Answers.Body: <p>The system won't allow users to change their membership type if they already have a lifetime membership. Also, the system can only have one membership for a contact of each organization. In case you want to have a lifetime membership and regular membership for a contact, you will need to create a membership type for a different organization i.e life time membership type belonging to Org A and Regular membership type to Org B.</p>
  
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Body: <p>He have multiple memberships available. Some are a 1 year duration and some are lifetime memberships. Recently, some users who have a lifetime membership A try to renew annual membership B and get the following message: &quot;You already have a lifetime membership and cannot select a membership with a shorter term.&quot; This has happened twice in the last few weeks. We have had the same memberships set up for quite a while so we're not sure why we are seeing this now. Does anyone have a recommendation for preventing this?</p>
  
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Title: User receives "lifetime" error when renewing membership
ThreadText: # User receives "lifetime" error when renewing membership
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2022-03-10)
  
  He have multiple memberships available. Some are a 1 year duration and some are lifetime memberships. Recently, some users who have a lifetime membership A try to renew annual membership B and get the following message: "You already have a lifetime membership and cannot select a membership with a shorter term." This has happened twice in the last few weeks. We have had the same memberships set up for quite a while so we're not sure why we are seeing this now. Does anyone have a recommendation for preventing this?
  
  **Tags:** civimember, renewals
  
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  > **username_0**: Also posted in Civi Chat: https://chat.civicrm.org/civicrm/pl/snuah7s9upgj98kccnp8wynkny  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2022-03-10. Score: 2 | Accepted answer
  
  The system won't allow users to change their membership type if they already have a lifetime membership. Also, the system can only have one membership for a contact of each organization. In case you want to have a lifetime membership and regular membership for a contact, you will need to create a membership type for a different organization i.e life time membership type belonging to Org A and Regular membership type to Org B.
  
  
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