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Hi,

I'm building a site with drupal for say, 1000 users max, who will pay an annual subscription (multiple levels) to access certain materials - civiCRM/member seems ideal for this, but i've got a couple of questions with how it integrates with drupal -

I'd quite like to use campaign monitor to bulk-email, but the drupal plugin for it works with the drupal registration/user profile stuff - does civiCRM work alongside the drupal user stuff or is it entirely seperate? (i.e. will users be able to opt in/out of the campaign monitor stuff)

I'm also assuming that member to member contact is possible..?

the last thing is that some members are already paid up to the end of the year - when importing them (which i hope will be possible, not sure of how they are stored at present) will i be able to assign them a temporary membership which will then be overtaken by the yearly one at the appropriate time?
the payments are currently due in january - if the site goes live in september, i'd like them to be "paid up" members for 4 months until january, when they will be (automatically?) requested to pay their yearly subscription again. is this possible?

I'm currently installing a quick test so apologies if any of these questions are answered by that, but i thought it would be best to check!

thanks!

david

Ok, thanks!

are there reasons why a user shouldn't be able to see the drupal and civicrm contact/user pages? is a drupal user automatically created alongside a civicrm one (or vice versa)?

i will obviously need users to be able to edit their details, though i won't need the depth of user stuff that civicrm seems to provide, if that has any bearing.