AssociationOS vs ClubExpress
AssociationOS
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| Figure | AssociationOS | ClubExpress |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | $0.30/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 10 |
| Spec score · Membership Management Software | 6.8 (#102) | 9.1 (#3) |
| Communications | Built-in email and SMS automation supports newsletters, event alerts, and renewal reminders. | Built-in communications include targeted emailings, paid text messaging, discussion forums, blogs, surveys, ad hoc forms and real-time chat. |
| Intended users | The maker identifies associations, nonprofits, chambers of commerce, professional organizations, and membership-based groups as intended users. | ClubExpress describes its service as supporting membership-based organizations, including clubs and associations, with websites, events, finances, and communications. |
| Payments | Stripe integration supports collecting dues, donations, and event fees, with transaction tracking. | ClubExpress handles online cards, ACH, Apple Pay, Google Pay, checks, cash, donations and Stripe-reader point-of-sale transactions. |
| Purpose | AssociationOS manages members, events, payments, and communications for associations, chambers of commerce, and nonprofits. | ClubExpress provides clubs and associations with a website, member login and database, renewals, discussion forums, and other organization management features. |
| Security | The product page describes the platform as secure but does not name a security certification or compliance standard. | ClubExpress says it uses nightly offsite backups, real-time database backups, salted and hashed passwords, and HTTPS with a minimum of TLS 1.2. |
Plans
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
AssociationOS
AssociationOS 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.