Our work-around was that we added, on the membership form, a section called "Extra Donation" and added three specific additional costs that they can select. This is fine for the most part--but it would be great if these extra donations were correlated to the "Donations" section, so when people wanted records and reports (such as when they file taxes) they could easily see what money were dues and what were donations.

Perhaps there could be a new screen, just before the final payment is submitted, that asks "Would you like to make an additional donation?" which would then bring up the Donations function.

I really appreciate how you Apricots listen to us users!

We have the same need.

Our organization just joined Wild Apricot. As the system administrator, I would like to add my voice to the requests to allow donations with the membership application / renewal process. We get most of our donations during membership renewal. If this can't be done directly, we would like the ability to link the two process so that a member can pay once - including the dues and a donation.

This would be fantastic to have, currently testing with the additional costing feature in memberships however my appropriation of it will not benefit me and I've realized it causes more problems than good.

I would also like this feature.

Yes, integrating donations into the renewal process is still something we really need, too! Adding extra charges to memberships and renewals ALMOST solves this. The problem is that the extra charges are tracked as membership income, not as donations.

It would be great if there were options within the "Renewal policy" and "New applications" tabs whereby we could opt to "add donation fields" to the membership and/or renewal forms for each membership level. Taking one payment and then getting WA to track the donation and membership amounts separately might not be simple, but it is still a really important challenge to tackle.

I third the request for some sort of easy way to do a "would you also like to make a donation"

I second your request for this option.

Our organization also has need of this functionality. Thank you!

Our members who currently pay by check often add a donation when they subscribe and renew. We can't do this on the online membership form as the Extra Charges field has to have an amount specified. It would be nice to have a donation membership field where members can add a donation of their choice to their subscription/renewal.

Now, if they pay online they will have to make a separate transaction in order to make a donation and we are worried we will lose income because of this.

We need this as well. As a membership organization, when people pay their annual dues, that's the best time to get them to include extra as a donation. We get requests for this from our board, who hear this from our members.

I just had this request the other day. Please let us know when it is ready. In the meantime, we can add a link to the page for donations. Thanks!

We are very impressed by WA but cannot adopt it currently because a high proportion of our members make a donation along with renewing their annual membership. If they cannot do so easily then it would likely reduce our charitable income by around $9,000 per year.

So I hope that you'll implement this functionality soon - but it does appear to have been on the wish list for a long time !

Members of our organization renew only once a year and so far the time when most of them donate (if they do) is at the time when they are renewing. The organization's current site basically asks them "would you like to make a donation as well?" at the end of the renewal process. Now, I know that the way WA is set up, donations are separated from other payments which means they would have to key in their CC info twice, but it would be nice if we could include a reminder about donations at the end of the membership renewal process.

What I was thinking is that maybe we can change the "Payment successful" message box to include a link to a donation page, but I don't know if it's doable with theme overrides, or in some other way. Does anyone have any ideas either on how to this, or of another way that would work. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

We could really use this as well!

Thank you, LizG - we're trying to do our best.

We are really excited to hear about the shopping cart solution that would allow one payment for multiple items (membership, events, sponsorships, donations, etc.). We have an annual conference, where many of our members purchase multiple things, and it is a pain for them to make separate payments for each one.

Also - I saw that you are thinking about allowing donations at the same time as starting a new membership. This is great - but we would also like this for when people are RENEWING their membership. We would like people who can afford to help out, to pay for someone else's membership who cannot afford it... They could do this on an annual basis when they renew.

Thanks for all you are doing - and congrats on such a smooth implementation of v5. You must have a fantastic QA team as well as programming team.

What option are you speaking about?

I don't see this option when I am creating an event from "copy event" option. Does this only appear when creating a new event, not from a copy?

Abbie

we REALLY need this as well! I'll try the workaround suggestion in the meantime.