Membership organisations

Driving membership growth.

Recruit more members. Grow the value of each one. Renew more of them, every year.

The three numbers at the heart of every membership organisation, moved by a platform that has run the full membership lifecycle, the billing behind it and the intelligence on top of it, at scale, for over 25 years.

Recruitment
Win more members
Income per member
Grow value
Lapse
Renew more
Member 360 Single member view
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Helen Ross
Member #40218 · Joined 2014
In good standing
Grade
Full member · Annual
Renews 01 Oct 2026 · auto-renew on
Membership fee
£268.00 / yr
Direct debit · 12th of the month
Benefits in force
4 active
JournalCPDDirectoryEvents
Beyond the fee
£410 this year
Conference · 2 courses · exam entry
One record Membership · billing · CRM
The membership lifecycle

From application to reinstatement, on one platform.

Membership is not a database record, it is a relationship with a clock on it. Every stage of that relationship is handled here, by rule, without a spreadsheet and without a project.

Join
Recruit

Application, eligibility, grade selection and first payment in a single flow. Joining offers and introductory rates that convert.

Onboard
Activate

Benefits switched on the moment payment clears. Welcome journeys that differ by grade, region and route in.

Belong
Grow

Events, courses, exams, publications and add-ons all recorded against the same member, so their true value is one number.

Renew
Retain

Renewal runs by rule at any scale. Reminders, grace periods, grade changes and fee increases applied cleanly.

Recover
Protect

Failed direct debits and expired cards retried, chased and resolved automatically, before a payment problem becomes a lost member.

Reinstate
Win back

Lapsed members identified, targeted and rejoined without losing a day of their history or their standing.

Every stage feeds the next. The reason someone lapsed shapes how they are asked back, and what happened at renewal shapes what the platform does next year.

The platform

Every capability earns its place.

Three pillars, each owning one of the three numbers, and a fourth that underpins them all.

↑ Recruitment

Win more members

Membership management
  • Grades, categories and joining offers that convert more of the people who want in
  • Student, graduate, retired, corporate, life and honorary grades, each with its own price, term and rules
  • Launch a new grade or a joining offer in minutes, not in a release cycle
  • Monthly, annual and multi-year terms running side by side, with instalments where members need them
↓ Lapse

Keep the members you would have lost

Billing and payments
  • Direct debit, card and 300+ payment methods across 100+ currencies, so renewals clear first time
  • Smart retries and dunning recover the lapse nobody chose, the expired card and the failed collection
  • Renewal reminders, grace periods and reinstatement handled by rule, at any volume
  • Pro-rata on grade changes, tax and full credit control, accurate every time
↑ Income per member

Grow the value of every member

CRM and single member view
  • One record holding the fee, the events, the courses, the exams and the extras
  • Segmentation that puts the right renewal, upgrade or invitation in front of the right member
  • Real-time dashboards on recruitment, retention and income by grade, region and cohort
  • Non-fee income counted alongside the fee, not in a separate system nobody reconciles
Underpins all three

Benefits, secure and connected

Entitlements and integration
  • Entitlement control puts the right benefits in the right hands the moment a member renews, and withdraws them cleanly when they do not
  • Designation, post-nominals and register status held on the member record and kept current
  • Integrates with your website, events platform, learning platform and finance system
  • Proven at scale, from a few thousand members to several million, with the uptime that comes with it
The problem

Renewal season should not be a project.

Most membership organisations run on a general purpose CRM that was never built for recurring money, propped up by spreadsheets and goodwill. It works, until it does not, and it never tells you anything early enough to act on.

The cost is quiet and annual. Members who meant to stay drift out because a card expired and nobody chased it. Income sits in four systems that do not agree. And the lapse rate is a number you learn at year end, when the year is already gone.

  • Renewal season lives in a spreadsheet and a mail mergeRebuilt by hand every year, owned by one person
  • The member record is split four waysCRM, events tool, finance system and a shared inbox
  • Lapse shows up in the year-end numbersMonths after the month it actually started
  • Failed collections are chased by hand, if at allThe most recoverable income you have, left on the table
  • Adding a grade or changing a fee means a projectSo the pricing never moves, and neither does income
The IQ. edge

Know who is drifting, while you can still do something about it.

Singula Decisions IQ reads the member record the platform is already keeping and turns it into a decision. Not a report you interpret. A named member, a reason, and the action worth taking.

  • Lapse risk, months earlyQuiet members, unused benefits and payment fragility surface long before the renewal invoice goes out.
  • The next best action, per memberOne recommendation at a time, with the reason it was made shown alongside it.
  • Growth, not just retentionWho is ready for a higher grade, a course or a conference place, and who should simply be left alone.
  • Proof it workedEvery action is logged against the member, so the effect on renewals is measured rather than assumed.
Explore Singula Decisions IQ
IQ. Member watchlist Updated just now
Member #40218
Renews in 47 days · no benefit use in 6 months
Call before renewal
Member #38104
Collection failed twice · card expiring
Update payment details
Member #41967
Two courses booked · third year at same grade
Offer grade upgrade
Member #37552
Lapsed 11 months ago · CPD still active elsewhere
Reinstatement offer
Illustrative Reason shown on every action
Proof, not promises

Recurring relationships, run properly, since 1997.

A sample from more than 100 projects, at organisations where the renewal run cannot fail and the members notice if it does.

25 yrs+
running recurring member relationships at scale
Since 1997
300+
payment methods across 100+ currencies
Billing and payments
95%
accuracy identifying who is at high risk of leaving
IQ. in production
45%
conversion from targeted win-back campaigns
Reinstatement
Award-winning Best of Show — IBC Best of Show — NAB Show Best of Show — TVB Europe CSI Awards Finalist
Who this is for

Anyone with members and a renewal date.

If people pay you regularly to belong to something, the platform fits.

Professional bodies and institutes
Trade associations
Learned societies
Regulators and registers
Clubs, unions and societies
Sports governing bodies
Charities with regular giving
Alumni and supporter schemes
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