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Membership sites for membership and community organizations.

A membership site is a business you own: the content or community behind the login, the billing relationship, and the member list itself. We build membership platforms that handle tiers, recurring payments, gated content, and member profiles without a third-party platform taking a cut or setting the rules. Working remotely from our Providence, RI studio, we scope, prototype, and build for organizations across the US and Canada. Every membership site has to convince two people at once. The visitor on the outside wants proof that belonging is worth the dues, in specific terms: what happens each month, who else is in the room, what it costs. The member on the inside wants to sign in once and find the thing they came for. One site, two doors. For associations, alumni groups, and professional communities, membership is the whole operation: dues by category, a member directory, chapters, committees, private discussion and resources, event registration with member pricing, and renewals that run themselves. The system becomes your member database rather than an add-on to it.

Quick answer

A membership site for membership and community organizations puts content, tools, or community behind a login with tiers, recurring billing, gated access, and renewals that run themselves, on a platform you own rather than rent. GEO Marketing Group builds custom membership platforms starting around $10,000, typically $18,000, working remotely from Providence, RI.

What it includes

What membership site builds include for membership and community organizations.

Membership tiers with recurring billing, trials, coupons, and upgrades through Stripe

Gated content: articles, videos, downloads, courses, or tools unlocked by tier

Member profiles and an optional searchable member directory

Events, RSVPs, and members-only registration with capacity limits

Automated onboarding, renewal reminders, and failed-payment recovery emails

Admin reporting on signups, cancellations, and revenue by tier, with CSV export

Connects to the tools membership and community organizations already use.

Membership site builds earn their keep when they stop double entry. These are the integrations we most often scope for membership and community organizations; if your stack is different, we map it in discovery.

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Why membership and community organizations reach for this.

Benefits described in the abstract

Phrases like "connect and grow" tell a visitor nothing about what a member actually receives each month, so the join page is left to do all of the persuading by itself.

A login that goes somewhere else

Members sign in through a third-party portal that looks unrelated to your brand, and every renewal, event, and resource sits one confusing redirect away from the site they know.

Renewals and events run by hand

Spreadsheets, manual invoices, and emailed RSVPs consume volunteer hours and quietly drop members who never meant to leave and only forgot to renew.

Membership site builds start from $10,000. Every project is quoted to its scope.

FAQ

Membership site builds for membership and community organizations: common questions.

Should I build a custom membership site or use a platform like Patreon or Kajabi?

Start on a platform if your offer is simple and you want to test demand. Build custom when the platform fee is material, when you need a member experience the platform cannot provide, or when owning the member list and the billing relationship matters to the value of your business.

How does recurring billing and renewal work?

Stripe Billing handles the subscription lifecycle: trials, monthly or annual plans, proration on upgrades, tax where required, and automatic retries with reminder emails when a card fails. Members update their own payment details from their account page.

Can I migrate existing members from another platform?

Usually, yes. We import member records and, where the old platform allows it, existing card details through a processor-to-processor migration so nobody has to re-enter payment information. Access levels are mapped to your new tiers before launch.

Ready to scope a membership site build for your membership organization?

Describe the workflow in plain language: who uses it, what they need to see, and what should happen automatically. We come back with a scope, a realistic timeline, and a fixed quote.