Hello all,
So our organization is making use of one of our contribution pages to allow our constituents to renew or join with a museum membership online through TNEW. The problem is the interface for this pretty confusing and restrictive. Currently I am working on a Javascript workaround that presents the contribution drop down in a more useful and aesthetic way, but maybe I'm doing to much and there is a better way to do this.
Without getting into API, are there alternatives to putting memberships online with TNEW besides using up a contribution page?
Thank you.
Well the short answer is no, the only built-in ways for TNEW to sell a membership is by using a contribution page. We do have a customization on our checkout page that does a membership upsell.
You could use a product or aux product to sell "memberships", but this would come out as a performance ticket, and you'd need to have a separate process in the backend to move this into an actual membership contribution.
One other thought: I tested out a way of using the contribution page that was a little bit more intuitive for selling memberships in our situation. Rather than using the dropdown to choose a fund, the dropdown was set up to provide a list of membership levels, which would auto-fill the contribution amount as necessary. This could be done with built-in functionality. But for multiple funds to be used, a custom form field would have to be used to select the fund, and then the contribution amount would be stored on account so that a human could interpret the form output CSI and create the actual membership contribution.
Hope this provides some interesting food for thought!