Renewal season is coming, the board wants numbers, and you’re deciding where your membership should live. Here’s what MemberClicks does well, what you get with MemberPress.ai, and how to tell which one fits.
MemberClicks builds association software around one idea: connecting your members to your mission. It comes in two versions: MemberClicks Professional (once called Oasis), where your members are individuals, and MemberClicks Trade (once called Atlas), where your members are organizations. You build your web pages from scratch with no coding, and payments run through its own built-in, PCI-compliant processing. MemberClicks is part of the Momentive portfolio of brands.
Dues, renewals, the directory, chapters, events and the board report. Here’s how each one works in MemberClicks, and with MemberPress.ai.
MemberClicks
Charges members’ cards automatically on a recurring schedule, which suits dues.
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.
MemberClicks
Members choose automatic renewal or one-click renewal, and MemberClicks sends them reminders as their renewal date gets close.
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.
MemberClicks
Searchable online directories that are easy to find your way around.
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.
MemberClicks
Its CommUnity add-on lets you organize members into sub-groups, which MemberClicks offers for chapters and committees.
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.
MemberClicks
Registration forms with flexible pricing: early-bird prices, member discounts, promo codes and coupons.
With MemberPress.ai
Opal doesn’t run event registration on her own. If events are central for you, plan for them alongside.
MemberClicks
A library of over 200 standard reports, saved to your dashboard if you pull them often, and delivered as PDF, Word or Excel files, whichever you, your staff and your board prefer.
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.
MemberClicks Professional starts at $4,500 a year, and MemberClicks Trade starts at $3,500 a year. Those are starting prices: MemberClicks sets your price by your organization and the features you need, and chambers get their own pricing.
Its typical contract is for one year, with a discount for signing up for several years.
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.
Both are good homes for an association. It comes down to what your members pay for, and where you want it to live.
MemberClicks fits if you want one association system with its own website, directory, event registration and a large library of ready-made reports.
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.
Connect your association’s site and tell Opal how your dues work. She sets it up, then keeps it running through renewal season.