FYI - it's not an "if" question, it's a "when" question. For now we are researching possible technology solutions which can help us address this.

As WA is still deciding whether to roll out this feature, Has anyone comeup with a workaround to get cards online with membership info filled out?

I could post a blank card template in the members only section, BUT i wondered if anyone knows of third party software that would do the merge for me so that we could post the cards online already merged? I don't see mail merge being the answer for saving individual cards and posting them... unless I'm missing something in it's features.

Meagan

YES absolutely!!! I'd like to see this VERY much.

For us it does not have to be complicated: First & Last name and date of expiration and a place to put our logo and a bit of custom text...

A great side effect of doing it this way is that it ensures people who consider themselves members who are part of a bundle are actually signed up. I know it seems that people would of course sign up up but once the company signs up and they have the card their bundle administrator gave them, we lose track of them. This would force them to interact with our website at least once a year!

Our desired behavior is to print plastic membership cards thru a local printer dedicated to that purpose. An example is to use the Evolis Pebble 4 or the Evolis Tattoo 2.  These are label printers (one card at a time) but we need to print in batches too.  Our application is to print member related text on a pre-printed card.

http://www.evolis.com/eng/Products/Card-printers

Very much needed feature!!

A possible expiry date would be a useful option.

I second this effort for a priority release and basic approach would be as noted below. All text noted would be system generated based on what we as admin would provide.

CivPol Alumni Association, Incorporated

LOGO NO: 7658079

Date: 9/12/2008

Albert R. Renteria

ACTIVE MEMBER

Fallbrook, California

All the text exists and instructions would be provided to the member on how to print their ID card and note the cost savings for the organization by making this function available to members. The members must always appreciate cost savings that we can provide.

The color scheme can be optional for us, but the logo is what will be the representation for the look and feel.

This would be a great feature to print membership cards.

This is a must! See my reply to name badges.

I like the idea of members being able to print out there own card

Just voting on this one as well. Another priority on our list.

If our members could access everything online such as a membership certificate/card this would cut time,mailing and be a great benefit for members.

Currently many association's like our's allready have this in place. I feel like we are back in the stone age, printing and mailing and taking days.

We want to main stream our association and make it user friendly.

This is a great way to start.

Please vote for this. It will increase your membership signups!

Ok, basically you would need a couple of different templates instead of one. I made a note of this.

To make this really useful to us, would need to be able to tell it to check a specific database field, to find out if the member was "juried" or not. If no - just print a generic membership card for the membership level. If yes, print a special membership card as a juried member with the juried logo.

So glad I started this on the wish list...thanks everyone for your feedback and thanks WA for adding this to your long list :-)

Thanks Susan.

We are dealing with hundreds of very varied requests so I can not commit to a timeline but this does look like something we will be adding to the system at some point.

I just wanted to say this is something we would like, too! I think designing our own with an HTML format would work fine.

When might this be available?

Yes, this is the direction we are leaning toward. Thanks for your comment!

Thanks, I just did not see this on the wish list, so wanted to make sure I add it, as its a big one I know you addressed before. I will send you some of our sample's...thanks

Kim, we have added this to our list. The biggest challenge is to figure out how to address widely varied formatting requirements for these cards/certificates. If you could send us a sample of your current layouts, we would appreciate it.

(And everyone else interested in this feature - please send your sample layout and thoughts to support @ Wildapricot.com)

Ideally we are looking for something so members can print their membership certificate and/or card right online, either in their account center or somewhere in the members only section.

Please second this if this is something you want to get it on the WA update list :-) Thank you.

Currently we have to do all this by hand, printing it and mailing it to members. Our members are looking at having it instantly after they login in.

This is not that strange for associations I see.