Wild Apricot's membership management and registration software for online communities
Wild Apricot is an integrated set of online tools to efficiently run a club, association, small non-profit or any other group or community-based organization:

• database to keeps track of members / supporters / donors
• event management and online registration
• website content management for non-technical people
• mass emails
• online donations and credit card payments
• automation of many administrative functions like reminders and renewals
  

The data flows seamlessly from the online donation form, online member application and event registration forms to member self-service website to the member database to event management interface. Wild Apricot eliminates duplicate data entry.
Wild Apricot is built on modern Web 2.0 technologies and is so easy to use that even inexperienced volunteers can pitch in to help right away. It is affordable even for smallest organizations - pricing starts at $25/month. It has been first released about a year ago and has quickly progressed since than – we have over 2600 organizations signed up!
Wild Apricot philosophy is built on three key principles:

• Creating great user experience by making system easy and fun to use and save time by automating administrative functions. It is actually easier to build an overcomplicated system. But we work hard to make an application anyone can use.
• Providing friendly and knowledgeable tech support and feeding the questions and requests back into the development process
• Staying flexible and agile – we release product updates every 3-4 weeks based on the feedback we are getting
  

Many of us have first-hand experience volunteering for small clubs and associations. Many passionate and nice people get involved - and most are overworked and underpaid (if paid at all). Burned out and forced to manage too many routine administrative tasks. Even with all the hard work, member and donor database is still messy and out of date - and handling registrations is a big hassle every time! Many organizations do not even know how many current members they have. It is hard to keep track of this stuff. You have two or three different mailing lists and databases. A stack of faxes, a bunch of emails. People who are not returning your calls and emails. People who register for an event - and then change their mind at the last minute. An Excel spreadsheet with many columns and cryptic notes which nobody can by now figure out to find which members are up for renewal, who donated what when, when they paid the last time, which conference registrations are final and which are still pending some details ... You can almost feel going insane!
Many organizations end up cobbling together a bunch of generic-purpose tools - the unintended and unfortunate consequence is bad experience for members/event registrants and a lot of manual copy-paste work for staff and volunteers.

That's why we say our Wild Apricot software will help to get your sanity back. Web-based technology is changing our world. Wild Apricot is an automated system, specifically created to handle most of the "grunt" work that comes with membership-based organizations and event registration.