Membership renewal fees different from member dues - is this possible?

[maryb66]

Hi
My Member dues consist of membership dues plus an application fee, for example sake lets say $100 Membership + $25 application fee, so I've set my Member dues to $125, but how can I set the renewal to a different price ($100 for the following years renewal) ?

is there any other way of doing this?

Thanks in advance
Mary

[emilyf]

i could be wrong, but it doesn't appear there is a way right now to add in a conditional amount for the first year.but i think this is an excellent new feature suggestion that you might consider submitting to the civicrm issue queue: issues.civicrm.org (if you do, please post back the issue url so others can follow its progress).

off the top of my head i would see 3 potential options for dealing with this.

you could have 2 separate membership forms; one that functions as your new member form and one that functions as a renewal form...then you would need to direct folks to the different forms.

since this is kind of a headache, option #2 would be to have a separate from for the application fee altogether. So you might have new members complete 2 sign up forms, and then the form with the 100$ fee could also be the renewal form.

or if you think your people would do it, you can just have a membership type that is 'application fee' for $25, and on the label you could put something like 'required for all new members'. Then you would select that as available on your membership contribution form along with the normal membership fee. but you wouldn't really be able to require it get selected this way unless you do some custom coding. if you do custom coding, you can probably determine if the form being presented is renewal or new and then flag the membership application as required for the new members...

but perhaps someone else will provide a better solution...

[maryb66]

Thanks for the advice, I got around it in a similar way by

1. Setting my Membership types member dues to $100

2. ticking 'Contribution Amounts section enabled'

3. adding an option for a fixed contribution amount calling it 'Application fee $25' and another for Renewal $0.00,

the user will see application fee is ticked by default, so hopefully they're honest (we'll check on them anyway  ).

You can see it at http://retaildesigninstitute.org.au/index.php?option=com_civicrm&Itemid=26  if you're interested.

Cheers
Mary

[maryb66]

sorry I missed adding that i also..

4. On Membership Settings ticked 'Separate Membership Payment ' and

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[hhelgesen]

May I suggest to link this post to http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,4427.0.html