Hi all,
I'm pretty new to all this DNN stuff. I'm running a site, www.vfr.dk, a motorcycling community site. We're evaluating options on using a framework such as DNN instead of the proprietary code I've been putting together over the years.
The big challenge for us is to implement a strong administration interface. Our user community is divided into 2 groups, (paying) members and 'hangarounds'. I need some way to administer these groups. Specifically payments. As we don't have creditcards and are reluctant to use PayPal our only way of payment is wiring money to our account. Once money has been wired to us, the member who paid is upgraded to a different memberstatus giving him/her full access to the site. This payment can also be for any events we organise (Trackdays, parties etc.). Every year the members renew their membership and it is becoming a big task as we have recently crossed 400 members.
When a user registers himself for membership there are certain additional properties for that user (the type of motorcycle he/she has).
I'm looking at some of the commerce solutions and the custom forms modules, that helps me achieve the aforementioned. So, the proces in short (the whole cycle):
1. User registers
2. User decides to become a paying member and fills out an additional form
3. User wires money to us
4. Cashier registers the transfer and upgrades the user
5. User pays for a trackday
6. Cashier registers the transfer
7. User membership expires and cashier downgrades the user
Things we want to be able to do:
- Bulk upgrade/downgrade users
- View report of who paid for a given service (membership, trackday etc.)
- Automation such as automatic downgrade of user after 1 year of membership would be great
- Separate membership administration interface (a sort of semi-admin?)
I really need some help on getting this scenario to work but there are so many modules and I honestly don't know where to begin, so any help/advice is greatly appreciated.
Oh, and another thing: Do you guys have any recommendations on consulting services for DNN? We are definitely going to need some professional help at some point.