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Family Memberships
January 17, 2009, 01:17:09 pm
I'm evaluating CiviCRM for use as an membership and events management system for a large motocross racing club.  We have a Family Membership that is $200 for the first member + $30 for each additional member up to a maximum of $290 (although there can be additional members added above $290 at no charge).  We would like a parent to be able to sign-up and pay online for a family membership then add additional family members.  Is there any way to accomplish this with CiviCRM membership forms, types and relationships?

Thanks for any asistance on this.

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Re: Family Memberships
January 17, 2009, 02:18:25 pm

CiviCRM does not have a "add additional member information" workflow in the membership registration page. You can hack it with custom fields (but then that will not give you the relationships). If you are interested in extending CiviCRM to facilitate this contact us on IRC (http://embed.mibbit.com/?server=irc.freenode.net&channel=%23civicrm&forcePrompt=true). This will be a useful feature to quite a a few other orgs

You can however extend a membership via a relationship. You will need to add the relationships via some other means (custom form or admin). We currently dont have a variable amount computing field either, though in your case, you can add all 4 options (200, 230, 260 and 290). The number of additional members can be a custom field

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Re: Family Memberships
January 19, 2009, 03:37:00 pm
Thanks for the response Donald.  As you suggested the variable amount can be accomplished by 4 pricing options.

Is is possible to have the parent sign-up with a "Family Membership" online and be flagged as the parent relationship.  Then complete another online sign-up for "Additional Family Member" for $0 and "attach" to the existing parent membership?  We need to accomplish this parent/child sign-up and relationship somehow automatically during the online sign-up process vs. adding the additional members and relationships manually by admin.

Has anyone accomplished something like this either through existing or customized functionality?  The same requirements would exist for organizations doing Group or Company memberships with one-many individuals under the parent membership.

Would this question be better posted in the Using CiviContribute forum?  If so, can it be moved or posted in both?
« Last Edit: January 19, 2009, 03:42:18 pm by dbarnes »

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Re: Family Memberships
January 19, 2009, 08:23:59 pm

I think you will need to write some amount of custom code here. The membership sign up form does not handle relationships (for now). However this does seem like a common use case, so would be nice to get this as part of CiviMember

Your suggestion is probably the least intrusive. The "other online sign-up" form will need to be custom and create the specific relationship. Membership info can be propagated to those relationships using the CiviMember feature

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Re: Family Memberships
January 19, 2009, 09:33:06 pm
It does seem like this would be a common requirement.  I'm surprised that I haven't found anything on it already.  Let me ask a couple of final (hopefully) questions...

Without this relationship feature, I assume we could just create a custom parent member sign-up contribution form with several extra fields to specify other family members, then the administrator could manually create and relate the child member accounts?

When the parent membership is renewed/paid online or manually would the related child memberships also be renewed?

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Re: Family Memberships
January 20, 2009, 05:52:15 am
Quote from: dbarnes on January 19, 2009, 09:33:06 pm
It does seem like this would be a common requirement.  I'm surprised that I haven't found anything on it already.  Let me ask a couple of final (hopefully) questions...

yeah, i'm surprised this has not come up before either :) but most people in general try to work around an issue to achieve what they need

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When the parent membership is renewed/paid online or manually would the related child memberships also be renewed?

yes

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