SorrelSites vs Springly

SorrelSites vs Springly

Both can run your membership. Only one keeps running when your board does, moving you in for free and updating your website for you. Springly is a genuine all-in-one on its paid tiers — but its free tier has no member list, its accounting sits two tiers up, and the AI website builder its parent points you to is a different product with its own login.

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Is SorrelSites a better fit than Springly for a small organization?

SorrelSites is the better fit for a small membership organization that wants the move, the website, and the board's paperwork handled for it, and Springly is the better fit if a free tier for collecting payments is what decides it. The two free offers are not comparable: Springly's Liberty tier is $0 and collects payments and builds membership, donation and event forms, but it has no contact database, no website, no emailing and no online store, so the member list itself is not in it. Springly's paid tiers start at $45 a month and $119 a month, each priced by how many contacts you have, and its accounting and its API are only in the $119 tier. SorrelSites is $99 a month for up to 100 active members, month to month, with no setup fee and no cut of your dues. SorrelSites is also the only side of this comparison that runs the board and keeps the event plan — Sprout drafts the minutes with motions and votes on the record, and turns last year's planning spreadsheet into a live checklist.

Who the AI actually serves

SorrelSites
Sprout, SorrelSites' AI, does the org's real work — it drafts board minutes, event pages, and website updates for you to approve, and it welcomes people curious about joining in your org's voice. Behind the scenes it also moves you in and reimagines your website — it asks four short questions about what the site should do and builds the new design from your answers; afterward you change your site just by describing it, preview first, then publish.
Springly
Springly's own feature index lists no AI of its own. Its parent, team.blue, answers the AI website builder with Webnode — a separate product, with its own login and its own bill.

Running the board

SorrelSites
Your board runs here too. Sprout drafts the minutes — motions, votes, and action items on the record — from your notes, a transcript, or the recap email you forward to your organization's own Sprout address. Approved minutes lock, follow-ups chase their owners, and every new director gets a briefing built from the last year of minutes.
Springly
Nothing for the board — minutes, motions, and follow-ups live in Word, email, and shared drives.

Planning & running events

SorrelSites
Paste last year's planning spreadsheet and Sprout turns it into a live checklist with owners and due dates. On the day, check people in by QR from your phone — per session, on a conference day — and push announcements, run live polls, and take floor questions from one screen, with no second app. The thank-you sends itself afterward, and the plan stays with your organization, not on a volunteer's laptop.
Springly
Event registration and ticketing are there — but there is no planning checklist, and nothing live in the room.

What “all-in-one” includes

SorrelSites
Every plan is the whole product — member list, website, email, events, dues, the board's paperwork. Bigger plans hold more members, not more features.
Springly
The $0 tier has no contact database, website, emailing or online store. Accounting and the API start at the $119 tier.

Moving in

SorrelSites
Sprout lists every page on your old site so you tick what comes with you before anything is copied, reimagines it, and maps your member list — free, for you to approve. And if something didn't come across the way you wanted, a real person here fixes it with you.
Springly
You bring your data over and set the site up yourself.

Changing your website

SorrelSites
Type the change you want, see a preview, and publish when you're ready.
Springly
Springly includes a website builder on its paid tiers, and you make the edits in it yourself.

Reaching your members

SorrelSites
Reach members by email and a notification on their phone — each member picks the channels they want.
Springly
Emailing is included on the paid tiers, and not in the free one.

Fees on your dues

SorrelSites
No fees on your dues — you pay your processor, nothing extra to us.
Springly
The free tier takes no transaction fee and instead asks the person paying to add an optional tip.

What it costs

SorrelSites
$99 a month for up to 100 active members, $199 for up to 300, $399 for up to 750, $699 for up to 2,000.
Springly
$0 for payment collection, then from $45 a month and from $119 a month, each priced by how many contacts you have.

SorrelSites points Sprout, its AI, at the organization's own work — drafting board minutes, event pages and website updates for a person to approve, and welcoming people curious about joining — while Springly's own feature index lists no AI and its parent team.blue answers the AI website builder with Webnode, a separate product bought and logged into separately.

SorrelSites runs the board itself — Sprout drafts minutes with motions, votes and action items on the record, approved minutes lock, and every new director gets a briefing built from the last year of minutes — while Springly has nothing for the board, leaving minutes, motions and follow-ups in Word, email and shared drives.

SorrelSites turns last year's event-planning spreadsheet into a live checklist with owners and due dates and runs the event day from one screen, while Springly covers event registration and ticketing without a planning checklist for the run-up.

Every SorrelSites plan includes the whole product and the bigger plans simply hold more members, whereas Springly's free Liberty tier has no contact database, website, emailing or online store, and its accounting and API are only in the $119-a-month Professional tier.

SorrelSites lists every page on your old site so you choose what comes with you, reimagines it, and maps your member list for you to approve at no charge, with a real person at SorrelSites to fix anything that didn't come across the way you wanted, whereas moving to Springly means bringing your data over and setting the site up yourself.

SorrelSites lets you type the change you want, see a preview and publish when you're ready, while Springly gives you a website builder on its paid tiers and leaves the editing to you.

SorrelSites reaches members by email and by a notification on their phone, with each member choosing the channels they want, while Springly includes emailing on its paid tiers only.

SorrelSites takes no cut of your dues, because dues and event payments land in your organization's own Stripe account and you pay your processor directly; Springly's free Liberty tier takes no transaction fee either, funding itself by asking the person paying to add an optional tip.

Springly is $0 for collecting payments, then from $45 a month and from $119 a month, while SorrelSites is $99 a month for up to 100 active members, $199 for up to 300 and $399 for up to 750, billed month to month with no setup fee. The two prices count different things: Springly's paid tiers are laddered by how many contacts you hold, so every lapsed member and captured contact counts toward the next step up, while SorrelSites' plan size counts only memberships that are currently active.

A motion recorded in the minutes as a structured card: the motion text, a Passed badge, the vote (for 9, against 0, abstain 0), who moved it and who seconded, and its Source opened to show the transcript lines it was drawn from.
Real screenshot. Example organization, sample data.

When is Springly the better choice?

Sometimes it is, and we'd rather you land in the right place than the wrong one. Springly can be the better choice if:

  • You mainly need to collect donations and dues online and can live without a member list, a website or email — Springly's free tier does that at no charge.
  • You want bookkeeping inside the same tool as your members and are willing to start at its $119-a-month tier to get it.

Looking at other options too? See our pricing or the move-in story.

How the move from Springly works

Moving in is included — no moving fee, no setup fee — and Sprout does the carrying, so you're checking the work, not re-typing it.

The member import's mapping review, step 4 of 6: each column of the uploaded export beside what Sprout proposed for it — built-in fields matched, a membership-level column set to enrol on a plan, an Organization column mapped to a custom field — with the real first row as a sample and what Sprout found in the column (its type, how many values, how full it is).
Every column of the old export, read and matched — the membership level enrolled on a plan, the unknown columns proposed as new fields for you to accept. Real screenshot. Example organization, sample data.
  1. Export your data from Springly

    Run the membership export and Springly emails you an Excel file of your members. That's what Sprout brings across for you — including the duplicate rows, which it sorts out so you don't have to.

  2. Start your free trial

    Fourteen days, no card. Confirm your email and your site is live right away at yourname.sorrelsites.com — nothing to install.

  3. Let Sprout do the moving

    Hand Sprout your member file and point it at your old site. It lists every page it finds so you tick what comes with you, brings that across, and reimagines it — then shows you a preview. You're checking the work, not re-typing it.

  4. Review and go live

    Look it over and change anything you like. If something didn't come across the way you wanted, say so — a real person here will fix it with you. Publish when you're happy, and add your own web address whenever you're ready.

And you're not doing it alone.

If something didn't come across the way you wanted, tell us while you're settling in and a real person here will get in and fix it with you — no charge, no ticket to file. Email support@joinsorrel.com.

Leaving something else, or not sure yet? The move-in story covers what carries over whoever you're coming from.

SorrelSites and Springly — common questions

How do we get our data out of Springly?
Export your data from Springly. Run the membership export and Springly emails you an Excel file of your members. That's what Sprout brings across for you — including the duplicate rows, which it sorts out so you don't have to.

See it next to Springly, with your own numbers

Half an hour with the person who builds SorrelSites — your members, your dues, your events. You'll get an honest answer about fit, including when staying put is the right call.

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