Why This Matters
Membership management software (also known as an association management system) is a computer software which provides associations, clubs and other membership organizations with the functionality they require to provide services to their members.
As with any software purchase, it’s important to understand your requirements/needs, what features you are looking for (nice to have vs. must have). Making a list of things you would like to “operationally do” will help determine your software requirements. Do this before looking for a software to meet those needs.
Resources
Capterra’s List of Best Membership Management Software Platforms
Best Membership Management Software
8 Features of Membership Software
Benefits of Membership Management Software
Recommendations
Stand Alone Systems:
Mobile Up – Engage 365 – Gather Better Data for Better Decisions
Discussions, surveys, polls, and analytics provide important insight into member participation while also providing the data you need to plan for the future.
Exware – Since 2001, Exware has helped organizations turn their websites into powerful productivity tools that integrate and streamline content management, member management, event management, social networking and email services.
Member Planet – Makes it easy to join your group, track activity, view reporting, and automate renewals – all in one spot – so you can spend less time on admin tasks and more time growing your group.
Wild Apricot – Allows you to automate and simplify membership tasks for yourself, your members, volunteers, and board.
Hello Club – Makes managing your members, events, clubs, association and so much more, easy and efficient.
Hivebrite – A powerful online community platform, Hivebrite provides top organizations with all the tools they need to build, manage, and engage their community.
Glue Up (used to be Eventbank) – Glue Up is an all-in-one CRM platform that helps you build and grow your community through events, memberships & other digital tools.
WordPress Plugins:
WP Paypal Plugin – Allows you to easily create PayPal Buy Now, Add to Cart, Donation or Subscription type buttons. It generates dynamic buttons using shortcodes that enable PayPal checkout on your WordPress site.
Paid Memberships Pro – Paid Memberships Pro is a WordPress Membership Plugin and Support Community for Membership Sites. This plugin adds a new revenue source to your website and is flexible enough to fit the needs of almost all membership-based businesses.
Paid Member Subscriptions – An easy to setup and use WordPress Membership Plugin. You can create your membership website and start getting paid almost instantly. Instead of complicated setup pages, Paid Member Subscriptions integrates with your existing WordPress site and content and doesn’t force you into a predefined structure. You will be able to create and manage member subscriptions, grant and revoke access to posts, pages, categories as well as custom post types based on the subscriptions your users have purchased.
S2 Member – Protect your WordPress Posts, Pages, Tags, Categories, URIs, BuddyPress/bbPress, and even portions of content within Posts, Pages, themes, plugins. Sell recurring (or non-recurring) subscriptions, “Buy Now” access in various ways.
MemberPress – An easy to use WordPress Membership Plugin. It will help you to instantly start charging your users for access to your content. MemberPress will help you confidently create, manage and track membership subscriptions and sell digital download products. In addition to these features, MemberPress will allow you manage your members by granting and revoking their access to posts, pages, videos, categories, tags, feeds, communities, digital files, and more based on what memberships they belong to.