[support] Membership site question

[Christopher M. Jones]

Where online payments are involved, you might take a look at Ubercart. 
There's a module included that associates a role with a product, so that 
any user purchasing the product is promoted to the associated role. So a 
user could start out as a registered user, or become registered through 
the normal checkout process, and then be given fuller access once the 
payment is processed.

As for your third site, I'm not sure. Too much information missing here. 
What do you mean by "categories"? Sounds like you might be interested in 
og. You can explore from there what modules are available for 
customizing registration forms. You also could use "node profile" to 
create profiles as CCK types, including computed fields that would 
generate the 'what you would pay' info.

Bob Morse wrote:
> This seems like it should be easy but I am scratching my head. What 
> module or group of modules would you folks suggest for a site that 
> allows people to join the organization. I have two instances  now, one 
> where they take online payments and one where they don't. On each one 
> I've used civicrm. But it's such a beast. The inferface is clunky and 
> neither organization uses the crm part. We're building a 3rd site, it's 
> a chamber of commerce web site and don't want to use civicrm. They want 
> to have a list of members in categories, be able to modify what shows up 
> on the listing, make the listings searchable, allow people to join 
> through the web site (not take payments for it but create a sign up form 
> that calculates what they would have to pay by check or credit card). 
> We're using version 6. We have something that works, but it took a lot 
> more customizing things than I think it should for this kind of site. 
> And if we're going to keep getting these kinds of jobs I like 
> suggestions of any simpler ways. TIA!