Membership Management Questions

[Cnda]

Hi,

I am on the executive (non-paying) of a not for profit group; currently about 3,000 members. We currently have a static site and I’ve been asked to look at potentially moving to a bulletin board.

I fairly comfortable with the forum functionality; my questions at this time relate to membership management functionality. We would like to kill two birds with one stone and are hoping vBulletin could do this.

Some of the questions we we have.

Member Data
Can certain registration data be made mandatory, some of the registration fields be turned into drop downs, more registration fields be added if required? Can member data be exported to Excel?

Membership Management
Can e-mails be sent to all members, specific member groups? Our members pay an annual fee; can this be tracked, can membership be automatically suspended if payment is not received?

Thanks

[CK]

Member Data
Can certain registration data be made mandatory, some of the registration fields be turned into drop downs, more registration fields be added if required? Can member data be exported to Excel?

The registration process can be customised to suite and require mandatory information. As your forums heath is a database, all or any information can be exported to Excel

Membership Management
Can e-mails be sent to all members, specific member groups? Our members pay an annual fee; can this be tracked, can membership be automatically suspended if payment is not received?

Yes, yes. Yes and you can have payable subscriptions via the board itself when a payment is received they'll be moved to an appropriate usergroup for a predetermined amount of time, if they don't pay they get moved to a different usergroup.

[BirdOPrey5]

Exporting the data to excel will either require a custom plugin or you would need to make queries directly to the database using something like phpmyadmin which can export excel compatible files. This will require a custom MySQL query.

[CK]

Jesus my spelling is atrocious sometimes.

[Cnda]

Thanks!