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I have two types of membership: Individual and Business.  Individual is straightforward.  Business, however, has four levels, and each allows up to a certain number of employees to be part of the membership.

I have the four levels and their thresholds set up.  Now I am trying to figure out the front-end side of things.  In my current CRM, the membership primary contact can go in and add or remove employees from the membership.  From what I can tell of CiviCRM, it looks like anyone can go and select and existing company and join as a member under whatever company they choose.

My questions are:

(1) Can there be a "gatekeeper" of sorts for a business membership who has the ability to add and remove people, and if so, how is this accomplished?  If not, how do you handle individuals joining under company memberships?

(2) Can there be some sort of check put in place so that any individual who joins under a company has to have an email address @ the primary contact's domain (i.e. if the primary email is @microsoft.com, then the individual must have @microsoft.com for their email as well)?

Thank you!

I really could use some help... 

Concur with Dave that neither of your requests are current features and haven't seen them on anyone's drawing board, If this was Drupal I would rant on about using a combination of Views and Webform- CiviCRM to get closer to 1/
but only mentioning that in case drupalers come along here later on looking for similar features

If the Current Employer field is available to users, then yes they can add themselves as a non-permissioned 'employee of'

If you are using a different relationship for the membership Inheritance then that doesn't automatically give them the membership.

in drupal, at that point I would be allowing the Head Honcho to then choose who to give the 'membership' relationship to.

in civi, i would probably work down the track of getting new capabilities added to the Contact Dashboard so user A who has permission to edit Org B - and perhaps who also has a relationship created with contact C by some post-hook process - could then add/remove relationships between Contact C and Org B

(sorry for the hand-wavy bit in the last para)

If you are using a different relationship for the membership Inheritance then that doesn't automatically give them the membership.

I'm not sure I have even come across where or how I can change the inheritance?

An inherited Membership uses a Relationship - I was just suggesting that you could use a relationship that is not 'employer of'

this is a setting in the Membership Type - under Admin - CiviMember

not easy to 'change' when it is already set up as you would have to do some sql to switch existing memberhips to use a different relationship

Ah, I already have close to 2,000 contacts in my DB, so that might be a bit of a pain!   

200 or 2000 i think the sql is the same effort ;-)

if you search the forum you may already find a recipe for doing it

Ha ha, I guess you are right on the SQL side of things.  Duh.