ARMember vs ClubExpress
ARMember
armemberplugin.com
ClubExpress
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| Figure | ARMember | ClubExpress |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $7.42/mo | $0.30/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 10 | 10 |
| Spec score · Membership Site Platforms | 8.4 (#26) | 9.1 (#7) |
| Content gating | page | page |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Intended users | The maker describes use cases including membership associations, communities, video and podcast membership sites, directories, and course businesses. | ClubExpress describes its service as supporting membership-based organizations, including clubs and associations, with websites, events, finances, and communications. |
| Security controls | Listed controls include two-factor authentication, IP blocking, shared-account locking, and CAPTCHA options including reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Turnstile, and Math Captcha. | The vendor states that it uses AWS firewalls, VPN monitoring, nightly and real-time backups, salted one-way password hashing, encrypted card data, PCI Level 2 compliance, HTTPS, TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3. |
| Subscription billing | both | both |
| Support | The pricing page lists limited support for the free plan, one year of premium support for annual paid plans, and three years for lifetime plans. | The vendor advertises U.S.-based phone and email Customer Success support plus context-sensitive online help, webinars and tutorials. |
| Trial limits | The plugin can configure free or paid membership trials with lengths in days, months, or years, but the maker's pricing page does not state a standard product trial duration. | The 60-day trial allows up to 10 manually entered members and disables credit card processing and non-member database imports. |
Plans
ARMember
- FreeFree
- Standard$99 a year
- Professional$259 a year
- Enterprise$999 a year
- Standard (annual)$89 a year
- Professional (annual)$139 a year
- Standard (lifetime)$229, paid once
- Enterprise (annual)$299 a year
- Professional (lifetime)$379, paid once
- Enterprise (lifetime)$599, paid once
ClubExpress
- 501–1000 members$0.30 a month
- 301–500 members$0.34 a month
- 201–300 members$0.38 a month
- Up to 200 members$0.42 a month
- 501-1000 Members$30 a month
- 301-500 Members$34 a month
- 201-300 Members$38 a month
- Up to 200 Members$42 a month
- Basic Setup$150, paid once
- Organizations larger than 1000 membersPriced on request
In their own words
ARMember
ARMember has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
ClubExpress
ClubExpress gives clubs and associations a website, member login and database, and tools for managing membership and organization activity. Members can sign up online, select configurable membership types, and handle renewals and expirations. The platform includes more than 22 purpose-built modules, such as committees, forums, documents, photo albums, surveys, blogs, event calendars, and volunteering. Its member-focused mobile app runs on Apple iOS and Google Android, alongside web and API support. A Zapier integration can send membership, donation, renewal, and event data to services such as HubSpot, Google Calendar, and Mailchimp; it is intended for incremental synchronization rather than historical migration. Optional QuickBooks Online and QuickBooks Desktop integrations export transactions, payments, credits, fees, and customer records. ClubExpress says its servers are hosted on AWS behind a firewall, and lists nightly offsite and real-time database backups, salted and hashed passwords, and HTTPS with a minimum of TLS 1.2. It states that it is a PCI Level 2 merchant. The paid service offers a 60-day trial, limited to 10 manually entered members; credit card processing and non-member database imports are disabled during the trial.