Free Membership Website Software
Here are five reasons you should think twice before you try to use free membership website software.
- Support – I think free is great. But free plugins and software do not have any support and that means they just might stop working.
- Affordable Options – I do not think it is wise to spend $1,000’s on membership website software. However, there is membership website software that works great for under $100.
- Free Membership Website Software is not really free. You have to figure out how to set up and integrate the software, and since it is just an free open source membership website software, it may not have any instructions.
- Versioning – When Wordpress upgrades, I feel confident that the Wishlist Member team will upgrade thier plugin and I will not have any major outage.
- Use a combination of free software and paid components for the best, low cost solution. Wordpress is free, and it is big enough so you can have faith that it will be around. However, the free membership website software plugins for wordpress are not feature rich enough to make managing your membership website easy. For that reason, take the free software that works well, but spend a little to get good plug ins and services to make your membership website a success.
