Currently:
Memberships that renew have a renewal date associated with them. If the member has not initiated the renewal after the date, automatic actions can take place, such as changing the membership status, etc. Actions can progress over days: for example at 7 days the membership might change status to Pending Renewal, and at 14 days be archived.

Proprosed:
Along with these changes, a "overdue fee" could be added as an extra cost fee. Depending on how much time has passed since the registration date, the admin could choose to apply this charge as a flat amount. For example, if they renew within 7 days of the renewal date, there might not be a lapsed fee. But, if they renew 14 days or more after the renewal date, they may have to pay $20 late fee. This is to encourage members to renew early.

Desired:
A gadget where members who are currently logged into your site are displayed.

There would be a list of those who are logged in, with links to their profile pages. Members would have the ability to indicate if they want to be included in this gadget, and for those that do their field-level privacy settings would be respected.

This could be used to show visitors to the site, or logged in members (by putting it in a member restricted area), who is currently on the site which can help encourage communication between people (by using the Member contact form, mailing them directly, or forums and blog comments).

Currently
N/A

Desired
Admin will have the ability to create a survey

Surveys are comprised of multiple questions, which are often inter-related or at least all concern a similar subject. Members or guests would have to ability to participate in a survey and answer the questions. Admins would be able to view the survey in the administrative side of the site and be able to see the ongoing results for each survey. Additionally, admins may only invite a certain group of people to participate in a survey.

There are a number of ways that this can be done, and a number of features that can be added (should people be able to partially complete the survey and finish it later, for example). As we start to analyze there, are there any features that you would like to see in surveys.

(Please note that there is a separate thread for Polls, which are single questions: http://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/8825896-polls-2493 )

I think it would be helpful to have an online application with an option of deferring the membership fee until the applicant has been approved for membership.

This would allow them to complete an application, which would enter the system as a Pending status. Once they have been approved, and the record is marked as Approved, then they would receive an email requesting that they then pay for the membership.

Our group has certain guidelines that must be met for membership. There are also other documents (proof of insurance, etc) that must be sent in for review. Once these items have been verified, then they can become a member. (Another requirement is that they've been in business at least two years).

In this case, there is a possibility that someone would apply and pay, only to get denied membership, requiring us to refund the payment.

ON ANOTHER NOTE - it might be nice to allow them to submit files with the app, such as the insurance certificate, etc.

We have several event categories as well as several event managers. They all receive event registrations for all events. In a future update can you set a customizable event registration that can be filtered by event tags instead of a broad based all event email registration receipt. For example, we have social events, race events, junior events and a crane pad reservation calendar. There is an event manager for each of these categories. If there is a registration for a dinner (social event)… the race, junior and crane event managers all get the social event notification and vice versa. My event managers are complaining of the additional email and are getting confused as to how to respond. I could just have these registrations sent to me and I could forward them to the correct event manager, but that defeats one of the purposes of our subscription to this service. I really think this could be a nice feature o be able to discriminate system registration emails by tag filters.

Hello,

I mentioned this in the last survey I took and Dmitry suggested I post this here.

We have encountered several instances where allowing a member to sign up other members for an event would be a big advantage.

For example:

Member Frank would like to make a reservation for dinner with member Mike. It would be faster and tidier if Frank can do this in one registration. This way, Mike and Frank both appear on the list of registrants and both will receive updates about the dinner event. At present both would have to register separately (this would cause some confusion as to who is sitting with whom), or as Frank plus 1, in which case Mike would not receive any notice about the event.

To take this example further, we have many couples who are members. I have given both parties login credentials so that they can access the various sections of the site that are for the members only. Under the current system both parties would have to register for an event in order to appear on the registration list. Many, many times I have been asked to allow them to register both parties at one time.

We also do team events of up to 8 members so this would be very helpful in that regards as well.

Any change to the system that would allow this would not need too much in terms of error checking since every party that is registered would receive notice and any errors could be very simply corrected by the administrator.

I'm not sure what type of control I would suggest for this, but a drop down box would work, although it would be tricky if you have a very long list of members.

Maybe we can implement a screen where the member chooses the other members who are authorized to register them for events??? Just a thought.

Anyway, i'd be very interested in everyone thoughts about this.

It would help me immensely!

Thanks!

John Williams

Currently
There is no way for administrators to get a big picture of their member and administrators site activity. This causes situations where unwanted or mysterious changes (deleted pages, members,etc) happen that they are unable to track the action, sometimes not until it is too lare.

Desired
Provide a way for both clients and support to quickly review a textual history of site changes by administrators and members. And possibly a 'gadget' to broadcast member and or site activity out to members/public.

This could be accomplished by creating an activity feed on the dashboard. Similar to the news feed in Facebook, this would provide you with a summary of an action taken (page created/delete, contact created etc) along with who did it and when. You would also be able to filter this list so that you can see only those actions that are important to you.

I would save me a ton of work and grief if there were event templates for the details section. Copying previous event is ok, but because of the formatting and table issues in WA they never quite look the same. The details section could be broken out into, well, other sections. For example, in this order, have a template with sections for:

* Header/Title
* General Location (i.e. New York, Bay Area, Boston) with picture space (we have logos for each chapter location)
* Register Button
* Description/writeup of event/meeting
* Speaker info and bio links (if applicable)
* Deadline to register
* Another Register Button
* Sponsors logos and links

Under Additional Information have seperate sections for the following and tie which section goes to which type of registration attendee (we don't need to send directions to those calling in and we don't need to send call-in info to those attending in person):

* Directions to venue
* Call-in Info
* Additional information (such as event attire, etc.)

If we could make templates with these items what a huge time saver it would be and the consistency from event to event would be so much more professional.

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.

I am currently evaluating Wild Apricot for use with a specific database and I would like to be able for public visitors to use the Advanced search to look for:

Members "within" "x" miles of "zip code" or "address"

This feature would allow visitors to find people near their location and not just in a specific zip code. It's better to put in the address and find closest locations because it's more specific than the zip code. I think this feature would greatly enhance the ability for people to use this software for other databases. Like for me, I do recurring subscriptions for clients that I supply web services to and also provide access to blogs, forums, free ebooks, etc. They are daycare providers using the service for advertisement. The public visitors are looking for available providers in their area. Something like a "store locator" feature would really enhance the searching process.

NOTE: There is already a thread http://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/8825554-members-to-be-able-to-submit-events-3764 about allowing members to submit their own events. This thread is expands upon that by requesting to also give members the ability to manage those event.

My organization is focused on triathlons and members are the main driver of training events. One of the primary functions of the organization's website is to allow members to post and manage their own events. They don't need approval though we do keep an eye out for abuse.

The type of functionality a member would need to manage an event would be basic CRUD of the event itself as well as the abilty to email the RSVP participants directly in order to send out updates about the event. Financial transactions would not be a part of this (i.e. linking into WA's payment functionality).

RSVP's for our events are limited to members only (side note: it would be nice if a privileged user could have the ability to create an event that allowed non-members to register).

Because this capability is so critical to our organization's functioning, not having it is a show-stopper.

Thx,
@rapdup