Create a Membership Subscription Manually in Administrator

Administrators can grant a membership directly from QCMM without sending the user through checkout. A manual subscription is still a real subscription record and should be created with deliberate dates, status, amount, and Plan.

Create the Subscription

  1. Open Components → QC Memberships & Meetings → Subscriptions and choose Add Subscription.
  2. Search for and select the existing Joomla user.
  3. Select a live membership Plan. Sample/demo or archived Plans are not valid manual grants.
  4. Choose the status. Use Active for access that should begin now; Pending is available for a future/manual entitlement that should not provision access yet.
  5. Enter an Amount or leave it blank to use the current Plan price. Enter 0.00 for a complimentary grant.
  6. Set Start date/time. Leave End date/time blank to use the selected Plan term; a no-expiration Plan remains open-ended.
  7. Optionally select the activation-email checkbox, then create the subscription.

What QCMM Saves

The record is saved with source admin_manual. Its currency comes from the Plan/current membership currency context. If Max/All Access Custom Fields are available, QCMM creates blank subscription snapshots for the fields assigned to that Plan so later values belong to this specific purchase.

Access and Validation

An Active manual membership cannot be created with an End date already in the past. “Cancelled - active until expiration” requires a real End date. After an Active subscription is created, QCMM reconciles the user’s Joomla groups from current membership state rather than blindly adding or removing unrelated groups.

Community Discussion

Want to compare membership workflows or share practical QCMM tips? Visit the QC Memberships & Meetings Community. For private support, account-specific billing or entitlement issues, or feature requests, use the QuantaCade support system.