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
Chris,
Perpetual/sustaining memberships billed monthly is a feature that Museum of the Bible is looking forward to-- we have been wanting to offer sustaining monthly payment options from the start. However, I wouldn't go so far as to say that not having monthly billing would completely negate the usefulness of the feature. We're glad to have these improvements coming at all.
Are you weighing whether to push monthly tracking to version 17?
Thanks,
Shelly Binkley
Business Analyst, Museum of the Bible
Hi , We are weighing whether or not it should be in v16 for the moment. If we don't do it in v16 that doesn't necessarily mean v17; it may be possible for us to introduce the feature in a non-required version between v16 and v17.
Thank you very much for the feedback!