Congratulations, your painstaking planning and collective efforts have finally come to fruition! To complete our 11-part series to membership management success, here are some best practices for keeping your Wild Apricot running smoothly.
You are finally ready for launching your Wild Apricot system. Here is a checklist to help you count down to a smooth launch.
You’ve got your shiny new website, database and payment system set up! It’s time to countdown to launch day. But first, you want to make sure everything runs smoothly before you open your front door to your members.
Wild Apricot helps your organization run an ecommerce website. But before you can do that you will need to enable a payment system to accept online payments securely.
The events module is the most powerful and rich part of Wild Apricot. The secret to mastering the events module is to understand how registration types work along with the registration form and custom fields.
Now that you’ve selected a theme and created a few page templates, you can use start to create your organization’s website pages. This is where the rubber hits the road and you can see how the website interacts with the Wild Apricot database closely.
The website builder is one of the most powerful tools in Wild Apricot..Getting the fundamentals of your Wild Apricot website set up correctly will give you a strong start toward a friendly and engaging system.
IARP hired NewPath for multiple projects resulting in automation and streamlining of some of our processes for member services. IARP appreciated the robust functionality in Wild Apricot, but they also needed additional features that were not available “out of the box” and could only be implemented by using the Wild Apricot API alongside other third party systems.
Let’s look at how to combine the fields you’ve created in your master import file with those fields required in Wild Apricot. A sample spreadsheet template will make your import much easier to complete!
In Step 2, you learned about managing memberships using levels and bundles. Now, we’re on to Step 3: creating the master import file that you’ll use to import your members and contacts into Wild Apricot.