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No more
spreadsheet hell.

Board-ready reports. Balanced books. Bright Huddle is association management software for staffed associations. It runs membership, events and dues, with every member on one record.

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The Bright Huddle renewal pipeline: tiles counting members needing a decision, upcoming, in grace, lapsing within 7 days and recently lapsed, above a list of members with their level, open balance, due date and how many days until they lapse.
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The problem

Your AMS makes you spend hours in Excel.

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“The options are not great and I find it hard to get data in a way that could be useful for our organization.”
Reviewer, on reports
“…spreadsheet hell of manual conversion into IIF import files or copy and paste.”
User, on getting money into QuickBooks
“We know member engagement correlates with renewal, but we can't measure engagement. Is it attending events? Opening emails? Volunteering? We're guessing.”
Membership director · Trade association

Inside Bright Huddle

The work you did in Excel, built in.

Bright Huddle is one place to run the association. Reports, reconciliation and member lists come out finished, and every number traces back to the record it came from.

Dues, and what is still owed.

Renewals, manual invoices and donations in one list, each with what it was for and what is left on it. The accounting column tracks whether it has reached QuickBooks yet.

The invoices list showing invoice numbers, the contact, paid and unpaid statuses, issue and due dates, accounting sync state, totals and outstanding balances.
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People and organisations on one list.

Members, prospects, donors and the firms they belong to, filtered by type and by whether they have opted out of marketing. The opt-out state travels with the record, so a blast cannot reach someone who asked you to stop.

The contacts list showing people and organisations together, with type and marketing opt-out state on every row.
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The engagement number, with the working shown.

Every member carries a score out of 100 and the band it puts them in. The 13-week trend says which way they are moving, and the last column names the reason, such as no events in 12 months. Export CSV sits in the toolbar.

The engagement screen: tiles counting members at risk, engaged, drifting, disengaged and new, above a table of members with a score, a band, a 13-week trend and the strongest negative signal for each.
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A breath of fresh air

What people love about Bright Huddle.

After years of making do, these are the things people mention first.

Exports carry the fields you added

Every custom field you created is a column in the CSV, sitting beside the built-in ones. The board asks for a cut of the membership by chapter and you have it in a minute.

Every admin gets their own login

Invite a colleague at their own work email and give them a role. No more sharing one admin login around the office.

Reports come out as spreadsheets

Income, tax, ageing and collections are built in, and each one downloads as a CSV. Your treasurer gets a file rather than a screenshot.

Dues land in your own Stripe account

The money goes straight from your member to your association, and your funds do not sit with us.

A renewal pipeline you can see

Who is due, who is in grace, who lapses this week, on one screen. Nothing lapses without a warning you saw first.

Auto-renewal that stops when it should

Each member opts in individually. Lapse or suspend someone and the charges end that day, with a notice sent before every renewal.

QuickBooks that stays reconciled

One Stripe payout becomes one QuickBooks deposit. When the two sides disagree, Bright Huddle names the record and the amount.

Events, from registration to the door

No checkout timer racing your registrants. At the door, the QR scan tells you whether that person has paid.

Segments that know about money

Email everyone carrying an open dues balance. The list rebuilds itself the moment the blast goes out.

A row of people seated along a long table at a committee session, listening.

Fit

Some associations should not buy this.

Most vendors will say yes to just about any question to land the sale. Here is our honest answer.

Bright Huddle is a good fit if

  • Running the association is at least one person's full-time job. Size matters less than whether somebody owns the data.
  • Somebody on staff spends real hours every month moving data between systems.
  • You run events and take money for them, and the event tool does not know who is a member.
  • You have between one and fifteen staff and nobody whose full job is the database.
  • You are on a platform that got acquired and support has not been the same since.

Bright Huddle is the wrong call if

  • You are run entirely by volunteers. Bright Huddle assumes somebody owns the member data as part of their job, and without that the data goes stale within a year.
  • You have a house of delegates, a federated chapter structure with independent finances, or a certification body with its own psychometrics. Bright Huddle does not handle those yet.

Ownership

Independently owned, and staying that way.

You have watched it happen: a platform gets bought, the people who knew your account leave, the roadmap stops, and the price goes up anyway.

Bright Huddle takes no outside investment. Nobody is pushing us to raise prices or sell the company, which is why we can publish our prices and keep them.

Payments land in your association's own Stripe account, so your money does not pass through us.

Commitments

Outside investors
None
Published pricing
Yes
Who holds your money
You do
Member records on cancellation
Kept
An association director at her desk in a bright office.

What customers say

The first week on Bright Huddle.

What changes first is usually the small thing you had stopped noticing you were doing by hand.

KW

Karen Whitfield

Executive Director at a state trade association

Our board asked for a membership breakdown by chapter and by certification level. On the old system those were custom fields, and custom fields did not come out in the export, so I did it by hand every quarter. Now it is a column in the file. That is the whole story, and it gave me back two days a year.

MD

Marcus Dell

Membership Director at a professional society

The part I did not expect to care about was the seats. We are four people and we used to share one admin login because a second one meant inventing a second email address. Everybody has their own now, with their own role, and the history actually says who did what.

DO

Diane Okafor

Operations Manager at a regional trade council

Dues go from the member straight into our Stripe account and the payout matches a deposit in QuickBooks without me building a spreadsheet in between. Our treasurer stopped emailing me on the first of the month, which is the closest thing to a review he gives anyone.

Published, so you can budget without a phone call.

Priced by your association's annual revenue. One price, everything in it.

Revenue up to $200K

$199/month
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$200K to $500K

$499/month
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$500K to $2M

$999/month
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$2M to $5M

$1,499/month
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$5M and up

$1,999/month

Starting price. We confirm the quote on the call.

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Every tier includes

  • No onboarding fees
  • Payments through Stripe, 2.9% + 30¢
  • Unlimited members and contacts
  • Unlimited staff logins
  • Every feature, reporting included
  • Two-way QuickBooks sync
  • Migration run by us

Per month, billed annually.

Frequently asked questions.

The questions executive directors put to us first.

Next step

Twenty minutes, your data, no deck.

Tell us what you run now and roughly how many members you have. We will bring a view of what your setup would look like, and if Bright Huddle is the wrong answer we will say so and point you somewhere better.

Three colleagues at a laptop, going through something on screen together.

Count membership records. An organisational member with twelve people on its roster counts once.