Book clubs, churches, motor clubs, alumni networks, sailing clubs, professional societies — if you keep a member list, you've felt the chaos. My Member Buddy gives you a proper member roll, automatic renewal reminders, a public site, group emails that actually get delivered, and a member portal your people actually use. From $29 a month. No setup consultant required.
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Whether you run a book club, a sailing club, a church, a motor club, an alumni network or a professional society — these are the patterns we hear over and over. If you nod at any of them, keep reading.
One person owns "the list." They left in 2022. Now three people maintain three different versions — the secretary's Google Sheet, the treasurer's Excel file, the website committee's exported CSV. None match. Whoever sends the next email picks one and prays.
One member roll, one login, one source of truth. Secretary, treasurer, and the rest of the committee see the same record. Updates flow everywhere automatically.
Send a reminder email. Chase the cheques. Match the bank deposit to the right member. Update the spreadsheet. Realise three members paid twice and four didn't pay at all. Repeat next year. Whether your club's 30 sailors or your church's 400 parishioners, renewal season eats weeks.
Members get automatic renewal reminders. They pay with a card from their phone. Money lands in your account; their record auto-updates. No matching, no chasing.
You CC'd 200 members on a single email once. Half of Gmail flagged it as spam. So now you Bcc, hope it arrives, and have no idea who actually read it. The book-club newsletter that used to feel personal now feels like shouting into a void.
Send from your own domain with proper authentication (SPF / DKIM / DMARC — we set it up for you). Open rates, click rates, unsubscribes — all tracked. Your members' inboxes treat you like a real sender, not a phishing attempt.
No portal, no profile they control, no public listing they'd share with friends. People forget what they pay annual dues for. Whether it's a motor club's £40 or an alumni network's $150, the value isn't visible — so they don't renew.
Every member gets a self-service portal + an optional public profile. Update their details, see their renewal date, RSVP to events, find other members. Belonging becomes something they can feel.
A grid of names and (maybe) phone numbers. No photos, no event calendar, no personality. New people stumble onto the page, don't see anyone recognisable or anything happening, and close the tab. Google doesn't bother indexing it.
A modern public site at <strong>yourclub.mymemberbuddy.com</strong> — or your own domain. Member directory, upcoming events, photo galleries, blog, contact form. SEO-clean so search traffic finds you.
Most associations are run by volunteers in stolen evenings. Mailchimp for newsletters, Eventbrite for events, Wix for the website, a spreadsheet for the roll, the bank account for the money. Five tools, five logins, five places data goes stale.
Member roll, group emails, events, public site, dues collection, accounting export — all in one place. The system you would have built if you had three free weekends.
Most membership software only sells to YOU — the secretary, the treasurer, the president. We sell to your members too. What they see is what makes them renew. Both halves run on the same platform; they share data, share branding, share your association's identity.
Modern, fast, mobile-first. Member directory, upcoming events, photo galleries, news / blog, contact form. The sailing club's regatta photos, the book club's reading list, the church's service times, the alumni network's upcoming reunion — all at yourclub.mymemberbuddy.com (or your own domain). Built so Google actually finds you.
Members install app.yourclub.mymemberbuddy.com to their home screen with one tap — no app-store wait, no review process. They get a native-feel app to browse the directory, RSVP to events, edit their profile, and see their renewal status. Pinned on their phone, it's a daily reminder they belong.
Want to see a real association's site? Drop us a line at hello@mymemberbuddy.com — we'll send you a walkthrough of a live customer's site. Five minutes, no demo software, just a real association's real public-facing pages.
Built for clubs, churches, alumni networks, and societies from the ground up — not a generic CRM with a "club" template.
One member record per person. Categories, tiers, joined date, renewal date, contact details, opt-ins. Bulk operations for tidying up. Replaces the spreadsheet that lives on the secretary's laptop.
We chase renewals so you don't have to. Sequence runs 30 / 14 / 7 / 0 days before expiry, then weekly for lapsed members. Each email is from your domain, your branding. Members renew themselves via the link. You see the bank balance go up.
Your members install a real app on their phone home screen — no app store, no review wait. They browse the directory, see upcoming events, RSVP, edit their profile, pay dues, all from a fast bento-grid mobile UI. Works for the book club's 25 members or the alumni network's 2,500.
Compose with a real editor, pick from starter templates, save your own. Send from your domain (with SPF / DKIM / DMARC we set up automatically) so emails land in inboxes, not spam. Open + click rates per send.
Modern, fast, mobile-first public site at yourclub.mymemberbuddy.com — or your own domain. Member directory, events, photo galleries, contact form. SEO-clean so people searching for your church / society / club actually find you.
Schedule events, take RSVPs, sell tickets via Stripe, set capacity limits, send reminders. The book club's monthly meet, the sailing club's regatta day, the church's annual fundraiser — all in one place. Members subscribe to your calendar feed.
Upload event galleries — the regatta, the gala dinner, the alumni reunion, the church picnic. Tag your members in each photo. Every tag links to that member's profile. They share photos they're in. Free SEO, free marketing.
Members switch language with one tap and the entire app re-translates instantly — UI labels AND your content (event titles, news posts, member descriptions). Useful for alumni networks spanning continents, diaspora associations, multilingual congregations.
Members pay you via Stripe Connect — 100% to your account, zero platform fees on member dues. Annual fees, life memberships, lifetime patrons, monthly plans — model your dues structure your way. You pay us a small per-member fee; you keep the rest.
One screen for everyone overdue, expiring soon, and unpaid. See who, see why, fire a reminder, or take a card payment over the phone — all without leaving the page. Per-member invoice history one click away. Your treasurer's month-end shrinks from hours to minutes.
One-click CSV export of every paid transaction, formatted for QuickBooks Online import. Works with Xero, MYOB, plain Excel. Treasurer-friendly. Board reports stop being painful.
Invite the secretary, treasurer, commodore, events coordinator. Each gets the right level of access — full operator with Settings + Billing, or limited staff without. Last-admin guard prevents lockouts when your only admin moves on.
Rich-text editor with hero images, categories, scheduled publishing. The motor club's race report, the alumni newsletter, the church's sermon notes — drafts auto-publish at the future date. Shows on your public site with full SEO + social-card markup.
Curate 3–6 members on your homepage. Rotate weekly. Give your stalwart members visibility. Build the social proof prospective members are looking for when they land on your page.
Your membership structure, your way — junior / senior / life, ordinary / committee / honorary, paid-up / honorary / patron. Tier-driven dues, tier-restricted events, tier-aware emails. Categories layer on top (sailing class, alumni year, ministry, sub-committee).
Custom domain (yourclub.org instead of yourclub.mymemberbuddy.com). Hero video. Favicon + social-share image. Auto cert provisioning via Azure Front Door. Unlimited galleries + blog posts.
Three steps, each one timed honestly. Most associations go from sign-up to first newsletter on the same day. No setup consultant, no procurement process.
Tell us your association's domain (or use the default yourclub.mymemberbuddy.com to start). For your own domain we give you four DNS records; add them at your registrar; we auto-verify in minutes.
Drop in your CSV — from Wild Apricot, Member365, MemberClicks, ChurchTrac, or just the secretary's Excel sheet. We auto-map common columns (name, email, member level, joined date). Per-row preview before commit.
Pick a starter template (welcome, monthly newsletter, event invite, renewal reminder), customise, send. Members see the email from <em>your</em> domain — opens jump immediately compared to whatever you were doing before.
Most associations stay stuck on bad software (or a sprawling spreadsheet) because the thought of moving the member roll feels paralysing. It shouldn't be. Whether you're a 30-member book club or a 2,000-member alumni network, here's the actual path.
Every membership tool has an "Export members to CSV" option. Wild Apricot, Member365, MemberClicks, ClubExpress, ChurchTrac — all of them. Or if your "system" is the secretary's Excel file, you already have your CSV. Names, emails, phone numbers, join dates, membership level — that's what we need.
≈ 5 minutes
The import wizard auto-maps your CSV columns to ours. Preview every row before commit. Bad rows get flagged with the exact reason; good rows import in seconds. Categories, member types, joined-on dates — all preserved. A 200-member sailing club takes about as long as a 600-member alumni chapter: minutes, not hours.
≈ 15 minutes for a few hundred members
Four DNS records at your registrar — we auto-verify them in minutes. Your group emails go from your domain (newsletter@yoursailingclub.org, not notifications@somemembershipplatform.com) so they actually land in inboxes. Keep the old system running as a safety net for a week; cancel it the week after.
≈ 10 minutes + DNS propagation
If your migration takes more than one afternoon, we'll do it for you. Free. No "managed migration package" upsell — it's just part of the service. Whether you're a church moving from a paper roll, a club moving from Excel, or a professional society leaving Wild Apricot, we'll get you across in a day.
We looked at the membership software market and noticed the same pattern over and over: tools priced for thousand-seat associations, interfaces designed for desktops nobody uses anymore, and onboarding flows that need a consultant. Meanwhile the church secretary, the sailing club commodore, and the alumni-network volunteer were left running their associations from a spreadsheet because everything else cost more than the dues.
My Member Buddy is built by Orana Software Inc. — a software company with American and Australian engineering teams that have been shipping software for community-driven organizations for over a decade. We know what it's like to run lean, lean on volunteers, and answer to a board. We built this because the people running real-world member associations deserved something modern, affordable, and made for them.
Built in the US & Australia · purpose-built for member associations · privacy-first.
Free during beta. No credit card. Move your member roll across + send your first newsletter before lunch.
