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Our organisation has always found that setting a pay-what-you-can sliding scale for membership works better than fixed membership then asking for an additional contribution.
When i saw that membership types define minimum price, i was excited, but as i've found, sliding scale isn't supported directly.

So, i'm trying to create my first contribution page, and what i want is a simple text field where the person types in what they want to pay (e.g. pre-loaded with $30 when the range is $25-$100). I'm worried that if we follow the membership + contribution path the software wants us to, people will be charged $25 more than they intended or will get frustrated at having to correct and only pay the minimum. The screen to process a payment when adding a contact from admin works exactly how we want.

Is there any way of doing this. We do like the idea of being able to receipt as minimum membership + donation, but we've never done that before so it isn't essential.

Richard

sorry but demo seems to be down so can't demo/test for you

did you create a price set for contributions or memberships?

(Puts on hurdling shoes)

Crampons can be quite usefull too