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Glue Up (from about $3,000/yr, billed annually, demo-led) wins for event-heavy, chapter-based or international associations that want a branded member app, multi-currency and multi-language support and a fuller event toolkit. Neither books facilities or schedules volunteers; groups that run programs or rent space usually need a third option.","2026-08-19",{"title":16,"text":17},"Flat monthly pricing with chapters, programs and facilities","Communal prices by members, not contacts: $75/mo to 250 members, programs +$50/mo, facility booking from +$50/mo. Parent and chapter tenants with address-based routing, Apple and Google Wallet cards, a public API, no contract and free migration.",[19,22,25,28,31,34],{"question":20,"answer":21},"Which is cheaper, Glue Up or Wild Apricot?","Wild Apricot, at the small end. It starts at $66/mo for 100 contacts month-to-month ($59.40/mo with a 1-year prepay) and third-party listings show about $147/mo at 500 contacts and $252/mo at 2,000. Glue Up starts at about $3,000/yr (roughly $250/mo) billed annually, with website, community, chapters and certifications sold as separate power-ups. For an association above 2,000 contacts the two are closer than they look.",{"question":23,"answer":24},"Which has better event management, Glue Up or Wild Apricot?","Glue Up. It began as EventBank and covers the full event lifecycle: registration, webinars, speed networking and attendee apps, plus invoicing and surveys around the event. Wild Apricot's events are solid for an association calendar, with registration types, waitlists and guest registration, but it does not go as deep on conference-style events.",{"question":26,"answer":27},"Which has the better member portal and app?","Glue Up offers a branded member app (My Glue) with in-app digital membership cards and a community. Wild Apricot has a member app under its own brand, member-only website pages and a member directory. If white-label branding matters, Glue Up; if member-only web content on your own site matters, Wild Apricot.",{"question":29,"answer":30},"Does either support chapters?","Glue Up sells a Chapter Management power-up and offers multi-chapter and multi-location on its Enterprise plan. Wild Apricot has no multi-chapter capability; each chapter would be its own account. Communal runs parent and chapter tenants with address-based routing and is what a 163-league federation uses.",{"question":32,"answer":33},"Do Glue Up and Wild Apricot offer free trials?","Wild Apricot offers a 60-day free trial with no credit card and month-to-month billing. Glue Up offers a demo only, with annual contracts and no self-serve signup.",{"question":35,"answer":36},"What about payment fees?","Wild Apricot charges no platform fee through its own Personify Payments processor but adds a Payment System Servicing Fee of 20% of your subscription price if you use Stripe, PayPal or Authorize.Net. Glue Up runs payments through integrated gateways such as Stripe and PayPal at the gateway's own rates and does not publish a platform transaction fee.",{"type":38,"children":39,"toc":297},"root",[40,49,70,75,81,126,132,175,181,186,191,197,286,292],{"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},"Wild Apricot",{"type":47,"value":62}," if you are a club or association under a few thousand contacts that wants a website, member database, events and email from one vendor, month-to-month, with a long trial to set it up yourself. 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