Most associations leave YourMembership over quote-only sales, annual contracts, and a platform built for staffed associations that smaller groups do not fully use. Stay if you need its job board, LMS and community modules.
Ordered by how well each one fits the organizations that usually outgrow YourMembership.
Memberships, renewals, volunteers and wallet cards on one record
Membership tiers, automated renewals, wallet cards, donations with tax receipts, volunteer shifts, invoicing and POS, with programs, events and facility booking as modules.
Check first: No website CMS, job board, LMS or community forum; Communal is a member portal beside your existing site, not a full AMS.
The most direct AMS replacement
MemberClicks runs MC Trade for chambers and MC Professional for professional societies, with dues automation, committees, event management, review panels and an OAuth REST API.
Check first: Quote-only on annual contracts, and community, member app and LMS are paid add-ons.
Website, member database and events, self-serve
Wild Apricot bundles a site builder, contacts database, events, email and a store at every tier, with a 60-day no-card trial and month-to-month billing.
Check first: Counts every contact toward your plan, penalizes outside payment gateways, and has no volunteer or facility tools.
Chamber and trade association AMS with CMS and LMS
GrowthZone (ChamberMaster lineage since 1998) covers sponsorships, business directories, committees, certifications and a fundraiser module, with a REST API and a member app.
Check first: Quote-only on annual or multi-year contracts, and website, community and LMS tools are add-ons.
Canadian AMS with CE tracking, an LMS and community
Member365 includes a member portal and community, CE credit tracking, certificates, an LMS, a job board, committees and an online store.
Check first: Setup fee and quote-led sales, PDF cards rather than wallet passes, and no volunteer scheduling or facility booking.
Event-led membership with CRM and a branded app
Glue Up combines membership, event management, CRM, email and a community with a branded My Glue app, and handles multi-chapter and multi-currency structures.
Check first: Annual billing, demo only, and chapters, community and the app are separately sold power-ups.
Unlimited member records for smaller chambers
Membee bills by admin seat rather than by member, so member records are unlimited, with 60+ reports, eight gateway choices and implementation included.
Check first: No public API, QuickBooks sync or wallet cards, and reviewers call the mobile admin experience poor.
| Feature | Communal | YourMembership | MemberClicks | Wild Apricot | 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 | Not listed | Partial | Not offered |
| 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 | Partial | Not offered | Not offered | Partial |
| Donations & fundraising | IncludedIncluded; donor covers fees option | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Automatic tax receipts | IncludedAutomatic | Not listed | Not listed | PartialDonation receipts | Not listed |
| Invoicing | Included | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Member self-service portal | Included | Included | Included | IncludedMember app | Included |
| Email campaigns | IncludedCampaigns and segments | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Website builder | Not offeredWorks beside your site | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Chapters & federations | IncludedFederated leagues and chapters | Included | Included | Not offered | Included |
| Public API | IncludedREST API, Zapier webhooks, MCP server | Included | Included | Included | Included |
YourMembership's pricing page is a request-a-quote form. You cannot open an account, import a member list and test a renewal before you sign.
YourMembership is sold on an annual contract through Momentive Software (formerly Community Brands). Term details are not published, and small associations that want to leave mid-year usually cannot.
The vendor markets integrated payment processing, but the terms are not published, so treasurers cannot forecast the cost of dues collection before talking to sales.
Job Board, Learning Management System, Online Community and E-commerce & Donations are add-on modules. The core AMS is built for a staffed association, and each add-on carries its own line.
There is no published facility booking module and no Apple or Google Wallet membership cards. Volunteers are handled through committee and chapter tools rather than a shift and hour-tracking module.
Communal publishes every price on a public pricing page, with no contract, prorated billing and any module cancellable at any time. YourMembership publishes nothing and sells on annual contracts.
Card processing is set in your agreement with no monthly minimums, deposits arrive weekly in your own Stripe Connect account, and donors can cover fees at checkout. YourMembership does not disclose its processing terms.
Volunteer opportunities with shifts, clock in and out hours and automatic volunteer discounts are included, the facilities module handles booking approvals and rental invoicing, and Apple and Google Wallet passes are in every plan. YourMembership has none of the three as published features.
Communal runs each chapter as its own tenant under a parent, with its own Stripe account, federation fees, parent-level custom fields and address-based routing of members. The EFCL runs 163 leagues this way, and you can try the whole model on a 30-day trial with no card.
Stay on YourMembership if you are a staffed professional or trade association using the CMS, community, job board or LMS every week and the annual license fits your budget. It is a capable AMS for that buyer. The alternatives above make sense when you are paying for modules you do not use, want month-to-month terms you can leave, or need volunteer shifts, facility booking or wallet cards.
MemberClicks if you still want a full AMS with committees, review panels and implementation services. Communal if the association mainly needs tiers, renewals, events, invoices, a directory and wallet cards month to month, with Member365 sitting between the two for CE tracking and community.
GrowthZone is the chamber-specialist AMS with sponsorship, directory and LMS tooling, while Membee gives smaller chambers unlimited member records billed by admin seat. Both are built around the chamber workflow.
Communal. Each chapter is its own tenant with its own Stripe account, the parent pushes fields and fees down, and members are routed to the right chapter by address; the EFCL runs 163 leagues on this model.
Communal. Community associations and clubs rarely need a job board or LMS; they need renewals, family memberships, program registration, hall and court rentals and volunteer shifts. Wild Apricot suits a group that mainly wants a website builder and membership from one vendor.
YourMembership exports members, dues history, event and invoice data; we map the export into Communal and run the import for you at no charge.
Export member profiles, member types, dues expiry dates, custom fields, committee and chapter assignments, event attendance and invoice history from YourMembership; we map them to Communal membership types, tags and child organizations and run a dry-run import.
Set up membership types and renewal rules, chapters, programs, volunteer opportunities and donation forms in Communal, then import members with their existing expiry dates intact so nobody is billed early or late.
Point your website and email links at the Communal portal, send members their wallet cards, and keep YourMembership read-only through the first renewal cycle while you confirm everything reconciles.
The EFCL runs 163 Edmonton community leagues on one Communal federation, with each league as its own tenant and members routed by address. 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.
No canned tour · No sales script
For a staffed professional or trade association that wants a full AMS, MemberClicks or GrowthZone. For small-staff associations, chapters and community organizations that want month-to-month terms with renewals, events, invoices, volunteers and wallet cards, Communal. For a website and database together, Wild Apricot.
Yes, and migration is free. We import member profiles, member types, dues expiry dates, custom fields, chapter assignments, event history and invoices from your YourMembership export, validate the mapping with you, and keep renewal dates intact. You can test the import during the 30-day trial.
No. Communal is a member portal and operations platform that runs beside the website you already have, with branding, logo and custom CSS only. It has no job board, LMS or community forum. If those modules are why you bought an AMS, MemberClicks, GrowthZone or Member365 is the better comparison.
Both are sales-led AMS products for staffed associations on annual contracts, and both sell community, job board and LMS as add-on modules. MemberClicks publishes starting prices and YourMembership does not; YourMembership includes website CMS and hosting in the core AMS. Read the full MemberClicks vs YourMembership comparison.
Wild Apricot for a small association that wants a website, member database and events with a 60-day trial and month-to-month billing. YourMembership for a staffed association that needs a full AMS with CMS, community, job board and LMS and can sign an annual contract.