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Replaced vague warning about concurrent memberships (with the same organization) with more detailed information and link. #250

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10 changes: 6 additions & 4 deletions docs/membership/defining-memberships.md
Expand Up @@ -63,20 +63,22 @@ organisations are only interested in modelling the memberships of one
organisation (their own organisation). In this instance you can just
choose the default organisation.

If you wish to enable online sign ups or renewals, the CiviCRM data
model requires that a contact can only have one active membership with a
single organisation at any given time. However, some organisations may
Some organisations may
want people to have two or more memberships of the same organisation
that run concurrently. For example, an organisation focused on child
health might want to offer a membership for parents that includes a
parenting magazine and a membership for health professionals that
includes a peer-reviewed journal and discounts at training events.
Parents who are health professionals may want both memberships. A
challenge to supporting this use case is that CiviCRM's
[Membership Up-Sell feature](/membership/renewals.md#membership-up-sell)
expects a contact to have only one active membership with a single
organization at any given time. A
'workaround' for this is to create 'dummy' organisations for each of the
possible concurrent memberships. For the situation just described, we
would need to create an extra organisation for health professionals.
Note that you don't have to expose the dummy organisation to your
members on the website, it is only for administrative purposes.
members on the website; it is for administrative purposes only.

- **Minimum fee**: If your memberships are free you should enter 0 (zero) in this field.
Otherwise you should enter the minimum amount that must be paid for this
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion docs/membership/renewals.md
Expand Up @@ -46,7 +46,9 @@ contributions, will be preserved. The existing end date will be extended
by the duration of the new membership type. If this is not what you want
then you will need to link your membership types to different
organisations. (One can be a dummy organisation created purely for this
purpose and invisible to the user. See **Defining Memberships** chapter
purpose and invisible to the user. See the
[Membership types](/membership/defining-memberships.md#membership-types)
section of the **Defining Memberships** chapter
for a more detailed explanation.)

If you are using CiviCRM to manage memberships for more than one
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