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OA Dues Lookup is a Wordpress plugin to allow your Order of the Arrow lodge members look up whether their dues are paid or not. It currently works in conjunction with data exported from OA LodgeMaster, however, if you have some other system that can export data to an excel spreadsheet, file an issue requesting it and I'll try to make it work.

The main page looks like this:

From there you can look up a member ID and hopefully get a result like this:

You can download the plugin from https://github.com/justdave/oadueslookup/releases

To install it: in the Wordpress admin, go to Plugins > Add New > Upload, and give it the zip file. Click "Activate Plugin" after it finishes installing. Then go to Settings > OA Dues Lookup to find the settings for it. This is also where you upload the file exported from OALM.

It defaults to using /oadueslookup as the URL. Feel free to make it something simple like /dues or whatever else suits you.

As you probably noticed because this is hosted on Github, the plugin is open source. If programming is your thing and you want to help maintain this, feel free to fork it and send me pull requests (or put a patch in a ticket). I'm also open to trying to make this work for people, so if you want it to do something it doesn't, feel free to file tickets in the issue tracker.

My design goals in creating this (mostly to deal with privacy concerns) were:

1. To look up whether your dues are paid or not, you need to know your member ID. This is a piece of information that's generally not out there and won't really be of use to an identity thief anyway.
2. Nobody can view the entire list. You can only look it up by member ID, one ID at a time.
3. The result the member gets to look at doesn't include any names. It only has the date they last paid dues, and what year they're paid up through.
4. If we don't have their BSA Member ID on file, they can't look up their dues. We're not allowed to renew their membership without it now anyway (at least in my council), so if we don't have it on file, they're not technically a member, even if they paid up. If someone tries to look up an ID that's not in the list, it will suggest how to submit their ID to us.