Hivebrite vs Novi AMS

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Slack

ToucanTech

Instagram is a social networking app which lets users share photos & videos from their mobile phones, like posts, comment, send private messages, and more

Slack is a single workspace that connects users with the people and tools they work with everyday, no matter where they are or what they do

ToucanTech is an all-in-one community management software that helps businesses consolidate database management, association management system functions, website hosting, and multi-channel communication capabilities into a single integrated environment. The platform is designed for educational institutions, membership associations, and nonprofit organizations seeking to centralize alumni relations, fundraising operations, and community engagement within one solution.

Unlock the power of your community with the most flexible and powerful all-in-one social network solution for community management.  Basic plan starts from $8,000 per year.


Activity Dashboard

Engagement Tracking

Mobile Access

Social Promotion

Real-Time Notifications

Chat/Messaging

Content Management

Media Library

Social Media Integration

Proprietary

Hivebrite

Web-based

iPhone

iPad

Android

Windows

Linux

Chromebook

Graduway

Mighty Networks

Raklet

WildApricot

Almabase

Mighty Pro

Connect

 Scale

 Enterprise

Director of Information Technology

The flexibility to customize member experiences, manage events, and integrate with our existing tools made it a great candidate for our community needs.

Change and Relationship Officer

I like the email campaign feature a lot as I can make it look really good and narrow down which members to contact.

Lack of customisability can occasionally cause some issues for functionality, but we are not using the platform for its intended purpose which should be kept in mind.

Knowledge Sharing Officer

That means that admins needs to dedicate time to that issue, instead focusing on the animation of the community.

Founder

Our customers saw the value of our community right away and were able to easily navigate the platform.

Systems and Engagement Manager

Occasional glitches. Why the "Discover Groups" view (or what we call Spaces) shows Groups who I'm already part of, it doesn't make sense.  

Online Community Manager

Nothing major, but some of the back office functionality can feel a little disjointed when updating, but once you know how it works its manageable.

Co Founder

Hivebrite makes the site build very easy and the growth team are responsive over email.

School Coordinator

Her guidance, responsiveness, and proactive approach made a real difference to the success of our platform.

Community Manager

The lack of analytic information on what the users are consuming, and lack of support for team packages.

The customer support exceeded expectations  Hivebrite offers a strong product and exceptional service :)

I have been able to manage my database efficiently, send mass and personalized communications, and be able to create and promote events quickly and easily.

Data metrics have improved but still take some time to get your head around.

Alumni Council President

Great threads you can keep organized through job boards, larger forums, and other groups.

Senior Digital Communications Specialist

Hivebrite offers API integration in the platform, but again, you need to figure it out on your own.

Corporate communications manager

Very good experience as we are launching a new platform for or community.

Communications Manager

They are on your side all the time. Plus, this site is ridiculously easy to manage. If you've used Sharepoint, this will be a breeze.

What I liked most about Hivebrite is how easy it was to build a branded, all-in-one community platform.

Attractive and customisable user interface.

Overall, I think this is a great platform for connection, community building, and basic resource sharing.

CommUnity Manager

The variety of tools available for engagement, from event management to membership directories, fosters a vibrant community atmosphere.

Great tool, great team (good listeners and reactive).

Sr. Director of Project Management

It is also continuing to grow and improve which means we're on the forefront of community-building tech.

I've worked with a lot of systems and never given a review before, that's how much I love this team.

They will always go to bat for their clients.

Programme Manager Entrepreneurship for Development

Chairman of the Board

We are now in a position to manage a dynamic communication with our members and better manage events (e.g. managing registration of participants and communicating with them).

While the platform is generally user-friendly, some users might find the initial setup and navigation through the plethora of features a bit overwhelming without thorough guidance.

The community discussion tools are top notch!

For the time being we still have issues in making payments easier, in particular membership fees.

Owner

After cancelling I didn't hear back from [SENSITIVE CONTENT] for weeks at which time he only defended his actions and said they will not cancel the agreement.

It has given us additional "muscle" to manage our association.

With the implementation of Hivebrite we have replaced an outdated website.

CEO & Founder

It is not 100% user frendly, we have to adapt our business to functionality, we still could not find a person to carry out the hivebrite integration with hubspot.

Director of Administration & Technology

Migration support went above and beyond to guide us in best practices for both cleaning the data, customizing fields and even developing custom filters for our alumni map specific to our org’s needs.  

Regional Programme Manager

Hivebrite has allowed us to double down on our community-centric approach to building a business and deliver a data backed approach to growing and maintaining a membership base of engaged and informed users.

Communications and alumni officer

Almost two years after starting using it to manage our alumni community, we are very satisfied with our choice : this software as a system was hands on, easily customizable and useful in terms of features (mapped alumni directory, clusters, timeline, events, jobboard, statistics, etc.).

It's relatively simple to build out a front end website, launch memberships, customise your membership portal and setup events, run email campaigns, share and store content and more.   If you want to get more custom you can also dive into code, or connect your other platforms via the API which has proven very handy as we have scaled our business.

HiveBrite has been instrumental in helping HBSANC reach our goals which centered around  increased membership metrics and more efficiently executing our expansive events calendar (including a recent complete pivot from live to online events).

The features, functionality and backend options allow you to really dial in the system to meet your needs - with core functionality that covers pretty much all aspects of building and running a community around your business, organisation or interest.

CEO & Co-Founder

On the event landing pages, I'd preferred to have sign-up/register button shown at the bottom, more distinctively.

Was great specially to have [SENSITIVE CONTENT] as customer support.

Digital Community Manager

The Hivebrite platform is a powerful solution for our large and diverse community (currently 20,000+ users).

IT Service Engineer

AlmaShines is undoubtedly the most cost-effective, without a doubt, however Hivebrite has a better usability and aesthetics, which is making us have doubts about the final choice. If money is not an issue, your Alumni should definitely choose this platform.

Project coordinator

we are currently using Hivebrite platform as a networking platform for our scholarship recipients.

Head of CERN Alumni Relations

You can tailor it to the contents and look & feel that you wish to give to your platform.

Community Building

Customer Support

Event and Membership Management

Setup

Event Implementation

Email Campaigns

Customization

User Analytics

Event Communication

Alumni Management

Small Business

Large Enterprises

Mid-size Business

StarChapter

StarChapter is an association management software for local chapters, combining membership management, website content, event registration and email marketing

GrowthZone

GrowthZone is an association management software that offers tools for membership-based organizations to streamline operations and enhance member engagement. The platform centralizes membership management, event planning, communication, and financial processes in one integrated system. Organizations can automate renewal reminders, simplify event registration, generate actionable reports, and create dedicated community spaces for members to connect and collaborate.

Glue Up

Glue Up is an all-in-one engagement platform combining event management, membership management, community management, email marketing, CRM, finance tools, project management and mobile apps. Users can manage contacts and members from a single platform. Organizations can also connect social media accounts and reach out to a larger audience using channels, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter or other social media.

Novi AMS is a cloud-based association management solution designed to help associations manage members, dues, events, accounting, & more. The only AMS approved by Intuit for the QuickBooks App Store, our 2-way, 24/7 sync saves 10 to 40 hours per week in admin time.

Website Management

Dues Management

Event Scheduling

Registration Management

Electronic Payments

Member Portal

Email Marketing

Committee Management

The Novi AMS integrations most frequently cited by reviewers are: QuickBooks Online (an accounting product rated 4.9 out of 5 for its integration with Novi AMS), Constant Contact (an email marketing product, 4.9), and Mailchimp (an email marketing product, 4.6).

Integrations

By industry, Novi AMS reviewers are most commonly professionals in non-profit organization management (52%). The most frequent use case cited is association management (82% of reviewers).

Novi AMS

MemberClicks

YourMembership

MemberLeap

iMIS

Neon CRM

Core (if annual revenue is $400K or less)

Prime (if annual revenue is $400K to $1M)

Premier (if annual revenue is $1M - $2M)

Elite (if annual revenue is $2M to $4M)

Advanced (if annual revenue is $4M to $6M)

Enterprise (if annual revenue is $6M+)

Special Projects

Where Novi AMS truly stands out as a company is that they genuinely WANT to improve their product and themselves - they listen to their customers, they think about what they can do to make their product what we need, and they are still at a size where they can and do try to treat every customer as an individual, rather than as a number being added to their bottom line. And to be clear, treating every customer as an individual and asking that all your employees try to keep that in mind is a decision - it is not something that automatically happens with small companies or something that you can state once as the mission of your company and just expect everyone to follow - this is something that someone somewhere in the company made an active decision about and then did their best to model the behavior they wanted.

Member Engagement

They are constantly providing trainings, listening to their customers, responsive to requests, and making improvements that meet our needs.

Communications Director and Database Manager

It's an associate management software that is designed by individuals who actually worked within association management.  

Client Services Administrator

Unfortunately, it is a bit pricey compared to other AMS systems, but the value that NOVI adds makes it worth it.

Director of Membership and Community

That we didn't find it sooner. Once we started hearing about it from other users through so many random connections, it was clear we had to do a demo which was all it took to win us over.

Member Engagement Manager

Makes my job so much easier and our website easy for our members to use!

Director of Grants and Quality Data

They're constantly evolving to fit the needs of their users.

Executive Director

From the top to the bottom, the NOVI Team cares about us, the customer.

I've been trying to think of something and I just can't really come up with anything.

Accounting Database Manager

Membership Experience and Education Director

The Novi team cares greatly about their client associations.

They are always thinking about offering more value to associations.

It checks most all of the boxes and we are very pleased with our decision and investment.

The ability to have multi-tiered, multi-priced costs for our events is huge.

VP of Finance & Administration

The way it integrates with QuickBooks and ease of tracking payments and memberships.  

The staff members in the Help Center are so very important to me since I am a one-person office and have no other staff members to assist when I have questions.  

Director of Operations

Analytics,  Website Integration,  API's,  Dues Management, Content Management, ecommerce, epyaments, forms, Personalization,

Education and Communications Coordinator

The novi guest profile features do not reset/include information once connected to an account.

Association Executive Director

Being web based I can now work from anywhere and give better customer service.   Plus hosting events with registration, invoices and having communication thru the events has been a huge benefit in our attendance.  

Novi is also the most user friendly AMS I have personally worked with in the past 20+ years.

Marketing & Membership Manager

We switched over to NOVI after a long process of hearing pitches from various AMS platforms and doing tons of research.

i am annoyed that i have to get a text every time I log into the database, and no one seems to have fix.  

Head of Systems and Technology

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Assistant Membership Manager

I also wish there was a simpler way to track touchpoints across accounts.

Advocacy Membership Coordinator

You can barely use the backend from a mobile device but there's not much of a reason to do so anyway.

The emails sent to our members from the Novi software do not go through a lot of times.

LIS Analyst

Novi allowed us to integrate everything together in one system that as a volunteer organization will be easier to maintain going forward and easier to train others, as members come in or move on.

This results in me having to send email links myself which is time consuming.

Director of Events

The system allows us to streamline many of our processes!  

Operations and Events Manager

Also, there is a steep learning curve with the Quickbooks integration, which I am still learning six months in.

I struggle with the member renewal process, which seems much more complicated than it needs to be.

Hivebrite vs Novi AMS Comparison (2026)

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