What Do You Get When You Upgrade Your Member Jungle Subscription?

Understanding the different Member Jungle pricing tiers is the key to ensuring your committee isn't working harder than they need to. When you upgrade membership software, you do more than just increase your member limits; you unlock powerful tools to automate club/association admin and generate new revenue. This guide breaks down exactly what you get at each tier, comparing Member Jungle Standard, Premium, and Ultimate. From adding an online store and offering auto-renewing subscriptions to deploying advanced CPD tracking software for professional associations, upgrading your association management software ensures your technology scales perfectly with your growing organisation.

As I’m writing this, I am awaiting the imminent delivery of my brand-new kayak paddle. After kayaking for the past five years, I have finally taken the plunge and upgraded from my original $65, 1.5kg plastic paddle to an expensive $500 carbon Greenland paddle weighing only 0.6kg.

Yes, it’s expensive, and yes, my current paddle still technically works fine, but it is an upgrade that is going to make my life significantly easier and make those long, multi-day paddles much more efficient. Beyond all of that, it’s just exciting. Getting new, upgraded versions of your beginner's gear is always a process I find really rewarding. You get better, you learn more, and you’re able to choose new, improved things that better suit your needs. 

The reason I’m talking about my new paddle (personal excitement aside) is that it’s very much the same when it comes to upgrading your club or association’s membership management software.

Sure, the Essentials package you started with still works, just like my heavy plastic paddle. But as your organisation grows, your membership base expands, and your events get bigger, sticking with the beginner gear just means your committee is working a lot harder than they need to.

Upgrading your Member Jungle subscription isn't just about unlocking a few extra buttons on a dashboard; it’s about dropping the administrative dead weight. It’s about letting the software do the heavy lifting so your volunteers can stop stressing and start coasting.

So, let’s take a look at exactly what you get when you level up your Member Jungle package, and how those new features will actually make your life easier.

Quick Answer: What Do You Get When You Upgrade Your Member Jungle Subscription? 

If you are looking for the short version, upgrading your Member Jungle subscription gives your growing club the tools to automate even more of your daily admin and handle larger memberships. Here is what you unlock:

• More Capacity & Lower Fees: Higher member limits, more site administrators, and reduced transaction fees to keep more money in your pocket.
• Advanced Marketing: Access to bulk SMS marketing, advanced email campaigns, and set-and-forget automated event reminders.
• Revenue Boosters: The ability to set up auto-renewing subscriptions, sell merchandise in an online store, and prompt members to buy add-on products during sign-up.
• Complete Control & Training: Member tags for precise group targeting, advanced multi-state admin access, and the ability to run online courses and issue digital certificates.

Levelling Up: Essentials To Standard

First up, we have the move from the Member Jungle Essentials package to the Standard package. This is a lot like the day I ditched my heavy, beginner sit-on-top kayak and upgraded to a proper sit-in expedition kayak.

I was essentially still doing the same sport, but the new features and improved design made it a night-and-day difference. Upgrading to the Standard tier feels exactly like that. It is all about automating your communication and building fresh revenue streams so your committee can finally catch their breath.

The Financial & Capacity Boost

First and foremost, upgrading gives you more room to breathe and keeps more money in the club's bank account.

• Lower Service Fees: Your transaction service fee drops from 1.2% + 69c down to 0.9% + 69c.
• More Room to Grow: Your member limit triples, jumping from 250 included members up to 750. You also get to increase your maximum number of membership levels from 3 to 5.
• More Hands on Deck: You can increase your site administrators from one to five, meaning you can finally share the workload across the committee.
• Auto-Renewing Subscriptions: This is the absolute holy grail of steady club cash flow. Instead of hitting your members with one large annual fee, you can offer them a much more affordable, automatically recurring monthly subscription. It makes joining easier on their wallets, and it means your committee doesn’t need to chase people up on their dues.  

Next-Level Communication

• Email & SMS Marketing: You gain full access to the email campaign module (with 2,500 email credits per month) to build beautiful newsletters. You can also purchase SMS credits to send text messages to your members for more effective communication.
• Automated Event Emails: You can create emails linked to your events that automatically trigger at specific times. Want an email to automatically go out to all members who haven't registered yet three days before the RSVP cutoff? Done.
• Brand Your Communications: You can now add your logo to all wrapped system emails for a much more professional look.

Building Community & Revenue

• The Online Store: Get a dedicated store on your website and mobile app to sell merchandise, managing orders and inventory directly through the system.
• Add-On Products: You can now offer members products during checkout of events and membership renewals. Who wouldn’t want to get a new 2026 Club Beanie when they are signing up for another year?
• Sponsorship & Directories: Display banner ads for your sponsors across your website, or use the Business Directory to create a dedicated space where members can list their businesses, turning the added expenditure into added profit. 

The Clever Tech Tools

• Add Membership Cards To Wallets: You can let your members add their digital membership cards to their phone's digital wallet, making digital membership cards more convenient than ever. 
• Member Tags: Stop sending irrelevant emails to the wrong people. Create custom tags to group your members, then use those tags to send highly targeted emails, restrict event access, or offer specific discounts.

The Big Leagues: Standard To Premium 

If upgrading to Standard was finally getting yourself into the right boat, upgrading to Premium is getting the top-tier tools you need to paddle it. This is the exact equivalent of me upgrading from my cheap, heavy plastic paddle to my fancy carbon Greenland paddle.

You are doing the same motions you were before, but suddenly, the resistance is gone. You can go twice as far with half the effort.

Side note: It arrived just as I was finishing the last section; my paddle is here! It’s SO nice! I’m definitely heading out for a paddle this weekend. Sorry… back to the article. 

Massive Scale & Support

• Even Lower Fees: Your service fee drops again, down to just 0.7% + 69c.
• Huge Capacity: Jump from 750 members to a massive 5,000 members, with up to 25 different membership levels. Your website storage space also doubles from 10GB to 20GB.
• Unlimited Admins: Add as many site administrators as you need to run your organisation.
• VIP Treatment: You get 5 support contacts, Priority Support, and 4 hours of private, one-on-one training to be used anytime in your first 24 months.

Advanced Control

Big organisations have complex structures, and the Premium tier gives you the power to steer them.

• Advanced Membership Access: If you run a state-based organisation, you can create specific administrators who can only view and access their specific membership level. It lets state branches manage their own backyard safely without having access to the entire national database.
• Advanced App Viewer: Customise exactly what member information your users can see via the mobile app.

Next-Level Marketing

• 100% Your Brand: Remove all Member Jungle branding from your system emails so they look entirely like your own proprietary software.
• Discount Coupons: Offer member discounts using coupon codes (set by a specific $ value or a % off) with hard expiry dates.
• Massive Outreach: Your email marketing credits jump to 15,000 per month, and you get an initial 500 SMS credits included to text your members. 

The Heavyweights: Premium To Ultimate 

I’ll be honest, I don’t really have a kayak metaphor for this section. So, I’ll do what all South Africans do when we run out of things to say; start talking about rugby. If the Premium package is England international, 6’1”, 110kg Manu Tuilagi, then the Ultimate package is his brothers, all of whom are internationals for Samoa.

Yes, 6’1” 110kg Manu is the one in the middle and the least scary in that picture. 

This tier is for clubs and associations that have grown into absolute heavyweights. When you are operating at this scale, managing thousands of members and complex daily operations, you need the absolute biggest tools and a dedicated support team to back you up.

Institutional Power

• The Final Financial Drop: Service fees drop to their absolute lowest (0.5% + 50c).
• Massive Fleets: Member capacity triples from 5,000 to an enormous 15,000, with up to 50 membership levels.
• Unlimited Marketing: Email marketing credits jump to 45,000 emails per month, and initial SMS credits double to 1,000. Storage space more than doubles to 50GB.

Professional Training & Certification

In the Ultimate tier, the heavy-hitting optional add-on modules are included right out of the box.

• Online Courses & CPD Logging: Run official training directly through your website. You get full access to the Online Course Module, plus the CPD/CME Logging Module to track your members' professional development points.
• Digital Certificates: Automatically issue Membership Certificates and Event Certificates to your users when they complete a course or renew their dues.
• Custom Datasets: Build highly complex databases to track unique member information (e.g., boat registrations, training qualifications, or specific certifications).

Your Dedicated Support Crew

• Dedicated Account Manager: Because when you are running a 15,000-member empire, you shouldn't have to wait in line. You get a direct line to a dedicated Member Jungle expert to help you steer the ship.

How Do I Know Which Member Jungle Tier Is Right For My Membership Organisation?

To work out when it is time to upgrade your membership management software, look at your current administrative bottlenecks. You should upgrade if:

• You are hitting your limits: If you have outgrown your member cap and are constantly paying for extra members to be added, or if you need more administrators to share the workload.
• You want to boost revenue: Yes, higher tiers cost more, but they unlock powerful ways to monetise your organisation, like selling sponsor banner ads, offering auto-renewing subscriptions, running an online merchandise store, and prompting add-on purchases at checkout.
• You need to run training and certifications: If your organisation offers professional development, upgrading gives you the tools to run online courses, log CPD/CME points, and automatically issue digital membership and event certificates.
• You want to automate marketing: Higher tiers unlock bulk SMS texting, advanced email campaigns, and set-and-forget automated event emails.
• You have complex, multi-state structures: Premium and Ultimate tiers offer advanced access controls, allowing sub-committees to safely manage their own specific branches without accessing the national database.

If you think it's time to take it up a notch and let Member Jungle do a little more of the heavy lifting for your committee, reach out to our team today to chat about upgrading your package. We will make sure you have exactly the right gear for the journey ahead. 

If you want to see the prices for the different packages, you can find everything you need on our Pricing Page. 

Now, if you’ll excuse me, there’s a river calling my name.