How to Pay Annual Dues
Annual dues are what keep the Metropolitan Building Managers of New York (Metropolitan BMNY) running. They fund the group life insurance benefit, cover the cost of monthly meetings and events, and support the association's work for building managers across the five boroughs. This page explains how to pay your dues — either online through the member website or in person with cash or a check.
What you need
- Your member website login (see How to Log In if you need a refresher)
- A credit or debit card, if you are paying online
- A few minutes — the online checkout takes about two minutes from start to finish
Paying online
The quickest way to pay is through the member website. You can do it from your phone, your tablet, or any computer.
Steps
- Log in to portal.metropolitanbmny.com.
- Newly approved members — when you log in for the first time after your application is approved, the website takes you straight to the Welcome — Activate Your Membership page. Click Pay Dues Now to continue. (See How to Apply for Membership for the full applicant flow.)
- Existing members renewing — your dashboard shows a colored status badge next to your name (green for active, yellow for pending, orange for grace, red for expired). Once your renewal date has passed, a task banner appears below the welcome heading with a Pay your dues (overdue) link. Click it to start the payment.
- Past-due members — if your dues are past the grace period, the website will land you directly on the Membership Requires Attention page when you sign in. Click Pay Dues Now to renew. The same page is shown to members whose accounts have gone dormant for an extended time — paying brings you back to full access right away.
- Each path takes you to Square's secure checkout. Type your card number, expiration date, and security code. Square handles the payment — Metropolitan BMNY never sees or stores your card number.
- Click Pay on the Square page. In a few seconds you will be sent back to the member website with a confirmation.
After you pay
A receipt is emailed to you from Square right away. Your member status on the dashboard updates to active automatically — there is no form to fill out and no waiting on the board to mark it off by hand.
To look up a receipt later, open My Profile. Scroll to the Payment History section. You will see every dues payment, event ticket, and meeting fee you have paid through the website, with a View Receipt link in the right column. Vendors, this is where you go at tax time.
Paying by cash or check
If you would rather pay in person, you can hand cash or a check to a board member at any monthly meeting. Meetings are the 4th Thursday of the month, September through May, at Playwright Irish Pub, 27 W 35th Street.
Make checks payable to Metropolitan BMNY. Your member status on the website updates to active as soon as the board records your payment in the website — the board usually logs meeting payments within a few days. If your status has not changed a few days after you paid, ask a board member to check your record.
When dues are due
Dues are collected once a year. If your renewal date is on file, the website emails you a reminder 30 days before it, another 7 days before, and a notice the day after it passes. Not every member's record has a renewal date yet, so do not wait for an email: the status badge next to your name reads active in green while you are current, and turns orange to grace once your renewal date has passed. When that happens, a Pay your dues (overdue) link also appears in the task banner under your name. Paying a little early is always welcome — and handing a check to the financial secretary at a monthly meeting works just as well.
If your dues lapse
Metropolitan BMNY gives every member a grace period after the renewal date — about a month — so nobody gets locked out over a late payment. During the grace period, the rest of the website keeps working as usual; you will just see a soft reminder banner on your dashboard.
If your dues stay unpaid past the grace period, the website will ask you to pay before you can use the other features. You can still sign in, you can still update your profile, and you can still view your documents and insurance enrollment — they all live on your My Profile page, which stays open, along with the Security page and these help pages. Your dashboard, the events list and the vendor directory are what get hidden until your dues are current — and, for associate members, My Vendor Profile. Once you pay, they come back, usually within a few seconds.
A few other situations land on a similar payment-gated screen, each with its own message:
- Newly approved members who have not yet paid their first year of dues see the same Welcome — Activate Your Membership page described above — paying activates your membership for the first time.
- Long-dormant accounts that have been inactive for a year or more see the Membership Requires Attention page — paying renews you and restores full access.
- Closed accounts that the board has marked inactive after an extended absence see a different screen, Membership Inactive — Contact the Board, with no Pay Dues Now button — a payment alone cannot reactivate a closed account. Click the gold Request Reactivation button on that page and the board is notified right away; you can also email the support address below. See What to Do If You're Locked Out.
If anything about your dues feels wrong — the amount looks off, you think you already paid, or the reminders are coming to the wrong address — do not guess. Email admin@metropolitanbmny.com or speak to the financial secretary at the next meeting. We will look it up in the records and get it sorted.
Metropolitan BMNY has been serving NYC building managers since 1944. Your dues are what keep that tradition going — thank you for being part of it.