Membership Management

[Orion]

Hi all,

Wanted some feedback best scripts and platforms etc...

Our Cottage Association wants me to redo the website..

• We want to be able to allow members (700 +) to login and renew their membership each year (paypal or mail-in)
• Manage member information (name / address / phone / email)
• Send out newsletter and other information
• Photo gallery / youtube vid gallery
• If it lent itself to a small community style (each member has a page) we can work with that too but not necessary
• Executive to login and edit specific pages only
• set up polls for general membership
• Extensible through plugins would be nice eg. discussion forum and more
• allow for customization of design fairly easily...

I love wordpress but haven't found a module to handle the membership area yet. Joomla and Drupal are other options..

We do NOT want to have our member database hosted (SAAS) we want a script and will pay (a bit) if needed.

As always I greatly appreciate the feedback et al from everyone!

Thank you!

[darren13]

Hi there Orion,

For a lot of your requirements here, maybe Joomla or Drupal would cover the bill. Maybe edging towards Drupal a little based on their concept of interoperability with other technologies.

How far do the association want to go with phase 1 (whatever the concrete agreement is on phase 1), and how likely are they to want to press ahead with the optionals...eg "we'd like to be able to *blah* at some point in the future?"

Joomla/Drupal can seem like a sledgehammer to crack a nut at times, so if the concrete plan was to implement a login for users maybe a quick bit of php might be more efficient than modifying Joomla/Drupal to suit, depending on your experience with them.

I know that one-click-installs are common with a lot of web hosts now (CS New Media, Dreamhost for example) so most of the design requirements could probably be met with a combination of applications such as phpList for mailings etc.

Regards,
Darren.

[Orion]

Any experience with member management systems in Drupal or Joomla? Which plugins would you choose?

We're not looking to have a 'members' area in the site just allow association membership purchases, and member info database for it.

Almost all 'member' plugins are for paid sites and the like, not a lot I can find anymore (used to be plentiful a few years back) for association membership management.

[thepromoshop]

I found a WordPress membership management plugin. I don't know if this is what you are looking for but you should check it out:

www[DOT]newmedias[DOT]co[DOT]uk/?a_aid=wordpressmodder

(remember to remove [DOT] and replace it with . )

[Orion]

That's what I was talking about. it's great if we want a paid site. but we're looking for an association membership management not something to protect content on the website.