Standard Rotary Members?

Dianne - I absolutely agree with your discomfort. There are other areas too that use a more "business generic" terminology where I would like to be able to change the name to something more user friendly. A good example would be changing the item name "Product" to something like "Lunch" or "Happy Dollars."

 

This is a great question and I can bring in a little behind the scenes information here. In ClubRunner Classic, the default membership type is just "Active", but we also have added new types for all of our Rotary clubs like Active - Satellite and Active - Corporate, and fairly newly Active - Leave of Absence.

For Nova, Active - Standard is the new default type, replacing just plain "Active". We can also still create new custom membership types for clubs as well! I'd love to hear some suggestions on how we could change this, or terms that may feel more appropriate for the membership.

Products are more than just lunches or happy dollars, they can be those things and so much more!


These products, meals for example, are the entry point. From here you can add the individual options, define their prices, and connect them to the GL accounts for reporting. The only people who will see the name “products” at least in this context of invoicing, are those working in the Batches and Invoice systems. Now, I know we’ve had similar feedback for Cloud Events, related to Tickets and Products, and these names are exposed to the public and it is something we’re looking into allowing customization of on a per event basis. But I am not sure if that would work out well for the menu system itself, since that would break a lot of user happy paths via navigation and documentation.



To continue, lets take a look at how Meals are shown on the invoices.



You can see on the invoice that is generated, it has the comments about meals - coffee & tea, but nothing about products. It uses the Product Name and individual option to automatically populate this field, but it can also be overwritten when building the invoices.



With all of that said, I’d love to hear any additional suggestions or feedback here on the name change as long as we keep the above considerations in mind.



I hope this help to shed some light on why we chose the name we did, both for Products & Membership types.