How OrgHQ Compares
| OrgHQ | Traditional AMS Wild Apricot, SilkStart, Association Management Online |
Self-hosted scripts aMember Pro |
Spreadsheets & email | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time to a working site | OrgHQ: Under a minute, self-serve | Traditional AMS: Days to weeks; often starts with a demo call | Self-hosted: You install, host, and theme it yourself | Spreadsheets & email: No member-facing site at all |
| Pricing model | OrgHQ: $75/month or $720/year for everything, or $39 per CE event on the Events plan — plus 3.5% on online payments. A free 14-day trial; no setup fee, no per-contact tiers, no contract | Traditional AMS: Monthly tiers that climb as your contact list grows | Self-hosted: License plus your own hosting, and your time is the real cost | Spreadsheets & email: 'Free' — paid for in volunteer hours |
| Card payments | OrgHQ: One button — connect Stripe in about 5 minutes, money goes straight to your bank | Traditional AMS: Varies; often tied to a specific processor or plan tier | Self-hosted: You wire up and maintain a payment gateway | Spreadsheets & email: Paper checks and chasing people |
| Automatic reminders & renewals | OrgHQ: ✓ | Traditional AMS: Usually, once configured | Self-hosted: Depends on plugins and setup | Spreadsheets & email: — |
| Event evaluations & CE certificates | OrgHQ: ✓ built in | Traditional AMS: Extra modules or third-party tools | Self-hosted: Third-party tools | Spreadsheets & email: By hand, if at all |
| On-demand learning (recordings, quizzes, CE) | OrgHQ: ✓ built in | Traditional AMS: Usually a separate LMS add-on | Self-hosted: Third-party tools | Spreadsheets & email: — |
| Private board file library | OrgHQ: ✓ built in | Traditional AMS: Varies by plan or module | Self-hosted: Depends on plugins | Spreadsheets & email: A shared drive somebody owns |
| Surveys, forms, directory, forum & job board | OrgHQ: ✓ built in — each off until you want it | Traditional AMS: Add-on modules, or a separate survey/forum tool | Self-hosted: Plugins you install and patch | Spreadsheets & email: SurveyMonkey, a Facebook group, and a shared inbox |
| Treasurer’s ledger & board financial reports | OrgHQ: ✓ built in — import a bank/Xero CSV, get a Statement of Activities with MoM/YoY and a monthly board report | Traditional AMS: Rare; usually you keep paying for Xero/QuickBooks on the side | Self-hosted: Third-party accounting tools | Spreadsheets & email: A separate accounting subscription + manual reports |
| Site in other languages | OrgHQ: ✓ English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Filipino, Vietnamese, or several together — public site, member hub, and each member's emails in their own language | Traditional AMS: Varies by vendor and plan | Self-hosted: Depends on language packs and plugins | Spreadsheets & email: A second copy of everything, kept by hand |
| Weekly admin summary email | OrgHQ: ✓ | Traditional AMS: — | Self-hosted: — | Spreadsheets & email: — |
| Who does the technical work | OrgHQ: Nobody has to. No plugins, updates, or servers — ever | Traditional AMS: You, inside a large settings console | Self-hosted: You: hosting, updates, security patches, backups | Spreadsheets & email: You, in your spare time |
| Your data | OrgHQ: Yours — one button exports the whole workspace, files included, as ordinary spreadsheets and documents | Traditional AMS: Export tools vary by plan | Self-hosted: Yours (it is your server) | Spreadsheets & email: Scattered across files and inboxes |
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How OrgHQ's model differs from the platforms associations usually switch from.