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Dear community,

being a newbie with civicrm, I have a question which might be found in the FAQ, though i could not find it.

We have a membership model with our association which collects fees monthly and allows the members to cancel at the end of a quarter. Additionally, the members do not make payments, but we collect the money from them through direct debit authorization. Which means, we have to manually record their payments.

Now the following questions:

a) How do I setup such a membership type? Fee with monthly renewal ?
b) Is there a way to "mass mark" members as having paid? Going through 200 members manually each month would be too much to ask for our exchequer.

Thanks a lot for your advise in advance
 Malte