We are very happy that we can now accept payments using the PayPal Here mobile card reader in conjunction with the Wild Apricot app. However, we have discovered that it is not possible to accept a donation and have it recorded as a donation in the member's account using PayPal Here - because a payment can only be recorded against an outstanding invoice and there isn't a way to generate an invoice for a donation. This is a big drawback!! We want members to be able to pay both membership dues and donations this way -- preferably in one transaction -- and have the payments recorded in the member account appropriately. Please, please add this ability!

If nothing else, could you add the ability to generate an invoice for a donation? I know that sounds weird - to bill someone for a donation - but that sounds like the easiest fix. Even better would be if it were set up so the invoice wasn't sent to the member but rather just used for internal bookkeeping reasons. I would still want the member to receive an automated Thank You email and receipt, however.

Many membership organizations (golf clubs, etc.) have policies to continue invoicing members even in the event that a member fails to pay the invoice for the preceding membership term. The primary reason that organizations do this is that their membership policies have been tailored to cover the underlying fixed costs faced by the organization. In such organizations the policy generally is to require that the member opt out of the membership by communicating that intention in some fashion to the organization, rather than simply by stopping payment.
Currently on Wild Apricot if a member does not pay an invoice the system will not issue a new invoice for the next period. For an organization operating on communicated opt out policy this adds workload to the administrators; in order to generate new invoices an administrator has to renew each membership and issue the new invoice manually.

This proposal is to allow memberships to continue to be renewed and have invoices generated, even if the invoices for previous terms have not been paid. Within each membership level this would be an option that could be toggled on or off and it would have a period count for how many periods of unpaid invoices would be generated before the membership is tagged as suspended or lapsed.

As a developing a web store is under consideration, some consideration should be given to adding this proposed functionality to renewable services purchased through the store as well.

Events Registration - program to have the linked registration function write the hosts name in the linked registration field if the host has guests. So the data export to an excel file can be sorted to assign sit together tables for table assignment?

host name ...... host name
host name ...... guest name
host name ...... guest name

The host name .... guest name write is already there, it just requires the host name .... host name write.

This is a definite requirement for clubs that have meetings with table seatings and would take a WA programmer 2 secs to change. Whereas users searching and manually updating cells for every event over and over can take forever.

Event Multiple Registrations: Change the way a member can add additional registrations to an event to allow them add guests only. A member is only one individual and will, in all cases (in our club) have to register to attend an event in order to bring a guest. It is common that after registering but before the event the member may want to add additional guests. When the "allow multiple registrations" is enabled the member may do this BUT they can have to add themselves AGAIN and then the guests. In reality this means that the member will have duplicated their registration. Suggest that you change the registration process to allow the member to change the quantity of member attendees in the same way they can change the number of guest attendees.

We'd love to have a separate email address field for administrators for their administrative emails.

In our organization, admins are members of the organization and board members. As board members, they receive an organizational address, like membership@thisorg.org or president@thisorg.org. As members, their email address is their personal address, like sam.jones@gmail.com.

We'd like to have their membership address be their personal address (eg sam.jones@gmail.com) and their WA administrator address be membership@myorg.org.

So when they receive general email, like their person renewal confirmation, it goes to sam.jones@gmail.com. But when they receive administrator emails, such as a new member notification, it goes to membership@myorg.org.

Thanks!
JD