Most organizations leave MemberClicks because the price is quote-only on an annual contract, and the community, member app and LMS pieces they expected are add-ons on top of the base AMS. Stay on MemberClicks if you are a staffed association that needs committees, review panels and an AMS-grade website.
Ordered by how well each one fits the organizations that usually outgrow MemberClicks.
Memberships, programs, facility booking and volunteers on one member record, no contract
Communal keeps memberships, programs and events, facility rentals, donations with automatic tax receipts, volunteer shifts and POS on one member record, month to month with no annual contract.
Check first: No website builder, no committee or review-panel tooling and no LMS; it is built for member operations rather than a staffed association's full AMS stack.
Published pricing with a website builder, events and email at every tier
Wild Apricot includes the website builder, events, email and donations at every published tier, with a 60-day trial and no contract.
Check first: Pricing counts every contact, not just members, and a 20% subscription surcharge applies if you use a payment gateway other than Personify Payments.
Membership, events and double-entry accounting with a free tier
Springly bundles a member CRM, events, email, a website builder and fund accounting on its Professional tier, with a free Liberty plan for payment forms only.
Check first: Pricing counts contacts rather than members, the processor is fixed at Adyen, and the API is Professional-only.
Chamber of commerce and trade association AMS with integrated payments, CMS and LMS
GrowthZone (ChamberMaster) has the deepest chamber workflows of the group: business directories, sponsorships, committees, certifications and a member app, plus a REST API.
Check first: Quote-only, annual or multi-year contracts, no trial, and the website, community, LMS and newsletter tools are separately priced add-ons.
Traditional small-staff association AMS with CMS, community and job board
YourMembership covers member database, dues automation, events, website CMS and hosting, online community, e-commerce and donations, with an open API and a QuickBooks integration.
Check first: No published pricing or trial, annual contracts, and payment terms are not disclosed; third-party estimates put entry pricing in the low thousands per year.
Event-led membership platform with a branded member app
Glue Up pairs CRM, email and invoicing with a strong event toolset (webinars, attendee apps, speed networking), a branded My Glue app and in-app membership cards.
Check first: Billed annually, no trial, and chapters, certifications, community and the website are extra power-ups.
Best if fundraising matters more than association mechanics
Neon CRM gives you unlimited records and users on every plan, with memberships, events, volunteers and the open API arriving on the Impact tier.
Check first: The entry tier is fundraising-only, there is no website builder, and Neon Pay processing is 2.99% + $0.30.
| Feature | Communal | MemberClicks | Wild Apricot | Springly | GrowthZone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Not listed | Partial | Not offered | Not offered |
| Event registration & ticketing | Add-onPrograms & events, +$50/mo | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Program & class registration | Add-onWaitlists, capacity, attendance, rosters | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Facility booking & rentals | Add-onFrom +$50/mo; approvals, invoices, agreements, iCal | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| Volunteer shifts & hour tracking | IncludedShifts, hours, auto volunteer discounts | Not offered | Not offered | Partial | Partial |
| Donations & fundraising | IncludedIncluded; donor covers fees option | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Automatic tax receipts | IncludedAutomatic | Not listed | PartialDonation receipts | Included | Not listed |
| Member self-service portal | Included | Included | IncludedMember app | Included | Included |
| Email campaigns | IncludedCampaigns and segments | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Website builder | Not offeredWorks beside your site | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Built-in accounting | Not offeredCSV/XLSX exports with GL codes; no QuickBooks sync | Not offeredAccounting integrations | Not offeredQuickBooks sync | Add-onProfessional tier | Not offeredAccounting integrations |
| Public API | IncludedREST API, Zapier webhooks, MCP server | Included | Included | Partial | Included |
| Chapters & federations | IncludedFederated leagues and chapters | Included | Not offered | Add-onNetwork Management, quote | Included |
| Detail | Communal | MemberClicks | Wild Apricot | Springly | GrowthZone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $75/mo | From $3,500/yr | From $66/mo | Free; paid from $45/mo | Quote only |
| Pricing model | Flat, by member band (to 250 members at the floor) | Annual quote by org size | Per contact, tiered | Per contact, tiered | Annual license, quote |
| Contract | No contracts, prorated billing, cancel any module any time | Typically 1-year contracts;Detailsmulti-year contracts offered at a discounted rate | Month-to-month available;Detailsoptional 1-year and 2-year prepay discounts; no cancellation fees | Subscription auto-renews;Detailscancel anytime with one month's notice. Monthly vs annual billing not stated on pricing page. | Annual (multi-year common per third-party reviews); no monthly option advertised |
| Payment fees | Card-processing application fee set in your agreement, often 2%; no monthly minimums | Integrated payment processing via partner (Payroc/NMI gateway noted in help center at $16.95/mo customer rate with setup fee waived);Detailsper-transaction processor percentages not published on vendor pricing page. No published surcharge for external gateways found. | No per-transaction fee from WildApricot itself when using the integrated Personify Payments processor (processor rates not published on the pricing page).DetailsUsing a third-party gateway (Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.Net) triggers a Payment System Servicing Fee described in the help center as 20% of the subscription plan price, applied to US/Canada accounts; vendor pricing page calls this 'an additional fee'. | Payment processor is Adyen at 3.1% + $0.30 per transaction (built-in;Detailsno external gateway choice). On Liberty the fee is covered by donor tipping; on paid plans you choose between the tipping system and paying the transaction fee. | GZ Pay (integrated processor): helpdesk-reported 2.89% + $0.45 per card transaction (3.99% Amex), with a rate update effective May 1, 2026 whose new figures…DetailsGZ Pay (integrated processor): helpdesk-reported 2.89% + $0.45 per card transaction (3.99% Amex), with a rate update effective May 1, 2026 whose new figures were not retrievable; vendor page says 'no setup fees', 'no hidden gateway or batch fees'. Supports card, ACH, Apple Pay and Google Pay. Fees for using external gateways: not published. |
| Free trial | Free trial, no credit card | No free trial or free plan advertised; demo via sales | 60-day free trial, no credit card required; no permanently free plan | 14-day free trial of all features on paid plans; free Liberty plan | No (demo only) |
The MemberClicks pricing page lists MC Trade from $3,500/yr and MC Professional from $4,500/yr, with implementation and professional-services packages priced separately. There is no self-serve signup and no free trial, so you cannot see the real total until you have been through sales.
MemberClicks sells on 1-year contracts, with multi-year terms offered at a discount. A volunteer board that wants to try a system for a season, or cancel a module it stopped using, does not get that option.
Community, the member app, Classroom (LMS), Registration Tech, Job Board, Data Insights and Smart Newsletter are each sold on top of the base AMS, so the quoted floor rarely matches the invoice once you have what you came for.
MemberClicks has no native volunteer management and no room or facility booking. Community associations, clubs and chapters that schedule volunteers or rent a hall end up running a second tool beside the AMS.
MemberClicks and Wild Apricot are both Personify products. Organizations comparing the two are often weighing the same parent company twice, and price changes at one tend to prompt a look at the whole market.
Volunteer shifts with hour tracking and donor receipting are in the base plan, and programs and events and facility booking with approvals, invoices and rental agreements are add-on modules you can turn on or off any month. MemberClicks has no native volunteer or facility module.
Communal publishes what it charges: $75/mo for up to 250 members, then by member band, with no contract and prorated billing. MemberClicks is quote-priced on a 1-year contract, with implementation billed separately.
Apple and Google Wallet passes, resident vs non-resident pricing by map boundary and a federation model that routes members to the right chapter are core features, and the EFCL runs 163 community leagues on it as a federation. MemberClicks does not list wallet cards, and multi-chapter tooling is an AMS-level configuration.
Every Communal plan has unlimited admin accounts with scoped roles, a 30-day self-serve trial with no card and a free scoped data migration. MemberClicks offers a sales demo rather than a trial.
Stay on MemberClicks if you have staff, a budget that absorbs an annual AMS contract, and you actively use committees, review panels, the LMS or the job board. Those are real capabilities that the cheaper alternatives do not replicate, and a migration only pays back if the gaps above describe your week.
YourMembership or GrowthZone if you need the full staffed-association stack (CMS, community, job board, LMS) and accept a quote. Communal for smaller associations and chapters that mainly need tiers, renewals, events, a directory and volunteers at a published monthly price.
GrowthZone. ChamberMaster has decades of chamber-specific workflow for business directories, sponsorships and organizational memberships, and is the usual second quote beside MC Trade. MembershipWorks suits a small chamber that already has a website.
Communal. Hall and court rentals, kids programs, volunteer shifts and resident vs non-resident pricing are the core of the product, and a whole association runs on one flat monthly price with no contract. Wild Apricot fits a club that wants a website builder and only needs dues and events.
Neon CRM. Unlimited records, donor pipeline and campaign tooling matter more than association mechanics, and memberships, events and volunteers can be added on the Impact tier.
MemberClicks exports members, membership types, transactions and event history as CSV; we map the fields and most moves finish inside a renewal cycle.
Export your member profiles, membership levels with renewal dates, organizational (MC Trade) relationships, custom fields and event history from MemberClicks; we run a validation pass on the files before anything is imported.
Set up membership types, chapters, boundaries, facilities and programs in Communal, import members with their existing renewal dates so nobody renews early or late, and load historical memberships so tenure is preserved.
Point the join and renew links on your website at the Communal portal, issue wallet cards, and run both systems briefly while the first renewals and event registrations come through.
The EFCL runs 163 Edmonton community leagues on Communal as a federation, with each league billing its own members and the federation routing residents to the right league by address. Read the EFCL 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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It depends on who you are. Communal is the best fit for community associations, clubs, chapters and smaller associations that want memberships, programs, facility rentals and volunteers on one flat-priced system with no contract. YourMembership or GrowthZone are the closest swaps for a staffed professional association or chamber that needs a full AMS. Wild Apricot is the published-price option from the same vendor family.
MemberClicks does not publish a full price list. Its pricing page shows MC Trade starting at $3,500/yr and MC Professional at $4,500/yr, with specialty pricing for chambers. Implementation packages and add-ons such as Community, the member app, Classroom and Registration Tech cost extra, and contracts are typically 1 year.
Yes. Communal is $75/mo for up to 250 members with renewals, wallet cards, volunteers and donations included and no annual contract. Wild Apricot starts at $66/mo for 100 contacts, MembershipWorks is $35/mo to 300 members if you keep your own website, and Springly has a free tier. See Communal pricing for the member bands.
Yes, and the scoped migration is free. We import member profiles, membership types, renewal dates, custom fields, transactions and event history from the MemberClicks CSV 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, volunteers, POS, email campaigns and reporting, and it does not have committee management, a job board, a learning management system or a website builder. If those are central to your association, MemberClicks, YourMembership or GrowthZone is the better choice.
Springly for a small, volunteer-run association that wants a published price, a website builder and built-in accounting; MemberClicks for a staffed association that needs committees, review panels and an AMS-grade community and has budget for a contract from $3,500/yr. See the full Springly vs MemberClicks comparison.
Both are quote-priced, annual-contract AMS products for small-staff associations with dues automation, events, website CMS and community. MemberClicks splits into MC Professional and MC Trade (chambers and organizational memberships) and publishes starting figures; YourMembership publishes no pricing. Neither has volunteer shifts or facility booking. See MemberClicks vs YourMembership.