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We have a membership of several thousand, using our own custom database solution. Is there a Joomla component made particularly for membership application? 

• Ideal scenario:
  CRM functionality
  Event reminders - tie-in with e-newsletter
  Billing / monthly, quarterly, annual
  It slices, dices, and it's free?
  
  

There are two components that each provide a discrete set of membership management functions:

*CiviCRM (http://www.openngo.org/) does many of the basic MM stuff, including bulk e-mailing and newsletter distribution. The component was initially developed for Drupal and more recently has been on a dual-deploymnet track. You can learn more about Joomla! & CiviCRM at http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/board,294.0.html.

*Community Builder (http://joomlapolis.com/) provides the ability to create membership-driven sites, with content granted on a user-group basis, self-maintenance of member data and interfaces to forums and calendars.

Unfortunately, these two are not now integrated and from what I can determine, won't be anytime soon. The CB folk have developed an API and now encourage other third parties to develop interfaces; the CiviCRM people have looked at the API and, while willing to work with it, have a number of other priorities they consider to be more important.

Best of luck.

\dmc

hey gmtalliance:

we just released CiviMember with v1.5. More details at:

http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/disp ... d+Comments

This is in addition to CiviContribute, CiviMail and core CiviCRM. it slices, dices and is free

A minor correction to dmcole's remarks below. We have not looked at CB and its api's. we tend to be platform agnostic (i.e. we work with drupal, joomla and mambo) and hence tend to avoid integrating with CMS specific modules. We however do encourage the community to build these integration modules and we are more than happy to assist and move it forward. This has happened quite nicely with Drupal, where we have quite a few drupal modules that talk to CiviCRM and drupal. hopefully it will happen in the joomla community soon

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