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# Membership settings

Manage your membership settings under **Settings → Memberships → Settings**. These settings control how membership information affects participation in your rewards program.

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Before enabling membership restrictions, confirm with Perkville Support that your integration supplies membership data to Perkville. Enabling restrictions without that data may prevent customers from participating.
{% endhint %}

## **Accessing membership settings**

To access the membership settings:

1. Navigate to the Dashboard.
2. Click on **Settings** in the left-hand navigation.
3. Select **Memberships**, then **Settings**.
4. Update the settings and click **Save**.

The Settings page remains available when membership features are off. The [Types](/features/settings/memberships/types.md) page appears when membership features are on.

## Settings explanation

#### **Use membership features in Perkville**

Enabling this option unlocks additional membership-related settings and the [Types](/features/settings/memberships/types.md) page, where you can review membership names, source systems, and record counts.

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Turning membership features off deactivates active membership-restricted and membership-anniversary perks. Turning the setting back on does not automatically reactivate those perks; review them before reactivating them.
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Turning the setting off does not delete membership information. For active businesses, membership types and their counts continue to be maintained in the background.

#### **Only include active members in daily report**

When selected, this option restricts the data included in the daily report to active members only.

#### **Only active members can participate in the rewards program**

Activating this setting prevents individuals without an active membership from joining and participating in the rewards program.

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This is a **program-wide participation setting**. It is not a restriction applied to an individual earning rule or reward. For example, if you want to restrict a specific [Custom Reward](/features/redeeming-rules/custom-rewards.md) to a subset of customers, use that reward's own eligibility controls such as Required Attributes or Restrict Levels.
{% endhint %}

#### **Expire all points \[ ] Days after a user cancels their membership**

Specify the number of days after a membership cancellation that points expire.

If your goal is to clear a member's remaining point balance after cancellation, this is the program-level setting to use. It is different from manually redeeming or adjusting points on an individual customer profile and allows cancellation-based point expiration to happen automatically after the grace period you choose.

If you need to address customers who were already cancelled before changing this setting, contact Perkville Support to confirm the appropriate approach for your program and integration.

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You cannot turn on canceled member point expiration without having **Only active members can participate in the rewards program** turned on.
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We suggest setting the expiration grace period to more than one day. Sometimes membership status lapses unintentionally and it's good to give some time before points are expired should the member rejoin.
{% endhint %}

## View settings history

Once a settings change has been recorded, the bottom of the page shows who made the most recent change and when. Select **View history** to see recent changes, including the previous and new values.

If no changes have been recorded yet, the history link will not appear.


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