It would be a huge benefit if we could get Contacts to be able to be assigned into Groups. Is there any progress on this?

Would be nice to generate a group from a search or from event registrations. Any way to do that?

Currently it is impossible to event announcements to a discrete list of contacts that are not members. It is possible to set up a contact search but not to just create a group of contacts that can be used to send the announcement.

We have had to create a "non-member membership" level in order to add event registrants to groups which is not ideal as it means they are then able to access other membership benefits such as discounts in the store. It would be so much more streamline and cause less problems to be able to just add a contact to a group!

We held a virtual event that included non-member registration. I have some information for everyone who attended the event on a page that only they (people who registered) can access, but I have to group them and non-members can't be added to the group. Ideally, it would be nice if we could create an event group through the event page (that included member and non-member). This looks like a feature people have wanted for a long time and I wonder why it hasn't been created or that there hasn't been a response as to why it's not created.

This may be already be possible by adding a tag under Notes for the contact, then create an advanced search looking for that tag. Save the search and then reuse the search when creating an email and picking the recipients.

Seems like a very obvious feature that should have been implemented when this suggestion was raised almost 11 years ago. Contacts are of little use if they cannot be grouped for target emails, or for adding to a registration type for an event.

Would like non-member groups in Contacts .. It would be nice to group contacts who are non-members .. e.g.
Sponsors (donors)
Potential sponsors (donors)
Facility logistical contacts
Community (regulatory) support

I would like this functionality. To share another use for this functionality We would like to give a contact, who is also an administrator, access to restricted webpages. The webpages are restricted by group but there is no way to add a contact to a group. So I have to crest a member role specific for this use and it is overly complicated to do.

We put on a show/sale which includes member and non-member dealers. I want to create a group to manage these and keep track of who participates each year. But I found I cannot add non-members to the group, which is irksome. There should be a way to bring up the Contacts database, alongside the Members database, to add these people to this group.

It would be nice to be able to group contacts (non-members) for email blasts. But there is no way to search within that group. Under a membership we have the options for Group categorization. Why not contacts as well??

Having contact groups would be most beneficial. Currently, we have to use third party software to do mass mailings to the appropriate lists contact to accomplish what we could do on WA if we could assign contacts into groups not directly related to specific details like event attendance.

Agreed, this needs to be added as a feature. Finding the inability to do this is causing us to look at other software options.

It is hard to believe that 7 and a half years in and we still cannot assign contacts to groups. It seems like such a no-brainer to me and is a serious limitation on the functionality of WA. Is it really that technically different from grouping members? Any update on this?

As a workaround, I think you could include set phrases (such as "ski_show") in the notes and create a filter for "Notes contains 'ski_show'").

Groups for contacts: I have contacts (i.e. media, prospective members, etc.) that I want to group -- but I only see that the ability to group members is available. :(

It would be very beneficial to our organization if we were able to group our contact list. We have several different committees within our contact list and not being able to group has cause more work when we want to contact specific committee members. We hope that this change can be made within Wild Apricot so that we can continue using your services as we have been very pleased thus far.

We would love a way to add non-members to GROUPS. An example of this would be: Farmers Markets that accept EBT. Not all Farmers Markets are members of MFMA - (even though we ideally want that) - but we want to be able to email all markets that have EBT. Or another example - we have committees under groups - those that volunteer for our organization are not members, but can't currently be added to the committees without a membership of some kind.

Would like to be able to create groups from contact list not just member list.

Maybe this should be a new suggestion but it overlaps this one.

You have three kinds of groups of members / contacts: Subscription list, Group and Forum subscription. These have overlapping functionality: Whether a person and/or admin can manage an individual's group membership and/or set default memberships, whether the fact of membership can be exported, and controlling access to site pages.

Why not just make all of these into Groups? Then a Subscription gadget will be associated with a specific group, and so will a Forum. If an admin wants people to be able to sign up for a Group, he can create a Subscription gadget for it. If he doesn't want non-members in it, put the gadget on a members-only page. If he wants to select or email everyone subscribing to a Forum, he can search on that Forum. If he wants members of a Group to have a Forum, he can create a Forum associated with that Group.

And then you only need one admin UI to manage memberships in all these entities.

We also need this, especially for our volunteers many of whom are not members.

At the moment we have custom fields but it is unwieldy.