I'm adding what is effectively a membership database to a WordPress site, there are a couple of special requirements:-
1 - The members can be individuals or organisations. An organisation member will have the organisation details - Name, address, phone, etc. - plus the ability to add up to five named individuals with simple details for each.
2 - It's a paid for membership so there will be a PayPal button for both individual and organisation membership, we obviously don't want to enter details for someone who hasn't paid. The PayPal buttons can have a 'Take customers to this URL when they finish checkout' option so this could be done by having a separate commit for the input form.
The actual data for a member is pretty standard, nothing beyond Name, Address, E-Mail, Phone, etc.
Looking for 'membership' or similar on the WP Plugins site pulls up hundreds of plugins all aimed at giving multi-level access to the web site which isn't what we need at all.
So, any ideas anyone? I'm happy to customise an existing plugin, I can code in PHP reasonably well, but the more off-the-shelf it is the better of course.
It feels like a good club membership database plugin would do but I can't find one in the morass of website membership plugins.
On 04/27/14 17:27, Chris Green wrote:
I'm adding what is effectively a membership database to a WordPress site, there are a couple of special requirements:-
The grandaddy of membership systems is the CiviCRM plugin for WordPress. CiviMember will do different membership classes and payments and the concept of contacts already has different types for individuals and organisations (and households too).
I'm going to be installing this on another site soon. I may try to vary the fields for different contact classes but I doubt I'll need any more than the default, so you'd probably better check it can do what's needed... I'm not sure I understand all of the reasons for those requirements.
Hope that informs,
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:08:11PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
On 04/27/14 17:27, Chris Green wrote:
I'm adding what is effectively a membership database to a WordPress site, there are a couple of special requirements:-
The grandaddy of membership systems is the CiviCRM plugin for WordPress. CiviMember will do different membership classes and payments and the concept of contacts already has different types for individuals and organisations (and households too).
I'm going to be installing this on another site soon. I may try to vary the fields for different contact classes but I doubt I'll need any more than the default, so you'd probably better check it can do what's needed... I'm not sure I understand all of the reasons for those requirements.
Hope that informs,
Thank you! I just needed some pointers to well recommende/popular plugins, you've given me one.
It sounds as if CiviCRM should do what we need, our requirements are pretty simple.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:54:17PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:08:11PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
On 04/27/14 17:27, Chris Green wrote:
I'm adding what is effectively a membership database to a WordPress site, there are a couple of special requirements:-
The grandaddy of membership systems is the CiviCRM plugin for WordPress. CiviMember will do different membership classes and payments and the concept of contacts already has different types for individuals and organisations (and households too).
I'm going to be installing this on another site soon. I may try to vary the fields for different contact classes but I doubt I'll need any more than the default, so you'd probably better check it can do what's needed... I'm not sure I understand all of the reasons for those requirements.
Hope that informs,
Thank you! I just needed some pointers to well recommende/popular plugins, you've given me one.
It sounds as if CiviCRM should do what we need, our requirements are pretty simple.
Looking at CiviCRM it looks rather heavyweight for what we want. Is the WordPress plugin just an interface to a CiviCRM installation or is it a standalone application? The plugin isn't on the WordPress site, and the CiviCRM site is taking infinitely long to tell me anything more at the moment.
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 02:21:57PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:54:17PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:08:11PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
On 04/27/14 17:27, Chris Green wrote:
I'm adding what is effectively a membership database to a WordPress site, there are a couple of special requirements:-
The grandaddy of membership systems is the CiviCRM plugin for WordPress. CiviMember will do different membership classes and payments and the concept of contacts already has different types for individuals and organisations (and households too).
I'm going to be installing this on another site soon. I may try to vary the fields for different contact classes but I doubt I'll need any more than the default, so you'd probably better check it can do what's needed... I'm not sure I understand all of the reasons for those requirements.
Hope that informs,
Thank you! I just needed some pointers to well recommende/popular plugins, you've given me one.
It sounds as if CiviCRM should do what we need, our requirements are pretty simple.
Looking at CiviCRM it looks rather heavyweight for what we want. Is the WordPress plugin just an interface to a CiviCRM installation or is it a standalone application? The plugin isn't on the WordPress site, and the CiviCRM site is taking infinitely long to tell me anything more at the moment.
Actually it seems simpler than I thought at first, I'll give it a try, thank you again.
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:46:35AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 02:21:57PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:54:17PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 01:08:11PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
On 04/27/14 17:27, Chris Green wrote:
I'm adding what is effectively a membership database to a WordPress site, there are a couple of special requirements:-
The grandaddy of membership systems is the CiviCRM plugin for WordPress. CiviMember will do different membership classes and payments and the concept of contacts already has different types for individuals and organisations (and households too).
I'm going to be installing this on another site soon. I may try to vary the fields for different contact classes but I doubt I'll need any more than the default, so you'd probably better check it can do what's needed... I'm not sure I understand all of the reasons for those requirements.
Hope that informs,
Thank you! I just needed some pointers to well recommende/popular plugins, you've given me one.
It sounds as if CiviCRM should do what we need, our requirements are pretty simple.
Looking at CiviCRM it looks rather heavyweight for what we want. Is the WordPress plugin just an interface to a CiviCRM installation or is it a standalone application? The plugin isn't on the WordPress site, and the CiviCRM site is taking infinitely long to tell me anything more at the moment.
Actually it seems simpler than I thought at first, I'll give it a try, thank you again.
I got it installed but never really managed to get it configured completely and it seemed to need a PayPal Pro account which costs almost as much money as we're expecting to collect in subscriptions, so that's no good!
I searched some more and found s2member which seems to do pretty much what we want.
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