Create an Announcement/Notice Board

1. Log into MembershipWorks and go to Jobs/Other Boards
   
2. Click on “+ New Jobs/Classifieds/Other Boards”
   
3. Type a name for your Board (no spaces or special characters); note that this name is just for admin reference. Although the name does not appear on your site, it will be part of the page URL.
   
4. Choose the “Announcements Board” type from the “Default settings” drop down menu.
   

Settings

1. Using the “Eligibility” settings, you can allow members with specific labels, folders, add ons or membership levels to add listings. This is helpful if you sell the ability to add listings as an add on or as a benefit only available to certain membership levels. If you uncheck this box, any website visitors, including nonmembers, may add listings.
   
2. You can require admin approval for announcements by checking the circle within “Approval __ require admin approval to display”. If you choose this option, be sure to enter at least one email in the “Notify email(s) when a new listing is posted.” This is the email address that will receive a notification to approve a new posting.
   
3. Set a fee for listings under “Posting fee” if you want to charge listers a per-posting fee to post on your Board.
   
4. Under “Payment”, you have an option to allow members to charge their card on file if:
   
1. They are on auto recurring billing for their membership, and
   
2. You use Stripe, PayPal Expanded Checkout or Authorize.net (with CIM) as your payment gateway
   

1. If you are allowing nonmembers to post listings, you will need to:
   
1. Review and pick an existing folder or create a new folder in MembershipWorks > Folders to organize these non-members. You can call it “Listings,” “Announcements” or something similar so you can later identify the reason they’ve been added to your accounts. Note that when nonmember accounts are added to the system, these accounts count toward the number of accounts in your system for billing purposes with MembershipWorks.
   
2. Check the following setting in “Checkout actions”: “if user does not have account, add user to these labels/folders (at least 1 folder required)” and
   
3. Then select a folder for these nonmembers to be placed within. Selected folders and labels will be in green.
   

1. If you want to group and track the members who are posting listings (beyond the tracking on the board’s Dashboard), you can check the following setting in “Checkout actions”: “if user has account, add user to these folders/labels”. You’ll then want to select which folder and/or label you want to apply to the member. Selected folders and labels will be in green. You can optionally create a new folder in Folders or create a new label in Labels & Membership for this purpose.
   

1. Under “Emails”, it is a good idea to add links in the emails to the listings page and to the listing management page on your website so that those who want to edit or update their listing can easily find where to do that. You can also mention that non-members will need to use the “Request Password” feature on the login page if they have not logged in before.
   

Form Template Tab

Important: Review and adjust the fields and tags to fit your organization and members. The default settings are generic and may not be optimal for your needs. Once you’ve made changes be sure to click “Save Template” to finalize the changes.

Display Template

1. Go to the Form Template tab
   
2. Scroll to the section where you want to add the question.
   
3. Click on “+ Add Field”
   
4. In the Description field, type a question such as “What type of announcement is this?”
   
5. In the Field dropdown, choose “New custom field”
   
6. In the Type dropdown, choose “Select”
   
7. Add Choices you want the lister to choose from when submitting a listing
   
8. Click “OK”
   
9. Click “Save Template”
   
10. Now return to the Display Template page where you can click on “+ Add Search/Filter Field” to specify the new field you just created.
    

Add an Announcement Board to Your Website