Groups/EOT Reminder features?

I have a request for a membership software with the following criteria. It looks as is S2 will do #s 1, 2, 3, & 5, correct? What about the other 3 functions requested?

1. The membership “function” needs to allow non-members to sign up online and collect their money through PayPal,
2. If they can’t get online, they need to see the info on our site on where to send their check and with a signup form they can print and attach,
3. It needs to give them membership level choices like individual, club and business (with potentially more) and allow each to have different payment levels and allow them to sign up for 1 or multiple years,
4. It needs to track their membership tenure and remind them at -60 days and -30 days before expiration of their need to reapply … and even at +30 if they neglected to
5. It needs to track these former members as well as current,
6. It needs to allow us to export these members and expired members as a database for mailings
7. Needs to allow “group members” where a group joins and all it’s subsequent members are automatically enrolled (like an individual has a drop down to choose their group and a group admin can approve it), but if the group ends enrollment, all its members are not deleted, just put into an inactive category or something along those lines.

Thank you,
Megan

Hi Megan.

1. Yes.

2. You can explain to them how to pay you by check, yes. Not sure what you mean by sign-up form to print. You can have the person register free and then upgrade his account manually after you get the check, though.

3. You’d create those separate access groups and then offer them to the user to purchase the one they way. You can use a separate button for each choice. You could customize the button’s code so the person can change the number of years.

4. No, s2Member doesn’t make this easy yet, we’re working on it. You could integrate with a service like AWeber or MailChimp and schedule emails to go out on those dates for now, though.

5. I don’t understand this one.

6. s2Member Pro has a User Export tool you can use for this. You can tell who’s expired by their user role, if they’re Subscriber/Level0, then he’s not a paid member, but if you allow free registrations then the role doesn’t tell if he was or wasn’t a paid member before. You can use the Notifications API to contact a custom script of yours that keeps track of members and their changes in status, too.

7. No, this isn’t possible with the current s2Member either. We’re working on making this possible too.

I don’t have a date for any of the features I mentioned being worked on, but I say it so you know we’re not ignoring those needs.

I hope that helps. :)