Recommendations to others considering YourMembership:
If your goals include any of the following, YM is definitely worth considering:
• Having a website that non-technical staff can easily manage and edit.
• Being able to manage much of association business on one platform, including membership, donations, conferences, email, and more.
• The ability to upload data as needed, as well as to perform many different queries and reports on existing data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What problems is YourMembership solving and how is that benefiting you?
We wanted a way for individual staff members to be able to create and update the pages of the website that relate to their areas of responsibility. YM's custom page functionality made this very easy to achieve. As I mentioned, we have hundreds of pages, and we couldn't manage it all if it was only up to one or two people to update pages. We have three divisions, each with their own pages that key division personnel can update themselves. YM's group and group roles functionality make this possible. YM also makes it possible to host rotating advertisements on the site, which is important to us. Though the API has been troublesome for us, the fact that YM has an API has made it possible for us to integrate with a number of third-party solutions. As I mentioned, YM is upgrading their API right now, so we anticipate improvement in this area. We often need to collect information from members, and YM's form functionality allows us to do this. We can create a custom form and display it on a custom page. We can then export the responses as CSVs to process in Excel. Attachments require a bit of manual labor to manage. We're able to have members-only areas of the website that only logged-in, current members can access. We're able to receive donations, process meeting registrations, and sell advertising through the store functionality of the site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.