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,
We don’t have a big need to track benefits on a monthly basis either and are not currently using the Entitlements Plugin. But! I am already thinking of the possibilities if this feature was available (Members Month incentives, year 2+ renewal incentives). While we currently already offer monthly installment payment options for our lower level memberships levels, set-up as Membership as Products, through a Tessitura customization, my colleagues in our Development Department (higher level memberships set-up as contributions) are very interested in offering the ability for our donors to support via perpetual/sustaining memberships billed monthly.