Online Membership Auto-Renewal

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Hey Folks!

I posted this in Technical yesterday, but would love to hear from some development foliks on the auto-renewal process.  any input is greatly appreciated.

So, i pretty much know the deal here.  Pledges only, not through the API, use the utility, RTFM.  Right, i know.  But that doesn't translate well to management.  And I always like a good challenge :)

Oh, did I mention i'm on TNEW!

Right now, if I wasn't to provide a method to opt out, I was thinking of having every online membership contribution (Gift) create a CSI, which would prompt a local user to create a corresponding pledge.  If a person phoned to opt out, we could suppress them from the auto renewal utility with an attribute and only run the utility on a list, filtering that attribute.

Does anyone have any thoughts on that process?  Like it or don't?

So, then to complicate things;  i'm also exploring the option to opt-out online.  But the 2 methods i've thought of both have their own issues;

1:  re-purpose TNEW's checkbox on the membership "Decline Benefits" to be "don't auto renew"

That's kinda okay, but it is membership specific in record, although i could search for any on that person.

2:  LWP Validate Cart

I could write a procedure which prompts the user to accept, more an opt in, and store that as an attribute.  But it doesn't guarantee that they actually complete the order.

I hope that is clear.  I'd really like to talk with anyone using the auto-renew utility, and discuss processes and workflow.  Or hear from anyone on the above.

Thanks,

James