Membership renewal methods

Rossendale Valley S C offer something like that, Leigh & Lowton give you pro-rata of you join late (you pay for the remaining months up to the new year). They also offer monthly payments via web collect for a slight surcharge. 

We use webcollect and go cardless at Tynemouth, it seeems to work very well, from a management point of view it also means that we have up to date details for members and email addresses for contacting the various different fleets in the club separately or as a whole.

I'm all for making things easier - however, the last time I looked (which was a long time ago) Direct Debit isn't always that easy to setup for voluntary organisations with relatively low turnovers and many banks have minimum (fairly steep) requirements. Instead, Standing Orders are easy for clubs to use, but this relies on individual members to remember to renew the Standing Order each year and is quite a lot of additional work for the Treasurer to ensure the correct fees have been paid by the end of the year. 

Surely with online banking, a BACS payment (not standing order or direct debit) is one of the simplest ways and once set up, unless the club changes bank accounts, it remains on the member's payments list ready for next year, only needing the amount when the next payment is made. I pay our club subs and other event payments using the one payment I have set up.
Also at our club anyone joining after a certain point (say 1st September) pays a full year membership plus joining fee but this lasts to the end of the following year.

Royal Hariwch YC have begun to roll out Direct Debit payment this year, as well as reorganising the membership fees to a gradual structure of  18-24, 25-30, 31-35 rather than cheap price for those 18-24 then a massive hike at 25.