We are just starting to produce some webinars for our members and have opened them to the public to attract new members and establish some good PR. The webinar service, GoToWebinar, has its own registration function that forces us to re-enter registration info into our Wild Apricot database manually. While that is a chore, it's not the problem that I want addressed which is this:

We record the webinars and would like to make each recording available for anyone to view later as long as they register so we can collect contact info. The webinar service offers this function - they archive the recording and register anyone wanting to view it. Unfortunately, that again leaves this registration data on the webinar service database, not in our primary Wild Apricot database.

It would be desirable if we could ask potential viewers to register on our Wild Apricot website before they get access to the video recording. We don't want to allow them to download the video, nor do we want to give them a link to the video. Either of those options would allow them to re-distribute the video or link and we would lose subsequent contacts.

In effect, we want to offer registration for a web event (or deliverable).

While we could offer a free membership level that would allow certain privileges, such as access to one section of our website, there would be no way to determine how many or which video recordings they accessed in that section. The solution is to provide the actual video recording showing upon completion of a registration.

Google Drive or it's equivalents provide for storage size and shared access to make this work and require a login prior to accessing an individual file, but then we open a second registration system and would have to manually transfer the contact information to the Wild Apricot database. A secondary concern is that we would also be providing Google with contact information of our members who want to view an archived webinar.

Wild Apricot's feature set is so rich that I keep thinking there must be some way to make this happen, but nothing comes to mind. Any ideas?

Currently our blog posts appear in reverse chronological order, starting with the latest post at the top and the earliest at the bottom. Is there a way to make them appear in
straight chronological order? If you’re wondering why that’s necessary, it’s because our users post in this blog to advertise upcoming events at their organizations http://www.mail2web.com/cgi-bin/read.asp?mb=inbox&mp=I&mps=0&lid=0&ld=-1&lp=32000&mn=27&ed=02aKlU3gEk7dMfqaKt4PANY/iIu81W9lxOa2niRTYRQogVwdqpNVv4vniNdEFDFTcYU5H5/F9hzN
dttUIbaLgAf/a0PIWc3cNAEwuSlhxxeyzd+quUE34WlQZXoXovCUh9l6gLS1nTv0ZYqUiqL5# ...so, for instance, right now I want the June events to be at the top and the October events to be at the bottom.

Until you allow all page members (not just administrators) to create http://www.mail2web.com/cgi-bin/read.asp?mb=inbox&mp=I&mps=0&lid=0&ld=-1&lp=32000&mn=27&ed=02aKlU3gEk7dMfqaKt4PANY/iIu81W9lxOa2niRTYRQogVwdqpNVv4vniNdEFDFTcYU5H5/F9hzN
dttUIbaLgAf/a0PIWc3cNAEwuSlhxxeyzd+quUE34WlQZXoXovCUh9l6gLS1nTv0ZYqUiqL5# Events, this is the workaround that we’ve devised...we just need a little more control over the order in which the posts appear.

Thanks in advance for your help.

In my association, members are divided into teams headed by board members. I have created directories for each team as a contact list and given access to these lists to board members only. They are asking to add "Renewal due on" to the contact list, but I don't see a way to do that. I would also like to be able to add "Member since" to our public directory of members as well.

Is this capability already built in? If so, can you tell me where to look? If not, how do I switch this question to the wishlist section?

Thanks

We are using discount coupon codes both to drive attendance at events and to drive membership. Our marketing model incentivizes the sales reps who call on our target audience to sell our events and memberships. When someone uses that rep's code, they get an incentive payment.

Currently the only way to track who used a given code is to manually open each code and report on it. This becomes quite burdensome with 40 or 50 sales reps involved.

We would request an upgrade that consolidates the reporting for these -- either:

1. A discount coupon report that shows the member name, member ID #, the name of the coupon used, the "secret" code, and whether or not paid.

2. Adding the secret code used as a field in the financial reports; or

3. at least as to coupons used for membership, adding the coupon reference as a permanent part of the member database so that member is always linked back to the sales rep who brought them in.

The ability to use discount coupons for both events and membership was a big factor in our selection of WA -- as it gives a lot of flexibility in running our promotions. Thanks for giving this idea some consideration.

Alan Fields

Florida Land Title Association.

Dear Wild Apricot and Users,

I represent a small non-profit that uses WA to put on conferences with 80-100 exhibitors, 500 attendees and roughly $50,000 in sponsorship.

We need a variable pricing system for guest registrations, where say a range of guests for each registration type are one price and another range is another price. Such as: Guests 1-2 are free, but Guests 3+ are a given price.

This is why we need this service, from our perspective: At our conference, an exhibit booth comes with two registrations, but after that, we want people to pay $150 for additional registrants. Similarly, each sponsorship comes with 1-4 registrations, but after they get their allotment, they have to pay a fee for additional registrants.

The Event Management system here allows for only one price - either they are ALL free or they are ALL the price of an additional registration. We could ask for additional registrants in the registration form, but that would mean they wouldn't be included on the attendee list.

This creates a problem for us because these are our only options:
* Set up sponsor/exhibitor guest registration as free, but then invoice them separately for their guests - as you can see, this is not only an inconvenience, but puts us in a bad situation with prime supporters
* Set up additional registrations as the given price, allow for guest registrants to enter information into registration form. But then manually copy data from their additional registrations back into the attendee list. We must do this multiple times during a conference as all prospective conference-goers ask for an attendee list on a daily basis.

It seems like a very simple coding update to include ranges for guest pricing. This would prevent a major source of headache for us.

Thank you for the consideration!

Holly Bullman
Program Manager, Carolina Recycling Association

I have been getting complaints from members saying there is no spell checker to use when they are using the message and discussion area. For months I have been telling them there was as I use it every day.

The problem is they were correct all the time. I have one in admin mode but when I changed to member view the spell checker was not there. This is a MAJOR problem for me. People need a spell checker to post messages. Please let me know how to fix this problem asap. The message and discussion area is the most important part of our site. Users are not posting as much as they would due to this missing feature.

I am sure its a small fix on my end or something please advise.

My club, The Carp Anglers Group, offers one year membership for $25. Before we used WA, we managed our membership with checks in the mail and an excel spreadsheet. We accepted $25 for one year, but offered a discount if a member joined for 3 years- $65 instead of 75.

The only way to replicate this currently in WA is with more levels. That won't work for us. We have levels of membership already set up for USA, Mexico, Canada, and an E-membership. Adding 2 more levels to each of these would be very difficult, plus then I could not look at the USA membership as a whole as easily as I can now.

So, I am really hoping you can add some kind of way to have various payment options within levels to accommodate this kind of wholesale situation.

Hi there,

We would appreciate it if you could support a South African payment gateway natively. While 2checkout allows credit card payments in ZAR, it does not allow for Electronic Fund Transfer payments, which all the local payment gateways do. For recurring payments, some of the local gateways also allow for debit orders, which we also need.

At the moment, we are planning to integrate into PayAll (which has discounts for NGOs) using the WA API - but this is a bit of a hack and it would be useful to have WA support one or more local payment gateways natively.

Unfortunately, PayPal does not support payments in ZAR in South Africa, and it supports EFTs from only one bank at this stage, so it is not a complete solution (though it is available).

Thanks for your help!

Ryan