Springly is the self-serve option for volunteer-run nonprofits: memberships, donations, events, email, a website builder and, on its top tier, built-in accounting.
MemberClicks is an association management system for staffed groups, with dues automation, committee management, organizational and chapter memberships, forms and review panels for grants and awards, sold on annual contracts from $3,500/yr with paid implementation. Pick Springly if volunteers run everything; pick MemberClicks if you have staff and complex member structures. Neither books facilities or schedules volunteer shifts, so groups that do should look elsewhere.
Nonprofit membership tool with events, email and built-in accounting.
Association management system for staffed professional and trade associations.
Communal is listed as a third column because organizations comparing these two usually need the same things it was built for: memberships, programs and facilities in one database at a flat price.
| Feature | Springly | MemberClicks | Communal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Membership management | Included | Included | IncludedTiers, custom fields, segments |
| Automated renewals | Included | Included | IncludedReminders and auto-renew |
| Digital membership cards (Apple / Google Wallet) | Not offered | Not listed | IncludedIncluded in every plan |
| Event registration & ticketing | Included | Included | Add-onPrograms & events, +$50/mo |
| Program & class registration | Not listed | Not listed | Add-onWaitlists, capacity, attendance, rosters |
| Facility booking & rentals | Not offered | Not offered | Add-onFrom +$50/mo; approvals, invoices, agreements, iCal |
| Volunteer shifts & hour tracking | Partial | Not offered | IncludedShifts, hours, auto volunteer discounts |
| Donations & fundraising | Included | Included | IncludedIncluded; donor covers fees option |
| Automatic tax receipts | Included | Not listed | IncludedAutomatic |
| Member self-service portal | Included | Included | Included |
| Email campaigns | Included | Included | IncludedCampaigns and segments |
| Website builder | Included | Included | Not offeredWorks beside your site |
| Public API | Partial | Included | IncludedREST API, Zapier webhooks, MCP server |
| Detail | Springly | MemberClicks | Communal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Free; paid from $45/mo | From $3,500/yr | $75/mo |
| Pricing model | Per contact, tiered | Annual quote by org size | Flat, by member band (to 250 members at the floor) |
| Contract | Subscription auto-renews;Detailscancel anytime with one month's notice. Monthly vs annual billing not stated on pricing page. | Typically 1-year contracts;Detailsmulti-year contracts offered at a discounted rate | No contracts, prorated billing, cancel any module any time |
| Payment fees | 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. | 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. | Card-processing application fee set in your agreement, often 2%; no monthly minimums |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial of all features on paid plans; free Liberty plan | No free trial or free plan advertised; demo via sales | Free trial, no credit card |
Pick Springly if you are a small nonprofit, club or association run mostly by volunteers, your contact list is in the hundreds or low thousands, and you want memberships, events, email, a basic site and possibly the books for under $120/mo with no contract. Pick MemberClicks if you are a staffed professional association, trade association or chamber with committees, organizational members and an annual budget line for software, and you want an implementation team to set it up. Pick neither if your operations include room rentals, recurring programs or volunteer shifts: both stop at memberships, events and email.
These two are not priced on the same axis. Springly is a monthly subscription by contact tier (250 / 500 / 1,000 / 2,500 / 5,000) with overage billed per contact, so a clean-up of lapsed members and subscribers directly lowers your bill; at 5,000 contacts Serenity is $239/mo and Professional $399/mo. MemberClicks is an annual contract sized to your organization, from $3,500/yr (MC Trade) or $4,500/yr (MC Professional), plus implementation and any add-ons; expect to budget in the thousands per year before payments. On fees, Springly is 3.1% + $0.30 through Adyen with a donor-tipping option, and MemberClicks routes payments through a partner processor whose percentages it does not publish. Build a 3-year total for each before deciding.
| If you are... | Lean towards |
|---|---|
| A volunteer-run nonprofit or club under 1,000 contacts | Springly (free, $45/mo or $119/mo) |
| A group whose treasurer wants accounting in the membership tool | Springly Professional |
| A staffed professional association with committees and dues tiers | MemberClicks MC Professional |
| A chamber or trade association with company members | MemberClicks MC Trade |
| A community league, rec center or club that rents space or runs programs | Neither; see the third option below |
If you are comparing these two because your current setup no longer fits, check what your organization actually does week to week. Communal was built for groups that run memberships alongside programs, facility rentals, donations and volunteers, and prices by paying members rather than contacts or a negotiated contract: $75/mo to 250 members with volunteers, donors and POS included, programs +$50/mo, facilities from +$50/mo, no contract, no implementation fee and free migration from either tool. It does not include a website builder, accounting or committee management, which is the honest trade.
Short answers, with the numbers where they exist.
Springly, by an order of magnitude at the entry level. Springly's Liberty plan is free, Serenity starts at $45/mo for up to 250 contacts and Professional at $119/mo; its highest published tier is $399/mo at 5,000 contacts. MemberClicks quotes annually: MC Trade starts at $3,500/yr and MC Professional at $4,500/yr, with implementation packages and add-ons such as the member app, community and LMS priced separately.
For a staffed professional or trade association, often yes. MemberClicks handles committee management, dues automation, organizational memberships with multiple contacts (MC Trade), review panels for grants and awards, and multi-chapter structures, and it comes with an implementation team. Springly offers memberships, events, email and a site builder but its multi-chapter Network Management is quote only and it has no committee tooling. If you do not have staff to run an AMS, the extra capability sits unused.
Springly does: a 14-day free trial of all paid features, plus the permanently free Liberty plan. MemberClicks does not advertise a free trial or free plan; you book a demo with sales and sign a contract, typically for one year, with multi-year discounts offered.
Springly uses Adyen at 3.1% + $0.30 per transaction, or lets donors tip to cover the fee. MemberClicks integrates with a partner processor (a Payroc/NMI gateway is noted in its help center at $16.95/mo customer rate) and does not publish per-transaction percentages on its pricing page. No surcharge for external gateways was found for either.
Springly Professional includes double-entry nonprofit accounting with budgets and statements. MemberClicks does not have a ledger; it syncs to accounting software through integrations. For a treasurer who wants one system, that tilts toward Springly; for a finance team with its own accounting package, MemberClicks' integrations are fine.
Neither Springly nor MemberClicks has facility booking, volunteer shift scheduling or program registration with waitlists beyond event registration. Communal covers memberships, program registration, facility booking with approvals and invoices, donations with tax receipts and volunteer shifts in one database at a flat price by member count, starting at $75/mo to 250 members with no contract.