#Member

The Member doctype allows you to record the Member details for a **Membership**.

Members are simply contacts in your ERPNext database with one or more memberships. The contact may be an individual, a household, an organisation, or some other contact sub-type, but it is always a contact to which a membership is applied.

To create new Member go to:

> Non Profit > Member > New

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**Email:** Email field is the id of Member doctype.

**Membership Type:** Membership Type is link field to Membership Type Doctype. Member can select Available Doctype.

**Membership Expiry Date:** This Field fetch membership end date details from membership doctype.

**Address and Contact Section:** This Section linked to address and contact doctypes.

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