2-year memberships and adding a third adult to a membership

On item #1 have you thought about just selling 2 1 year memberships?

On item #2 have you thought about adding an unadvertised membership level at that contribution level for 3 adults?

Thanks, Tom. 

Yes, we could certainly sell 2 1-year memberships, but I think that would still require manual entry for the expiration date and I was looking to avoid that in order to avoid errors by our front facing staff.

Re: item 2, I think I may just need to scale down how many of our levels may offer the third person option... 

You could do the longer membership durations with the Expiration Months in membership setup.

The challenge in making new membership levels are numerous.  Including

• making sure that you don't have over-lapping dollar amounts
• and that all membership level codes are unique system-wide. (Across all membership organizations) 

Historically the system would allow you to do both of these things.  However, If you did either the system could do some odd things.

P.S.  If you go down the new membership level path, I encourage you to do this in TEST and very carefully tested prior to making changes in Live.

• Look at putting your contributions in
• Look at any needed changes to your acknowledgments
• Look at how this will impact your web site and how you service your new membership levels
• Look at how the Membership Update utility is working.
• How entitlements might work if you are using that packaged customization.

For me, this has been a lot of work.  Last time I did something like this we took 8 weeks to set up and carefully test before going live.  With care, this can be done.