Contributions management

Galette allows you to manage contributions sent from your members. There are several types of contributions, and transactions are also proposed.

A transaction? What’s that? Well, a simple example is better than a long text… We will use three members of a same association: Marc, Julie and Zac. Each one is member, independently of which group or else they are affected to, that does not matters.

Zac send you a check to pay his own membership, Marc and Julie ones and also a donation to the association. In this case, Zac’s check will be handled in a transaction attached to his account, and which will be distributed in four contributions, each one attached to corresponding member.

Another example: Pierre pays his own contribution, his transaction will only contains his membership and will be distributed in only one contribution.

If Pierre, Zac, Julie or Marc are late, you can send them a reminder :p

Contributions

A contribution can be a membership, a donation, a gift, … Galette allows you to store all of that for each member.

Contributions types

Contributions are entirely configurable. There are two main types of contributions in Galette:

  • the ones that extends a membership (a montly or yearly membership for example),

  • the ones that do not extends membership, like donations.

Contribution types management allows you to define a label, and if it extends the memebrship or not.

Reminders

Emails models to remind due dates are available from the emails contents (“Impending due date” and “Late due date”).

The reminder button from the dashboard or the reminders entry of the menu will give you access to the reminders management interface.

Reminders management interface

Two categories can be selected:

  • members whose due date is close,

  • members whose due date is in the past.

Per default (this is currently not configurable), reminders are sent one month, then seven days before the due date; and then one and two months after the due date expiration. Reminders are stored in the database, if you never sent any reminder, all matching members will be reminded.

Galette will tell you if some members do not have an email address, you can print labels for those ones.

Finally, it is possible to automate reminders with a cron task which will call the galette/reminder.php file. If you want reminders to be sent every day at 8:30 AM, then you can add a /etc/cron.d/galette file (on Fedora and similar, look at your system documentation to know how to add a crontab) with the following content:

30  8  *  *  *  apache /usr/bin/php -f /var/www/galette/reminder.php

Invoices and receipts

In the contributions list, there is a PDF icon which is designed to generate invoice ou receipt for one contribution.

You can customize the PDF using PDF models.

Scheduled payments

New in version 1.1.0.

It is possible to dispatch a contribution among one or several scheduled payments. All you have to do is to select “Scheduled payment” as payment type in your contribution; Galette will propose you to create an attached scheduled payment.

Add scheduled payment to a contribution

By default, the entire remaining amount will be set into scheduled payment, but you can enter whatever you want. You can also select any payment type (except scheduled payment).

When you edit a contribution that already has attached scheduled payments, you can see a summary, and you can also see list of entries.

Summary of scheduled payments List of attached scheduled payments

Transactions

As seen in the example from this chapter introduction, a transaction is a global payment for a member.

Only a few information are required to add a new transaction:

  • a description,

  • the originator,

  • the date (current date per default),

  • the amount.

Transactions list

Each transaction is dispatched among contributions, in the limit of the transaction amount. A transaction has itself no effect on members due dates.

Add a transaction

After adding a new transaction, you will be redirected to a new contribution creation. If this new contribution does not dispatch the remaning amount of the transaction, galette will propose you to create another one. Per default, the amount of a new contribution from a transaction will be the remaning amount of the transaction.

Add a contribution linked to a partially dispatched transaction

Of course, it is also possible to edit a transaction:

Transaction edition

You can also attach an existing contribution instead of creating a new one.

Add an already existing contribution to a transaction

Members selection

The dropdown list to choose a member is available from contributions and transactions (as well as from several plugins) displays only a few members, for performances reasons.

Dropdown members list

You can display more members using arrow buttons or entering any text (this will search in first name, last name and identifiers).