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3 = Create Contract =
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6 A contract allows you to group session items to invoice on a recurring basis. Member Manager will create monthly invoices based on the contract settings you setup. The monthly payments can be automatically charged through your merchant processor or billed directly through Member Solutions.
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8 There are 4 types of contracts:
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10 **Term** - Fixed number of payments
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12 **Ongoing** - The contract continues until it is stopped by the facility
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14 **Paid In Ful**l - A single payment for the entire contract
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16 **Complimentary** - A contract for 0.00. Similar to a Paid In Full in that there is no recurring element. Typically used for staff memberships, scholarships or barter situations.
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18 To create a new contract go to Setup>Inventory>Packages>Add Contract.
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20 **Add Contract** - Fill in the contract information at the top of the page. The mandatory fields are Name, Category and Update Members Rates.
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22 **Current Items **- Select the service or product from the Item drop down menu
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24 You have two options for setting the Quantity:
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26 Check **Unlimited** and enter the total price in the **Item Total** area, or
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28 Enter a **Quantity **and use the **Item Price** area to calculate the Item Total.
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30 Set your expiration time for your session items. //Note: Typically the "expires in" time should match the billing frequency set in the renewal details. For example, if you are billing this contract monthly, the billing frequency will be "1 month" and the expires in will be "1 month".//
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32 You can also select "specific date" if all sessions for this contract sold should expire on the same date. This is useful if you are selling a contract for a specific course that has the same start/end time for everyone.
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34 Once this is complete, select **Add Item.** So far, your contract should resemble this:
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Isaac Mejia 1.1 37 **Renewal Details:**
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39 **Select the Type of Contract**
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41 **Term**: Fixed number of payments
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43 **Ongoing**: Unlimited number of payments
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45 **Paid in Full**: A single payment for the entire contract
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47 **Complimentary**: No payments
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49 **Renewal Details**
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53 **Auto Renewal:** This will create an autorenewal associated with the contract and the invoice will be automatically generated at the appropriate time.
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55 **Number of Times to Autorenew:** Enter in how many times you want the contract to renew (term). Unlimited will be checked for Ongoing contracts.
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57 **Rules:** Either set the contract to renew within a certain timeframe or when there are a certain number of items remaining.
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59 **Prorate First Mo**nth: Check this box if the contract should be pro-rates. See here for more details on prorated contracts. [[Creating Pro-Rated Contracts>>Creating-Prorated-Contracts_2306342922.html]]
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61 **Payment Due Day: ** Set payment date
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63 //NOTE: Remaining Items Less Than... can only be used if there is one item line in the contract.//
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65 **Contract Details:**
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69 The **Initiation Fee** adds to the total contract value. This fee will be applied at the time of signing. This can be adjusted on contract sale.
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71 For the **Down Payment**, you have two options (this also can be adjusted on the contract sale):
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73 **Apply to All:** For term contracts, the down payment will subtract the down payment amount from the total contract value and divide the remaining contract value by the number of payments.
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75 **Pre-pay:** This takes the amount of the down payment and will apply it to subsequent payments until it is all used up.
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77 **Number of free payments**: Select how many payments you`d like to offer for free.
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79 **Last Payment Free:** Tick this box if you`d like to offer the last payment for free.
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81 **Apply Tiered Pricing: ** Check to setup family contracts with pricing for additional members on the same contract. You can add up to 5 additional members and set pricing for each addition. See here for more details: [[Setting Up Tiered Pricing for Family Contracts>>Setting-Up-Tiered-Pricing-for-Family-Contracts_2129231873.html]]
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83 **Cancellation Notice:** This is your policy on what type of notice is required for a cancellation.
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85 **Renew at End of Contract:**
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87 **No Renewal:** The contract will end and the end of the Term.
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89 **Additional Term:** The contract will go into an additional term. You can set a new payment amount.
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91 **Convert to Ongoing:** The contract will go month-to-month. You can set a new payment amount.
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93 **Conditions:** These are the terms that you see on the contract. You can either choose the** Default Terms** which are located in Setup - Personalize - Contracts or you can set up Custom Terms for a specific contract. //**For contracts billing through Member Solutions you must select MSI Terms.**//
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95 **Select Save and Exit.**
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97 When searching your contracts, contracts icons in blue or red have monthly payments, and contract icons in gray are either Paid in Full or Complimentary.
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Isaac Mejia 1.1 100 ** Contract Status**
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102 After a contract has been sold to a member, they will have a status. Here are the status definitions:
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104 **Active:** Active and paying account
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106 **Frozen**: Active but payments are frozen
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108 **Inactive**: Paid and service expiration date is in the past
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110 **Paid**: Balance is paid in full and service expiration date is in the future
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112 **Stopped**: Contract has been terminated
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