Currently
You can control page access so that web pages you create are visible to Anybody, Selected Membership Levels, Groups, or just Admins.

Desired
Sometimes people want to create a web page that has materials or information that only pertains to be people who have attended an event (handouts, itineraries, promo codes, pictures). In these cases you would want to have the ability to say Choose "Event registrants" and then select the event(s) from a list.

At present this would only work for member who attended an event, but it might be possible to make it so that when a guest tries to access the page they are asked to enter their email, and that email is checked against the list of event attendees, but that solution would not be 100% secure.

We have several different member types - e.g., Candidates who submit to be published, and Subscribers of various types (electronic, print), with future disparate types to be added. The groups will have fairly different applications and fields, and thus different Section Dividers.

I'd like to be able to specify when a Section Divider appears on an Application -- by Member type so that it never appears on an application for the wrong group. (Just like you can for other Membership Fields.)

With just two main types of applications so far, I have been able to avoid this by shuffling the order of field sections in the Membership Fields screen, but I expect I will hit a point where this is not possible with more types of constituents.

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.

Hi, Good morning!

There are always multiple opportunities to create internal notes on a members account, following contact or interaction with a member - just as you might do with CRM and contact management software.

These notes relate directly to the members account, including contact and support provided to the member. It is extremely important to have an internal notes section that includes simple time-stamping, display and tracking abilities. The current implementation of lumping them all together into a memo field has been cumbersome and time-consuming to manage. The ability to keep and track effective notes is essential to any membership organization. Otherwise, it must be done offline in another application - which is what we are doing today.

The link below is a very simple mock-up of our suggestion.

http://waproca.org/resources/Pictures/internalnotes.jpg

Please consider this a request for enhancement and update to your fantastic software, in order to improve communication tracking and internal notes regarding our members.

Thank you,
Tim

We would like the capability to create a simple webpage that allows event attendees to enter their email address, or any other field we define (i.e., Member ID). System finds the event registration for that contact and checks them in to the event. This self-serve check-in feature is available only if the attendee has paid the appropriate attendance fee.

This would relieve work from our registration people at events. We would set up two or three computers at the registration table and allow attendees to check themselves into the event.

This would also encourage pre-registration and payment for events. We are having issues with many walk-ins as people are not pre-registering for events.

These event attendances would show up on each contacts events page in their contact profile.

Currently the three options for Guests of a registration are: For guest registrations Only collect total number of guests Collect contact information for each guest Collect full registration form for each guest All of our events allow for guests from the same Company. The guests can choose a variety of options that do not have to be the same as the registrant. We don't need the full contact information again, and having to enter it is somewhat bothersome. However we do need more that just the guest count. The only work around found is to include "Participant #1", "Participant #2" etc. in the form, but this means we must go into each attendee data to get a true count of registrants. It would be most helpful (and more user friendly for our members) if one additional option can be added: Collect registration form without Common Fields Thanks for your good work. I'm looking forward to 4.4!

When people hit the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of an email, it would be good, as a checkbox option on the page they land on, to allow them to unsubscribe from all emails, not just newsletters. I suspect some of our contacts will not be happy if they still receive event notifications when they intended to unsubscribe fully. I don't think that one should ask them to login to do this (from their full profile). At present, we will need to manually check for these people and remove them from other mailings.

PS. It would also be good if the slightly confusing terminology relating to email subscription was made consistent across the system (WildApricot has indicated that they intend fixing this aspect).

I would like to be able to pull individual data fields from the contact database and insert them dynamically within my content. This would, I feel, make pages more dynamic, reduce my workload, allow a high level of personaliation of member content and, I feel, enable member websites to become a little more sticky, creative and innovative. What do you think?

For example, I'd like to personalise content for each chapter/member but the content would be the same for each chapter/member. With the current system every time I create a new piece of content I then have to dupliate that piece of content for each additional chapter/member. Hence, the ability to pull a field (e.g. Chapter Name | Member Name) from the database would, I feel, allow me to create better websites that could be potentially more sticky to members.

It wouldn't stop at chapter/member names, I could use this for a myriad of stuff including personalising member content, creating dynamic content by getting clever with the contact database; I feel it would open up lots of new opportunities.

In the past I've used some sort of ODBC call on asp pages to access the database. Would the development of an API to achieve the above be useful to anybody else?

I'd really like to hear everybody's thoughts and ideas.

Kind regards
Steve

We would find "multiple choice with extra cost" much more useful if it had a few more features. We find we always need capacity and the ability to close a multiple choice option without deleting it. We hold an annual conference with many extra choices for social events and luncheons at extra costs. We run into WA problems for example when In the last days leading up to the event, we have to close some of the multiple choice items(caterer needs last head count), but we can still take general event registrations. Or, we may have an offsite tour and need to cap it to a bus capacity.

I know we could set up multiple events to do this, but our experience with our constituency is that it would be way too confusing.

Also we get registrants that want to come back in later and modify their multiple choice with extra cost, but that does not seem possible online.

so our wishlist:

1) Multiple choice w/extra cost that can be closed (not deleted).

2) Multiple choice w/extra cost that can have capacities. Auto-closes when capacity reached.

3) Multiple choice w/extra cost that can be modified by the attendee

Or the ability to nest events within a master event that all reports up and out at the master event level.