[jas.]

We have a group of people, our very high-level donors, whose memberships we renew on a FY basis. In mid-June of every year, we renew all their memberships and send them new cards for the next year. The goal is to never let them be in a situation where they walk into the building having paid $25,000 for their membership, and have it be lapsed when they show their card--even if it is lapsed.

So anyway, around this time every year, we have several of them sending in their dues for FY07 after we've already renewed their memberships for FY08. But it seems that you can't link a gift to last year's membership transaction. Our DB manager looked around but didn't see it in the settings -- do any of you know if there's a setting to change? Or why this might be? Unlike many other quirks of RE, I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't be allowed.

(obviously the workaround is to delete this year's transaction, link the gift, and then re-renew the membership. and that's not a huge deal; we've done it before and will do it again. But it would be easier to not have to do that).