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Evaluating CiviCRM for current Joomla site and non-profit
October 15, 2008, 11:45:03 am
We are a non-profit with approximately 400 members. We hold a national conference each year. Membership is paid, and fees are charged for the conference. Currently, we're running Joomla 1.5.x for our website and using some proprietary third party software for membership registration (AMember Pro) and using RegOnline for conference registration.

Ideally, we'd love to migrate everything back into Joomla, using CiviCRM if it seems suitable. Keeping that in mind, I have a some questions:

1. We have a public and members only section of the site. It appears that its not a problem to integrate CiviCRM membership registration with the Joomla registration?

2. When using the Events module, is it possible to recognize a logged in user and either show them the member form or set members only pricing on a generic event form?

3. Does the Events module support the use of discount codes? I couldn't find mention of it specifically.

4. Does the Events module support the selection of various paid sub-events within the main event? For instance, you'd have the main conference fee, but attendees could also select to add a pre-conference session for an added fee.

5. Does the Events module support automatically triggered time based pricing? I.e. early bird, normal, late?

We would love to roll everything back into Joomla with CiviCRM and have a single place for all of our functionality, if possible. Thanks in advance for any answers and/or advice.

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Re: Evaluating CiviCRM for current Joomla site and non-profit
October 17, 2008, 03:32:57 pm
At some point you'll probably need to muck around with the public demo and probably install CiviCRM to get more definitive answers about the fit. Also hopefully others who are using CiviCRM for these type of case will chime in. From the dev team perspective....

1. So far, this is much easier to do with Drupal. That said, check out this 3rd party plugin which I think will help with this: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Joomla+CiviCRM+Membership+Authentication+Plugin

2. Member discounts for events is the future roadmap but not currently available. However you can possibly work around this by have two separate event registration pages - with the members-only registration set to "Registered" access.

3. CiviEvent currently has support for date-based discounts only (e.g. "Early-bird" signup ...)

4. The "Price Set" feature allows you to offer pretty much unlimited sets of event "items" which the user can select and which are totaled during "checkout".

5. Yes (see 3 above).
 
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Re: Evaluating CiviCRM for current Joomla site and non-profit
October 20, 2008, 05:20:42 am
Dave-

Thanks for the reply!

In regards to #2, we could certainly have two separate registration pages, so that wouldn't be a problem from my standpoint. #3 might pose more of a problem, since we typically offer percentage discounts for speakers and vendors. Is the ability to add percent and set amount discounts something that is on the roadmap for CiviCRM?

Thanks again for the response Dave. I'll check out that plug-in as well and then probably move forward with a test install.

Regards,
Ron

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Re: Evaluating CiviCRM for current Joomla site and non-profit
October 20, 2008, 06:24:56 am
Quote from: sensoria on October 20, 2008, 05:20:42 am
In regards to #2, we could certainly have two separate registration pages, so that wouldn't be a problem from my standpoint. #3 might pose more of a problem, since we typically offer percentage discounts for speakers and vendors. Is the ability to add percent and set amount discounts something that is on the roadmap for CiviCRM?

It is on the roadmap for a future 2.x/3.x release, but not scheduled for 2.2. If you'd like to see this happen earlier, you might want to consider making a code contribution (and if you are not a developer, you can help sponsor a developer to build this feature)

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