[support] Membership site question

[Bob Morse]

Thanks, Christopher. Listing by categories simply means chamber members 
are displayed under categories of types of business.
So we have a custom search that groups businesses by category and each 
category can be linked to so you can display only one category.

Will look at your suggestions.

Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> 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!
>>     


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