Author Topic: Adding multiple membership type( assigned to an organization) to an individual? (Read 539 times)

dhirendra · March 10, 2014, 05:34:53 am

In the link , http://book.civicrm.org/user/current/membership/setup/ ,

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Remember that a contact can only have one membership for an organisation at any given time. You will need to create a "dummy" organisation to link to one of the membership types if you contacts can have concurrent memberships.

I have an organization XYZ with multiple membership type A, B,C,D etc
When I go to MEMBERSHIP SIGNUP AND RENEWAL FORM for the first time and select the membership type A,
The new user gets 1contribution and 1 membership of type A with start date and end date say 02/03/14 to 02/03/15.

When the same user(individual ) goes again to MEMBERSHIP SIGNUP AND RENEWAL FORM for the second time and select membership type B
The existing user gets 2 contribution and 1 membership of type B with start and end date incremented by 1 year. say 02/03/14 to 02/03/16.

Is it possible by any way to get 2 contributions and 2 membership
one of type A : start and end date as 02/03/14 to 02/03/15
other of type B : start and end date as 02/03/14 to 02/03/15
or something similar to this?

joanne · March 10, 2014, 04:15:50 pm

As it says in the quote you will need to create "dummy" organisations to cope with concurrent membership.

For example;
organisation XYZ-A would be the membership organisation for memberships of type A;
organisation XYZ-B would be the membership organisation for memberships of type B; etc.

Your members don't need to know about the dummy organisations. They are just a way to have concurrent memberships within CiviCRM, while at the same time allowing for membership up-sell for the many organisations using CiviCRM who want that functionalility.

Also, to help us improve the documentation, you had found the relevant information, but couldn't then translate it into the appropriate set up in CiviCRM. How could we worded it better so that you would have know what to do?

joemcl · May 18, 2014, 06:46:41 pm

So can someone explain the logic behind why "a contact can only have one membership for an organisation at any given time. You will need to create a "dummy" organisation to link to one of the membership types if you contacts can have concurrent memberships"? This is unduly restrictive and needs to be changed. Thanks.

joanne · May 18, 2014, 07:14:30 pm

There is quite an extensive discussion on this topic at http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,25694.msg132570.html.

This 'rule' can't just be changed without breaking other existing much-requested functionality.

People have talked about what changes may be required, but it appears that it has not reached the top of anyone's priority list yet.

If you really can't make the existing arrangements work for you (rather than you don't like the concept of 'dummy' organisations) I suspect you will need to either make the changes yourself, or pay someone to change it for you.

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dhirendra

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joemcl

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