Your members are paying you to be found.
A chamber’s directory is not a feature. It is the product — the thing every member business is buying. So we built ours to be found by the people your members are trying to reach, and gave you two things on it you can sell.
$129 a month, locked for two years, and a $2,000 website build. That is the whole price.
The directory is the product
A business pays its dues for a handful of reasons, and being listed where customers can find it is near the top of every one of them. Which makes it worth asking a blunt question about whatever platform you are on now:
Open your directory. Click a category. Look at the address bar.
If the web address did not change, or changed into something with a question mark and a string of numbers in it, that page does not exist as far as Google is concerned. Your members are paying to be in a directory that cannot be found by anyone who is not already on your website.
What we do instead
Search and category filters are ordinary links, so every filtered view — every “dining in town”, every “contractors” — is a real page with its own address that a search engine can index and a member can bookmark and share.
And the part that matters most
Every individual listing publishes proper LocalBusiness markup — the structured data Google uses to understand that a page is about a real business with an address and a phone number. That is what can put a member into local results for searches your chamber would never rank for on its own.
Listings also carry address, phone, website, hours and categories, and sit on a map built with OpenStreetMap — no Google API key, no billing account, and no per-view cost that surprises a small chamber in a busy month.
Two things on it you can actually sell
Most chamber software gives you a directory. Ours gives you a directory with two products already built into it, because a website that earns is easier to justify to a board than a website that costs.
The featured listing
A member pays to sit at the top of the directory with a badge on their card, and it renews with their membership. Unlimited slots, small annual price, no work for the office once it is ticked.
Member of the month
One member, on the home page, where everyone sees it. Twelve slots a year is what makes it worth more than a badge — and the label is yours to write, so the same slot can read “Business of the Year” and run for twelve months instead.
Both render nothing at all when nobody has been chosen. A chamber that forgets a month gets one less section on its home page, not an empty box with a placeholder in it.
Guides that keep themselves current
Chambers are the local authority on their own town and almost never publish like it. You can write guides — things to do, where to eat, moving here — and the member lists inside them are live. A new restaurant joins and appears in the eat-and-drink guide that day. One closes and drops out of it. Nobody edits a page.
It is also a recruitment list in disguise. A category with no members in it is a guide you cannot finish writing, which is a rather clearer argument for going and signing somebody up than a spreadsheet is.
And the rest of the chamber’s year
- Events people can actually register for — named ticket types, member and non-member rates, seat limits, a room capacity, hidden tickets for invited guests, comped seats for sponsors.
- Sponsorships sold the way you already sell them, with the seats that come with a package handled properly rather than tracked in somebody’s inbox.
- One cart, one invoice — a member registering three people and buying a sponsorship gets one bill, not three.
- Check people in at the door, on a phone, without a printed list.
- Questions you can count — meal choices come back as Chicken 18, Fish 7, not a comments column you read the night before.
- Your roster, imported and undoable, so moving off your current system is not a leap of faith.
- Your dues go to your own Stripe account. We never hold your members’ money, so we never take a percentage of it.
Recruiting members should not raise your bill
Most of this market prices by contacts, or by member count, or by your annual revenue. All three punish you for the thing a chamber exists to do. Sign up thirty businesses this year and the invoice follows you up.
Ours is $129 a month at eighty members and at eight hundred. Member count never changes it. The only thing that does is a mailing list past 10,000 people, and unsubscribes and bounced addresses don’t count.
We publish what everyone else charges too, with the sources, in what membership software actually costs — including the detailed comparisons against ChamberMaster and Chamber Nation.
When we are not the right answer
If you have two or three full-time staff, run a large member benefits programme, and want one vendor accountable for everything including a support desk, the bigger platforms are a real argument and we are not going to pretend otherwise. We are two people.
The chamber we fit has one staff member or none, a volunteer board, and a technology budget where $3,900 a year is most of it. If that is you, the rest of this page was written for you specifically.
Go and look at a chamber site before you talk to anybody
The demo is a complete, invented chamber — directory, map, events, registration, the lot. You can sign in to the back end and move things around. Nothing you do to it is permanent and nobody asks for your email first.
Open the chamber demo → or tell us when you renew and we will hold a build slot.