A complete membership software solution for $99.00? Absolutely!

MemberTies membership software is a complete membership database that combines power, flexibility, and affordability to save you time and organize your membership data. Whether you're a single user handling membership on a home computer, or an administrator in a large, multi-user organization, MemberTies will streamline your membership data and make it work for you.

With thousands of registered users in 21 countries, our membership software has proven its value and capability to a wide variety of organizations. Some typical organizations successfully managing their data with MemberTies include: fitness clubs, churches, universities, hospitals, Masonic lodges, chambers of commerce, homeowner associations, golf courses, political parties, historical societies, sporting clubs, swimming pools, and social clubs of every kind. These organizations range in size from a few hundred to over 150,000 members!

The membership database used by MemberTies is normally installed on your computer; but if you prefer, we can "host" your database on special dedicated servers here at Myrro International. Database Hosting enables you to connect to your database via the Internet from any installation of MemberTies. This works really well when the people who need to access your membership data are in multiple locations, or work from home or on the road. With a laptop and an Internet connection, your data is always available and other users will see your changes immediately.

MemberTies is available in both a standard and a professional version. The standard version contains a large number of powerful features designed to meet the needs of almost any organization. The professional version builds upon the strengths of the standard version to give you even more control of how the software works. For example, the professional version lets you use any of the reports available in the standard version, and lets you create your own as well. Click here to compare the features of the standard and professional versions.

This software runs on Windows 2000 (SP4), XP, and Vista. There are no special hardware requirements and you do not need to know anything about databases to be successful. (And we're always here to answer questions!)

Membership Software - Features

Regardless of whether you choose MemberTies or MemberTies Professional, you will discover that it is designed to do much more than track the basics. The software is really a front-end for a powerful database designed specifically to help you organize and take control of all the different types of information that is critical to the operation of your organization. For example:

• Contact Information - All of the basic contact information is available, including the complete name, photograph, company name, address, email, telephone, website, occupation/job title, reference, etc. In addition, MemberTies Professional allows for unlimited addresses per membership record, and even allows you to assign a date range within which each address is valid so the system can automatically keep track of the "current" address. This "current address" feature is a real time-saver when members have different summer and winter addresses!

• Membership Types - Most organizations are made up of many members, and each member is assigned a particular "status" that designates the type of membership the person holds. MemberTies ships with a predefined set of statuses, but also allows you to add to them, or delete them all and define your own. So regardless of whether your group has statuses like "Family" and "Single" or more generic terms like "Prospect" and "Regular", MemberTies will let you set up exactly what you need. In addition, a little extra setup work will let the system automatically move members from one status to another as their memberships expire. Never worry about who is active and inactive again!

• Dues Payments - MemberTies enables you to enter any number of dues payments for each membership record. MemberTies (standard version) lets you enter the amount and date paid, the membership status purchased, and additional comments. Once you have set up your dues information, you can also use the Dues Calculator to figure the amount of dues owed for a given status for a given month. Credit card information can also be stored per member for one or more cards.

  MemberTies Professional expands the dues functionality to give you individual dues "accounts" to which you can post both debit and credit entries using a system of dues Posting Types. The pro version also provides automated interest posting on past-due accounts, and mass dues-posting to help with those, "once a year everybody owes us the same amount" tasks. If you wish, MemberTies will even post a dues charge when the End Date arrives on a member's record, so all you need to do is post the payment when it arrives. Additional reports are also included to help check balances, postings for a given day, and to print account statements. Finally, donations are tracked seperately from dues, allowing you to "zero balance" a dues account when paid in full without affecting a growing total of donations.

• Roles & Achievements - If your group recognizes members for their achievements, tracks offices or positions held, or just needs to know when someone was involved in a particular type of activity, you can record it using membership or group "Items." Items are used as a generic way of describing all of the "things" your members can be involved in. You can create distinct item categories, such as "Member Achievements" or, "Offices," and then assign items to those. For example, in the Offices category, you might create items of "President" and "Vice President." Then you could assign the Offices/President item to the person who held that position, and add a comment indicating the year they were in office. Items and Item Categories can be used very creatively!

• ToDo Lists - Every busy organization has things that need to be done. Sometimes the ToDo is related to a specific member, and other times it is more generic. Sometimes you (the user of MemberTies) needs a reminder just for yourself. The ToDo List feature in MemberTies enables you to track ToDo items for any membership or group record, or for yourself. You can print your outstanding ToDo list, display future items, and of course, mark them as done as you complete them.

• Sub-Groups - MemberTies enables you to assign each membership record to any number of sub-groups within your organization. That means you can actually keep track of the members of committees, chapters, or whatever other subdivision might apply, all in the same database! There also is no limit to the number of databases you can create for an organization.

• Activities - Every organization does things. Whether it's a business meeting, a movie party, a camping trip, or a huge festival. MemberTies lets you track those activities, where they take place, times, dates, and general notes. The Professional version takes it a step further and enables you to associate members and their guests to the activities, and assign them a role and status (i.e., "Guest Speaker", "Invited"), set their start and end date/time, and track associated income and expense entries (for the attendee or the activity itself).

• Reporting - No membership system is complete without reports, so we provide a complete set of predefined reports, including rosters, mailing labels, dues payments, statistics, birthday lists, contact lists, individual member and group reports, and more. Many reports can be customized to show only certain membership statuses, dates, etc., or can be restricted to limit membership records to those assigned to a specific group. After you get the report the way you like it, you can save it under a different name for future reuse. Furthermore, if the report you need isn't available, a custom report can be created for your organization that fits your needs.

  MemberTies Professional expands the report functionality with the ability to create your own multi-column reports, mailing labels, rosters, name cards, post cards, business cards, photo IDs, and more. Choose from any available membership or group field, lay out the report by setting the column order, sorting, alignment, headings, titles, fonts, etc., then save the report and it will act just like it came with the original program.

• Email - MemberTies Professional includes an integrated email system that works with any SMTP email server to which you have access. Send email to any of your members, sub-groups, or the attendees of any activity. You can even create an "email merge" by formatting your email message with fields from the database.

• Importing Data - If you have existing membership data in another program, just export your data to a delimited text file, and you're ready to map each of your existing fields to fields in MemberTies! All data to be imported is displayed for you before it is sent to the database, so you will know just what is being imported.

• Multiple Users/Networking - If you need multiple people to access the database at the same time, additional seats may be purchased for your license. After that, all you need is TCP/IP support on the "server" computer, and setting up additional users is a simple process. The "server" can be your home computer with a fast internet connection, or you can have us host your database here on our dedicated database servers.

• Protecting Your Data - All data is stored in a relational database, and full backup and restore options are included within the program. The system will automatically prompt you to backup the database at the interval you specify, or leave you alone to do it manually. If we host your database, you have the option of having an automated weekly backup of the database performed at the server, in addition to any backups you choose to make to your own computer.

• Help - Complete online help is provided using the standard Windows help system. Help includes a table of contents, a complete searchable index, and step by step procedures for using all available features. The entire Help system is also available online Here and as a (large) printable PDF file.

The installed program will require about 50 MB of disk space, and may be easily uninstalled via the Windows Control Panel. There is no special hardware or software required. If you have the hardware required to Microsoft Windows and you're happy with the speed of your computer, then you have what you need for our software.

Membership Software - Pricing

MemberTies and MemberTies Professional are distributed as Shareware, i.e., "try before you buy" software. There is no time limit on their use, and they are both fully functional. The only limitation in the unregistered versions is that you may enter a maximum of 20 membership records. Hopefully, that will be enough to give you a good feel for the software and how it works.

If you decide our software is right for your organization, we also won't break your budget. The cost for an single user license for one organization is $99.00 for MemberTies, or $149.00 for all the power of MemberTies Professional. Don't let the low price fool you! The software is priced to be affordable to the smallest social clubs and the largest national organizations. We want you to have great software, not great budgets (should your software really cost more than your computer? We don't think so!) And of course, our outstanding online, email, and telephone technical support and customer service is always free.

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