You don't have to be tech-savvy and master complex website development. Wild Apricot's website templates are a great jump start to creating good-looking easy to use websites. Our website templates are professionally designed for membership based organizations and communities - associations, clubs, activist groups, charities - and any other groups of people with common interest.

Each website template comes with a set of matching text styles (heading styles, highlighted text and so on). Try a different website template to change the design at any time - all your content will be absolutely safe. Point and click to change colors and text style across your whole website instantly. Pick the shade of green for menu background to match your logo. Set the text headings size and color to match.

Uploading white papers, industry news and other information is a snap, and content changes are as easy as editing a Microsoft Word document. You don't have to be a techy to setup and maintain your website with Wild Apricot. Create unlimited number of webpages, including interactive online calendar, blog, discussion forum, member directory and more.

With Wild Apricot you can create web pages with premium content accessible only to your members, to your board or volunteers. For example, create pages to store industry research, best practices, members-only blog, members discussion forum - or collaborate on documents. Easily upload PDF documents, Microsoft Word files, Excel spreadsheets or any other files onto your website. Provide a secure member directory and select what information to show. Automate granting access to new members and locking out lapsed members.

Part of Wild Apricot's integrated software, online discussion forums provide a simple and convenient way for your community to share ideas and knowledge. Control by membership level who is allowed to read the forum, create new discussion threads - and post replies.

See more: Online Help - Discussion Forum

Wild Apricot's built-in blogging feature helps building a strong community and provides a place for you to reach out - and for your members to comment back and engage with you. You can even allow certain groups (for example, trusted volunteers) to create new blog posts on their own.

See more: Online Help - Blog Module

Wild Apricot's Membership Directory is a secure and searchable index of members available on your web site. Make it accessible to the public or restrict to your members only. Members control what information can be searched. Each person can maintain their personal profile, change password, access member-only content and participate in community discussions

Wild Apricot's email capability makes it simple to reach out to your whole database of members and supporters, past event attendees and sponsors. Launching a new campaign? Holding an upcoming event? Looking for volunteers? Get the word out fast.

Each email can be individualized with recipient name and other fields from your database.

Send emails to your whole database - or target a specific list - such as attendees of a specific event, all active members with certain membership level or any other selection, e.g. by custom fields you set up in your Wild Apricot membership database.

Handling membership applications can be a time-consuming chore for your staff and volunteers - and a hassle for your prospective members. (Do you measure how many people get to your website, read about your membership - but never apply? Some even print out the membership form but then never get around to filling it out and mailing it).

Here is what Wild Apricot can do for you:

• Create and customize online member application form in 15 minutes;
• Make it immediately available on your website 24/7;
• Automatically send email confirmations and accept online credit card payments;
• Let new members immediately get the access to a private members-only section of your website, members directory, discussion forum, and other online services;
• Automatically send renewal reminders - or even process recurring membership charges

With Wild Apricot's integrated system people can register - and securely pay event registration fees - online, right on your website. Cut down on faxes, emails and phone calls - let people instantly register when it is convenient for them and save you work. Members don't even have to retype contact information, the registration software automatically looks them up in the database.

Members and the public can be automatically assigned the correct price - based on the membership level and selected registration options, for example meal choice and optional activities.

Wild Apricot will automatically send event registration confirmation by email which you can customize as needed.

You will have instant access to the current list of registrations. Furthermore, Wild Apricot can automatically stop the registration if the capacity limit is reached. It can even send automatic event announcements to your whole contact database and reminders to people who have already registered.

See more: Online Help - Online Event Registration

Put an end to avalanche of faxes, letters and emails. With Wild Apricot each member can securely log into your website to access online member services. They can review their membership record and process the membership renewal - when and where convenient. They can pay online with a credit card and have the system automatically update the renewal date. This online process has been designed for busy lifestyles or total computer novices so your members can use it without lengthy instructions or hand-holding.