A sleeker alternative to MemberSpace

MemberSpace can be a good fit for creators, publishers, coaches, and businesses that want to turn an existing website into a paid membership experience with gated pages, content libraries, courses, or community spaces. Join It is a better fit when your membership is an organization to manage rather than a content product to sell. With Join It, your team gets a central member database, online sign-ups, recurring payments, renewal reminders, member portals, event registration, digital membership cards, check-in tools, directories, and integrations in one hosted membership management platform. Since 2016, more than 4,000 organizations have used Join It to manage over $100M in membership payments, and Capterra rates Join It 4.7 overall, including 4.9 for customer service.

MemberSpace focuses on adding membership functionality to an existing website, so members can access protected pages, content libraries, courses, downloads, or communities. Join It focuses on the operational side of membership management: member records, membership types, renewal dates, payment history, event attendance, digital cards, directories, and admin workflows. If your main challenge is controlling access to content on your website, MemberSpace may make sense. If your main challenge is running a membership organization, Join It is likely the more natural fit.

Gated content memberships and organization memberships have different needs. A gated content business needs access rules, content libraries, course delivery, private pages, and payment links. A membership organization needs a reliable member database, renewal management, payment history, event registration, member communications, member directories, check-in tools, and digital proof of membership. Join It is designed for organizations where membership is an ongoing relationship, not only a login to protected content.

Many membership organizations need to understand who their members are, what type of membership they hold, whether they are active or expired, when they renew, what events they attend, and how they engage over time. Join It gives admins the tools to manage that relationship from one place. Members can join, renew, update their information, access their portal, receive renewal reminders, save digital membership cards, and register for events. That makes Join It a stronger fit for organizations where membership includes service, access, participation, and community — not just content access.

There's nothing to rebuild. Your website keeps doing what it does — content, marketing, public pages — and Join It handles member sign-up, renewals, payments, the member portal, event registration, and records. Link to your Join It portal from your site, embed membership widgets where you want them, and connect the rest of your stack through Stripe, Mailchimp, Eventbrite, and Zapier. Website and membership operations stay cleanly separated, each in the tool built for it.

Website access is only one part of membership for many organizations. Join It helps you manage the back-office and member-facing workflows that keep a membership program running: who is active, who needs to renew, who has paid, who attended an event, who belongs to which membership type, and what each member has done over time. Features like Apple Wallet and Google Wallet digital membership cards, QR-code check-in, member directories, and renewal reminders help organizations deliver a more complete member experience beyond a locked webpage.

When comparing Join It and MemberSpace, look at how each platform charges as your membership grows. MemberSpace is built for selling gated website access, so your total cost may depend on your monthly plan, sales volume, and payment processing fees. Join It prices around your plan and member capacity, with service fees that decrease on higher plans. The right comparison depends on what you are selling: gated digital access through a website, or a broader membership program with renewals, events, member records, cards, directories, and engagement tracking.

Because MemberSpace adds membership access on top of your website, it helps to separate your member records from your website content rules before migrating. Start by exporting the member information itself: names, emails, plan types, statuses, and billing history where available. That data maps into Join It's member database, where you can rebuild your membership types with proper renewal dates, statuses, and custom fields rather than access rules. The Join It team can help review and import your records, and once members are in, your website can stay focused on content and marketing while the membership program runs in a system built for it.