We build association websites. So we built the membership software too.
Avistra is the association management software we built at Cantata. Members, dues, events, email, and your website run in one system, on a site designed by the same team that builds custom websites for associations.
and unlimited content edits. Never priced by the size of your member list.
Websites as light as a bird in open space.
Most membership platforms hand you a heavy website: a template, a stack of add-ons, and pages that carry the whole system on their back. Avistra sites are custom coded and carry nothing they do not need, so they load quickly on any phone and stay easy for search engines to read.
No plugins to patch
There is no plugin pile to update, and far less for anyone to attack.
No template weight
Every page is designed for your organization, not borrowed from a theme.
SEO built in
The details search engines need to find and read the site are there from day one.
Nothing to babysit
Hosting, security, and backups are handled, and edits are usually live the same day.
Edit your website right on the page.
Every Avistra site comes with a built-in edit tool that only you can see. There is no dashboard to learn and no back end to log into. You change your website by looking at your website.
Edit this page
Click any words on your page, type new ones, and save. It is live. Want a hand with the wording? Highlight a line and let AI suggest a rewrite.
Add a section
Choose a spot above or below any section and pick from text, columns, photos, galleries, calls to action, accordions, tabs and more. Set the style, add a button, write your words, and it is on the page.
Screenshot
Not a setting for that? AI can do it. Drag a box around anything, say what you want, and watch it change right there on the page.
Our members gather each spring to learn from one another.
Colors the whole section. Words and buttons adjust to it.
Most membership software treats the website as an afterthought. Avistra starts from it.
The website is where members join, renew, register, and decide whether an organization feels worth belonging to. We have spent years making that experience good for associations. Avistra puts a great website on a great member system, instead of bolting a website onto a member database.
Designed, not templated
Every Avistra site is custom designed by the Cantata team, so your members see your organization, not a vendor’s default theme.
One system, not two
Members, dues, events, email, and pages sit in the same place. One sign-in for your staff, one place your members go, and nothing to keep in sync.
Made to fit you
We wrote the software, so when your organization needs something that is not on the list, we build it in rather than sending you shopping for an add-on.
Your membership software and your website, in one orbit.
Everything below is included in the $149 plan.
Members and people
One record per member and contact: membership types, organizations with seats, applications to approve, and renewal reminders that go out on their own.
Dues and payments
Dues and fees run through your own Stripe account and land in your bank. We add no surcharge, and card details stay with Stripe, never on your site.
Events and registration
Event pages and a calendar on your own site, sign-up forms, limits on numbers, members-only events, and paid tickets when you want them.
Email to your members
A drag-and-drop email builder with a preview for desktop and phone. Send to everyone, to one membership type, or to a single group.
The website itself
Pages, posts, pictures, and search settings, edited right on the page you are looking at, with unlimited content edits included.
A portal for members
Members sign in with a code sent to their email, so there is no password to lose. They renew, read what is for members only, and find each other.
One plan for the whole thing.
The price is the plan, never the size of your membership list.
Plus a one-time setup starting at $500. The full membership platform, on your own custom website.
- Unlimited content edits. Tell us what to change and our team makes it for you, as often as you need, at no extra cost.
- Members, dues, and a member portal. Payments go straight to your own Stripe account.
- Events, registration, and a calendar. On your own site, not a separate one.
- Email to your members. Built from blocks, sent from the same system.
- Hosting and care. Hosting, SSL, and backups, all included.
From the first call to live, with your members, events, and pages moved across from whatever you run on today.
- We get to know you. How your membership and events actually run, and what the site has to do for all of it.
- We build it and move you across. You see a real draft of your site early, in the browser.
- We run it with you. From launch day on, an edit you send is usually done the same day.
Two ways to work with us
Plenty of associations are well served by the AMS they already have. We will tell you honestly which of these fits.
You want a basic, lightweight system that runs everything
- A small staff or a volunteer board runs the membership
- You want members, dues, events, and email in the same place as your website
- You want the site to look like your organization, not like your software vendor
Your website is complex, or your AMS is staying
- Your website is complex: several departments own content and need their own logins and sign-offs
- Your AMS is working and you want a better website in front of it, connected to the system of record you already run
- You want to move your site onto WordPress, custom built for your association
Custom association websites are still Cantata’s main line of work. Avistra is for the organizations that would rather have everything in one place.
Light enough to fly. Built to be found.
Plans, a walk through the platform, and a way to get in touch all live at avistra.io.