Just what I was thinking about a few days ago! Haven't had the time to look into it any more though.. Could anyone just give a push in the right direction on how to do this? <

Shannon, I'd be happy to do it, if I could to it. But, as I said before to other people who asked me to do something ; I am no programmer. The only thing I can do is copy/paste programming ... <

Well, I created this mod based on the 'Custom Member fields mod', so I guess the only thing that needs to be done is create two new columns in the FORUM_MEMBERS table, M_SPONSORSTART and M_SPONSOREND (or just one, M_SPONSOREND?)
After that, we need an option for admins to sét these values, together with the M_SPONSORLEVEL (that's already in there...)
If that's done, we need to change the function that checks for the sponsorlevel ;
Just a wild guess...<

It shouldn't be that hard and do you really need a start date?!? I do not have this mod installed but chances are that somewhere within this mod an sql statemement is being made that resembles the following:
strSql = "SELECT * FROM " & strMemberTablePrefix & "MEMBERS
strSql = strSql & " WHERE MEMBER_ID = " & intMemberID
set rs = my_Conn.Execute (strSql)

Add the following beneath the set command:
mStDate = rs("M_START")
mStDate = rs("M_END")

strSql = "update " & strMemberTablePrefix & " MEMBERS set M_START= " & DateToStr(dtDateTime) & " WHERE MEMBER_ID = " & intMemberID
my_Conn.Execute (strSql)

strSql = "update " & strMemberTablePrefix & " MEMBERS set M_END= " & (DateToStr(dtDateTime))+ 10000000000) & " WHERE MEMBER_ID = " & intMemberID
my_Conn.Execute (strSql)

I am not going to install this mod into my forum but something along those lines otta work. Then all you would need to do is run an update statement if end date is < then todays day set end date to 0 and start date to 0<

Marcel.....any chance you added the end-date to your sponsorship MOD? I still would pay for the update to this MOD. Any takers?<