Mandatory Login

Mandatory Login

If you enable mandatory login on your site, everyone will need to be signed in for all transactions. Every transaction for your AlumniMagnet site – including membership – will require that all alumni, HAA Associates and students sign-in using their HAA issued username and password (also known as your post.harvard.edu credentials). NOn alumni, parents and guest will need to sign in in the non-alumni section.

If your site does not have mandatory login, anyone can register for an event.  However, this will not eliminate the need to login completely.

• Members would still have to login to view their profile and purchase member-only tickets.
• If someone uses an email address that is already in your database, they will be asked to login.
• If someone use a unique email address, this will create a new, duplicate, non-alumni record.  Please check your site regularly for redundancies. If an alum creates a non-alumni record while registering for membership – it will create confusion when they try and register for member only events.  Please follow the detailed instructions for the redundancy sniffer to merge records.

Login FAQ

Yes!  Parents and non- alumni guests will use a non-alumni function to create an account. Students can have their information added to your database via an exchange with the master HAA database. Student information will NOT be automatically added to the database for confidentiality reasons. Students who wish to become members of your club/SIG need to sign-in using their HAA login credentials (available to all current Harvard students).  Once they have their HAA credentials, all they need to do is to sign into the site once, and all of the data the HAA has on file will be synched with your database.

If the person having problems is not a Harvard alum or HAA Associate.  Send them to the “New User, Registration is free link on the top left of your website.

For Alumni/ae and HAA associates who are having issues with the links on the login page – you should give them the HAA Online Help Desk info. To contact the Help desk they can:
•    Fill out this contact form: https://post.harvard.edu/olc/pub/HAA/Help/help.html or
•    Reach them by email at haa_alumnihelp@harvard.edu or
•    By phone at 800-823-2478 or 617-496-0559 (M-F, 9AM - 5PM ET).

Why does everyone need to sign into-the website?

If you have mandatory login on your site, everyone needs to be signed in for all transactions. Alumni/HAA Associates and students will need to sign in with their post.harvard username and password.  There are instructions on the login page for how they can get this username and password.
If your site does not have mandatory login, anyone can register for an event.  However, if they use an email address that is already in your database, they will be asked to login.  If they use a unique email address, this will create a new record.  Please check regularly for redundancies.  If an alum creates a guest record while registering for membership – it will create confusion when they try and register for member only events.  Please follow the detailed instructions for the redundancy sniffer to merge records.

ALUMNI/HAA ASSOCIATES/STUDENTS
When the Alum/Associate/Student clicks the red button, the page that they go to is part of the Harvard PIN system.

NON ALUMs/PARENTS
One of the best parts of the AlumniMagnet website is that your non-alumni members and parents can have their own login.  This way they can sign up and pay for membership online.  Once they have been tagged as members of the club - they can access member’s only parts of the site and pay for members only events.

Non Alums/Parents should use the grey area at the bottom of the login page.
You can remove “mandatory login”.  This will not eliminate the need to login completely (members would still have to login to view their profile and purchase member only tickets).

Can I remove login?

Yes and no. You do not need to have “mandatory login”.  But if you load a MUUT with email addresses – your alumni and members will need to sign in in order to update their profile information.  If you have event registration or online membership renewals – and an alum uses an email address that is already in the database – they will be asked to login.

My site just launched – why do I have two accounts?

When the MUUT was loaded, you were added as an Alum.  As you created your account – you used a “guest login”.  When your site launches – you will need to merge your guest account with your alumni account.  That way you will be able to access all of the same admin functions with your alumni login versus the guest login you used to complete the implementation tasks.