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Creating New Member Assembler Seasons

As you finish your initial "season" with the Member Assembler, you will need the ability to demarcate a new sign-up process and get your returning customers to sign up again. With the Member Assembler, you will do this with the concept of "Seasons".

A new "season" might be a switch from your regular season share to a winter share or simply when you move from the 2009 season to the 2010 sign-up period.

To create a new season

  1. Login to your control panel and navigate to:
    Member Assembler / Configure / Seasons
  2. Create a new season with a descriptive name.
  3. Set this new season as the "current season".
  4. This action will reset your member types, pickups, and custom forms from the public perspective, so go in and recreate all of these items to reflect your new season. We can copy over types & pickups from past seasons; just send us an email and we will do this for you.
  5. If you disabled your sign-up process at the end of the last sign up process, make sure you enable it again:
    Member Assembler / Configure / Other Settings

Now your season is ready for your customers! Make sure you test the complete process to be sure it works in the way that you expect.

Where do Returning Members Go?

Returning members will need to visit this page:
http://www.yourfarm.com/members/returning (replace www.yourfarm.com with your address)

Returning members will type in their email address that they used for the past season and an email will be sent to their address with a secure link that they can use to complete sign-up. This will verify that the user owns the email address.

Editing Older Seasons

After you have created your new season, you may want to go back to make changes to old an old season, view pickup lists, and etc. To keep your public sign-up process humming along on the new season, but to view old season information:

  • Navigate to:
    Member Assembler / Configure / Seasons

     

  • Click "set as admin season" beside the season you want to view in the control panel.
  • Navigate back to the "Seasons" screen when you are ready to view the current season again.