Become a Member

2.       To register, click the Join Today button.

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3.       Next choose your Membership Level (Single, Family, Student) and the type of subscription (Online or Print) within each level and then click REGISTER.

Membership fees are listed by clicking Member Fees. Please note, Birds SA prefers auto-renew payment or credit/direct debit card Manual Pay(ment). This is a new method of payment offerred by for Birds SA. It is a 'once-off' credit or debit card payment where the card information is entered to renew your membership. To save you entering every renewal, to can save the card information.  If you don't wish to have automatic renewal of your membership, then  choose a Manual Pay subscription and select the Credit/Debit Card option during the checkout process (see 7. below). 

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4.       Fill out the form, agree to Birds SA policies and click SUBMIT. Please note:

• Username: Enter your email address (i.e., not an abbreviation or another set of words)
• Password: Choose letters, symbols, numbers, upper and lower case and the password should be at least 10 characters long.
• Ticking Yes to Birds SA policies at the bottom of the form is mandatory.
• When you submit the form, you will be automatically logged in and your username and password registered. 

When adding your personal information, please follow our standards for mailing purposes. Please Do Not use all lower case or all uppercase for everything.

• First names, last names, street names - Proper case for proper nouns, that is, the first letter is a capital and the remaining letters are lower case, e.g., John Citizen.
• Addresses - PO Box
• City/suburb - all UPPER CASE, e.g., NEW YORK, GLENELG
• Mobile number - 10 digits for Australia, no spaces, no country code unless outside of Australia, e.g., 0429888777 or 1429888777 (international)
• Phone number  - (landline) no area code for SA (8 digits - 82221111), area code for all other Australian states and territories (10 digits), e.g., 0282221111
• Alternate contact number - use a mobile or landline, if needed

5.      You will next be shown the donation options for donations to the Conservation Fund. They are $10, $25, $50, and $200.

Please note you can click combinations of donations to make different amounts (e.g., $10 x 2 = $20, $200 x 5 = $1,000). 

If you wish to contribute another amount, please email by the Treasurer.

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Donations go towards studies on bird species, their habitats and conservation. Calls for the application of conservation research grants are made in March and September each year. To read more click here.

 If you wish to make a donation, make it or proceed immediately by clicking CHECKOUT.

6.      Now, choose your payment method, accept the terms and conditions and click NEXT.  Below is a Manual Pay payment method. 

Recall the membership fees and payment methods are described above.

Please note, Manual Pay memberships paid via cash at a meeting, cheque posted to Birds SA and bank deposits to a Birds SA account can take longer to process. Cash and cheques can take up to a month to process and create considerable extra work for the Treasurer.

If you choose Auto-Renew payment method as shown below, please select Credit/Debit Card.  [We currently have a ticket with Member Jungle developers to remove the Manual Pay options out of Auto-Renew window and fix the text to reflect the auto-renew payment.]

When you choose Credit/Debit Card, the card information is entered and it card be stored for future Manual Pay renewals, if required as shown below. This does not happen for other Manual Pay payment methods.

Please note, for Auto-Renew payments your card information is automatically saved to enable renewals to happen automatically. 

7.    At the end, you will receive a notice saying an administrator will approve your registration and can log out of the website.

8.     You will also receive email saying the same.

9.     You will receive a receipt of payment via email (see example)

10.       In a few days, you will receive an email approving registration. Once this happens you can log in to your member profile.

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They are:

• My Account - displays all your contact details as the primary member. You can view your details (if you need to edit your details then go to My Memberships tab), email preferences and the latest issue of The Birder and the SA Ornithologist
• My Memberships - displays your contact details, membership card, membership details and in the case of a family membership information where additional family members can be added (secondary memberships) 
• My Payments - displays payment type and payment history.
• My Events (Not currently in use)
• My Orders (Not currently in use)
• My Listings (Not currently in use)

My Account  

My Account is used to view your membership details only. Ignore the REVIEW AND EDIT MY DETAILS. You can edit your details under My Memberships tab below.

When editing, please follow our standards for mailing purposes. Please Do Not use all lower case or all uppercase for everything.

• First names, last names, street names - Proper case for proper nouns, that is, the first letter is a capital and the remaining letters are lower case, e.g., John Citizen.
• City/suburb - all UPPER CASE, e.g., NEW YORK, GLENELG
• Mobile number - 10 digits for Australia, no spaces, no country code unless outside of Australia, e.g., 0429888777 or 1429888777 (international)
• Phone number  - (landline) no area code for SA (8 digits - 82221111), area code for all other Australian states and territories (10 digits), e.g., 0282221111
• Alternate contact number - use a mobile or landline, if needed

Please note, you cannot edit critical email notifications and publications information.

My Membership

This tab is used to summarise the contact details of the primary member, profile picture, current membership (including membership card and membership details), secondary members of a family membership only and past payments.

Members with a family membership will notice that their family members are not listed in the View membership details button. Birds SA leaves decisions about listing family members with the primary member of the family group.

To add a secondary member of a family membership, you will see + ADD SECONDARY MEMBER button. But first consider the following:

• 18 years and older - can have their own email address should the primary member wish (Please note, only one printed copy of our publications will go to the primary member).
• Under 18 years - leave blank as Birds SA does not support email addresses for anyone under 18.
• Relationship - partner, child or dependent options
• Still want to add a secondary member

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The new membership system does not record historical payments. All existing members who have joined or renewed their 2022/23 membership before 1st December 2022 will not see any payment listed under Past Payments. Members who pay their membership after this date will have that payment listed as the first entry of your payment history. If you have a query about a past payment, please contact us.

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My Payments

In the My Payments Tab, members can view or update their card information for membership subscriptions and other payments.

Payment information  displays card information.

Payment security is robust. Member Jungle allows you to process online payments for membership, events and the online store. Our payment gateway is powered by the Stripe Connect gateway and is completely PCI compliant, which means that no credit card information is ever stored on your own site and all payment data is secure.