Sometimes you have a huge database of users from your old system that you want to import into Drupal from a CSV file. You have fields like First Name, Last Name, Address, etc, that you want to be imported into their account. You can do all of this using the wonderful User Import module. It allows you to easily import users from your CSV file, and map any fields to Profile fields (created with the Drupal Profile module in Core).

This tutorial is about some new functionality that was added to Membership Suite. Integration with User Import has been added so that you can add a Membership Plan to your imported users. Just install User Import and the integration automatically kicks in. To get an idea of how this works, feel free to take a look at the tutorial video I made:

 If you want more background or information on this idea, check the thread that inspired it: http://www.moneyscripts.net/forums/support/2010/05/21/import-users-add-subscription-import