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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.","2026-08-19",{"title":16,"text":17},"Flat monthly pricing with facilities, programs and volunteers","Communal prices by members, not contacts: $75/mo to 250 members with volunteer and donor management included, programs +$50/mo and facility booking from +$50/mo. No annual contract, no implementation fee, free migration.",[19,22,25,28,31,34],{"question":20,"answer":21},"Springly vs MemberClicks: which costs less?","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.",{"question":23,"answer":24},"Is MemberClicks worth it over Springly for an association?","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.",{"question":26,"answer":27},"Does Springly or MemberClicks have a free trial?","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.",{"question":29,"answer":30},"What do Springly and MemberClicks charge for payments?","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.",{"question":32,"answer":33},"Which has accounting, Springly or MemberClicks?","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.",{"question":35,"answer":36},"What if we also run programs or rent facilities?","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.",{"type":38,"children":39,"toc":311},"root",[40,49,70,76,131,137,190,196,201,207,300,306],{"type":41,"tag":42,"props":43,"children":45},"element","h2",{"id":44},"the-short-version",[46],{"type":47,"value":48},"text","The short version",{"type":41,"tag":50,"props":51,"children":52},"p",{},[53,55,61,63,68],{"type":47,"value":54},"Pick ",{"type":41,"tag":56,"props":57,"children":58},"strong",{},[59],{"type":47,"value":60},"Springly",{"type":47,"value":62}," 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. 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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. 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