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Membership sites for events and conferences.

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 event website runs against a clock. The agenda changes weekly, speakers confirm late, sponsors want logos placed today, and ticket sales have a hard stop the night before doors open. So we build event sites to be edited quickly by your team, with registration embedded and measured rather than handed off to a third-party page. For event organizers, membership is an annual pass or community that outlives one event: access to session recordings, member pricing on the next conference, a year-round discussion space, and early registration windows. Sponsors can get a tiered program with visibility across the whole year.

Quick answer

A membership site for events and conferences 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 events and conferences.

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 events and conferences already use.

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

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Why events and conferences reach for this.

The agenda is a PDF

Attendees cannot search sessions, filter by track, or add a talk to their calendar, and every speaker change means exporting and re-uploading the whole file.

Registration happens somewhere else

A ticket link sends people to a third-party page with a different look, and you never learn which email, sponsor post, or speaker announcement actually drove the sale.

Last year's site is still live

Stale dates and an outdated speaker list keep showing up in search, confusing early registrants, while nobody has a plan for relaunching on the same domain next year.

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

FAQ

Membership site builds for events and conferences: 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 event?

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.