Answers.Body: <p>We could do an extension for you, consistent with LExIM strategy, to implement this, Graham. Ping me at joe dot murray at jmaconsulting dot biz.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I'm doing some work to enable the purchase of auto-renewing memberships, using the UK-focussed GoCardless direct debit system.
  So far so good. One thing we've noticed is that the GoCardless API understands intervals in weeks, months, and years (with 1 year being the maximum). However CiviCRM's membership type duration unit doesn't offer 'week' as an option.</p>
  
  <p>What would be involved in order to add 'week' as an option here?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: It would be a core change extending the year/month logic to work for week as well - probably not a lot of work.  But I'm curious about the use case here: where would a weekly membership be useful?
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Comments.Text: Well, to be honest the value for me right now is in testing: to test effectively with the payment processor I need to let it go through an entire cycle: create DD mandate, take first payment, take renewal payment, ensure that membership is renewed. With a monthly membership as the shorted option supported by both Civi and GoCardless, I have to sit and wait for it to complete.
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Comments.Text: Having said that I don't see why there aren't perfectly valid use cases for a weekly payment cycle: off the top of my head: a weight-watcher club for example, or indeed any group that has a weekly meeting cycle. Of course the existing 'day' option could theoretically cope with that, but GoCardless doesn't do 'days'.
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Tags: <civimember><payment-processor><recurring-contributions><auto-renew>
Title: Can we have a "week" option for the membership type duration unit?
ThreadText: # Can we have a "week" option for the membership type duration unit?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-01-20)
  
  I'm doing some work to enable the purchase of auto-renewing memberships, using the UK-focussed GoCardless direct debit system.
  So far so good. One thing we've noticed is that the GoCardless API understands intervals in weeks, months, and years (with 1 year being the maximum). However CiviCRM's membership type duration unit doesn't offer 'week' as an option.
  
  What would be involved in order to add 'week' as an option here?
  
  **Tags:** civimember, payment-processor, recurring-contributions, auto-renew
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: It would be a core change extending the year/month logic to work for week as well - probably not a lot of work.  But I'm curious about the use case here: where would a weekly membership be useful?  
  > **username_0**: Well, to be honest the value for me right now is in testing: to test effectively with the payment processor I need to let it go through an entire cycle: create DD mandate, take first payment, take renewal payment, ensure that membership is renewed. With a monthly membership as the shorted option supported by both Civi and GoCardless, I have to sit and wait for it to complete.  
  > **username_0**: Having said that I don't see why there aren't perfectly valid use cases for a weekly payment cycle: off the top of my head: a weight-watcher club for example, or indeed any group that has a weekly meeting cycle. Of course the existing 'day' option could theoretically cope with that, but GoCardless doesn't do 'days'.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-01-25. Score: 1
  
  We could do an extension for you, consistent with LExIM strategy, to implement this, username_0. Ping me at joe dot username_2 at jmaconsulting dot biz.
  
  
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