Hi Museums, Zoos and Aquariums Members:
We are working on the Benefits feature of v16 memberships, and have a question about one particular aspect of benefits. The Benefits feature is a replacement for the Entitlements Plugin that some of you may be using today.
Our question is this:
Do you have a need today for benefits that are tracked on a monthly basis?
The current entitlements plugin does not do this, but we can imagine some use-cases that make it desirable. We want to know if any of you are tracking monthly benefits in practice today, or if you have programs in place now that would benefit from it.
For example: “Jessica” buys an individual membership to her local zoo. She can go as often as she wants and she gets up to 2 additional admissions per month for guests.
Bonus Question:
Would the ability to have perpetual/sustaining memberships billed monthly change your opinion on whether this was a useful feature?
Thank you!
Chris Szalaj
Product Owner, Business Facing Products
Hi Chris! The closest benefit we have is Member Appreciation Month in which members get extra benefits in February, so they're not recurring, but they are time-restricted. (Currently just putting pricing events on those perfs to give members extra discounts.)
Everywhere I've worked has been x people per visit plus an allotment of annual guest passes to be used anytime, but if a membership is month-to-month we would indeed want to divvy those up monthly.