New Website is Online!
We are excited to announce the launch of our new website!!!!
Thanks to Heather Harrington for putting in all the hard work to organize the many personalities, with strong opinions and quirks.
As a collective team, we have tried to do the best we can with:
Providing the features our club members are most interested in
Limiting technical complexity - which will help us utilize this platform for YEARS to come.
This includes making updating this site simple enough for members who are willing to spend an hour to learn how will be able to help manage site content.
Coming up with a simple way to migrate members on to the new site. This was not cleanly possible. See below for how we are managing member rosters, and knowing who are the current members in our society.
Getting better communication to our members thru avoiding spam folders, promotion folders and other annoyances in the way our previous technology had worked in the past.
FAQ:
Maybe you are asking, I’m already a member!, but I cannot access the membership tab without buying a new membership?
Unfortunately, the migration to this website would not allow us to easily setup existing members. In order to get access to the “Member” content - you will have to renew your membership. However! There are no exclusive perks being offered in the membership part of the website (not at the time of launch at least).
For now, the membership feature is simply a way to set up an annual “membership” where we can track membership, automate billing and the collection of member contact info. In the future however, there may be web content, discounts, products we can offer exclusively to members and this website feature enables those.
So what kind of content is on the “Member” tab then?
Most of the benefits of being a member in our society are tangible real-world things (a free plant, access to sell plants at meetings, access to our auction.)
There is no content on this website that is private for members other with the exception of:
The membership roster
The Zoom link
If you are a member, just not yet on the website, and are interested in either the zoom link or our roster, please ask. Send an email to nwos@nwos.org to have us send you either of those tools.
How will the roster stay up to date when you have an old AND a new list to keep track of?
The old roster will continue to live until every member on our old system has lapsed and paid to renew their membership on the new website.
Society administrators will have to manage a combined list of members:
people who signed up prior to this website
people who signed up on the new website
Those lists will be combined and managed regularly - on a monthly cadence. The roster will be posted in the members area of the website.
Can you tell us more about how we renew memberships?
When your existing membership plan is about to expire, you will receive an email from us telling you its time to renew. You will login, and click the “Members” tab, where you will see which membership products you can sign up for. You simply buy one, and are then a member on the new site with access to the member tab.
Note that after signing up, this site will automatically enroll you on an annual automated billing using the payment option you’ve selected. If you aren’t sure you want to be a member for longer than a year, you can immediately remove your payment information from the “Account” menu (top right). Even if you remove your payment method (or even if you cancel), you will remain a member until the membership you just purchased has expired.
You are able to see the term of your membership from your account profile as well as your next scheduled billing date.
Are there other things to know?
If you are a regular volunteer, regularly show plants at our shows, or are otherwise involved in the workings of the society, we request that during your membership purchase process you fill out your phone number so we can produce a roster with the contact information you are willing to share.
From the “Account” menu, select the “Address” section and fill out the information you are comfortable in sharing.
