Summary
In this chapter, we've seen how CiviCRM provides robust membership management and reporting tools for administrators and the ability to expose member sign-up and renewal forms to your website. Specifically, we have:
Walked through the essential configuration steps required to get up and running with membership management in CiviCRM, taking time to understand the core concepts with how CiviCRM deals with membership records
Reviewed the tools available for monitoring and tracking your membership records and seen how individual membership records are handled within the contact record
Set up a website form to allow contacts to join or renew their membership, while discussing the broader options available for contribution campaigns
Understood how the membership search tool can be used to find subsets of members, in particular with regard to the various date fields
Stepped through the creation of membership reports from one of the three membership report templates
Took a step back to understand...
