I would like to see the ability added for a Bundle Administrator to be able to edit a Bundle Members membership level. Currently, a bundle administrator can add, edit or archive a bundle member record. I would really like them to be able to suspend and to change a bundle members membership level setting as well. For our organization, our bundle groups are composed of employees of a business. The members of the bundle constantly change as employees move in and out of the field and/or get a new job. So we have to constantly maintain their bundle for them because they can't suspend an existing member and replace them with a new member on their own and like wise, they can't edit a bundle member to switch their membership level to a non-bundled membership level in order to free up a bundled member spot. It would just be nice to have the bundle adminstrator handle these kinds of changes.

Thank you for your votes and suggestions. We are analyzing this along with our other issues, and so are moving this to the Roadmap forum.

I want to echo the comments of others. For many membership organizations, there can be several individual members representing a single corporate member organization. This is why you created membership bundles, but what you offer is not quite complete.

You already have a concept of certain fields being common across all members within a bundle, such as the renewal date.

It is necessary also to have certain user-managed fields be common across all members of a bundle too, such as the name of the organization. I have created an "organization directly profile text" field, and I would like that field to be common across all members in the organization. Same with the organization's logo picture, website address, industry classification, etc. Alternatively, certain fields might only be exposed to the member who is the bundle administrator. Without one of these approaches, there is no way to figure out which bundle member should fill out these common fields when they join, and it is extra work for each of them to ask each of them to, say, hunt around for their corporate logo graphic image.

Posting a recent support exchange related to this:

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Unfortunately this is not possible, since the bundle admin and member belong to the same membership level http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Membership+levels - database fields http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Customizing+database+fields can only be restricted by member level. It is currently not possible to specify the type of member that can be added to a bundle. Besides, the bundle admin has no access to other members outside his bundle anyway (only the account admin has access to all members).

See if the groups http://help.wildapricot.com/display/DOC/Member+groups functionality can work for you - in this case there is no group admin, but members from different member levels with different database fields can be part of the same group.

Regards,
Jim Sympathy, Fluid Apricot

Hi,

Is it possible for bundle members to not display or require the same fields that the bundle administrator sees? In our situation, the bundle admin has a bunch of fields to populate in the application process to create the bundle, but the individuals in the bundle only need a few fields to define (especially if they are children in a family, and the family is the bundle). For example, I want to add children (bundle members) and have fields for gender and date of birth - so I created a membership level called Child in a Family, with fields specific to that membership level. But I do not want those fields required for the bundle admin!!

Relatedly, how can you define what type of individual member can be added to a particular bundle? Can the field for a bundle member be different than fields from a bundle admin?

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Well, we have a "Firm Membership" that allows a company, rather than an individual to sign up for memberhsip. But there are many rules to the membership since it is at a reduced membership fee per member. Such as:

There is a MINIMUMof 3 members signed up
It is managed by a firm administrator - one person renews all its firm members and can make changes as employees leave the company

We also have a group membership that we have worked out with a sister association. Members of their association are allowed one free membership per company (which the sister assoc. pays us for) in our association and additional company employees may sign up for a reduced fee membership. In Wild Apricot there is no way to bundle these as the pricing structure is different, but I would love it to track when the one "free" membership for each company is used and only allow the reduced membership signups for that company. Does that make sense?

Along similar lines, I am looking for more out of the multi-person memberships. I want:
* a separate login for bundle admin/members (that would go to a group page for that bundle)
* the ability to customize the name of "bundle" which is a little confusing -- my organization's bundles are families

* to be able to easily track how much bundles I have (and see how many members are in each)--right now it's kind of buried in the dashboard
* most importantly, the ability to see the amount of collective donations for the year by bundle and by individual members

Here is comment on this subject received via email from a client:

Just wanted to bring up again the idea of being able to have multiple names associated with a single member record. Our members are companies, so having the ability to designate a number of people under a single membership would allow each member to have multiple contact points without having the same company listing repeated several times.

If we call these additional members ‘associates’ for now, I would anticipate that the site administrator will define the number of associates that can be assigned to each member level. The associates would:

· Be added by the Member

· Have limited information fields (first, last name, email, telephone number)

· Be presented in the Directory listing (as determined by the Member)

· Be managed by the Member:

o Presentation of associate info in Directory, and which fields to show

o Associate’s access to specific Member functions (for example, we enable members to post on our News blog page. A Member could designate one or more associates with the same access so they could carry out that responsibility)

o Associates would receive all emails sent to members (we use WA to send opportunity notices, etc.)

Along these lines, it would be useful to be able to designate an Associate as the full administrator for a member. Some of our members are senior execs/presidents etc. who should have top billing in the Directory listing, but would have nothing to do with administering their own membership, using the tools we are providing etc. Building more flexibility into this aspect would be very helpful.

I would see this as different from the Group function and the Bundle Memberships, both of which are good, but not what I am looking for.

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Hello,

We offer family memberships at essentially a fixed discount per adult and per child. So instead of $40/adult and $15/child, we set the dues for family membership to $35/adult and $10/child per family. This way dues are based on the number of members and not 1 price per bundle of members. Is there a way to build in this option? I suppose another way to think about this is essentially volume pricing. Using the current coupon feature as a workaround would require separate registrations for each family member rather than one family manager registering all family members at the same time.