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Could I ask you a question about the membership renewal process. I am planning on using Civicrm as a solution to a very small NFP organisation using Drupal on a shared hosting platform. This is primarily their contact database, not for use by members themselves. As I understand it, there is the ability to set up a cron job to automatically send out renewals based on the membership settings and grace periods etc. Memberships are for 12 months from their join date. There are different membership costs but the process is the same.

The other thing is that membership for some members that are in another country are in a different currency. so the main setting within civicrm are UK GBP but the organisation has US and European members who are allowed to pay in their currency US$ and Euro. I can't see any easy way to change this for individual records.

What they would like to do is review renewals before they are sent out. Is there any easy way to do this? If not, is there an easy way or not so easy way to tie in the process that would run as a cron job with a button or something similar.

As you can tell I am a complete newb to Drupal and Civicrm, but I do think that there is a lot of benefit for smaller nfp organisations.

The other thing about the renewal process. Is that there will be individual records and organisation records but it is the organisation that is the member not the individual. How do I update both the member organisation and it's relationship records? If possible.

If there is any help or advice you could give me, I would be extremely grateful.

Many thanks in advance and I hope you all have a great new year.

Cheers

ant

Hi,

Thanks for your response. I am not sure I understand how to specify which contact within the organisation will receive the renewal notice. There are no contact names on an organisation record or am I missing something completely?

Modifying the renewal cron script? - Could you point me in the right direction for this?

Thanks once again

Anthony