The self-hosted ClubExpress alternative
Membora — Self-hosted membership register for clubs and associations: who is in good standing, whether a meeting was quorate, and whether a motion actually carried. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying ClubExpress every month.
Stop renting ClubExpress
3 months of ClubExpress equals this one-time price.
Assumption: The $24 is the vendor's own stated minimum, not a club size of our choosing: below about 57 members the per-member rate is smaller than the floor, so the floor is what a small club actually pays. Above it the bill simply grows with the roll. Membora is $59 once, for any number of members, with no monthly minimum to clear.
How ClubExpress pricing grows with you
ClubExpress meters by MEMBER and puts a floor under it: growing the roll raises the bill on every renewal, and shrinking it stops at the minimum hosting fee.
“$24 minimum monthly hosting fee” — their own page, read 2026-09-03
What ClubExpress does that we don't
ClubExpress prints its whole rate card in public, bands and secondary-member rate included, which is more than most membership platforms do.
“up to 200 members 42¢ per member billed monthly” — their own page
Who should stay with ClubExpress
Stay with ClubExpress if you want the club website, event registration and payment processing hosted together. Membora is the register and the meeting — who is in good standing, whether a meeting was quorate, whether a motion carried — with your bank left as your bank. Full honest limitations are on the product page.
Why owning beats renting ClubExpress
- One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. It never lives in ClubExpress's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records and users are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset or price-hiked out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up, and apply updates yourself — see the product page for honest limitations, and the full Membora vs ClubExpress comparison.
Sources
- ClubExpress — price checked 2026-09-03 —
source “up to 200 members 42¢ per member billed monthly ... 201-300 members 38¢ per member billed monthly ... 20¢ for each secondary member ... $24 minimum monthly hosting fee ... 501-1000 members 30¢ per member billed monthly”
Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory — every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.