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Is Daviah too cheap? Why the price is flat, and what the catch is

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Is Daviah too cheap? Why the price is flat, and what the catch is

If a website and a whole back office for $79.99 a month sounds too low, the question is fair. The short answer: the price is the same for every organization because Daviah does not charge per member, per user or per seat, and takes no cut of the money you collect. The features are not missing.

Most software for clubs, churches and associations grows its bill in one of three ways. It charges by the number of contacts or members on your list, so the bill climbs as you grow. It charges by the person logging in, so adding a Treasurer or a second administrator costs more. Or it takes a percentage of the money that passes through it. Many do two of the three.

Daviah does none of them. That is the whole reason the number looks small next to the alternatives. This guide shows what is behind the price, with one concrete example of each part, and it lists plainly what Daviah does not do, so that you can judge the catch for yourself.

Where other platforms make their money, and where Daviah does not

A per-member or per-contact price means a club of 2,000 pays several times what a club of 100 pays for the same software. A per-seat price means every volunteer who needs a login is a line on the invoice. A platform fee means a slice of every subscription, donation or order goes to the software company rather than to you.

On Daviah, none of these apply on any plan. Card payments for dues, invoices and orders go into your organization's own Stripe account, so you are the merchant and only Stripe's processing fee applies. Daviah adds no platform fee on top, and the platform's own tests fail if a payment is ever set up to take one. Hosting, updates and support are in the price as well.

  • No charge per member, per contact, per user or per seat, on any plan
  • No cut of payments: money goes to your own Stripe account
  • Only Stripe's processing fee applies, paid to Stripe
  • Hosting, updates and support included
The price is flat because the billing model is flat, not because the office behind the website is thin.

The plans, and what each one holds

There are five, and the first costs nothing. Free lets you build and preview the whole site without publishing it. Website publishes it. Website + Members adds the office behind it. Pro adds having it set up for you. Association is for bodies with many chapters and is scoped with you.

There is no contract on any self-serve plan. Paying yearly is the only discount, and there is no other way to make the price smaller or larger.

PlanPriceWhat it includes
Free$0Build and preview the whole site, never published. The preview opens with a six-digit code that changes every day.
Website$29.99/mo or $300/yrPublished site on yourname.cms.daviah.io, page editor, designs, events, news, galleries, contact forms, newsletter sign-up.
Website + Members$79.99/mo or $819.99/yrWebsite on your own domain, plus members, officers, committees, dues by card, member portal, meetings, minutes, ledger, private files, messages.
Website + Members, extrasIncludedAttendance, invoices, payments and receipts, galleries, and 40 pieces of AI-generated event artwork a month.
Pro$149/mo or $1,490/yrEverything in Website + Members, plus set-up done for you, priority support and 200 pieces of AI artwork a month.
Pro set-upIncludedSpreadsheet import, your site rebuilt from your old one, dues set up. Price locked for two years on yearly billing.
AssociationCustom, from $4,000/yr plus implementationMulti-chapter structure, migration, integrations, conference and registration workflows, features built for you, onboarding and training.

The depth behind the price, one example each

A low price can mean a shallow product. These are the parts most often asked about, each with one specific thing it does, so you can check it during the free plan rather than take our word for it.

  • Minutes: drafted, then approved, and the approved minute book is kept year to year
  • Audit trail: changes to records are written to an audit log
  • Backups: each organization is snapshotted every night, separately, and can be restored alone
  • Recovery: on top of the nightly snapshots, the whole database has point-in-time recovery
  • Payments: dues, invoices and orders paid by card into your own Stripe account, with no platform fee
  • Newsletter: sign-up on the site, and every letter carries one-click unsubscribe
  • Check-in: a tablet at the door signs people in to the meeting, class or shift on now
  • Kitchen screens: online orders appear on a kitchen screen and on station screens
  • Records in and out: import members from a spreadsheet, export member records any time
  • Your own words: a church sees congregation, giving and ministries; a school sees students, fees and departments

Why the nightly backups are separate for each organization

This one is worth a sentence more, because it is the kind of thing that is invisible until the day it matters. If one organization deletes something by mistake, it can be restored to a given night without rolling anyone else back.

The newsletter's unsubscribe follows the same logic. The one-click standard is what Gmail and Yahoo now require of bulk senders, and every letter from your organization already meets it.

What Daviah does not do

This is the honest part of the catch. If any of these is essential to you, Daviah is not the right fit today, and it is better to know now than after you have moved your records.

  • No point-of-sale hardware: there is no card reader or till
  • No automated email campaigns or drip sequences: one newsletter to everyone, not Mailchimp-style automation
  • No native iOS or Android app: it runs in the browser and can be installed on a tablet
  • No sync with accounting software such as QuickBooks or Xero today
  • A young platform, with few public reviews so far

How it compares with association software sold by contract

At the top of the market, membership platforms for associations are often sold on annual contracts. MemberClicks, for example, is reported at roughly $3,500 to $4,500 a year on an annual contract, with implementation reported at $3,000 to $5,000 on top. Those are third-party figures as of November 2026, so check the vendor's own pricing page for current numbers.

Daviah's Association plan starts at $4,000 a year plus implementation, which puts it in the same range, and it is scoped with you in the same way. The difference is below it: a single club, church or lodge does not need to go through a sales process at all, and can be on Website + Members for $819.99 a year.

Comparing Daviah with a specific tool

If you are weighing Daviah against something you already use, the comparisons below set the published or reported pricing side by side, and each one says plainly where the other tool is the better choice.

Questions

Is it really flat?

Yes. Each plan has one price per organization, monthly or yearly. It does not change with the number of members, contacts, users or logins, and Daviah takes no cut of payments. Only Stripe's own processing fee applies to card payments, and it goes to Stripe.

What happens if we grow to 2,000 members?

Nothing happens to the price. Website + Members is $79.99 a month or $819.99 a year whether you have 20 members or 2,000. Everyone can have a portal login, and every officer who needs the office can have one too, without a per-seat charge.

What do you not do?

No point-of-sale hardware, no automated email campaigns or drip sequences, no native phone apps (it runs in the browser and installs on a tablet), and no QuickBooks or Xero sync today. It is also a young platform with few public reviews yet.

Who builds it?

Daviah builds and runs the platform itself, and every organization on it shares the same platform and the same updates. On Pro, Daviah sets your organization up for you: your spreadsheet imported, your site rebuilt from your old one, and your dues set up.

Is there a contract?

No. Every self-serve plan can be paid monthly or yearly, and yearly is the only discount. Pro's yearly billing also locks the price for two years. The Association plan is scoped and agreed with you.

Can we try it before paying?

Yes. The Free plan lets you build and preview the whole site without publishing it. The preview opens with a six-digit code that changes every day, so you can show it to your committee before anyone pays.

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