Author Topic: Subscriptions to Publications (Read 1289 times)

DavidM · August 20, 2007, 11:03:01 pm

I'm helping PeterD set up a civiCRM site.
One of the user requirements is to manage (free of charge) subscriptions to various print and online publications.

Each subscription can have various attributes:
- public, or members only
- by invite, or user initiated
- print or email
- geographic variants
- etc

Our initially thoughts are to set up a new custom group "subscriptions" on its own tab, and within this group define custom fields that correspond to each publication.

I think we're on the right track - but I'm sure this is a generic type of requirement. How have other installations handled it ?

Can we create a custom profile to associate with some of these fields and embed this within various parts of the templates ?

D

Dave Greenberg · August 21, 2007, 10:29:56 am

David - Are these Subscriptions related to a contribution or a membership? If they're related to a contribution (i.e. you get the "print" subscription if you donate more than $100") - then you might want to check out the "Premiums" feature in CiviContribute which has some basic "premium as subscription" support built in.

If they are NOT connected to a "transaction" - but simply pieces of info about the contact - then a custom data group "Used By" Contacts (or by Individuals, if only people have subscriptions) seems reasonable.

One other issue is whether a person can have more than one subscription and whether you need to track "subscription history". We are revamping custom fields for 2.0 to allow multiple occurences of a group of custom fields - which will handle multiple subscriptions nicely. But this is not available in 1.8.

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