Short answer: if you need an all-in-one platform under $100/month — directory, dues, events, newsletter, and a real website — Veldun’s Starter tier at $79/month is the only option with AI built in, for associations up to 200 contacts. If you only need to track members and collect dues, Join It starts at $29. Wild Apricot’s smallest tiers ($66–$82) stay under $100 but have no AI and add a 20% payment surcharge. And a DIY stack is cheapest in cash — at a real cost in hours. Here’s the honest breakdown.
Under $100 a month, the real question isn’t whether you can find membership software — it’s how much of the job each option actually does. The cheapest tools track members and little else; the all-in-one platforms fold the newsletter, website, and events into one bill. Here’s how the credible sub-$100 options compare on what you get for the money.
* Wild Apricot adds a 20% fee on your subscription when you use a third-party payment processor like Stripe.
Veldun Starter
Join It
Wild Apricot (250)
DIY stack
Monthly price
$79 (≤200 contacts)
$29–$99
$82 (≤250)
~$20–$80 in tools
Member directory + dues
Yes
Yes
Yes
Sheets + processor
Newsletter / email
Included
No
Basic
Separate tool
Public website
Managed, custom domain
No
Basic builder
Separate tool
Event registration
Included
Basic
Included
Eventbrite
AI automation
Built in
None
None
None
Payment surcharge
None
None
20% of subscription*
Processor fees
Commitment
Month-to-month
Month-to-month
Annual discount
n/a
$79/mo
Veldun’s Starter tier — the only all-in-one membership platform under $100/month with AI, a managed website, and newsletters included, for associations up to 200 contacts.
Source: Veldun and Wild Apricot pricing, June 2026
Best all-in-one under $100 — for associations up to 200 contacts
$79/month, every feature included
Veldun’s Starter tier is the only platform under $100/month that gives a volunteer board the whole job in one place — member directory, dues, events, newsletters, and a managed website with a custom domain — with AI handling the repetitive admin. Pricing is published and contract-free, and there’s no surcharge on payments. The honest catch: Starter covers up to 200 billable contacts. Past that you’re on Growth at $119/month, which crosses the $100 line — so this is the right pick for a genuinely small chapter, not a mid-size one.
Strengths
Directory, dues, events, newsletter, and website in one subscription
AI event creation, newsletter assembly, and renewal alerts built in
No payment surcharge — standard Stripe fees only; month-to-month
Free until you go live; migration handled for you
Trade-offs
Starter caps at 200 billable contacts — Growth ($119) is over $100
Join It is a clean, genuinely cheap membership tracker that handles member lists and dues collection well, with Stripe included. If that is honestly all you need — no newsletter, no website, no events to speak of — it is hard to beat on price and stays comfortably under $100 at every tier. The trade-off is scope: there’s no email marketing, no public website, and no AI, so growing organizations tend to bolt on separate tools and end up rebuilding the patchwork Veldun replaces.
Strengths
Lowest entry price of any dedicated tool ($29/month)
Simple to set up; Stripe dues collection included
Trade-offs
No newsletter, no public website, basic events only
Established option — but only its 100–250 contact tiers stay under $100
$66/month (100 contacts) to $82/month (250 contacts)
Wild Apricot is the category incumbent since 2005, and its two smallest tiers do land under $100 — $66 for 100 contacts, $82 for 250. For a very small, established organization that relies on its donations module or store, that can work. But the interface hasn’t changed much since 2019, there’s no AI, and it adds a 20% fee to your subscription if you collect payments through a third-party processor like Stripe. Cross 250 contacts and you jump to $154/month for the 500-contact tier — well over $100, with no tier in between.
Strengths
Proven and established with a large user base
Comprehensive feature set; 60-day free trial
Trade-offs
Only the 100- and 250-contact tiers are under $100; 500 contacts is $154
20% subscription fee for third-party payment processors
“Free,” but ~$20–$80/month in tools plus 5–10 hrs/month of admin
Google Sheets for the roster, a free email tool for the newsletter, Eventbrite for events, a payment processor for dues. There’s no single platform fee, and for an organization with zero budget it works. But the data lives in four disconnected tools, board transitions are chaotic, and the real expense is the 5–10 hours a month someone spends keeping it all in sync — time a platform automates away. Cheapest on paper, most expensive in volunteer hours.
Strengths
No single platform subscription
Familiar tools many admins already use
Trade-offs
Data split across 4+ tools — no single source of truth
Manual syncing is error-prone and time-consuming
Board handoffs inherit a tangle of logins
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