VoVo vs MemberPress and Wild Apricot: Memberships That Don't Ghost You

It is almost Halloween, which means ghosts, goblins and that one neighbor who hands out toothbrushes. But the scariest thing we have seen this season? A membership site held together by a WordPress plugin, three add-ons, a payment plugin and a spreadsheet named FINAL_final_v3.

Memberships should not be spooky. In VoVo, memberships live inside your own website, in the same account as your events, courses, email and shop. Your members sign in once, and everything they signed up for is right there waiting for them.

MemberPress: a good plugin with a lot of homework #

MemberPress is a plugin for WordPress. So before you sell a single membership, you need a WordPress site, hosting, a theme and usually a few more plugins to make everything play nicely together. its own pricing page lists yearly plans for one site, and its Launch plan adds a transaction fee to each payment.

VoVo is not a plugin. Your website, your members, your payments and your renewal emails are one product, built and updated together. No plugin roulette on a Friday night.

Wild Apricot: pay by the head count #

Wild Apricot prices its plans by how many contacts you keep, starting with a 100 contact tier on its pricing page. Grow your community and you move up a tier. That is a funny way to reward success.

In VoVo, your members sit in the same account as everything else you run, and what each plan includes is spelled out on our pricing page.

What you get with VoVo memberships #

• Membership packages with your own prices and benefits, as many as you need.

• Members only content. Lock pages, courses, forums and downloads to the right members.

• Automatic renewals, so members keep their spot without you sending reminders by hand.

• A member directory with searchable profiles, perfect for chambers, associations and clubs that want members to find each other.

• A self service member portal, so members update their own details and you can retire from your side job as the front desk.

• Groups, custom fields and add ons for the details your organization actually tracks.

• Trial periods that turn into memberships on their own.

• Import your current members from a spreadsheet, WordPress or Wix, so moving day is not a horror movie.

So, VoVo, MemberPress or Wild Apricot? #

If you enjoy keeping WordPress plugins happy, MemberPress makes a fine hobby. If you like paying more every time your community grows, Wild Apricot has a tier for that. If you want memberships on your own website, in one account with your events, courses, email and shop, that is VoVo.

Start free at getvovo.com/signup, explore memberships at getvovo.com/features/membership, and have a happy, ghost free Halloween. The only thing that should disappear this weekend is the candy.