ClubExpress vs WP-Members
ClubExpress
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| Figure | ClubExpress | WP-Members |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.30/mo | $2.42/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 10 | 9 |
| Spec score · Membership Site Platforms | 9.1 (#7) | 7.8 (#56) |
| Content gating | page | post |
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Purpose | ClubExpress provides clubs and associations with a website, member login and database, renewals, discussion forums, and other organization management features. | WP-Members is a free WordPress plugin that restricts selected content to registered site members. |
| Security controls | 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. | The WP-Members Security plugin includes controls for concurrent logins, registration spam, password rules, login error logging, and limiting login attempts. |
| Subscription billing | both | both |
| Support | The vendor advertises U.S.-based phone and email Customer Success support plus context-sensitive online help, webinars and tutorials. | The maker lists email support, premium site access, and forum access in its one-year WP-Members Support option. |
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
WP-Members
- Free pluginFree
- Salesforce Integration$29 a year
- WP-Members extensions$49 a year
- Priority Support$59 a year
- Pro Bundle$125 a year
- WP-MembersFree
- Advanced Options Extension$49 a year
- WP-Members Support$59 a year
- Pro Bundle$125 a year
In their own words
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.
WP-Members
WP-Members has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.