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title: 'GrowthZone or MemberPress.ai: a comparison for association directors — MemberPress.ai'
description: Weighing GrowthZone for your association? What it does well, what you get with MemberPress.ai on your own WordPress site, how each one prices, and how to tell which one fits.
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GrowthZone and MemberPress.ai

# Weighing GrowthZone for your _association_?

Renewal season is coming, the board wants numbers, and you’re deciding where your membership should live. Here’s what GrowthZone does well, what you get with MemberPress.ai, and how to tell which one fits.

## What GrowthZone does well

GrowthZone runs your membership, events and finances in one place, built for the size and kind of organization you are. Its products include ChamberMaster, GrowthZone AMS and MemberSuite AMS, with add-ons such as GZ Pay for payments and GZ CMS for your website.

## The six jobs you run all year, side by side

Dues, renewals, the directory, chapters, events and the board report. Here’s how each one works in GrowthZone, and with MemberPress.ai.

### Dues

GrowthZone

GrowthZone AMS sends invoices and payment reminders automatically. MemberSuite AMS bills dues and subscriptions in bulk, automatically.

With MemberPress.ai

Tell Opal your member categories once, the way you’d explain them to a new board member: regular, student, retired, a firm rate. Each becomes its own membership, billed every year, with its own sign-up page, and the first dues come in through those pages. When the board votes a dues increase, you say so once and she updates the dues.

### Renewals

GrowthZone

GrowthZone AMS runs renewals on autopilot, sending the reminders and the invoices for you.

With MemberPress.ai

Opal checks which of your renewal reminders are switched off. When renewals drop, she tells you if a reminder that matters was off.

### The member directory

GrowthZone

ChamberMaster gives members fuller directory profiles, sorted by business category.

With MemberPress.ai

Opal doesn’t build a member directory on her own. If the directory is the heart of what your members pay for, plan for it alongside.

### Chapters

GrowthZone

MemberSuite AMS supports chapters, sections, divisions and committees as part of how your organization is set up.

With MemberPress.ai

On the paid plan, ask Opal for the chapter update and she drafts the page for you to edit and publish. You choose which members can open it in MemberPress’s own access rules.

### Events

GrowthZone

GrowthZone AMS has registration forms you can customize, built-in payments and automatic confirmation emails.

With MemberPress.ai

Opal doesn’t run event registration on her own. If events are central for you, plan for them alongside.

### The report for the board

GrowthZone

GrowthZone AMS has dashboards you can customize, engagement scoring and reporting. MemberSuite AMS gives your board a live view of the finances, and ChamberMaster helps you show the board your progress.

With MemberPress.ai

Ask how many members renewed, who lapsed and what dues brought in, and Opal answers from your own site’s records. On the paid plan, that includes this year against last.

## What each one costs

### GrowthZone

GrowthZone doesn’t publish its prices. You contact GrowthZone for a quote made for your organization.

### MemberPress.ai

The free plan reads your site and tells you what’s happening on it. The paid plan does the work: $79 a month, with your first site included.

It runs on your association’s own WordPress site, with MemberPress on it, free or paid. To take dues online, you connect Stripe or PayPal in MemberPress’s payment settings.

## Which one fits you

Both are good homes for an association. It comes down to what your members pay for, and where you want it to live.

### GrowthZone

GrowthZone fits if you want one system for membership, events and finances, chosen from products built for your size and kind of organization, and you’d like a quote shaped around you.

### MemberPress.ai

MemberPress.ai fits if you want your membership and dues on a WordPress site the association owns, with your member list and payment account staying yours, and Opal to set it up and keep it running through renewal season. Already have a WordPress site? You connect the one you have.

## You say it once. Opal handles the rest.

Connect your association’s site and tell Opal how your dues work. She sets it up, then keeps it running through renewal season.

[Connect your association’s site→](https://memberpress.ai/connect/)