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Overview

StarChapter is an association management software serving local association volunteers in the United States and Canada.

Membership management software for associations, clubs and nonprofits. Automate renewals, collect recurring payments, manage your member database, and run events - without spreadsheets or manual follow-up.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

Video & Screenshots

No videos yet

Pricing

Starting from

119

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

29

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.2

656

5

4

3

2

1

300

223

101

21

11

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
58%
would recommend this app

4.7

83

5

4

3

2

1

63

17

1

0

2

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
93%
would recommend this app

Pros

“Combines membership management, event registration, email marketing, website management, and payment processing in a single system.”
EA

Emely A.

Chapter Administrator

“While the built-in website tools are convenient, organizations looking for highly customized designs may find them less flexible than dedicated web platforms.”
EA

Emely A.

Chapter Administrator

“how it has a full suite of email marketing, website, event and member managment all in one.”
DM

Dennis M.

IT Services Manager

Pros

“In the past all memberships renewed on Dec 31, which created a huge amount of work for an all-volunteer work force to get people to renew.”
SH

Shelley H.

Board of Directors Member

“Some features that I've requested have not yet been implemented.”
SH

Shelley H.

Board of Directors Member

“For us, key features were the Eventbrite integration, it wasn't the right step for us to have all our ticketing on our own website, Eventbrite has features we love and don't want to get rid of.”
CV

Caitlin V.

Business Coordinator

Cons

“It’s not always user‑friendly. While support tickets are answered, the instructions for updating page content can be difficult, and numerous backend steps are required.”
KW

Kelly W.

Association Executive

“Some of the ways of finding and publishing pages is hard to figure out since we only use and update those pages annually.”
EC

Ed C.

Administrator

“The layout is not very modern, and it shows when we are trying to present a polished front end to members and the public.”
EH

Eshana H.

Administrator

Cons

“It does not support organisation-based membership, it hardly support offline payment, it doesn't allow to modify company profiles in batches (it need to be done individually for every employee of the company), it doesn't prevent individuals to modify the membership type of their companies (which is a problem when you have membership types based on specific criteria), and their online directory doesn't allow to run searches by sectors or other custom fields (which makes it de facto useless).”
GR

Guillaume R.

Chief of Staff

“Making the payment by transfer was also a headache, which shouldn't be if they target non-profit which don't always have corporate credit cards to pay online.”
GR

Guillaume R.

Chief of Staff

“In addition, the person who did the onboarding call was unprepared, asking me what I wanted to learn or know, going through the platform in 5 minutes, instead of asking questions about our processes to clearly show me how to use the platform.”
GR

Guillaume R.

Chief of Staff

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review3 months ago
  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review4 months ago

Key features

  • Total features54
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting Integration
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Management
  • Appointment Management
  • Attendance Management
  • Attendance Tracking
  • Attendee Management
  • Automated Scheduling
  • Badge Management
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Booking Management
  • CRM
  • Calendar Management
  • Chapter Management
  • Class Management
  • Class Scheduling
  • Client Management
  • Client Portal
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Committee Management
  • Communication Management
  • Contact Database
  • Contact Management
  • Content Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customer Accounts
  • Customer Database
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Discount Management
  • Discussions/Forums
  • Document Storage
  • Donation Tracking
  • Donor Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Dues Management
  • Electronic Payments
  • Email Management
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Reminders
  • Email Templates
  • Email Tracking
  • Engagement Tracking
  • Event Calendar
  • Event Management
  • Event Scheduling
  • Event Ticketing
  • Facility Scheduling
  • Filtering
  • For Alumni Associations
  • For Nonprofits
  • Forms Management
  • Fundraising Management
  • Grant Management
  • Group Management
  • Instructor Management
  • Interaction Tracking
  • Job Board
  • Live Chat
  • Marketing Automation
  • Member Accounts
  • Member Communication
  • Member Communities
  • Member Database
  • Member Directory
  • Member Portal
  • Member Types
  • Membership Management
  • Membership Renewals
  • Membership Signup
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Location
  • Newsletter Management
  • Online Booking
  • Payment Processing
  • Personalization
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Promotions Management
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Recurring/Subscription Billing
  • Registration Management
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SMS Messaging
  • Search/Filter
  • Self Check-In/Check-Out
  • Self Service Portal
  • Sponsorship Management
  • Summary Reports
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Team Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticketing
  • User Management
  • Visitor Management
  • Volunteer Management
  • Wait List Management
  • Web Forms
  • Website Integration
  • Website Management
  • Total features103
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting Integration
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Management
  • Appointment Management
  • Attendance Management
  • Attendance Tracking
  • Attendee Management
  • Automated Scheduling
  • Badge Management
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Booking Management
  • CRM
  • Calendar Management
  • Chapter Management
  • Class Management
  • Class Scheduling
  • Client Management
  • Client Portal
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Committee Management
  • Communication Management
  • Contact Database
  • Contact Management
  • Content Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customer Accounts
  • Customer Database
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Forms
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Discount Management
  • Discussions/Forums
  • Document Storage
  • Donation Tracking
  • Donor Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Dues Management
  • Electronic Payments
  • Email Management
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Reminders
  • Email Templates
  • Email Tracking
  • Engagement Tracking
  • Event Calendar
  • Event Management
  • Event Scheduling
  • Event Ticketing
  • Facility Scheduling
  • Filtering
  • For Alumni Associations
  • For Nonprofits
  • Forms Management
  • Fundraising Management
  • Grant Management
  • Group Management
  • Instructor Management
  • Interaction Tracking
  • Job Board
  • Live Chat
  • Marketing Automation
  • Member Accounts
  • Member Communication
  • Member Communities
  • Member Database
  • Member Directory
  • Member Portal
  • Member Types
  • Membership Management
  • Membership Renewals
  • Membership Signup
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Location
  • Newsletter Management
  • Online Booking
  • Payment Processing
  • Personalization
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Promotions Management
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Recurring/Subscription Billing
  • Registration Management
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SMS Messaging
  • Search/Filter
  • Self Check-In/Check-Out
  • Self Service Portal
  • Sponsorship Management
  • Summary Reports
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Team Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticketing
  • User Management
  • Visitor Management
  • Volunteer Management
  • Wait List Management
  • Web Forms
  • Website Integration
  • Website Management

Integrations

  • Total integrationsN/A
  • Airtable
  • Campaign Monitor by Marigold
  • Constant Contact
  • Drip
  • Emma by Marigold
  • Eventbrite
  • Ghost
  • Google Analytics 360
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Klaviyo
  • MailerLite
  • Mailjet
  • QuickBooks Online
  • Salesforce B2B Commerce
  • Sendlane
  • Slack
  • Squarespace
  • Stripe Payments
  • SurveyMonkey
  • Wix
  • WordPress
  • Zapier
  • Zoho CRM
  • Total integrations23
  • Airtable
  • Campaign Monitor by Marigold
  • Constant Contact
  • Drip
  • Emma by Marigold
  • Eventbrite
  • Ghost
  • Google Analytics 360
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Klaviyo
  • MailerLite
  • Mailjet
  • QuickBooks Online
  • Salesforce B2B Commerce
  • Sendlane
  • Slack
  • Squarespace
  • Stripe Payments
  • SurveyMonkey
  • Wix
  • WordPress
  • Zapier
  • Zoho CRM