At the top of my own wish list -- certainly in the top three -- is the need for user guidance. Wild Apricot's help pages are mostly well done and cover it all, but that's their problem. They're generic and so much to read that nobody ever will.

We need our own editable help screens or pop-ups, or something.

But for now, let's pull my wish back, a lot -- it would be invaluable just to have a place where we could store and update cribsheets for various Admin chores.

Currently we sorely need this for Advanced Searches. We have a lot of Saved Searches, and the collection is becoming very hard to sift through. New Admins shudder at seeing it. Although the criteria for a saved search are displayed in the list (in its entirety if you hover on it), that is unreadable if the search is at all long or complex (and especially if it involves a list of events). Also, to understand it, the user needs to be already familiar with Advanced Search.) Nor are those descriptions printable. The name of a search is no help, because it's way to short to give detail. (I will leave the inability to revise names, or even see it while composing a Search, for another Wish.) And (like the emails system), there is no field in the system for describing what's been set up for end-users. (That is, each search should have its own description field, of at LEAST 256 characters.)

The obvious solution is to give each search a simple name or number, and key it to a list we would maintain elsewhere. But where? Google Docs? Puhleeze, let's not go there. The wiki we're building? Not until we have an API to tie it into a WA login, and that's WAY down the road. The latest email to All? Gad! A text file on our website? Not editable without hassle and expertise. I've even considered putting the list in a specially created Contact's VP notes, or in a Forum thread Except Rube Goldberg stunts like that involve editing windows that are too tiny, or don't allow editing, or would become clunky, or would confuse the heck out of non-Admins, etc.

We need an easily editable page for Admins to store guidance and notes for reference by other Admins, without them having to go to other services, mess with further passwords, URLs, etc. Preferably a set of pages, because this is not the only rough edge in WA that seriously needs rounding off.

I am the founder/CEO of my nonprofit and we are a subordinate organization of a Parent level organization (i.e. we are a detachment of our National headquarters). National sets our dues rates, for the most part, and they vary by times of the year. Prorating dues (which I know is an option in Wild Apricot) won't seem to work unless I am missing something.

To see how our dues work:
Sept 1 - Last day of February: = $35.00
Mar 1 - Aug 30th: = $25.00

If there could be a feature added to Wild Apricot to handle this type of dues this would be ideal. If not we will have to charge the $35.00 dues all year long and reimburse new members as they sign up during the Mar 1 - Aug 30th timeframe.

Any thoughts or ideas, or help in any way would be appreciated.

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.

Search function within Website ->Files
It would save a lot of time if I could type in a word in a search box on the Files and come up with a list of files that contain that word . Since moving files often makes website broken links, we tend to leave them where they were first uploaded, but that sometimes makes it hard to find photos and documents we want to post on the internet. For example, I would love to use the word "Logo" and have it pop up with all of the possible logo images we have for all of our states and affiliates.

HI

I would like to recommend a few two enhancements. We are a tennis club and we have a discounted membership fee applicable to certain date. After which, the price rises. The issues we have encountered are :

1) We tried the automated invoice this year but quickly realized that members could on;y renew their membership and were locked out of adding additional services, such as joining and paying for house league. When they paid the membership fee they could not select House League and pay the additional $20 - not sure if anything can be done other than not use the automated invoice?

2) Since we have an early bird rate, members can go online and start the registration process, the system creates an invoice at the lower price in effect at that time. That invoice remains open after the rate increases which defeats the purpose of the early bird rate. It would be helpful if you could allow us to automatically update the invoice price or delete all outstanding invoices automatically as opposed to individually. A universal invoice delete function or edit function would be helpful.