# Wild Apricot review (2026): is it worth $56.10 a month? > Membership management software with built-in event tools Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Wild Apricot is membership management software for associations, clubs, chambers and nonprofits, with event registration and ticket payments inside the same system. It also covers a member database, website builder, email, online store and donations. Prices are set by the number of contacts managed. - **Category:** Event Ticketing - **Made by:** Personify - **Website:** https://www.wildapricot.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you only sell tickets once or twice a year, as you pay by contacts all year. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Wild Apricot is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $56.10 per month for 100 contacts, billed every 2 years ($66 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 60-day free trial, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | 100 contacts | $56.10 per month for up to 100 contacts, 2-year prepay ($66 monthly) | One-year prepay is $59.40 a month. Every size has the same features. | | 250 contacts | $69.70 per month for up to 250 contacts, 2-year prepay ($82 monthly) | One-year prepay is $73.80 a month. | | 500 contacts | $130.90 per month for up to 500 contacts, 2-year prepay ($154 monthly) | One-year prepay is $138.60 a month. | | 2,000 contacts | $225.25 per month for up to 2,000 contacts, 2-year prepay ($265 monthly) | One-year prepay is $238.50 a month. | | 5,000 contacts | $412.25 per month for up to 5,000 contacts, 2-year prepay ($485 monthly) | One-year prepay is $436.50 a month. | | 15,000 contacts | $496.40 per month for up to 15,000 contacts, 2-year prepay ($584 monthly) | One-year prepay is $525.60 a month; 50,000 contacts is $843.20 on a 2-year prepay. | Read from https://www.wildapricot.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Wild Apricot before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **10% off one year, 15% off two years prepaid** (Annual discount): Prepaying one year saves 10% against monthly billing and prepaying two years saves 15%. Source: https://www.wildapricot.com/pricing ## Key features - **Event registration:** Event listings with images, custom registration forms, waitlists, guest registration, automated emails and online payment tracking. - **Member database:** A cloud contact and membership database with automated renewals, reminders and a members-only portal. - **Website builder:** Drag-and-drop pages from templates, with member-only pages and a WordPress plugin for existing sites. - **Payments and donations:** Online payments with recurring dues and donations, through Personify Payments or other processors for an extra fee. - **Email and communications:** Scheduled emails, templates and sequences triggered by member actions, with tracking. - **Admin and member apps:** Mobile apps let admins check in attendees and take payments and let members view tickets and update profiles. ## Good for - Clubs, chambers and associations that sell event tickets to members - Organizations that want membership, website and events in one system ## Worth knowing - Priced by contact count, not by tickets sold; the price rises at each contact tier. - Charges the per-contact price whether or not you sell tickets, so it costs more than ticket-only tools for one-off events. - Other payment processors than Personify Payments carry an additional fee. - After the free trial, an account that has not upgraded is deleted. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Wild Apricot is membership software with event registration, a website builder and payments, priced by the number of contacts instead of tickets. It starts at $56.10 a month for 100 contacts and rises to $130.90 at 500, so a one-off event costs more here than on a ticket-only tool. - **Value for money: C.** From $56.10 a month for 100 contacts on a 2-year prepay ($66 monthly), then $130.90 at 500 contacts. That is inside the middle of the category. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 60-day trial needs no card and there is no free plan. Unupgraded accounts are deleted after it. - **Features: B.** Registration, waitlists, member database, website builder, payments, email and mobile check-in all in one. Nothing in the core job is missing. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You set up a member database, site and forms. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web plus admin and member mobile apps, with QuickBooks, Mailchimp, Zapier, Make and WordPress listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Wild Apricot's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among event ticketing platforms - Wild Apricot's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 39 of the 79 other event ticketing platforms we grade, and level with 9. - It stands best on features (B, above 30 of 79) and worst on ease of use (C, above 4). - Its paid plans start at $56.10 a month, against a middle price of $50 for the category: 12 of the 22 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/event-ticketing ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Wild Apricot you would be making checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $673.20 a year. - You could make: Forms: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: Checkout, card payments and sales tax handled for you. - You could not: Selling tickets and checking them at the door. - You could not: It plugs into other products, QuickBooks, Mailchimp and Zapier among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with QuickBooks, Mailchimp, Zapier, Make, WordPress, Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar **Tags:** Ticketing, Forms, Online store, Public API ## Alternatives - [Glue Up](https://toolgpa.com/tools/glueup): Membership and event platform for associations and chambers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/glueup-vs-wild-apricot) - [Eventzilla](https://toolgpa.com/tools/eventzilla): Registration and ticketing for conferences, training and fundraisers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/eventzilla-vs-wild-apricot) - [Ticket Tailor](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ticket-tailor): Event ticketing for a flat fee per ticket, with prepaid credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ticket-tailor-vs-wild-apricot) - [RegFox](https://toolgpa.com/tools/regfox): Event registration with per-registrant fees and no subscription. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/regfox-vs-wild-apricot) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.wildapricot.com/pricing - https://www.wildapricot.com - https://www.wildapricot.com/features/integrations Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/wild-apricot Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).