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Q: My tiler is not from my Lodge, how do I enter his information into MORI for the Certificate of Election?

A: You will need to get the brother's Grand Lodge number from him, then enter it in the Tiler field. The brother can get his Grand Lodge number from his dues card.

Brethren,

We are pleased to announce that you will be able to submit your 2007 Certificate of Election electronically. The process has been greatly improved, and has met with the approval of the Grand Secretary's office. The new form will be activated in time for you to submit your COE after Grand Session.

To enter your certificate of election on the menu go to: Lodge -> Certificates of Election.

This will bring you to a screen listing any COE that are currently stored in MORI. At the bottom of the list there is an "add" button. Click the "add" button and you will be presented with the new electronic COE.

In our last installment we covered printing end of year reports, verifying our lodge member types, and changing their dues amounts if necessary, and closing the year and creating the new receivables entries for the new year's dues.

In this installment we'll cover:

• Configuring our dues notices,
• Printing our dues notices, and
• Printing the labels for our dues notices.

Configuring Your Dues Notices

To configure your dues notices go to: Lodge -> Dues Notices

Over the past few weeks the roster of Grand Lodge and Committee members has been integrated with MORI. Now you can download the latest version of the roster as your needs require. This has generated a lot of questions and issues with brothers creating their account. The Online MORI Guide covers the complete process of creating your account.

In order to create an account on MORI you must be a secretary, Masonic Brotherhood Fund Chairman, a Master of a Lodge, or be either a permanent member of Grand Lodge or a member of a Grand Lodge committee.

In this series of posts I will cover how to create new receivables entries for every member of your lodge, and roll any balances due to arrears automatically. We will also cover how to setup your dues notices, and print them, along with labels.

If you have not gone through the initial dues setup procedure please go to: Getting Started With Dues.

Print End of Year Reports

It is recommended that you print a few reports before rolling your dues to the next year. MOR provides reports for:

• Payments Made
• Dues and Arrears Owed

In my last two installments (I, II) we have covered creating member types, and assigning those to all of the members of your lodge. In this installment we will cover what arrears and dues mean in MORI, and particularly when you are doing your initial setup of dues.

We will be using the "Initialize Dues" page again.

In our last installment we learned how to create member types for our lodge. In this installment we're going to learn a simple way to assign a member type to every member of our lodge. Fortunately MORI has a feature that allows this to all be done on one screen. You dont' need to look up every member of your lodge individually.

It is necessary that you have created your member types from our first installment before doing this step.

Setting up dues in MORI is a simple process. In this series of posts I will cover:

• How to setup lodge member types,
• What each lodge member types pays in annual dues,
• Assigning a member type to every member of the lodge,
• Importing any arrears or dues balances for your lodge members,
• Creating new dues entries for the upcoming year,
• Configuring your dues notice, and
• Generating and printing dues notices.

Creating Lodge Member Types

On the MORI menu go to: Lodge -> Member Types

This screen is divided into two sections: Member Types, which lists any existing member types that have been created for your lodge; and an Add Member Type form for creating new member types.