Members.dev

What Members.dev is

Members.dev calls itself "a new membership management platform, designed from the ground up to be flexible." It is aimed at organizations that run a membership program rather than at solo creators selling paywalled posts. Its home page names the groups it supports: members' clubs, gyms and studios, social and sports clubs, professional associations and coworking spaces. The company describes itself as a small, tightly knit team, and the pages do not say where it is based. Its own wording for the range it covers is "some organizations just need to track and contact members, whereas others need a custom self-service membership portal including payments."

The reader it fits is an operations lead or club manager who needs a member database, billing and a member-facing app in one system, and who may want that system to talk to door access, a shop or a custom website.

What you build and how

The platform is organized into nine areas that the home page numbers: members, subscriptions, payments, bookings, app and website, cards, entitlements, access, and multi-organization. You configure them rather than design pages on a canvas, so the "build" here is a membership program: its data, its products, its rules and the portal your members use.

The member database. You manage members and keep contact details current, with custom fields for things like emergency contact details and preferences, plus staff-only fields for notes and comments. Existing members come in through a spreadsheet upload, or you send self-service invites. Members can be organized into groups, and the comparison pages mention family groups, companies and sports teams as examples. You can search and filter by name, membership and your own custom fields, send one-click emails to all members, and export to a spreadsheet. The company's comparison page says you can add unlimited phones, addresses and emails to each member, and define custom fields on both membership profiles and membership products, with control over whether each is required or optional, customer-visible or admin-only, and what field type it is. Members can also fill in custom forms during account creation.

Subscriptions and payments. The home page lists free trials, joining fees, automatic renewals, billing reminders, group memberships, and cancellation and pause logic. Products are configurable, with custom renewal, expiry and pricing logic. You can also sell credit packs, top-ups and one-off purchases.

Bookings. You set capacity on booking slots, take reservations and manage waitlists, and you can offer different rates and availability by membership type.

Entitlements. The entitlement engine is the feature that separates this from a simple paywall tool. You define entitlements that renew, expire and track in real time: credit packs that deplete as members use them, feature access gated by plan, and guest passes with remaining balances tracked. The comparison page gives a concrete case, tracking usage against an annual plan with 10 guest passes, or a monthly plan that gives the member 1 guest pass per month.

The member app and website. Members get a self-service app and website carrying your logo, colors and identity. You choose whether members manage their own renewals, bookings and details, or whether that stays staff-only. The custom app is available on Android and iOS, with full support for Apple and Google Wallets.

Digital membership cards. You can issue cards with different designs per membership type and tier, added to Apple or Google Wallet for instant check-in.

Access control. The platform can integrate with physical access control systems for automated entry.

Multi-organization. You can run several venues from one platform. Each organization manages its own members and offerings while you keep central oversight.

API and webhooks. The company positions its REST API and webhooks as the main way to connect other systems. Its examples are physical door access, discounts on an online shop, bar or restaurant software, and a custom website or phone app. It contrasts this with platforms that have "limited or read-only APIs." For larger organizations it lists customizable roles, permissions, audit tracking, and SSO and SAML integration.

What the pages say about pricing and support

The comparison page with Join It, reviewed by the company in May 2026, tabulates price for 100, 1,000 and 10,000 members. For Members.dev every row reads "From $19/month," while the same table gives Join It "From $29/month," "From $49/month" and "From $129/month" for those sizes. Both products are shown with a transaction fee of 3.0-1.5%. These figures come from Members.dev's own comparison, and the company states plainly that it is biased and that Join It will be a better fit for some buyers. The home page itself publishes no price list. It invites you to "Book a demo" for a customized demo, with a 30-minute intro call as the first step.

On support, the company says you get "dedicated support direct from the team behind the software," that the team will get on a call and "build custom solutions." That is a claim about its own service, and the pages cite no response times.

The pages do not state a free plan, a free trial for the platform itself, a compliance certification, a hosting region or a customer count.

Who it suits and who it does not

Members.dev suits a gym, studio, sports or social club, coworking space or professional association whose membership has rules: session packs, expiring credits, guest passes, tiers, bookings, or a card that opens a door. It also suits an organization that wants its member data to sync with a website, app or ticketing and CRM tools through an API. A multi-site operator gets the multi-organization setup, and a larger body gets roles, audit tracking and SSO.

The comparison page with Memberful sets out where the company thinks it is not the right pick. Memberful, it says, is the stronger fit for an individual creator whose main product is paid access to newsletters, podcasts and downloads and who wants to launch quickly with existing plugins and Zapier. By the company's own account, Members.dev suits "more established organizations" that want more than paywalled content.

Two practical caveats follow. The pages list its integrations as an API and webhooks rather than a library of ready-made connectors, so someone has to build the link to your other systems, and the Join It page says that Join It offers pre-built connectors where Members.dev takes the API route. And pricing beyond the comparison table is handled through a demo, so a small club cannot work out a full budget from the site alone.