PayPal now offers many new options on it's site. For example, a basic subscription can have a duration (12 months for example). For an extra fee they also offer Installment payments and automatic billing (which is quite different than subscriptions) which would be great for our sponsorships which have a high dollar value. But WA hasn't changed it's software to reflect these new options and allow us to utilize them.

Can these options, in full or part, be added through the code? I know PayPal has the ability to add them through API but I can't tell how to make it work with WA. (and don't simply tell me to add a separate paypal button which would add a ton of work for us!)

Having these features would solve SO many problems we have with payment plans as what we are offered now is not adequate for us or our customers.

I'd like to rename the thread, or perhaps it should be a separate thread?

Enhance Payment Report to separately total Manual Payments and On Line Payments as it did before

Or perhaps it's a separate thread --- the more I think about this, the more anxious I'm getting about our event management with this new report! This is going to make our event reconciliations much harder for our event managers. The old Payment report immediately displayed the total dollars paid via check (manual), and made sense to the event managers. Manual payments are all the event managers are responsible for collecting. The on line payments go directly to the bank (Paypal for us). I hate to think of our event managers having to do MATH or export to excel to make sure the Payment report matches the checks they have collected for an event. And the Treasurer can then also easily see by event what the on line revenue is in Paypal.

I hope others chime in with the same input so that we can get this capability back ASAP!

This is a relatively minor request but something I find to be a workflow pain. As an admin, when I add a new member to the database the new member activation email does not automatically get sent out to the new member if I set their status to 'Active' initially. I have to add the member in two steps to get the email to go out -- first add them as 'pending', save it, then either go back into their record and record receipt of their payment or change their status from 'pending' to 'active' to trigger the email.

It would be nice if I could just add the member as "Active" and check a box or something when I'm to cause the activation email to go out, all in one step.

I manually entered about 200 new members this way this year b/c our organization has old-fashioned manual registration forms in addition to the online registration and many people prefer the manual form. Each one took me about 2-3 minutes to enter because of the two-step process. It adds up.

Our premium level members are looking for a better set of tools, essentially to use their profile pages as a marketing tool, to make membership more value-added. For example, they are used to higher end features available from http://psychologytoday.com . Obviously, this is not as high end a system, but for a wish list, and to make paid membership a value, these desired features are very relevant.

Member requests:

--custom URL's allowing us to list the member name in the url--or some automated option to do so, without having to manually create a redirecting page for everyone.

--SEO

--web stats: the ability for members to view, in their own profiles, some basic web statistics and analytics of views on their profile page.

I'd like to be able to list some subset of members and include a summary of their email activity in the listing. In other words, I search on active members in a geographic area and want to know how many of them have opened at least 25% of their emails. The only way that I know to do that is to tediously access each member's record and click on "Email settings and log" and then write down "74 sent, 43 opened, 18 clicked". Since the system tracks this statistic, is there any way to list it in a search result. To me, this is a key statistic about member engagement. While I can track how many members have logged in, and how many have opened a specific email/newsletter, and how many have attended certain events (if I create a field to track this and manually update it), there doesn't seem to be any good way to measure email engagement dynamically in a custom search. When I send an email out, the distribution can be diced up so that the same email is sent to each region and then I can track by region how many have opened and clicked. But later if I want a more granular parsing of this data through a more specific search, there doesn't seem to be a way to access the email summary statistics. Ideally, I'd like either of these implementations:

"Email History" as a search term with qualifiers of "Percentage Opened More Than" and "Number Opened More Than" followed by a field where I could enter 1 or 10 or any number up to 100, or

"Percentage of emails opened" as a selectable field in a Custom Layout for a search.

So far I am very impressed with the WildApricot CMS, it's features and usability.
But I feel that the built in Email Log is lacking some features:

1) Function to delete individual entries from the log (Administrator only)
2) Function to clear the email log for individual categories (Administrator only)
3) Function to clear the entire email log (Administrator only)

An added advantage would be if the administrator could assign privileges to other users for deleting entries/clearing the email log(s)

Also relating to the email log, it would be advantageous if the log entries would display the date/time when an email was opened and a link was clicked.

These simple additions would improve what is already a great system.

Our membership application page displays information about membership. It would be useful for members to be able to view the information on the page, and to be able to show it to someone else without logging out.

But logged-in maxed out bundle administrators can't view any of the content on a page containing the Membership Application gadget. All they see is a message about the bundle being full.

If a bundle member views the page, at least they can see the content and they get a coherent error message "You are already a member." But there is useful information in the Membership Application Gadget that they can't see.

The Member Application Gadget should just be grayed out for a logged-in member. Add a message "You are already a member" if you like. The bundle admin can use their profile to add members.

But there shouldn't be a page that looks four different ways for the public, a bundle member, and a bundle admin depending on whether or not they're maxed.

There currently appears to be no easy way to send on-the-fly emails to non-registered contacts and members for a specific event.

If you go to the "Events > View event details" page, there is a button at the top of the page labeled "Email attendees". There should also be a button labeled "Email non-attendees" but there currently is not.

If you instead, attempt to accomplish this by clicking on the Event details "Emails" link below the buttons at the top of the page, and then click on the Send again button under one of the Announcement preset emails (Announcement 1, Announcement 2, or Announcement 3) you are provided with a box where you can select All contacts and then click on the Send button HOWEVER NO ONE IS LIKELY TO DO THIS BECAUSE THIS BOX DOES NOT TELL YOU IF YOU HAVE AN OPTION TO EDIT THE EMAIL BEFORE SENDING OR IF IT WILL SIMPLY SEND THE SAME EMAIL AGAIN (WHICH IS NOT WHAT ONE WANTS TO DO).

If you instead try and click on one of the previously sent emails near the bottom of the page under "Log of announcements and reminders" in an attempt to send a custom on-the-fly email to just non-registrants, there is no way to edit this preset email without permenently changing the preset email Announcement before clicking on the "Send again" button.

If lastly, you attempt to seach the contacts database and send an email from there by searching for "Registered for specific event(s) - "None of selected", you do get the list of non-registered contacts, however after getting the results, if you click on the "Email contacts" button at the top of the page, you are thwarted once again because while you can select a previously sent email and edit it, you CANNOT USE THE MACRO TO EMBED THE CURRENT EVENT INFORMATION IF IT HAS CHANGED SINCE THIS EMAIL WENT OUT BECAUE THE MACRO BUTTON DOES NOT CONTAIN EVENT ITEMS TO USE.

Simply cutting and pasting the updated event information from another page on the site does NOT work because this always causes formatting errors which are tedious to fix.

When using multiple forums, the forums are listed in the summary in alphabetical order. I would like my discussion forum users to see the forums in an order that I choose, not alphabetical. I would also like to leave the forum names as is, instead of re-naming with a prefix to get the correct order.

For example, I would like my users to see the "Rules" forum at the top of the forum summary and my "Everything Else" forum to appear at the bottom. Currently they appear within my forum summary where "R" and "E" fall in the alphabet.

Thanks!

Michelle

More flexible groups/bundles. Need to be able to create groups of members with different membership levels and have an administrator for that group (read only or edit selectable) who is not responsible for financial transactions.

Parent Booster USA currently has four membership levels germane to this discussion:

Basic -- $195 to join, $95 to renew
Get Legal -- $295 to join, $95 to renew
Get Legal, Stay Legal -- $495 to join $395 to renew
School Administrator -- Free, but with limited benefits

I need to be able to set up groups of members containing members at each membership level. Typically there's a school administrator member who doesn't pay for renewal of the other members, but will make sure they do renew. The school administrators typically log on once a year to see who's paid. They absolutely don't want/won't do administrator functions.

Bundles require separate membership levels that aren't meaningful to us. Groups let me keep track of collections of members, but I can't pass that authority on to the school administrator member.