Keep Your AMS. Get a Website Your Members Love.
You’re not frustrated with your association management system. You’re frustrated with the website bolted onto it. We build the front end your members actually use, and connect it cleanly to the AMS you already run.
Your AMS and your website do different jobs.
Your AMS is your system of record. Your website is your front door. When they work together, members barely notice the seam. They just get what they came for.
Most associations don’t need to rip out their membership platform. They need a website that stops fighting it. The data already lives in your AMS: members, renewals, events, payments. The problem is almost always the experience on top: a website that’s clunky to use, hard for staff to update, and disconnected from the system doing the real work.
That’s the part we fix. We design a modern, staff-friendly WordPress website and build a clean, thoughtful connection to your AMS, so the two complement each other instead of duplicating each other.
Single sign-on
Members log in once and move between your website and your AMS without a second password or a second account. One identity, one seamless experience.
Member directories & gated content
Pull member data from your AMS to power searchable directories, member-only resources, and a clean boundary between public content and the benefits people pay for.
Events & registration
Surface your AMS events on a website members enjoy using, with registration flows that feel effortless and data that flows back where it belongs.
Dues & payments
Keep billing and records in the system built for it, while giving members a modern, trustworthy place to join, renew, and pay on your own website.
What Your Website Can Do Depends on the AMS Behind It
How well your website and your membership database talk to each other is decided by your AMS, not your agency, and not your budget. We researched the platforms associations actually run, using each vendor’s public documentation. Here is where each one stands.
| AMS | Directory & events |
Single sign-on |
Member self-service |
Real-time sync |
API included |
Public docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fonteva | Salesforce | |||||
| Nimble AMS | Salesforce | |||||
| Protech (Dynamics 365) | Dynamics | |||||
| Rhythm | ||||||
| Wild Apricot | ||||||
| iMIS | ||||||
| MemberSuite | ||||||
| Novi AMS | ||||||
| MemberClicks (MC Pro) | ||||||
| GrowthZone | Paid | |||||
| ChamberMaster / MemberZone | Paid | |||||
| YourMembership | ||||||
| ClubExpress | Paid | |||||
| MemberLeap | Custom |
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documented partial or version-dependent not available or not documented docs are gated, so we can’t verify from outside
Directory & events: your AMS data rendered as native, SEO-indexed pages on your own domain.
Single sign-on: members log in once with AMS credentials; your AMS stays the identity provider.
Member self-service: profile updates and registrations made on the website land in the AMS.
Real-time sync: changes push to the site as they happen, rather than on a schedule.
What the grid tells you
Real-time sync is rare.
Five platforms can push a change to your website as it happens. Everywhere else, sync means polling on a schedule, so the honest question is how fresh the site needs to stay.
Half this market gates its documentation.
A lock is not a verdict on the platform. It means the docs sit behind a customer login, and nobody can responsibly price an integration on a platform they have not been allowed to read.
API access can cost extra.
Some platforms route API access through sales as a paid add-on. Confirm the exact product, version, and access level before anyone quotes you an integration.
High effort is not bad.
Fonteva, Nimble AMS, and Protech inherit Salesforce and Microsoft capabilities. They cost more to integrate because they require those skills, not because the platforms are limited.
Researched July 2026 against vendor documentation. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners; Cantata is not affiliated with or endorsed by any AMS vendor. Where documentation is gated, confirm capabilities with your vendor.
Don’t see your AMS?
If it has an API, we can almost certainly connect it. Tell us what you run, and we’ll tell you honestly what’s possible, before you commit to anything.
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Let’s connect your AMS to a website members love.
Tell us what you’re running today. We’ll have a candid conversation about what a great website, connected cleanly to your AMS, could look like for your association.