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fellos vs Wild Apricot: built for chapters, not contact lists

You are probably here because renewals run fine but everything else lives somewhere else — a Facebook group for the talk, a spreadsheet for the chapter list, a binder for who approved what. This page is the honest side-by-side for a club, lodge, or post weighing the two. Every Wild Apricot figure below comes from their own public pricing page, linked at the bottom.

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Side by side

fellos and Wild Apricot, row by row

The dimensions that decide it for a club with structure: hierarchy, approvals, community, check-in, fees, and what shows up on the invoice.

Feature	fellos	Wild Apricot
Chapters and org hierarchy	A real tree — club, region, chapter — with a visual org chart and chain of command as first-class concepts.	Flat member lists. No hierarchy modelling.
Member lifecycles and approval workflows	Configurable member types with multi-step approval chains for onboarding, type changes, transfers, and deactivation.	Active or lapsed. Renewal automation is strong, but there are no approval workflows.
Community feed and discussions	Groups, threaded posts, reactions, an activity feed, and permission-based moderation — in the same place as the roster.	No community features. Most orgs end up running a separate Facebook group.
Permissions and audit trail	Three admin tiers, field-level permissions, visibility scopes, and an audit log of every action.	Admin or member. Limited granularity, no audit trail.
Event ticketing and QR check-in	Paid registrations, guest seats, and a QR code per party that gets scanned at the door from a phone.	Event registration and ticketing with payment integration.
Interface on a phone	Mobile-first. Installs to the phone like an app — no app store, no download.	Functional but visually dated; the company sits at 1.7 out of 5 on Trustpilot (linked below).
Transaction fees	0% on dues, event tickets, and store sales. Your Stripe account, Stripe’s standard processing fees, nothing on top from us.	0% — Stripe pass-through, same as fellos.
What you are billed for	Active members only — people who can sign in today. Retired, deactivated, and historical records stay in your files and cost nothing.	Contact records, across seven tiers from 100 up to 50,000 contacts. Inactive records still count.
Getting started	Self-serve. A site is up in about five minutes, and the free tier covers up to 20 active members for good.	60-day free trial, no credit card.

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Switching

Switching from Wild Apricot?

Here is the honest version. fellos is self-serve, so a site is up in about five minutes without anyone getting on a call with you. The free tier — up to 20 active members — means you can build your chapter tree, member types, and approval chains alongside Wild Apricot and see whether it holds your structure before you move a single officer. And because we only bill for members who can sign in, the people still sitting in Wild Apricot cost you nothing here while you decide. What we do not have is a one-click importer, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

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The numbers

What each one costs, and what each one counts

For a 200-active-member club, fellos Club is $99/mo. Wild Apricot lists $80/mo at that size and $66/mo for 100 contacts, over seven contact tiers up to 50,000, with 10% off for a one-year prepay and 15% for two years. The difference is what gets counted: Wild Apricot bills on contact records including the ones who can no longer sign in; fellos counts only active members, has no annual commitment, and takes 0% of dues, ticket, and store revenue on every tier.

SourcesWild Apricot pricing Wild Apricot on Trustpilot (1.7/5)fellos pricing

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