Almabase in San Francisco offers an association management software system built with educational institutions in mind and thus focuses on building alumni engagement and collecting more donations from them.
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WildApricot by Personify
Score 9.9 out of 10
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Wild Apricot is an association management platform that emphasizes automation of member lifecycle management (i.e. attract, engage, renew), and also assists with receiving online payments and payment processing, and website content and engagement.
Wild Apricot was acquired by Personify Corp in 2017.
Smaller fundraising shops that use RE NXT are definitely well suited to use Almabase. I know there are other connections they offer but I am not able to speak to them. Almabase customer support is very easy to work with and they are quick to respond. They also listen closely and make quick improvements based on requests, when possible.
Wild Apricot is well-suited for medium-size membership organizations with technically competent staff members. The cost of the platform (which is increasing) makes justification/ROI difficult for small organizations of non-profit associations with limited or sporadic income. The system is effective for organizations with 1200 or more active member and where the organization needs a website with a basic store. Wild Apricot will not satisfy organizations that are accustomed to robust e-commerce platforms or that operate with complicated workflows and/or complicated membership options or requirements.
Controls registration through a linked series of events in the new member acceptance process: background check, orientation, and evaluation.
Provides access to data through the export of membership, invoice, and payment tables for use with Excel, to respond to requests for queries and reporting.
Generates renewal invoices en masse for email distribution.
It is set up logically for the most part and is intuitive to those using it to track attendees (super easy check-in kiosk process), map and process gifts, and create and track registrants for events. There are easy ways to stay in contact with registrants regardless if they have a full record in the parent system.
When compared to iMIS, Wild Apricot is an order of magnitude easier to implement and use. It is also a tool that can be administered without a considerable amount of outside support and expense. Wild Apricot is also a more fully integrated system that does not require complicated module licensing and the associated costs. iMIS is also much more expense than Wild Apricot Ultimate Membership Pro (UMP) is a WordPress plugin solution for managing association memberships. Since this is an add-on software, the cost is a small faction of the expense associated with Wild Apricot. The feature set of Wild Apricot is more extensive than the capabilities of of UMP, however, Wild Apricot is easier to use and understand that UMP. Being a hosted solution, Wild Apricot is also much more stable and predictable.
