Prorate A Membership

[chucknb87122]

Hi,

Is it possible to prorate a membership to say the first of the month so that all renewalls occur at the same time. If this is possible how would it be done?

Thanks

[alex-adm]

Unfortunately, it is impossible.

And I have no idea when it may be useful...

[dscheff]

This was a long time ago - is there any chance that there has been a module created for this? I want to be able to enter an initial payment mid-month and then have all recurring payments go together on the same day each month.

Thanks

[alex]

I really need to know WHY is it useful (to understand and implement this feature better).

[dscheff]

It has to do with easing the administration of accounting. If all billing is done on the same day of the month every month (except the pro-rated new signups, of course) it substantially eases accounting administration costs.

For example, I use Moderbill for hosting and it lets you choose 2 from types of billing - either "Anniversary Mode", which is how amember works, where the billing cylce repeats on the anniversary date from the date of signup, or Monthly Mode, where the renew date will always land of the first of any given month, no matter the start date.

I do see in amember that you can MANUALLY enter the start date, and that would almost work if it could be made automatic, so that regardless of the date of signup by the client, they get billed starting the first of the following month. In that case, all that would be left to do would be find a way to collect the partial month owed from the signup date through the first automated monthly bill. It seems to me that the script for computing the partial month would not be too difficult.

( (Monthly Amount X 12) / 365 ) X (number of days in partial month) = Partial Month payment.

That amount would be charged at the time of signup. All other billing would occur on the first day of the month, every month, until the contract is ended.

I anxiously await your reply.

Dan

Thanks
Dan

[alex]

Dan,
this is not implemented currently in aMember, but we will implement this in aMember 3 (will be released in 2006).

[dscheff]

Alex

Could you give me a quote to get this done now?

Thanks
Dan

[alex]

Dan,please contact support and describe your EXACT task in a ticket.

[121Books]

I just wanted to 2nd this idea. Users may also prefer to be billed on the 1st of the month. I'm looking forward to v.3

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[miso]

Has this been implemented in aMember 3 at all?

Because I can't find it in the features, anywhere...

And all I need is to set a specific date of the year when all billing/renewals should be processed and pro-rate all the other signups from that date. Right now that set date field doesn't really help in the way I need it to work...