Memberships & DuesPTA Edition only

Every member in the state, counted, and every dollar of dues accounted for

Memberships sold online arrive on their own. Dues are split between state, district, council and unit and paid out to each.
In the PTA Edition only
Memberships and dues are a PTA thing. A parent joins a unit, and a share of what they pay is owed to the council, the district, the state and National PTA. That flow only exists under a state PTA, so this feature is part of the PTA Edition. A school district overseeing booster clubs does not collect dues from them and does not get it.

A membership year, from the first sale to the June count

The count and the dues come from the same memberships, so they cannot disagree.
  1. July: the new term opens

    Connect created the 2026–27 term in April. On July 1 every unit's membership list for the new year is empty, and last year's is kept exactly as it ended.

  2. A unit sells memberships on FutureFund

    Meadowlark sells its memberships online through FutureFund. Connect matches the unit by its EIN, and each night the new members arrive in its Connect list, marked as coming from FutureFund.

  3. The membership chair adds the paper ones

    The families who paid cash at Back to School Night are entered by hand: name, email, phone, the date they joined and the year they first became a member. The list is one list, whichever way somebody joined.

  4. The dues are withheld at the sale

    For every membership sold on FutureFund, the per-capita dues are held back at the moment of the sale and apportioned: this much to National, this much to the state, the district, the council and the unit.

  5. Each level connects a bank account, once

    The council treasurer links the council's bank account through Stripe. So does the district, so does the state. It is done one time, not every month.

  6. The monthly run pays everyone

    Once a month, each level receives its share by direct deposit. The payouts page shows what is owed, what has been paid and the history behind it. A level that needs its withheld dues sooner can request them early.

  7. The council sees counts by unit

    Counts by unit for the term, membership detail, and which memberships came from FutureFund and which were added by hand. The district and the state see the same reports for everything under them.

  8. June: this year against last

    Counts per term are kept, so when the state asks whether membership grew, the answer is a report of this term beside the last one, unit by unit. Nobody re-enters a number.

A state PTA's biggest number is the one it knows least about

Connect counts memberships where they are sold and moves the dues without a check.
The count arrives on a form, in March

Every unit reports its membership total on paper, once a year, from whatever it was keeping. By the time the state adds them up, the number is months old and nobody can check it.

Dues travel by check

The unit writes a check to the council. The council writes one to the district. The district writes one to the state. Each one is a treasurer's Saturday, and each one can be late, short, or lost.

Two lists that do not match

The unit's spreadsheet says 212 members. The state's records say 180. Both were right on the day they were written down, and neither one is right today.

How the dues get from a parent's card to five bank accounts

A PTA membership is one payment split five ways. The usual way to split it is four checks and four treasurers. Connect splits it at the sale.

The unit sells the membership on FutureFund, the dues are withheld and apportioned then and there, and each level receives its share by direct deposit on the monthly run.
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What every unit gets

A membership list per term

Name, email, phone, joined date and member since, for this year and every year before it.

Nightly sync from FutureFund

Memberships sold online arrive on their own, matched by EIN and marked as coming from FutureFund. Pause or disconnect it any time.

Add by hand

The families who paid at the table are entered one at a time, on the same list as the ones who paid online.

Export to CSV or Excel

The whole list for a term, in a file, for the membership chair's own records or the council's.

Dues by direct deposit

Connect a bank account once. The unit's share of every membership sold on FutureFund arrives on the monthly run.

The count on the dashboard

This term's membership count sits on the unit's dashboard beside its tax filing status and its bylaws.

And so much more
Four-level hierarchy
One login, every level
Scheduled tasks
Multi-level approvals
Weekly past-due reminders
Document types you define
Document review and approval
Filing by fiscal year
Missing document report
Compliance report
IRS filing status
Charity registry status
Board rosters by year
Roster copy-forward
Roster CSV import
Whole-organization export
Bylaws generator
Bylaws in Spanish
Saved recipient groups
Scheduled messages
Delivery and bounce tracking
In-app message center
Directory with export
Search across every level
Favorites
Membership sync
Dues payouts
Membership API
Read-only viewer access
Spanish interface

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