Wild Apricot has a large library of features that are laser-focused on making it easy for membership-based organizations to manage their members. This includes site hosting, website builder, and much more.
Simple web hosting
When you choose Wild Apricot, you a get tool that removes the complexity of hosting and managing your domains. All you have to do is register and launch the website builder to start customizing your website. There’s no need to play around with code, software installers, SSL certificates, or anything else.
Mobile application
The mobile application allows you to manage your website and contacts while you’re on the go. It also lets you send out announcements, set up events, and even collect payments right from the interface.
Email marketing
Email marketing is an important part of any website’s strategy. The platform has an email marketing suite that comes with multiple templates. You can build from scratch or use the templates to send out messages to your entire database or a segmented group of contacts. It even supports event-triggered emails and mail merge-based personalization.
Reliability
Wild Apricot doesn’t provide an uptime guarantee with its service but it has a stellar track record of ensuring websites stay online. Throughout the entire year, it only had 20 minutes of unscheduled downtime. For perspective, there are over 525,000 minutes in a year.
Control panel
It doesn’t offer a traditional control panel. Instead it has created one from the ground up. When you log in, you’ll see important information right on the dashboard. From there, you can make changes to your account, send emails, or edit your website. The dashboard also shares a high-level overview of important statistics which you can click and get more information about.