Activity Messenger Help Center Approve memberships for a family or several submissions A family can submit one form containing membership applications for several people. After reviewing the family’s information, use Approve memberships to select and approve the pending memberships associated with that submission. You can also select several submissions to approve several families together. This action changes membership approval status. It does not record a payment, change an invoice balance or send notification emails. Start dates and payment requirements still apply after approval. Approve from the Respondents tab Open the form, then its Respondents tab. Review the applications and select the respondents whose submissions you want to approve. Selecting one respondent includes all eligible pending memberships associated with that submission or its invoice. Click Approve memberships beside the selected-respondent actions. In the membership picker, select the people to approve. All eligible pending memberships start selected. Use Select all or Clear all, or change individual checkboxes. Check the selected membership and affected submission counts, then click Approve selected. Unselected memberships remain pending. For example, when one submission contains four eligible memberships pending approval, selecting its respondent lets you approve all four together. Selecting another family’s submission includes its eligible pending memberships in the same picker. Approve from an invoice Open the invoice details and find the Memberships section. Click Approve memberships, choose the memberships in the picker and click Approve selected. This approves the eligible pending memberships associated with that invoice, without marking the invoice as paid. Approve only certain family members Use individual approval when only some applications have been reviewed or accepted. Open the respondent’s details, find the member and use the pencil beside their status to change it to Active. You can also use the bulk membership picker and clear the checkboxes for anyone who should stay pending. What is included Only memberships currently pending approval are changed. Already approved, suspended or cancelled memberships are left as they are. Paused or cancelled recurring memberships are also excluded. On the Respondents tab, select submissions that are not archived. Archived memberships and cancelled purchases are excluded. Invoice-associated memberships must belong to a finalized invoice. The action uses the selected submissions or invoice. It does not approve unrelated memberships merely because they share a family name or email address. Approval is available to organization owners, administrators and attendants with the required form or invoice access. If there are no eligible pending memberships, the action tells you there is nothing to approve. If a selected membership is no longer pending or eligible, reopen the picker and review the selection again. Related guides Manage forms and submitted responses Memberships