Memberships
Every Participant at your organization will have at least one Membership record. Having a Membership record allows you to track a Participant ’s participation at your organization with various details – particularly that they are a current member of your programming.
Constituents can have multiple memberships. This is useful if for example you require a gymnastic membership level for a short period of time, combined with a yearly membership level. They can have two sets of costs, expiration dates, etc. and operate independently.
You can control the membership level required for classes, to prevent those without a specific membership type from being enrolled in a session, program or class.
When searching for ‘active’ members, it will return any constituent who has an active membership, whether they have one or two.
As a Participant re-registers, her membership record will be updated with the new expiration date.
Create a Membership Level
Navigate to Configuration and click on the Membership Levels tab. Click on Add Membership Level to get started.
There are a lot of fields associated with a membership level. Please review the fields below.
Fields
Level Name
Add a level name. Ex: Lifetime Member.
Level Description
A short description that will be displayed below the level name on the membership signup page.
Level Type
Is a backend field and will always be set to default.
Renewal Type
The renewal type will be used for various settings for the membership.
It will be:
- Displayed on the sign-up page how long this membership is good for
- Used to determine recurring billing
- Used to determine the expiration date
Types:
- Never
- Monthly
- Quartley
- TwiceAYear
- EveryYear
- CalendarYear
- FixedExpiry
The following types use the Expires On field to set a fixed expiration date on the level:
- FixedExpiry
For example, a membership level with a Renewal Type of FixedExpiry will use the Expires On field to set a strict expiration date. This will need to be updated regularly as the fixed date will eventually be set to the past.
Allow Sub-Members
If this membership level allows sub-members, set this to true. Sub-members are constituents that receive benefits of this level.
Fee By Sub-Member
If Allow Sub-Members is true, each sub-member added will incur a fee.
Fee
Set the cost of this membership level.
Is Taxable
If this fee requires tax, set this to true. When purchasing a membership, tax will be applied to the membership level as a sale item.
Fair Market Value
If any portion of the membership fee is tax deductible, set the fair market value of the membership level here. This will be displayed on receipts and reports.
Expires On
This field is used to set a strict expiration date on the membership level. It is only used when the Renewal Type is FixedExpiry.
Show Online
If the membership level should be shown on your online sign-up page, set this to true.
Show On POS Terminal
When selling a membership internally via Compass, you will use the POS terminal to process the transaction. If you want this membership level available for purchase internally, set this to true.
Online Display Order
Set the display order of this membership level for the online sign-up page. If two or more levels have the same order number, they will be displayed in order of creation. Negative numbers are allowed.
Purchase Discount
This is only used for textual purposes on receipts.
Benefits
On the right, select the benefits that are associated with this level.
Membership Details
Use the content editor to add a detailed description to the membership level. This will be shown on the online sign-up page.
Adding a Membership
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Renewing Memberships
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