Kavi® Members Help

Kavi Members Concepts and General Instructions

Learn important Kavi Members concepts and how they can be implemented on your organization's web site.

Table of Contents

1. Kavi Members: Member Management for Your Organization's Web Site
Overview
Central account pages
Sharing user and company contact information
Assigning access to users
2. Managing Companies and Users
Overview
Kavi Members definition of "company"
3. Purpose
Purpose determines how a company or user is managed
Default company and user Purposes
User Purpose must correspond to Company Purpose
4. Rosters and Directories
Overview
Uses for Rosters and Directories
5. Logging
Different kinds of logs for different purposes
What gets logged
6. How to Configure Kavi Members
The importance of correct configuration
Strategizing the setup process
Installing Kavi Members
Step 1: Organizational properties, signup process and privacy
Step 2: Privacy options
Step 3: Roles and types
Step 4: Membership
Step 5: Schedule email
Step 6: Data migration
7. Membership Application and Company Representative Signup
Membership application and renewal
Company representative signup
8. Accepted Domains
Overview
What is an accepted domain?
Advantages and limitations
How domain matching works
What happens when an email address doesn't contain an accepted domain?
Configuring accepted domains
Tips for administrators
9. User and Company Privacy Options
How Kavi Members helps support your privacy policy
What is a privacy policy?
Standard privacy policy elements
Configuring Kavi Members to support your organization's privacy policy
Kavi Members privacy opt-outs
How to hide the entire roster
Privacy policy and preferences
Limitations of privacy policy support
10. Access
Interlocking access control features
Built-in access areas
The big picture
11. Status, Activation and Deletion
'Active' and 'inactive' status
Deactivation versus deletion
Deactivating members
Deleting members
12. Roles
Introduction to roles
Roles are conferred through types
Roles and access
Assigned types, user role cache and access
Default roles installed by Kavi Members
13. Types
What are types?
How Kavi Members uses types
Company Types, User Types and Company Admin and Contact Types
Type categories
How types are assigned
14. Company Types
Introduction to Company Types
How Company Types are used
Default and custom Company Types
Assigning roles to Company Types
How to create Company Types for memberships:
How to create Company Types for staff and administrators
When creating general types for classification:
15. Company Admin and Contact Types
Introduction to Company Admin and Contact Types
How Company Admin and Contact Types are used
Default Company Admin and Contact Types
Associating roles with Company Admin and Contact Types
When creating types with admin privileges:
When creating types with Kavi Edit privileges:
When creating general types:
16. User Types
Introduction to User Types
How User Types are used
Default and custom User Types
Associating roles with User Types
How to create types for individual members:
How to create User Types for staff and administrators
When creating general types for classification:
17. How to Manage Access
Managing user access
How to decipher your organization's access control system
How to determine a user's access privileges
Are this user's access privileges correct?
How to add access
How to revoke access
Tips for administrators: how to maintain proper access levels for all users on a site-wide basis
18. Membership
Overview
Assigning User and Company Types through membership
Configuring an organization's membership structure in Kavi Members
19. Membership Workflow
What is workflow?
Standard membership workflow
Workflow state definitions
Membership workflow state messages
20. How to Set Up Membership Types
Membership types
Membership type description and duration
Signup and Renewal Process Options
Expiring members
21. How to Issue Membership Bills
Integration with Kavi® Billing
Membership fees, proration, refunds and cancellations
22. Membership Renewal
Renewing a membership
How members can renew their own memberships
Memberships that can be renewed
How renewal affects membership state and member access
23. Scheduled Email
Overview
The 'When' field, or how scheduling works
Email templates
What is the email about?
How to determining what email goes out when an event occurs
Example schedules