Update Membership Statuses

Question

I am using civi on wordpress 4.8.1

I just need to check something.

If I have a membership that expires tomorrow and Update Membership Statuses is not enabled to run Daily, will that person's profile still have an "Active" status when it expires tomorrow?

On the other hand, if I do enable Update Membership Statuses, will that person's membership profile status change to "Expired" tomorrow?

I am asking because the description for this job says "WARNING: Membership renewal reminders have been migrated to the Schedule Reminders functionality, which supports multiple renewal reminders.", so I not sure I should enable it at all.

Thank you

Answer 1

the warning is about how Reminders are managed. In terms of the Scheduled Job - yes you need that enabled if you want to have the Membership Status automatically updating (and it would a rare situation you would not want this happening)