SorrelSites vs YourMembership
SorrelSites vs YourMembership
Both can run your membership. Only one keeps running when your board does, moving you in for free and updating your website for you. YourMembership bundles a lot for mid-size associations — but its interface is dated, its finances are thin, and pricing is quote-only.
Association management system, part of Momentive (Community Brands rebrand, 2024)
Is SorrelSites a better fit than YourMembership for a small organization?
For a small organization, SorrelSites is usually the better fit: YourMembership is an association management system built and priced for mid-size associations, sold by quote at an estimated $3,000 to $6,000 a year and up to about $20,000, with setup fees of roughly $2,000 to $5,000 on top. SorrelSites publishes its price — $99 a month for up to 100 active members, month to month, with no setup fee and no cut of your dues — and counts only memberships that are currently active, so lapsed members and captured contacts do not enlarge your plan. SorrelSites also does the move for you: Sprout reimagines your website and maps your member list for you to approve, then accounts for every page — kept, merged, left behind, or needs a photo — and afterwards you change the site by describing the change, previewing it, then publishing. And SorrelSites runs the board itself — Sprout drafts the minutes with motions and votes on the record, approved minutes lock, and follow-ups chase their owners — where YourMembership shares minutes as documents in a group space and leaves the drafting and the follow-up to you. YourMembership is the better choice if you want white-glove onboarding and bundled breadth, especially if your association already runs other Momentive products.
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.
- YourMembership
- Its MomentiveIQ AI is pointed at scoring and sorting members, not serving them — it won't welcome people curious about joining, move you in, or change your website for you.
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.
- YourMembership
- Boards share minutes as documents in a group space — the drafting, the approval, and the follow-ups stay manual.
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.
- YourMembership
- Event registration comes in the bundle, but nothing turns last year's plan into this year's checklist — the run-up stays on spreadsheets.
Knowing the price up front
- SorrelSites
- One clear, published price — no 'contact sales.' (See our pricing page.)
- YourMembership
- Quote-based; estimated from roughly $3,000–$6,000/yr up to about $20k.
Changing your website
- SorrelSites
- Type the change you want, see a preview, and publish when you're ready.
- YourMembership
- Sites are basic unless you pay extra, and reviewers say platform updates are minimal.
Moving in
- SorrelSites
- Sprout turns your website into three new designs built from your own writing and pictures, 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.
- YourMembership
- High-touch implementation, with setup fees of about $2,000–$5,000.
Keeping the books
- SorrelSites
- Dues and payments are built in.
- YourMembership
- Financial tools are thin enough that many keep a separate accounting system.
Getting help
- SorrelSites
- The same people help every organization on a paid plan — and they get to know how yours runs instead of answering tickets cold. Sprout covers the questions that don't need a person, day or night.
- YourMembership
- Reviewers say it's hard to reach someone by phone.
SorrelSites points its AI at the organization's own work — drafting board minutes, event pages and website updates for a person to approve — while YourMembership's MomentiveIQ AI is pointed at scoring and sorting members, not at serving them.
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 YourMembership boards share minutes as documents in a group space, with the drafting, the approval and the follow-ups left manual.
SorrelSites turns last year's event-planning spreadsheet into a live checklist with owners and due dates and runs the event day — check-in, announcements, live polls, floor Q&A — from one screen, while YourMembership bundles event registration but has nothing that turns last year's plan into this year's checklist.
SorrelSites publishes its price — $99 a month for up to 100 active members, $199 for up to 300, $399 for up to 750 and $699 for up to 2,000, with 10% off if you pay for the year — while YourMembership is sold by quote, with third-party estimates putting it at roughly $3,000 to $6,000 a year and as much as about $20,000.
SorrelSites lets you change your website by typing the change you want, previewing it and publishing when you are ready; with YourMembership, sites are basic unless you pay extra, and reviewers say platform updates are minimal.
SorrelSites reimagines your website as three new designs built from your own writing and pictures and maps your member list for you to approve at no charge and with no setup fee, whereas moving to YourMembership is a high-touch implementation carrying setup fees of about $2,000 to $5,000.
SorrelSites has dues and payments built in, with the money landing in your organization's own Stripe account, while YourMembership's financial tools are thin enough that many organizations keep a separate accounting system alongside it.
SorrelSites gives every organization the same people on every paid plan, including Starter, and those people get to know how the organization runs, while reviewers say it is hard to reach someone at YourMembership by phone.
A closer look
From the meeting to the record.
Sprout drafts your minutes for you to review. Here is how a motion and its vote appear in the record.
When is YourMembership the better choice?
Sometimes it is, and we'd rather you land in the right place than the wrong one. YourMembership can be the better choice if:
- You're a mid-size association that wants white-glove onboarding and bundled breadth, especially if you already run other Momentive products.
- A career center and online community in one bundle matter more to you than published, month-to-month pricing.
Looking at other options too? See our pricing or the move-in story.
How the move from YourMembership 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.
Export your data from YourMembership
In YourMembership, run a member export (or a saved query report) from the admin side to download your list as a CSV or Excel file. It's all yours to take with you — that's what Sprout brings across for you.
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.
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.
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 YourMembership: common questions
How do we get our data out of YourMembership?
See it next to YourMembership, using the work you do
Bring your members, your dues and the tasks that keep coming back. We'll walk through the work together and give you an honest answer about fit, including when staying put is the right call.