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