Engage Members with Integrated Communications Tools

You don't have to be an extreme techy to setup and maintain your website with Wild Apricot.

Uploading white papers, industry news and other information of interest to your members is a snap, and content changes are as easy as editing a Microsoft Word document.

• Choose from our professionally designed templates
• Create your own distinctive look by tweaking colors and text styles
• Upload your logo and pictures
• Customize common page elements like headers and footers.

(And if you have the desire and skills to do it, roll up your sleeves and customize your website by hand to any degree using our CSS customization tool).

Create unlimited number of webpages including

• Interactive online calendar
• Blog
• Discussion forum
• Member directory and more.

Already have a website? You can replicate the overall look and feel, and then just cut and paste the text into your new Wild Apricot website.

Or use Wild Apricot widgets to keep your current website in place and embed Wild Apricot interactive functionality into it.

With Wild Apricot you can create web pages with premium content accessible only to your members, Board, staff or volunteers - a.k.a. an Intranet.

Select which member categories are granted access to each such section.

For example - make it a benefit for premium membership levels:

• Create web pages to store industry research
• Provide best practices
• Setup Members-only blog
• Enable Members online discussions and more.

Easily upload PDF documents, Microsoft Word files, Excel spreadsheets, provide a secure member directory, fully automate access control so that new members are immediately granted access while lapsed members are excluded.

See more: Online Help - Private Member Webpages

Part of Wild Apricot's integrated software, online discussion forums provide a simple and convenient way for your members to share ideas and knowledge and collaborate - or simply socialize.

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 build a strong membership and provides a place for you to reach out - and for your members and supporters to comment back and engage with you. It's also a great way to attract new members and build support in the community-at-large for issues of concern to your association.

You can also allow selected association members to create new blog posts on their own.

See more: Online Help - Blog Module

Wild Apricot's Email function makes it simple to reach out to your whole database of members and supporters, past event attendees and sponsors - or target any particular group.

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.

Our system is designed and constantly monitored to avoid mistaken flagging as spam, including using modern protocols like SPF (Sender Policy Framework).

Target your communication to any subset of contacts - to attendees of a specific event, all active members with certain membership level or any other selection via advanced search function (such as a ZIP code or industry - or by any other custom fields you define in your association membership database).

Instantly export your selection in Excel format to run a mail-merge or to use in another system if needed.