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 some major differences—things that Outseta does really well—that lead to customers choosing Outseta.
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.
Stripe fees are lower when using Outseta—and our payment processing fees are lower, too
Let's break it down.
With both Outseta and Memberstack, you'll pay Stripe's standard "transaction fees"—commonly 2.9% per transaction in the US or 1.4% per transaction in Europe.
But with Memberstack, you'll also pay under-the-hood fees for "Stripe Billing"—a tool that they use that means you'll pay additional fees beyond Stripe's standard transaction fees.
- Outseta doesn't charge "Stripe Billing" fees like Memberstack does—you'll save .7% on every transaction in Stripe fees when using Outseta.
That may seem small, but consider a business doing just $500,000 in annual revenue—these additional fees would cost you $3,500 each year alone. For many businesses that have migrated to Outseta, this has been enough to pay their Outseta subscription fees for 5+ years into the future.
- Stripe fees aside, Outseta's payment processing fees start at half the price of Memberstack's, too (2% vs. 4%).
Simply put, you'll save 2.7% per transaction when you start processing payments with Outseta vs. Memberstack.
An operating system designed to extend the lifetime value of your membership
Access to a more powerful set of tools and lower payment processing fees are great, but the real power of Outseta lies in the platform being the first true end-to-end operating system for SaaS and membership businesses.
With this business model, the name-of-the-game is keeping members happy so your "customer lifetime value (CLTV)" grows and your churn (cancellations) remains low. The workflows that Outseta enables in minutes will help your business grow better, without countless hours spent integrating fractionally used software tools.
From tracking how members engage with your website directly on their CRM records, to creating your own custom cancellation surveys and reports, to dramatically accelerating the speed at which you can respond to member issues, Outseta is built by a team that's scaled a business just like yours successfully before. Your Outseta subscription comes with so many best practices built in—workflows and operating approaches that will directly show up in your business' bottom line.
