Membership Import or Manual Membership Migration

The Membership Import is a contracted item for CivicRec Implementation. The Membership Import is most useful when the data from your previous system is relatively ‘clean’ (up-to-date and well-maintained). The import is a two-step process where you must:

1. Create the Membership Activities/Sessions in CivicRec, ensuring that all membership settings are complete and accurate
2. Complete the Membership Import Template Spreadsheet

 

It is important to note that before deciding to use the import, the Membership Import method does present some limitations for use of those memberships in your CivicRec system. For instance:

• Imported Memberships do not produce a transaction that is able to be refunded or adjusted.
• Imported Memberships cannot be used as a prerequisite for any other activity/session.
• Imported Memberships cannot be tied to discounts on other activities/sessions or facility reservations.
• Memberships that have recurring payments, such as monthly or annual billing, cannot be imported.
• Memberships that auto-renew cannot be imported.

 

If any of the above considerations present a significant issue for your department or customers, you may opt to migrate over your customers and memberships manually as indicated in Option 2. 

If the import method is not utilized, staff as part of the CivicRec Implementation Project Team will be tasked with manually creating accounts for those with memberships that need to be added to CivicRec. If you purchased the Membership Import and no longer wish to use it, you may still opt to complete the user information portion of the Import to help relieve some of the burdens of manually creating customer accounts, but associating those customers with the appropriate memberships will be executed by your project team. The Manual Membership Migration is a three-step process:

1. Completely and accurately create the Membership Activities/Sessions in CivicRec, paying close attention to the membership settings within the session
2. Complete the User Information portion of the Membership Import Template or Manually Create Customer Accounts
3. Process an internal transaction for each customer and their applicable memberships

 

There are no limitations to membership functionality when manually entering memberships, as compared to the Membership Import.

 

For memberships that use auto-billing/require a card-on-file, follow the migration instructions article. 

Whether utilizing the import or performing a manual migration, setting up customers’ memberships will occur after Test Data Clearance and relatively close to launch so as to not ‘miss’ any new membership purchases or account holders that occur in the interim.

Option 1: Membership Import

1. System Preparation:
   • All Membership activities and sessions must be set up accurately in CivicRec prior to performing the import.
   • Note: The name of the Membership Session in CivicRec must be an exact match with the Session name (Column A) in the Import Template. This is what the Import Tool looks at when tying the membership to the customer.
2. Data Preparation:
   • Review the Membership Import Template to understand which data fields can be imported and which fields are required.
   • Export, clean, and group households using your existing data. Ensure that you have no duplicates and establish an External Account ID for each household. This number will serve as an indicator that individuals should be ‘grouped’ together under the same household.
     • Note: The Primary Account Holder should be listed first in the household. For example, John is the Primary Account Holder, while Sarah is his spouse and Gary is their child, all have the same External Account ID
   • If your member numbers all need to have the same amount of digits, use the following steps to format the template column: 
     1. Highlight the Member Number (Barcode) column and click Format Cells
        
        
     2. Select the Custom tab and change the Type to the number of characters needed
        
     3. Member numbers with less than the specified number of digits should now have zeros at the beginning of the number
        
3. Import Process:
   • Download the Membership Import Template
   • Complete the following columns:
     • Column A - Session (REQUIRED): Must be an exact Session Name match with the Membership Session that you built in "Step 1. System Preparation."
     • Column B - Expiration Date (RECOMMENDED): Must be in M/D/Y format only.
     • Column C - Start Date (RECOMMENDED): Must be in M/D/Y format only.
     • Column D - Member/Barcode Number (Optional)
     • Column E - Remaining Scans/Punches (Optional): Only use this column if the Membership functions as a “Punch Card” for entries.
     • Column F - First Name (REQUIRED)
     • Column G - Middle Name (Optional)
     • Column H - Last Name (REQUIRED)
     • Column I - Address Line 1 (REQUIRED)
     • Column J - Address Line 2 (Optional)
     • Column K - City (REQUIRED)
     • Column L - State (REQUIRED)
     • Column M - Zip (REQUIRED)
     • Column N - Date of Birth (DOB) (REQUIRED): Must be in M/D/Y format only.
     • Column O - Gender (Optional): Must indicate with either an “M” or “F” or left blank
     • Column P - Phone 1 (Optional): Must be 10 digits with no formatting
       • Example: 1234567890
     • Column Q - Phone 2 (Optional): Must be 10 digits with no formatting
       • Example: 1234567890
     • Column R - Email (Optional)
     • Column S - Username (RECOMMENDED): Must be an email address
     • Column T - External Account ID (REQUIRED): Digits only
4. Confirm the Primary Account Holder is listed first when grouping households together by External Account IDs.
5. Confirm there are no duplicate accounts by way of Username and/or Email data fields.
6. Submit your completed Membership Import Template in Mavenlink and tag your Project Manager (PM) and Implementation Consultant (IC).
7. The PM/IC will clear out any ‘test’ Public Users in CivicRec prior to performing the import.
8. The PM/IC will execute the import and notify the project team of any issues or adjustments to the data that were made.
9. Once the import is successful and your CivicRec software is live, the accounts imported/created must be notified as soon as possible. This is to avoid duplicate accounts being created by the public user. There are two ways to notify your users that they have an existing account in your new system:
   • Email users directly using the People Finder Report - The following template can be used:
     

     Greetings!
     
     On behalf of YOUR PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT, we would like to invite you to be one of the first users of our new software system, CivicRec. You were selected to be one of our first users of CivicRec because you currently have a membership with us!
     
     Your account has been migrated over from our previous system using the email address this message is being sent to.
     
     Please navigate to our NEW ONLINE CATALOG, click Log In/Create Account in the upper left corner and click FORGOT PASSWORD. Input the email address that this message was sent to (please do NOT create a new account). You will then receive a temporary password to log in to your account. Once you are logged in, you can review your Account Dashboard and browse our online catalog!
     
     If you have any trouble accessing your account or have any questions, please contact EMAIL ADDRESS.

   • Bulk Password Reset
     • Note: This must be performed by your Project Manager/Implementation Consultant, as it is a Super Admin setting. The Bulk Password Reset Tool can reset passwords for many and/or all users. By targeting when the Account was imported (i.e. registered) and knowing we have not associated a password with those accounts, we can use this tool to notify customers to update their accounts. The message is customizable, and the customer username will be their email address. If you would like to add anything to the message, let your Project Manager/Implementation Consultant know.

• Activity Types
• Create an Activity 
• Create a Session 
• Configure Membership Settings 
• Create an Account 
• Structured Auto-Billing 
• Continuous Auto-Billing
• Manual Migration of Auto-Billing Memberships

Can you still modify (extend/suspend/cancel) memberships as needed?

Yes. Imported memberships can be modified, however, they will not produce a transaction that can be refunded/adjusted. 

 

Will fees that are based on membership status (i.e., If I’m a Lodge member, I get the member rate on camp) be impacted or just programs that require a prerequisite (membership/activity/level) for registration?

The action of importing cannot tie the membership to an activity/session as a prerequisite, as the system is going to seek a ‘transaction’ of that membership to determine if the customer has purchased the membership in the past to qualify them to register for an activity/session now.

 

Can program and facility reservation fees that are based on membership status be tied to discounts?

The action of importing memberships does not automatically tie them to a discount, but we can manually associate the imported memberships to “Membership Discounts” after the import occurs. We then associate the “Membership Discount” to activities/sessions and facility reservations as applicable.

 

Will the accounts/users from memberships with recurring payments be imported? 

Users will be imported first, then they will be stitched to their applicable memberships via the Membership Import. You can import anyone you would like. For those with month-to-month auto-billing, you will have to perform a manual transaction on each one in order to set up auto-billing/recurring payments accordingly. This will also require you have all their credit card information. If you don’t have credit card information, you can still run them through a transaction, and then the customer will be on the hook to initiate payment online when their balance is due. Many customers opt to ‘start fresh’ and cancel all the month-to-month continuous billing memberships and have their customers re-enroll.