Outseta vs.
Memberstack
If you're looking for membership software, chances are you've come across both Outseta and Memberstack. You're in good shape with either.
While we're not experts on Memberstack, both Outseta and Memberstack protect your content very similarly. But there are three major differences—things that Outseta does really well—that lead to customers choosing Outseta.
Outseta offers both individual and team based memberships
Outseta is unique in that we allow you to offer both individual and team based memberships.
- With an individual membership, a membership is associated with a single person.
- With a team based membership, multiple people can share a membership—but each member has their own login credentials.
This is really useful if you sell to companies or organizations that want to buy a membership for a group of people.
- If you're building a B2B SaaS product, you will almost definitely need team based memberships.
- If you're building a membership website, many sites start by offering individual memberships but quickly realize an opportunity to offer their content to larger organizations.
Team based membership often allow to move from selling B2C to selling B2B—where you're selling to less cost sensitive buyers (paying with a company credit card) and can acquire members in bulk.
Outseta opens new opportunities for growth and will keep you from needing to migrate to new membership software later.
Outseta is an all-in-one product to grow a membership business
Both Outseta and Memberstack allow you to charge membership fees and setup protected content. But just putting your content behind a paywall doesn't grow your business, does it?
Successful membership sites operate like modern SaaS companies. Outseta gives you all the tools you need to grow your member base—and keep your members happy. This includes:
- A robust CRM
- Email marketing and automations
- Help Desk tools
- Member engagement tracking tools
- Financial and cancellation reports
Outseta offers all of these tools in a single platform, so you don’t have to Zap data back and forth between a spiderweb of loosely integrated tools. You'll save a bunch of money by paying for one software subscription instead of five, too.
Outseta charges significantly lower payment processing fees
With Outseta you won't pay the under-the-hood Stripe Billing fees that you will with Memberstack—you'll save .7% on every transaction in Stripe fee alone when using Outseta.
And the fees that you'll pay directly to us are lower, too.
While the nuance here can be a bit tricky to understand if you are not intimately familiar with Stripe's billing tools, the savings are significant. Every customer that has migrated to Outseta from Memberstack has reported saving 1% to 4% per transaction. Here's a detailed breakdown:
For example, a $500,000 ARR membership site migrated from Memberstack to Outseta. The customer saved a little more than 1% on every transaction—saving them more than $5,000 per year. That was enough—I kid you not—to pay their Outseta subscription fees for the next 10 years. They also saved even more because they were able to cancel their subscription to another email marketing tool.
If you need team based memberships, are looking to consolidate software tools, or are just looking to keep more of the money you make Outseta may very well be the best option for you. Still have questions? We're here to help.
