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Contributions Plugin v1.0 Membership management

Complete plugin for managing member contributions: payments, balance, automatic reminders and administrator dashboard

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Client: e107 Communities - Public Distribution
Year: 2014
Service: Plugin · PHP

Contributions Plugin v1.0: Membership management

Contents

Overview
01The challenge
02The solution developed
03The result obtained
Testimonial
Technical stack
Screenshots

The project

Overview

Development of a subscription management plugin intended for community sites running under the CMS e107. The plugin covers the entire life cycle of a membership, from registration to automatic reminder, including credit balance management. Designed to be installed and configured without technical intervention, it was distributed to several online communities under the VulcainDesign brand.

The starting point

The challenge

Community sites under e107 did not have any native tool to manage their members' periodic contributions. Administrators managed memberships manually, with no history, no reminders and no visibility into unpaid debts.

« A standalone, reliable and reusable tool was needed - installable on any e107 site without additional development. »

No native membership management in e107
Manual payment tracking, source of errors and oversights
No automatic reminder of overdue members
Lack of transaction history and traceability
Zero overall visibility on the status of annual contributions

What I did

The solution developed

I designed and developed an autonomous plugin integrating natively into e107, with three distinct areas: a member area, an administrator back office and an annual management table.

01
Development of a members area
Display of contribution status, available balance, payment form with duration selection and option to use credit balance
02
Automatic restart system
Sending reminders by email and private message to outdated members, with alert popup upon connection
03
Editing back office
Individual management of members: addition/removal of months, modification of balance, complete log of dated events
04
Annual management table
12 month view with navigation by year, status by member (paid / late / exempt), filters and pagination
05
Global configuration
Setting the monthly rate, reminder messages and sending preferences

What changed

The result obtained

The plugin has allowed several online communities to professionalize the management of their memberships, by eliminating manual tracking and automating reminders. Each administrator has a complete annual view and a traced history of each action.

+3separate interfaces (member / admin / dashboard)

multi-site distributed plugin
Automatic email + PM reminders
Complete event history
Integrated credit balance management
Multi-year navigation

In the client’s words

Testimonial

The goal was to create a tool that any community admin could install and use without training. Seeing dozens of sites adopt it confirmed that the need was real.

VulcainDesigne107 Communities - Public Distribution

Under the hood