This documentation refers to an older version of CiviCRM (3.4 / 4.0). The current stable version is 4.1. Please introduce all documentation changes and new material here.

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Make sure to check out the FLOSS Manual Understanding CiviCRM as well! You can also support this project by ordering a hard copy.

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Any linkage between contribution and membership records?

The only link between CiviContribute and CiviMember is the payment record associated with a membership. This is stored in civicrm_membership_payment table with an indirect FK to a civicrm_contribution record (since they could be potentially other forms of payment beyond CiviContribute).

You can configure online contribution pages to include a membership signup/renewal block. When user signs up/renews on these pages we automatically create:

  • a contact record (if this is a new contact in your DB)
  • a contribution record
  • a membershp record
  • a membership payment record which links the membership to the "contribution"

If you are entering a Membership manually from a contact record page, I think you need to:

  1. Create / Edit the membership record in the Memberships pane of the contact record
  2. Create the payment as a contribution in the Contributions pane of the contact record
  3. If you add members to any Groups (eg "Members"), you need to do that manually too.

You could, I believe, integrate steps 2 and 3 by creating a Profile of type Contribution and including the "Add to group" there.

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