Most organizations leave Member365 because they are paying for association depth their club never opens: CE tracking, an LMS, a job board and voting. Stay if you issue continuing-education credits or run courses for members.
Ordered by how well each one fits the organizations that usually outgrow Member365.
Memberships, programs, facility booking and volunteers in one subscription
Communal keeps memberships, programs, facility rentals, donations with automatic CRA and US tax receipts, volunteer shifts and POS on one member record, with no contract and no setup fee.
Check first: No CE credit tracking, LMS, job board or voting module; if those are why you bought Member365, Communal does not replace them.
A website builder and a 60-day trial, no setup fee
Wild Apricot includes the website builder, events, email, store and donations at every published tier, month to month with no setup fee.
Check first: Every contact counts toward the tier, and an outside payment gateway costs extra every month.
Per-seat pricing with unlimited members, built for chambers
Membee, also Canadian, prices by admin seat rather than by member, with unlimited member records, no setup fee, no vendor transaction fee and a choice of 8 payment gateways.
Check first: No public API, no wallet cards, no volunteer or facility tools, and reviewers describe the admin UI as desktop-only.
The US association-management equivalent, with committees and review panels
MemberClicks (Personify) adds committees, grant and award review panels, CE tracking and a broad add-on catalog, sold by quote with implementation.
Check first: Annual contracts, implementation billed separately and no trial.
Event-led membership platform with a branded member app
Glue Up bundles CRM, email, invoicing, CPD credits and a strong event toolset with a branded My Glue app.
Check first: Billed annually, no trial, and community, chapters, certification and website are paid power-ups.
Membership and events with built-in accounting
Springly covers member management, events and email, and adds double-entry accounting and an API on its Professional tier, with a free Liberty plan for payment forms.
Check first: Pricing counts contacts rather than members, the processor is fixed at Adyen, and there are no wallet cards or facility booking.
Free memberships, ticketing and donations for Canadian and US nonprofits
Zeffy charges the nonprofit nothing and is funded by an optional donor tip at checkout, which makes it the floor any paid platform has to beat.
Check first: A limited member portal, no volunteer shifts, no facility booking, a read-only API, and every member sees a tip prompt at checkout.
| Feature | Communal | Member365 | Wild Apricot | Membee | MemberClicks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Membership management | IncludedTiers, custom fields, segments | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Automated renewals | IncludedReminders and auto-renew | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Digital membership cards (Apple / Google Wallet) | IncludedIncluded in every plan | Partial | Partial | Not offered | Not listed |
| Event registration & ticketing | Add-onPrograms & events add-on | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Program & class registration | Add-onWaitlists, capacity, attendance, rosters | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Facility booking & rentals | Add-onApprovals, invoices, agreements, iCal | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Volunteer shifts & hour tracking | IncludedShifts, hours, auto volunteer discounts | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Donations & fundraising | IncludedIncluded; donor covers fees option | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Automatic tax receipts | IncludedAutomatic | Not listed | PartialDonation receipts | Not listed | Not listed |
| Member self-service portal | Included | Included | IncludedMember app | Included | Included |
| Email campaigns | IncludedCampaigns and segments | Add-onEmail module | Included | Included | Included |
| Website builder | Not offeredWorks beside your site | Partial | Included | Partial | Included |
| Public API | IncludedREST API, Zapier webhooks, MCP server | Included | Included | Not offered | Included |
Member365 adds a one-time setup fee sized to your onboarding, and the total needs a quote. A club that needs dues, renewals and a calendar is buying association-grade overhead.
CE credit tracking, certificates, an LMS, a job board, surveys and voting are the reason professional bodies choose Member365. Community associations and clubs carry that depth whether or not they open the modules.
Member365 has no volunteer shift module and no room or facility booking, so groups that rent a hall or court, or schedule volunteers for events, run a second system beside the member database.
Member365 membership cards are downloadable PDFs in the portal. Members who expect an Apple Wallet or Google Wallet pass that updates itself on renewal do not get one.
Volunteer shifts with hour tracking are in the base plan, and programs and events and facility booking with approvals, invoices and rental agreements are add-on modules. Member365 has neither a volunteer nor a facility module.
Communal issues Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes in every plan, push-updated when a membership renews or lapses, with scan-in check-in. Member365 cards are downloadable PDFs in the portal.
Communal is Canadian, bills in CAD or USD, supports Canadian pre-authorized debit and Interac on terminals, issues CRA-format and US-format tax receipts automatically, and ships the member portal in fr-CA as well as English.
Communal publishes its pricing, charges no setup fee, has no contract and includes a free scoped migration. Member365 is quoted, with a one-time setup fee on top.
Stay on Member365 if you are a professional body or mid-size association that uses the CE, learning, voting or job-board modules. Those features are the product, and none of the alternatives here replicate them. The move only makes sense if you are carrying association depth for club needs.
Communal. Hall and court rentals, programs, volunteer shifts and resident vs non-resident pricing are the core of the product, and a whole association runs on it with no contract. Wild Apricot fits a club that mainly wants a website builder plus dues and events.
Membee. Per-seat pricing with unlimited members, no vendor transaction fees and a choice of 8 gateways suits a chamber that wants a predictable bill and hands-on support. GrowthZone is the fuller chamber AMS if you accept a quote and an annual contract.
MemberClicks or Glue Up if you still need an AMS with committees, CE or CPD and an association website. Communal for smaller associations and chapters that mainly need tiers, renewals, events, a directory and volunteers with published pricing.
Zeffy if you need free memberships, ticketing and CRA receipts and can accept the donor tip prompt. Communal if you also run programs, rent space or schedule volunteers and want a member portal, wallet cards and automatic CRA receipts on one record.
Member365 exports members, membership records and transactions from its reports and API; we handle the mapping and most moves finish inside one renewal cycle.
Export member profiles, membership categories with renewal dates, custom fields, invoices and event history from Member365; we validate the files and map each category to a Communal membership type before importing.
Set up membership types, boundaries, programs and facilities in Communal, import members with their existing renewal dates so nobody renews early or late, and load historical memberships so tenure carries over.
Replace the join and renew links on your website with the Communal portal, issue wallet cards to members, and run both systems briefly while the first renewals come through.
The Big Apple Knitters Guild moved 400 members off PayPal and Excel onto Communal and now runs renewals and member cards from one place. Read the case study.
How the hall gets booked, how program pricing works, how you chase renewals. No canned tour. We walk Communal through your real process so you can see the fit before you decide.
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For community associations, clubs and small charities, Communal: memberships, programs, facility rentals, donations and volunteers on one record with no setup fee. For chambers of commerce, Membee. For staffed professional associations that still need CE tracking and committees, MemberClicks or Glue Up. Wild Apricot is the published-price option with a website builder.
Communal bills in CAD, supports pre-authorized debit and issues CRA-format receipts automatically, with no setup fee or contract. Membee prices by admin seat with unlimited member records. Zeffy is free for Canadian nonprofits that only need forms and basic memberships.
Yes, and the scoped migration is free. We import member profiles, membership categories, renewal dates, custom fields, invoices and event history from the Member365 export, validate the mapping with you, and keep existing renewal dates intact so the move does not disrupt a dues cycle.
No. Communal covers memberships, programs and events, facility booking, donations with tax receipts, volunteers, POS, email campaigns and reporting. It does not track continuing-education credits, host courses, run a job board or hold votes. If those are central to your association, Member365 remains the better fit.
Wild Apricot for a small association that wants published pricing, a website builder and a 60-day trial. Member365 for a professional body that needs CE tracking, an LMS, voting and a member community. Neither has volunteer shifts or facility booking; Communal covers both.