Premium groups can now ask for donations
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In beta, Mark wrote "New feature: donations"
I'll be looking at this to see if it makes sense for my PTA group. We upgrade to the "Premium for a month" plan every school year during registration, as that is when we collect the bulk of our new unit members, and our existing unit members must renew. We used to sign up this year's members during registration at the school, collecting cash, check, or credit card swipes via square. Along with the member's contact info on a membership form. So Direct Add (a premium feature) was the most practical way of getting all the members added to our group. The school is transitioning from paper, in-person, registration to (mostly) online registration. This challenges our PTA unit to keep pace: the school cannot accept funds (our annual dues) on our behalf so we'll want our own way to accept payment online. We'll toss this new feature into consideration for next year. A question then is whether we ought to stay on the Premium plan year-round. Maybe, we'll see how that might work. But I think this new capability raises a similar question for other groups that are now using the Basic plan. If the group is tied to an organization that collects dues it may be an easy choice. But what about independent groups? If you have a large enough membership does it make sense to go to the Premium plan and hope to defray the cost by way of donations? Can you afford to pick up the tab if donations don't meet the cost? Do you accept further donations once you've covered the cost of Premium? And if so, what do you with the additional funds? Lots of leading questions there. I expect that there may be as many answers (good and bad) as there are groups. So is this feature a non-starter? Do we now "live in interesting times"? Shal -- Help: /static/help More Help: /g/GroupManagersForum/wiki Even More Help: Search button at the top of Messages list |
Shal Farley