The Join It alternative that goes
beyond a membership database
Join It handles membership sign-ups. Orgo handles everything else: events, governance, learning, community, and multi-chapter management. Compare features to find the right fit.
This page includes an honest, fact-based comparison of Orgo and Join It as of March 2026.
TLDR: Quick verdict
The main difference between Join It and Orgo is that Join It is a membership database focused on sign-ups and renewals, while Orgo is a complete membership platform that combines events, governance, learning, community features, and multi-chapter management in a single system.
Choose Orgo if:
You need more than a membership database: events, e-voting, learning, community features, and multi-chapter management You operate across multiple chapters or branches and need centralized governance with local autonomy You need EU data residency with GDPR compliance built in, not bolted on You want members to actively engage, not just pay dues and disappear
Choose Join It if:
You're a small organization (under 250 members) that only needs simple sign-ups and renewals with minimal admin overhead Digital membership cards in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet are a must-have You prefer a US-based vendor with US-timezone support You only need membership tracking, renewals, and payment collection. Nothing more.
Why organizations look for alternatives to Join It
Join It handles membership sign-ups and renewals well. But three gaps emerge consistently when organizations grow beyond basic membership tracking.
Orgo vs Join It
Join It focuses on membership sign-ups and renewals. Orgo is a complete membership platform that includes community, events, governance, and learning alongside member management.
The table below covers every major feature category so you can see exactly where each platform delivers and where it falls short.
Side-by-side feature comparison
Every cell has been verified against both platforms' current websites and user-reported data.
| Feature | | |
|---|---|---|
| Core membership | ||
| Member management | ||
| Digital wallet cards (Apple/Google) | ||
| Events | ||
| Event management & ticketing | ||
| Governance | ||
| E-voting (anonymous, encrypted) | ||
| E-signatures | ||
| Learning & development | ||
| LMS / Courses | ||
| Payments & billing | ||
| Stripe integration | ||
| Platform transaction fees | 1-2% (0% on Scale) | 1.5-3% on all plans |
| Communications | ||
| Newsletter / email builder | ||
| Push notifications | ||
| Community & engagement | ||
| Forum / community | ||
| Platform & integrations | ||
| Multi-chapter support | Enterprise onlyCustom pricing | |
| API | ||
| Mobile app | ||
| GDPR compliance | ||
| Pricing | ||
| Starting price | $59/mo | $29/mo |
| Platform transaction fees | 0% | 1.5-3% |
A Join It alternative with complete
membership management
Join It covers membership sign-ups and renewals. These are the capabilities that growing organizations need beyond that, and that only Orgo provides natively.
| Your organization needs... | | |
|---|---|---|
| Events & engagement | ||
| Event management with ticketing and check-in | ||
| Discussion forums and groups | ||
| Learning management system (courses, quizzes, certificates) | ||
| Multi-chapter management | ||
| Multi-chapter hierarchy (HQ, regions, local chapters) | Enterprise onlyCustom pricing | |
| Member transfers between chapters | ||
| Per-chapter Stripe payment accounts | ||
| Governance | ||
| eVoting and elections | ||
| eDocuments and eSignatures | ||
| Communications | ||
| Newsletter builder | ||
| Push notifications | ||
Join It is designed as a membership database. It handles sign-ups, renewals, and payment collection well. But for organizations that need events, community, governance, and learning alongside membership tracking, Orgo was built with these as first-class features from day one.
Why membership organizations choose
Orgo over Join It
Join It is built around one workflow: someone signs up, pays, and gets added to a list. Orgo treats membership as the starting point, not the end product.
The Orgo way
Once someone joins, they can participate in forum discussions, take courses, earn badges, vote on organizational decisions, sign documents, join sub-groups, attend events, and receive push notifications. All without leaving the platform.
One platform, one login, one member record. Events, forums, courses, e-voting, newsletters, and payments are all built in. No need for Mailchimp, Eventbrite, Google Forms, Teachable, or Slack alongside your membership tool.
The Join It way
Join It handles membership sign-ups and renewals very well: clean UI, automated reminders, digital wallet cards. For a small club that only needs to track who has paid, it's a solid choice.
But for anything beyond sign-ups and renewals (events, newsletters, forums, courses, voting), you need 3-5 separate tools, each with its own subscription, login, and data silo. At $50-$300+ per month for those add-ons combined, the total cost adds up quickly.
The question is whether your organization needs a membership database or a complete membership platform. If members just pay and go, Join It works. If they need to engage, learn, vote, and connect, Orgo was built for that.
Orgo dashboard
Join It dashboard
Join It covers sign-ups and renewals. For anything else your members actually do, you're on your own. Most Join It organizations end up running 4-6 separate tools alongside it.
The Orgo way
Events, forums, courses, e-voting, newsletters, eDocuments, and multi-chapter management are all built into the platform. Members use one login. Admins manage everything from one dashboard. There is no "integrate with" or "export to". It is all there by default.
When a member joins, they can immediately participate in forum discussions, register for upcoming events, take a course, sign a document, and receive push notifications. No extra setup. No external tools.
The Join It way
Join It handles sign-ups and renewals cleanly. But for anything beyond that: events go to Eventbrite, newsletters go to Mailchimp, courses go to Teachable, voting goes to a separate form tool, and community discussions go to Slack or Facebook Groups.
Each tool has its own subscription, its own login, and its own member record. Data doesn't sync automatically. Admins spend significant time exporting, importing, and reconciling across systems.
Join It offers multi-chapter support only on its Enterprise plan (custom pricing). Even then, it lacks built-in governance structure, chapter-level permissions, and cross-chapter reporting.
The Orgo way
Orgo was built for multi-chapter organizations from day one. Organizations with 80+ chapters and thousands of members run on Orgo. Each chapter has its own admins, events, budgets, and member groups. The national office maintains oversight, runs organization-wide votes, and pulls consolidated reports.
Hierarchical chapter structure with inherited permissions, chapter-level admin roles, cross-chapter member transfers, consolidated and chapter-level analytics, and organization-wide e-voting. All in a single platform.
The Join It way
Join It offers multi-chapter support on its Enterprise plan (custom pricing, typically $3,000-$5,000/year). Each chapter essentially runs as a separate account.
There is no shared member database across chapters, no inherited governance structure, no cross-chapter reporting without manual export/import, and no chapter-level permissions hierarchy. For federations and national organizations, this creates significant operational overhead.
What our clients say about Orgo
""With an organization of 8,000 members and more than 80 chapters coordinated almost exclusively by volunteers, Orgo is at the heart of our digitisation process, allowing us to focus on our mission: learning by doing, nature, and personal development."
Find the right Join It alternative
for your organization
When Orgo is the better fit
Orgo is built for organizations like yours if:
You need GDPR-compliant data handling with EU data residency You manage multiple chapters, branches, or regional groups under one umbrella Your members need to vote, sign documents, or complete training through the platform You want a member community (forums, groups, discussions), not just a member list You want to consolidate tools: replace Eventbrite, Mailchimp, and Teachable with features built into your membership platform
If this sounds like your organization, get a demo and we'll show you exactly how Orgo handles your structure.
Book a 15-Minute DemoWhen Join It is the better fit
We believe in transparency. Join It is probably the better choice if:
You're a small US-based club or association with simple membership needs Digital membership cards (Apple/Google Wallet) are critical to your operations You want the fastest possible setup. Join It can be running in under an hour. Your budget is under $30/month and you don't process high payment volumes
If you start on Join It and outgrow it, Orgo offers a smooth migration path. Keep reading.
Switching to this Join It alternative
is easier than you think
Join It exports member data as a CSV. Orgo imports it with automatic field mapping. Most organizations are fully migrated within 2-4 weeks.
Data migration
Orgo's import tool maps fields automatically: names, emails, membership types, payment status, custom fields. Most organizations complete the data import in under 30 minutes. Your historical data comes with you.
Stripe payment continuity
Both platforms use Stripe. Your existing Stripe account connects directly to Orgo. Active subscriptions and payment methods carry over. Members don't need to re-enter their card details.
Dedicated onboarding
Your dedicated contact walks you through setup, data import, and configuration. Typical onboarding takes 2-4 weeks from start to launch, depending on organization complexity.
New capabilities from day one
Once migrated, you immediately gain access to features Join It doesn't offer: forums for member discussions, an LMS for courses and certifications, e-voting for elections and resolutions, push notifications, and a newsletter builder to replace Mailchimp.
Your brand, not ours
Unlike Join It (which shows Join It branding unless you're on the $199/month Extra plan), Orgo supports full white-labeling so your organization's brand stays front and center.
Orgo vs Join It pricing
Both platforms publish public pricing. Here is how they compare at each tier, and what you get for the cost.
Orgo pricing
Orgo offers 3 plans based on active member count, starting at $59/month on the Grow plan.
Grow includes member management, events and ticketing, eVoting, discussion forums, newsletter campaigns, fundraising, courses and LMS, and custom branding. Impact (the most popular plan) adds multi-chapter management, workflows, and API access. Scale adds eDocuments, eSignatures, 0% platform transaction fees, custom development, and a dedicated customer success manager.
All plans use Stripe directly (46+ countries). No forced payment processor. No surcharges.
See full Orgo pricingJoin It pricing
Join It offers 3 tiers plus Enterprise. The Starter plan is $29/month (3 admin seats, 3% platform fee). The Total plan is $99/month (5 admin seats, 2% platform fee, API, directory, digital cards). The Extra plan is $199/month (10 admin seats, 1.5% platform fee, white-label, custom domain). Discounts: 10% annual + 10% nonprofit (stackable). 30-day free trial.
All plans charge platform transaction fees (1.5-3%) on top of Stripe's standard 2.9% + $0.30. For a 500-member organization processing $50,000/year in dues, that's $750-$1,500 in additional annual fees going to Join It.
Join It does not include events, forums, courses, e-voting, or newsletter tools. Organizations needing these features require separate subscriptions to third-party services.
See Join It's current pricingThe bottom line
Join It does one thing well: collecting dues and tracking who has paid. If that is exactly what your organization needs, it can be the perfect tool for you. But most membership organizations need more. Members want to attend events, connect in forums, take courses, and participate in decisions. Boards need to run elections and sign documents. Multi-chapter organizations need shared oversight across branches.
Join It cannot do any of that without adding external tools. Orgo includes all of it by default. The real question is not which plan is cheaper. It is whether your organization needs a membership database or a membership platform.
Join It migration: Frequently asked questions
Yes. Most organizations run both platforms in parallel for 2-4 weeks during onboarding. You keep Join It active for existing renewals while setting up Orgo with your imported member data. Once you are confident in the setup, you cancel Join It. There is no technical requirement to cut over immediately.
Both platforms use Stripe. Since your Stripe account carries over to Orgo, active recurring subscriptions migrate with it. For members on manual renewals, time your migration to align with your renewal cycle, or notify members of the switch before their next billing date. Orgo's onboarding team helps plan this to avoid any overlap.
Yes. Join It allows CSV exports of member data. Orgo supports CSV and Excel imports with field mapping during onboarding. Most migrations complete within one week.
Orgo is the Join It alternative for
organizations that want more than
a membership database
If your organization needs member engagement, governance tools, courses, and multi-chapter management with lower platform fees than Join It, Orgo is built for you.
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