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The self-hosted Join It 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 Join It every month.

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Stop renting Join It.

Rented Join It Starter $29/mo + 3.0% service fee on online transactions; Total $99/mo + 2.0%; Extra $199/mo + 1.5% ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

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Membora

$59 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

3 months of Join It costs what Membora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: The Starter monthly price. The subscription is only half the meter — a percentage of every subscription payment goes to the vendor as well, and buying a higher tier is how you reduce it. Membora records what was paid and takes no percentage of anything.

How Join It pricing grows

Join It meters TWICE: a monthly fee, and a percentage of every membership payment your members make — and the way to pay a smaller percentage is to pay a bigger monthly fee.

“3.0% service fee for online transactions”, their own page

Who should stay with Join It

Stay with Join It if you want members to sign up and pay through Join It's own payment processing. Membora takes dues by card only through your own Stripe account, when you switch it on, and otherwise records what was paid and derives standing from it.

What Membora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting Join It.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Join It's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Membora vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Join It.

Does it take payments?

Only by card, and only if you switch it on with your own Stripe account: a member pays a charge or their renewal from their card page, on Stripe's own page, and Membora records it when Stripe confirms the payment. Otherwise it records what was paid and when, and derives standing from that. There is no direct debit, and no card number reaches your server.

Can members log in?

No member logins. Members register for events with their number and email and carry a card link showing today's standing; the people in the register are tracked, not users; the committee members who administer it have accounts, roles and 2FA.

Does it run online voting?

No. It records votes taken at a meeting, with the standing and quorum checks around them. It is not a ballot platform and does not run remote polls.

What happens if a lapsed member votes anyway?

The vote is refused and the refusal names the lapse date. Attendance is not blocked — being present and being entitled to vote are different facts, and the register keeps both.

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Sources

Join It: price checked 2026-08-22, source“'$29/mo' ... '3.0% service fee for online transactions' ... '$99/mo' ... '2.0% service fee for online transactions' ... '$199/mo' ... '1.5% service fee for online transactions'”

Competitor prices change, so 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.

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