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Start Date in the Future?
January 28, 2014, 08:53:53 pm
My non-profit has monthly dues, however members often pay ahead by several months.  I tried importing several memberships, but received 'membership status cannot be calculated' errors.  I understand why 'member since' might not let us enter a date in the future, as that is basically the date that a member paid for their dues.  How do I make it so that I can set a 'start date' in the future though?  I don't really understand a good reason why a membership can't be set up to start in the future.

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Re: Start Date in the Future?
January 28, 2014, 10:27:44 pm
You probably need to bypass the validation, so customize CiviCRM?
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Re: Start Date in the Future?
January 29, 2014, 07:48:36 am
Yea, I'm able to manually add memberships whose start dates are in the future, but for some reason civicrm doesn't seem to like importing them.  Funky.

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Re: Start Date in the Future?
February 05, 2014, 11:08:36 am
OK, so in particular, civicrm will import memberships whose 'start date' is in the future, unless it is more than a year ahead of the 'member since' date.  I'm going to see if I can figure out a workaround, because hand  entering 500 memberships because of this would be stupid.

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Re: Start Date in the Future?
February 10, 2014, 11:37:21 am
Please double check your membership status settings.   Is there a valid status for the situation you describe where start date is more than a year after member since?
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Re: Start Date in the Future?
February 16, 2014, 10:33:44 pm
Yea, actually the status rules needed to be fixed, I had a gap inbetween two status rules.  One had an end date of three years, and the next one should have had a start date of 3 years, but instead said 4 years. 

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Re: Start Date in the Future?
February 17, 2014, 11:47:24 am
I don't think it will try to calculate status if you pass in start date, join date, end date & status so you might be able to bypass the problem by passing in status or status_id in your import
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