Author Topic: Multiple membership types for one user? (Read 927 times)

leahcooper · January 09, 2014, 04:43:12 pm

Hi, I'm researching options for expanding my Drupal site to manage CRM as well as memberships. We have more than one membership program, and our users (organizations) can sign up for more than one kind of membership, each billing annually or quarterly, on its own schedule. Most off-the-shelf membership management systems only allow each user to have one membership type. Does CiviCRM allow more than one? I've spent sooo many hours researching this with sooo many products, I'm just hoping for a quick answer on this one feature, which is so fundamental to our operation and so lacking in other software. Thanks for any guidance you can offer!

joanne · January 09, 2014, 05:09:08 pm

Yes, but you will need to create a "dummy" organisation for each "extra" membership type. You first memerbship can be for "XZY Org" but then you will need to create extra organisations for each possible concurrent memebrship eg. organisations called, say, "XYZ Org Gym", "XYZ Org Pony Club".

This is purely an administrative feature and your members do not need to be aware of these dummy organisations.

For more discussion on this topic see http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,25694.msg132492.html

davem · January 10, 2014, 12:23:39 am

Actually joanne you can create multiple membership types on a single organisation - no need for dummy orgs. Each membership type can have it's own price and length and rules for renewal.

leahcooper Have a try on http://drupal.demo.civicrm.org/ and read http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/membership/setup/ if you get stuck.

Hope Civi works for you - it does membership really well.

DaveM

joanne · January 10, 2014, 04:17:16 am

Davem, I agree you can have multiple memberships types per organisation, but each contact can have only one active membership with a particular organisation.

I think this post is about allowing a contact (user) to have more than one membership type at the same time.

Quote from: leahcooper on January 09, 2014, 04:43:12 pm

Most off-the-shelf membership management systems only allow each user to have one membership type. Does CiviCRM allow more than one?

Unless something has changed in the last month, at the moment that can only be done using dummy organisations, as post #9 in http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,25694.msg132519.html makes clear.

leahcooper · January 10, 2014, 12:30:08 pm

Oh, I think I can make this work by setting up an "Organization" for each membership program. Tested it on the demo site and seems to work just fine. The demo site is really amazing, so much better than sandboxes I've used for commercial programs. Thanks so much for the quick responses!

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