Most Membes customers use the fully integrated website that comes built into Membes AMS - and for good reason.
It's affordable, easy to manage, and keeps your website and member database perfectly in sync. This ensures member updates, event registrations and other online activity are automatically reflected consistently and accurately throughout Membes AMS, creating a single source of truth.
Best of all, you don't need a specialist web developer every time you want to make a change. As Ana Drougas from the Specialised Textiles Association explains:
"We have pretty much full control over what appears on our website. We can change images, update wording, add pages and menu items whenever we want. We don't have to put in a request, wait, then incur extra charges."
For the vast majority of associations, it's the right solution. For others…
As Membes AMS has introduced greater configurability and new features over time, we're increasingly supporting associations that require a more sophisticated or customised website experience. The new Membes-WordPress plug-in gives those organisations another option while keeping everything seamlessly connected to Membes AMS.
The plug-in has been developed for:
If that describes your association, you no longer need to choose between a sophisticated WordPress website and the operational benefits of Membes AMS.
You can have both.
Until now, WordPress could deliver a more customised and richer website experience, but it couldn't integrate seamlessly with Membes AMS. Actions taken through the website didn't always flow automatically through to the member database and other association functions which resulted in unnecessary manual work and reduced the benefits of an integrated platform.
The new Membes WordPress plug-in changes that.
It allows associations to build a highly customised WordPress website while Membes AMS remains the centre of your association operations and the single source of truth for your member data. Your website and AMS continue to work together.
Out of the box, the plug-in includes:
Because it's open source, your web developer can also extend and customise it to meet your association's specific requirements.
The WordPress plug-in is designed for experienced web developers, so associations using the plug-in will need access to their own WordPress development expertise, either in-house or through an external web development partner.
As always, Membes focuses on delivering the Association Management Software that powers your operations, while your preferred web development partner focuses on creating the website experience that's right for your association.
The Membes WordPress plug-in is available free of charge through the WordPress Plugin Directory: https://wordpress.org/plugins/membes/
If your current Membes website is already meeting your needs, there's nothing you need to do.
It remains the simplest and most cost-effective option for small to mid-sized associations and continues to provide the integrated experience that helps your team work efficiently and deliver great service to your members.