membership

At long last, I have implemented an automated system for handling payments from users of the sites becoming a member and/or renewing their membership. Before this, for years, our treasurer was handling each payment manually. This caused (mostly minor) delays, and some confusion among our paying 'customers' (that means you, members!) when payments did not have that 'instant gratification' of getting member privileges.

You may have noticed the member expiry warning in the left column when you're logged in as a member. It's that time of the year, time to renew. Some of you may wonder what happens if you do not renew.