Kavi® Members Help

Chapter 76. Manage a Company

Overview

The Manage a Company page allows administrators to manage a company's information, including the company's contact information, associated users, activity history and web site access.

Membership Note

Note

Membership information and links to manage memberships will be available if:

  • Membership is 'on' and configured for this site

  • This individual's or company's purpose is set to 'Member'

Definition

Note

A company is defined by Kavi Members as any organizing entity for a group of users. Kavi Members applies the generic term company to a variety of different kinds of groups, including business, non-profit, school, fan club, regional office, etc. Company information can be edited by the company administrator and by the organization adminstrator.

Use the Manage a Company page to:

  • Retrieve and view a company's information stored in the Kavi Members database.

  • Access links to tools to manage this information.

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How to use the Manage a Company tool

Search

Search for a company or set of companies by setting any or all of the optional fields to refine the search criteria. To view all available companies, leave the search fields set to the default values. If you set search criteria in more than one field, the results will only show companies that match all search criteria.

Options

Company

Enter a full or partial value for the company name. The default is 'Any Company'.

Current Status

Set this value to search for companies with this status type. This can be 'Active' or 'Inactive', or use the default value 'Any Status' to retrieve both active and inactive companies.

Purpose

Set this value to search for companies with a specific purpose: 'Member Company', 'Company for Individual Members', 'Nonmember' or 'Staff or Administration'. If set to the default, 'Any Purpose', the search results will not be restricted by purpose.

Company Type

Set this value to search for companies with this specific type, or use the default value 'All Company Types' to retrieve all types of companies.

Select

Select the company you want to manage.

Manage

Information for the company you selected is displayed, along with links to tools that allow you to manage this information.

This section includes links to tools to Edit, Change Status, Delete and View Activity History.

Types of information and links:

Company Information

Information about this company is displayed. Most field names are similar to the labels seen on Kavi Members pages.

Fields that may not be familiar from Members pages include:

Company Status

This is either 'active' or 'inactive.' Company status is an indicator of whether users from this company can access protected areas of the site or not.

Preferences

Depending on your organization policies, these privacy preferences may or may not be displayed.

Privacy Option

This option controls whether a Company Roster will be available for this company.

If set to 'Yes, share information' (1), a roster of this company's users will be available on the Company Roster page. If set to 'No, do NOT share information' (0), a roster of this company's users will not be available on the Company Roster page.

Note

Administrators may use this field to make decisions about whether this company should be displayed in other places that are unique to this site. This setting DOES NOT impact any other mailing lists or contact options on this site, including those in Kavi® Groups.

Show on Signup

This option controls whether the company will or will not be displayed on the Company Representative Signup form.

If set to 'Yes, show on signup' (1), this company will be displayed in the pulldown list that company representatives use to select their company. If set to 'No, do NOT show on signup' (0), this company will not be displayed in the pulldown list that company representatives use to select their company.

General Types

A list of any general company types assigned to this company outside of membership. All this company's users inherit any roles associated with these types from the company.

Admin Access Types

A list of any company types in the admin category that are assigned to this company. All this company's users inherit any roles associated with these types.

Last Modified

The last time this company's information was changed.

Company's Membership

This section will only be displayed if membership is enabled on your organization's web site and the company's purpose is 'Member Company'.

Company's Membership

Name

The membership name.

Membership State

The state of this membership in the membership workflow process (e.g., 'current', 'archived', 'pending moderation', etc.).

Bill

If Kavi® Billing is installed and this membership type has a fee, then the billing information for this membership will be displayed in this field:

  • The status of the bill, as defined in Kavi® Billing. This can be one of several default values.

  • The amount of the membership fee.

Term

The term of this membership, as defined by the date the membership became effective and the date it will end. If this is a lifetime membership, the second value in the pair will be 'Lifetime', rather than a specific date.

Action

Depending on membership rules, the following links may be displayed:

Edit

Click this link to manually edit the start and end dates of this membership or to add information about whether the company intends to renew.

Renew

Click this link to renew a current or expired membership.

Replace

Click this link to replace a current or pending membership with a different type of membership.

Delete

Click this link to delete a membership.

Company Users

These include an Add User link and links to Manage any existing users affiliated with this company.

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