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Allow Organizations to Purchase Corporate Membership Online

This isn't necessarily a ticket sales issue, but we run into a similar situation when organizations purchase corporate memberships online. It automatically creates an individual record instead of allowing corporations to create an organization type record. When an organization renews their membership online and there is a shift in contact information, a brand new record is created. That record cannot be merge with their original because they are two different types. There are a variety of work arounds that I use (transferring membership/order numbers to a blank record then merging, or linking the two records through relationships)  but allowing multiple types of records to be  created from web forms and alternate fields for organizations would be beneficial. 

Are others running into this issue? If so what are you best practices? Thank you!


Note: This topic was created from a reply on the Ability for Organizations to purchase tickets online topic.
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  • Jan 4 2016
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  • Kristine Carter commented
    October 11, 2021 15:08

    It is ridiculous that software made for non-profits does not allow organizations to donate on-line. This is the 21st century!!

  • Guest commented
    April 12, 2021 16:56

    We also need this functionality for our corporate memberships! Currently it sounds like our only option is to have an online donation form for them to pay for their membership under an employee's name. Then we have to refund that donation to "Other" payment method and create a corporate membership using the "Other" payment method.

  • Dawn DeFrank commented
    December 03, 2020 18:05

    We needs this for donations and ticket purchases also.

  • Charles Calhoun commented
    October 21, 2020 20:00

    This would be incredibly helpful to our organization!

  • Karen Francomano commented
    July 06, 2020 18:45

    This is a much-needed option for our museum.

  • Lauren Chesis commented
    July 03, 2020 19:16

    We need this option too!

  • Brianna Hobbs commented
    November 04, 2019 20:26

    We absolutely need this option for our organization too. Several corporations have reached out about not being able to join/renew online. 

  • Megan Geiken commented
    April 29, 2019 14:50

    We need this for libraries and for service organization memberships.

  • Josephine Slavsky commented
    February 16, 2018 16:21

    We need this ASAP!

  • Josie Slavsky commented
    May 02, 2017 19:56

    We need this also!

  • Guest commented
    March 10, 2017 22:27

    This is a revenue issue for AMST.  Corporate memberships are increasingly important to our membership base.  

  • Guest commented
    March 10, 2017 22:27

    This is a revenue issue for AMST.  Corporate memberships are increasingly important to our membership base.  

  • Eliza Lotozo commented
    October 13, 2016 16:35

    We need this as well!

  • Guest commented
    September 12, 2016 20:32

    The ability to accept organizational memberships online is vital to our membership program. Most of the businesses we work with want to pay by credit card and the staff time it will take to either implement a work around, or process in the back office is too much - we're a small organization and I am the membership department. Ideally we would create an organizational membership program in the back end that was pre-loaded with webforms capable of creating organizational constituents and relationships to individuals. Please reconsider this because this is absolutely lost revenue for smaller organizations. I'm happy to provide additional thoughts and feedback on this.

  • Marissa Sackett commented
    June 16, 2016 19:39

     we need this for library membership renewals using webforms

  • Guest commented
    March 25, 2016 23:42

    we also need this.

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