Membership of NZ Skeptics

NZ Skeptics membership runs on a calendar year basis and we're about to switch to a new system for collecting subs. If you're enjoying these newsletters and you're not a member, we encourage you to join us - it's a very reasonable $40/year for individuals and only $20/year if you're unwaged.

We are using a new system called Memberful to manage memberships. Memberful offers a number of advantages:

• Members can opt to save their credit card details, so that annual subs are paid automatically each year.
• The credit card payment interface is simpler than the PayPal one.
• For those who do not wish to have subs paid automatically, reminder emails will be sent a few days before membership expires
• Members can update their own personal information
• In the future we might decide to offer member-only content on skeptics.nz, accessed using Memberful login details.

Details of all current members (those whose most recent subscription year was 2020 or later) have been loaded into Memberful. If you're a member of NZ Skeptics, in the next day or two you should receive an email that contains a link to reset your Memberful password, sent to the email address we have recorded for you. When you get that email:

1. Click the reset password link and give yourself a password. That will log you in.
2. Once logged in, click subscriptions to view your subscriptions.
3. Your current subscription type should reflect the most recent sub payment made. If you need to change to a different plan, click the Change button.
4. If your subscription is expired, click Renew and enter credit card details.
5. If you need to change your email address, name or postal address, that can be done in the Profile page.

Credit card payment processing is done by Stripe, a very large payment processing company that has been used for payments for Skeptics conference for the last few years. Credit card details are handled entirely by Stripe, and cannot be accessed by NZ Skeptics or Memberful. If you choose to save your card details to enable automatic renewals then those saved details are held by Stripe.

If you do not want to login to Memberful to renew your membership then contact the treasurer (Paul Ashton) at treasurer@skeptics.nz for details of other payment options (such as payment via internet banking).

Also contact the treasurer if there are any questions or issues about renewing subscriptions via Memberful.