Membora — Self-Hosted Membership Register: Standing, Quorum, Motions vs. renting SaaS
Self-hosted membership register for clubs and associations: who is in good standing, whether a meeting was quorate, and whether a motion actually carried.
The subscription math
Membora — Self-Hosted Membership Register: Standing, Quorum, Motions — yours
$59.00
one-time · self-hosted · your data, your server
Buy once
WildApricot — rented
$66.00/mo at 100 contacts billed monthly; $59.40/mo prepaid yearly; $56.10/mo prepaid two years. Bands run to 50,000 contacts [1]
Break-even: 1 month
of WildApricot equals the one-time price.
Assumption: The smallest published band — 100 contacts — at the monthly price, which is the one a club can walk away from. Every band above it costs more for the same features. Membora is $59 once, for any number of members.
How their pricing grows:
WildApricot meters by CONTACT COUNT: the features are identical on every package, so what you are buying with the higher tiers is permission to have more members.
“All packages offer the same WildApricot features and benefits.”
Stay with WildApricot if you want the website, the event registration and the payment processing in one place. Membora is the register and the meeting: standing, quorum and motions, with your bank left as your bank.
Join It — rented
Starter $29/mo + 3.0% service fee on online transactions; Total $99/mo + 2.0%; Extra $199/mo + 1.5% [2]
Break-even: 3 months
of Join It equals the one-time price.
Assumption: 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 their 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”
Stay with Join It if you want members to join and pay through the tool itself. Membora has no payment processing at all — it records what was paid and derives standing from it.
Savings calculator
SaaS figures use the cited plan price above (see the sources below); per-seat plans scale by the seat count from the same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.
Why owning beats renting here
- One payment. No per-month, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. Customer records never live in someone else's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records, users, and usage are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply — see the product page for honest limitations.
Sources
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WildApricot — price checked 2026-08-22 —
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“'$66.00/mo' ... '$59.40/mo' ... 'Savings $79.20/yr' ... '$56.10/mo' ... 'All prices in USD. Prices for 1-year/2-year subscriptions already include the discount. All packages offer the same WildApricot features and benefits.'”
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Join It — price checked 2026-08-22 —
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“'$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 — always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.