Our society sends materials using a bulk mailing permit. Each addressee in such a mailing must have a zip+4 address code. Currently, we are looking these up manually as we enroll new members, a process that is cumbersome.

The USPS publishes an API which allows access to USPS zip+4 data and a means to clean addresses as well. We would like automated access to this data (i) to correct addresses submitted by new members either by mail or via online enrollment through PayPal.

There should be two means to start the process: (i) a button next to the zip code field; (ii) an additional method for the "approve button" when the application of a new member is accepted.

Please feel free to contact me either by direct email (htfairfax@yahoo.com) or by cell (703-861-9504) with any questions. Thank you for considering this request.

The back of our our Membership Cards display our affiliation with a regional Ski Club. That affiliation offers members discounts on lift tickets and more. So we must 'print' our cards, front and back. It would be great if you could print all cards onto standard perforated business card stationary such as from Avery. Then we could print the Council logo on the back and distribute them at our meetings and , as a last resort, by mail. I know, kind of old fashioned. But that is what we have to do to allow our members to take advantage of these discounts.

I would like to see an "Extended Membership Statistics" page in the Admin Control Panel where the member database data is displayed in visual layout charts as we know from Facebook "Insights" and Google "Analytics". All displayed in a Graph, Pie or Bar Diagram like it is already used for the Wild Apricot Financial Report System.

EXAMPLES:
Based on the membership data fields like "Date of Birth" you could display the distribution of age in an association/club

Logins over time: Chart with number of logins for the last month.

Pages views: Which pages are visited the most often. Which pages are not visited at all.

Pie charts for membership levels: How does the membership levels distribute in the association / club

Country Map: How does the membership be spread over the country or the world (just percentages shown on a map, not a member tracking).

Emails sent: How many emails have been send from member to member and from system to member.

…..etc…...

It is important to be ahead of trends and be able to steer the association / club with its membership. It could give insights on where to "push some buttons" on recruiting to adjust overall membership for the better.

Google Analytics is nice but does not take into account who is actually a member and who is just a website visitor as it counts everybody.

Provide a scheduling/reservation widget that makes it possible for "members" of our website (and based on their membership level) to reserve "resources" on a first-come, first-served basis.
* A resource is anything (such as a conference room, laptop, iPad, projector, etc.) that you would like to schedule on a first-come, first-served basis.

* Leverage current “membership level” feature to allow members to reserve a resource listed in their “membership level”. For instance, some members will have the rights to reserve a laptop but not an iPad.

* Only administrators can add a resource to a “membership level”.

* Leverage current “user profile” log-in feature to authenticate “members”.

Within the above, establish the following reservation permission rights:
* Administrator - can view, create, edit and delete any reservation
* Member - can view all reservations. Can create a reservation based on "membership level" but can only delete his/her own reservation.

Display a calendar for each resource to display all current reservations. Better yet, combine all resources into a master calendar – separate by color or other..

Hi,

My organization has a library that we allow members to check out from every month. With that said I was hoping for 2 things.

1) an inventory database to keep track of our media (I can see this also being useful for other things such as equipment we own or donation items we get and then give)

2) the capability to connect members to an item. this would allow us to track who checked something out and automatically send out reminder emails to members and what they have checked out (currently this is all done my hand each month and the library has a separate excel doc with emails and information which is already in WA)

If these 2 things aren't possible I'm hoping for at least a connection to a MySQL database possible.

Thanks!

I would love to have some sort of "officer" designation capability. I use WA for three(!) nonprofits I'm involved with, each of which has volunteer officers. I've adjusted a few things and made all kinds of workarounds, but if there was a way to assign an officer position to a member, it would simplify many of our processes. Things this could help:

An "officer" directory that is automatic (even if it had to be created through a saved search). My current workaround is to either 1) do a plain web page and list members, updating their info as it changes, and updating officers as that changes or 2) make them a separate membership level, and add their "position" and "rank" that I want them to appear in the directory, then sort by rank and list the officers.

ANYWHERE in the web site, being able to link back to the officer and/or their job description. For example, one of the organizations has a member library. The contact information for our librarian must be updated on the officer directory page, the benefits page, the library page, our resources page, and other places. Likewise for our other officers. Even with a manual "cheat sheet" that I keep for those updates, if I could just list "Librarian" with a link to the officer, it would save having to go to each place each time an officer changes (one of my organizations only elects officers every two years and only has a few, but another has 20 officers that change annually, with occasional shifting during the year--which creates a massive update load). Ideally this linking capability would take it to that officer's profile page, since the member would be tied to that office.

I don't know if it would be easier to have Officers be something with wide customization capabilities or a few select items. Here's what would be helpful to me:

1) Office (President, Secretary, etc)

2) Rank/Sort (sort order on the page--be able to list which office comes first instead of a sort by last name)

3) Job description/qualifications

4) Office term start/end dates

5) (while I'm dreaming) ability to vote for the chosen officer at election time--with some assurance that members could only log in once, yet their vote would be confidential. (we're still totally on paper for this and expect that to continue for awhile)

I have been tasked with adding a special database to our Wild Apricot site.

We need to list details of the boats that our members own and I would dearly
like them to be able to update the info on their boat themselves (it will
save me a lot of work!).

I would like to have quite a large number (around 30) customisable fields,
some with free text entry and some with drop down menu choices.

I need to add at least one photo, preferably more, to each record.

It needs to be searchable on any field.

There would ideally be a link between the boat and its current owner but there must
be provision for transferring a boat to another person : new, existing or non
member. I think this would need to be an administrator only job.

According to WA tech support (Jim Sympathy) this could be achieved by adding 'boat' related fields to a members profile but this would create problems when a boat is sold.

I can't believe that there are not other organisations that use WA that don't have a similar requirement (far too many negatives in that sentence!)

Cheers ... Kevin