work like this.

If I understood you and the help in the membership type page well, then you could do this with a membership type that grants 10 memberships to contacts with relationship type "Employer of". See the fields “Relationship Type” and “Max Related”. I haven’t tried this, but it should work like this.

That's a handy feature, but that seems a little too global for this purpose. In my case, that would mean I would have to create a new membership type for each organization that paid for the seats.

The first problem to solve is to figure out how to allow for a user to buy on behalf of an organization a set number of seats. And then the second problem is to figure out how to check against that set number of seats if a user is a part of that organization and tries to claim a membership. This includes the problem of storing this data as well. If there are no seats left then we just show them the normal "buy a membership" contribution page.