Wild Apricot Alternatives

MembershipWorks is the closest thing to Wild Apricot without the Wild Apricot bill. It covers the same core: a member database, recurring dues, members-only content, a member directory, an event calendar with paid registration, donation forms, a shopping cart, and even a job board and classified ads. The difference is that it plugs into the site you already have (WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Weebly, Duda or plain HTML) instead of asking you to rebuild your website in its builder. The free plan holds up to 50 accounts. Paid plans are billed monthly by account count: $35 for 300, $59 for 600, $95 for 1,200, $145 for 2,500, $205 for 5,000 and $259 for 10,000.

How the price reads against Wild Apricot: at 500 people, Wild Apricot costs $154 a month on monthly billing, and MembershipWorks covers 600 accounts for $59. The counting rule matters as much as the price. MembershipWorks does not count people who register for your public events or donate through your public form unless you create an account for them, while Wild Apricot bills on every contact in the database. It also takes no cut of your payments, and it lets you use Stripe, PayPal or Authorize.net without a surcharge, the exact combination that triggers Wild Apricot's 20% fee. Two catches: MembershipWorks offers a 30-day money-back guarantee in place of a free trial, and when you hit your account cap new members simply cannot sign up until you upgrade. Tip: start on the free 50-account plan with your board as test members, then import the full list the day you upgrade.

Join It does one thing well: it sells memberships and keeps them renewed. Starter includes unlimited membership types, custom fields, unlimited automations, automated emails, recurring payments and renewal reminders, with 3 admin seats. Total adds digital membership cards for Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, member check-in, a member directory, an embeddable purchase widget and API access, with 5 admin seats. Extra adds a custom domain, removes the Join It branding and comes with a dedicated account manager. Event registration with built-in ticketing and member-only pricing is part of the product, and payments run through Stripe. List prices are $29 a month for Starter, $99 for Total and $199 for Extra on monthly billing, for up to 250 members. Annual billing takes 10% off, which puts Starter at $26.10 a month or $313.20 a year, and registered nonprofits get a further 10% off that stacks with it. The pricing page has a member-capacity slider that runs to 25,000 members, and the price rises with the capacity you pick: at 500 members, Starter is $39 a month. Every plan has a free trial without a credit card, and monthly plans cancel from your account with no contract.

How the price reads against Wild Apricot: Starter on monthly billing is less than half of Wild Apricot's 100-contact plan at $66. The trade-off is a hybrid model. Join It adds a service fee on paid memberships and paid event registrations: 3% on Starter, 2% on Total and 1.5% on Extra, on top of your card processor's fee. If you collect $10,000 in dues a year on Starter, that is $300 in service fees on top of $348 of subscription. Its website builder is a public membership profile with your logo, header image and membership options, which you link to or embed in your existing site, so most clubs keep their current website. Tip: do the maths at your real dues volume. At 250 members, Total costs $70 a month more than Starter, or $840 a year, and saves 1 point of fee, so it pays for itself on fees alone above $84,000 a year of paid memberships; below that, take Total only for its cards and check-in.

ClubExpress is the old-school all-in-one for clubs: a hosted club website tied to a membership database, events, dues, email and a long list of club functions. It prices by active member instead of by contact. The rate is 42 cents per member per month up to 200 members, 38 cents from 201 to 300, 34 cents from 301 to 500 and 30 cents from 501 to 1,000. That per-member rate is what ClubExpress calls the monthly hosting fee, and it counts active members only: expired members cost nothing, and neither does a non-member mailing list up to five times your active member count. Phone and email support are included. On top come a one-time setup fee, from $150 for Basic Setup (you build the site yourself) to $3,800 for Builder Pack Plus, extra-cost modules such as virtual membership cards at $200 a year, and card processing through the merchant account built into the site.

How the price reads against Wild Apricot: for a 150-member club, ClubExpress costs about $63 a month against $82 for Wild Apricot's 250-contact tier. The advantage fades with size. At 500 members, 500 times 34 cents is $170 a month, more than Wild Apricot's $154 for 500 contacts. And because ClubExpress counts members while Wild Apricot counts contacts, compare on your real member count, not your mailing list. The interface feels dated next to newer tools, which shows in its lower ease-of-use score. Tip: the $150 Basic Setup covers a single import of your member and non-member databases, and any re-import costs extra, so clean your Wild Apricot export before you send it, and ask for the merchant processing rate before you sign.

Outseta bundles what a paid membership site needs into one account: Stripe payments and subscription billing, authentication and protected content, a CRM, marketing and transactional email, a help desk, webhooks and API access. Every plan includes all of it, with unlimited seats for your team. Start costs $37 a month billed yearly or $47 billed monthly for up to 1,000 contacts, with a 2% transaction fee. Scale costs $97 a month yearly or $127 monthly for up to 10,000 contacts, with a 1% fee, and Pro covers up to 25,000 contacts at $197 yearly or $247 monthly with the same 1% fee, and Max, at $697 a month yearly, covers 100,000 contacts with no transaction fee. There is a 14-day free trial, a 30-day money-back guarantee, no contract on monthly or annual plans, and data migrations are free.

How the price reads against Wild Apricot: Start at $47 a month covers 1,000 contacts, where Wild Apricot charges $154 for 500, but Outseta adds 2% on every payment. On $10,000 of dues a year that is $200, still well below Wild Apricot's difference. What you trade is the association layer: Outseta is built from five modules (payments, authentication and content gating, CRM, email, help desk), so check how you will run event registration and a member directory before you move. It works best when you sell access to content, courses or a community and build the site in Webflow, Framer or WordPress. It is the closest match for a creator or a professional network, not for a sports club with events every week. Tip: the free migration covers your member data, so send Outseta your Wild Apricot contact export before the trial ends, and use the Outseta Zapier integration or the Outseta Make integration to reconnect your other tools.

MemberClicks is a full association management system (AMS) with two products. MC Pro is for associations whose members are individuals and starts at $4,500 a year. MC Trade is for trade groups and chambers whose members are organizations and starts at $3,500 a year. Both state that pricing is based on organization and functionality needs, so the figure is a floor. MC Pro covers membership management, a member directory, flexible member types and committee management, automated dues, renewal reminders, email automation, event registration, call for papers and abstracts, financial reports, a website and member portal. MC Trade adds advanced dues calculation for company members, sales management for selling sponsorships and ads, and specialty pricing for chambers. Support includes a dedicated support line, a client online community and live chat.

How the price reads against Wild Apricot: $4,500 a year is about $375 a month, between Wild Apricot's 2,000-contact tier ($265) and its 5,000-contact tier ($485), and it buys deeper association tools: committees, abstracts for conferences, company-based dues. One detail the guides skip: MemberClicks and Wild Apricot have the same owner. Personify bought Wild Apricot in 2017 and MemberClicks in 2020, and Momentive Software bought Personify in 2026, so moving from one to the other keeps you with the same company and its pricing policy. If you leave Wild Apricot because of the owner, look at MembershipWorks or ClubExpress instead. Tip: ask which add-ons (event tech, community, job board, mobile app) your quote includes, since the product menu lists them separately.

MemberPress is a WordPress plugin, not a hosted platform. You install it on your WordPress site and it adds paid memberships, content protection, courses, coupons and Stripe payments. It is sold per year in three plans. Launch is $199.50 the first year (normally $399), Growth $349.50 (normally $699) and Scale $499.50 (normally $999), and every annual renewal is at full price. Launch supports Stripe only and takes a 4.9% transaction fee on each successful payment; Growth and Scale have no transaction fee, add PayPal, Square and manual payments, and include the member directory and profiles. A 14-day money-back guarantee covers the first purchase.

How the price reads against Wild Apricot: $399 a year at renewal is about $33 a month, far below Wild Apricot's $154 for 500 contacts, and MemberPress does not care how many contacts you have. But the plugin is one line of the budget among several: you also pay for hosting, a theme, an events plugin, a forms plugin and someone to update all of it, and you own the security. The guides that rank it rarely say that the headline price is a first-year discount, so budget the renewal from day one. If you are weighing it, our MemberPress switching guide covers the reverse move, and the MemberPress Zapier integration and the MemberPress Make integration show how to push new members to your email tool; Zapier and the REST API come with the Scale plan. Tip: the 4.9% fee makes Launch the dearer plan sooner than it looks. Growth renews at $300 a year more than Launch, and 4.9% of your payments reaches $300 at about $6,100 of dues a year, so above that, take Growth; it is also the first plan with PayPal and a directory.

Mighty Networks is a community platform first: a branded space with discussion feeds, member profiles, courses, online and in-person events, livestreams and paid memberships. Launch costs $79 a month on annual billing ($950 a year, two months free) or $95 a month billed monthly, with unlimited members, 3 hosts and 10 moderators. Scale costs $179 a month yearly or $215 monthly and adds APIs and MCP access, third-party integrations such as Zapier, and 5 hosts; Growth costs $354 a month yearly or $425 monthly and adds priority support, migration services and 10 hosts. Transaction fees fall as you go up: 2% on Launch, 1% on Scale and 0.5% on Growth. A 14-day trial needs no credit card, and your own branded mobile apps come only with the custom-priced Mighty Pro. One catch for clubs: charging for one-time events is not part of Launch, so ticketed meetups start at Scale.

How the price reads against Wild Apricot: Launch costs about the same as Wild Apricot's 250-contact tier, with no contact limit at all, which suits a large free community. What it is built around is the community app, not the association back office: Wild Apricot exports financial data to QuickBooks or CSV and runs your public website, so decide where dues reports and your public site will live before you move. Our Mighty Networks Zapier guide shows how to sync new members to a CRM or a spreadsheet; the Zapier connection needs Scale or above. Tip: pay yearly only after the trial, since the annual plan saves $190 against monthly billing but locks you in for twelve months.