Novi is good software. It's built around QuickBooks, for associations that have the staff to run it, at a price usually listed around $829 a month. If a QuickBooks integration is what you're shopping for, go and buy theirs. We don't have one. If what you actually need is to know who owes you money and get the newsletter out, we start at $249 a month and it's free under 50 members.
We'll be straight with you, because you'll find out anyway: we don't have a QuickBooks integration yet. We're building one, and it'll land. But it isn't here today and we're not going to put it on a page as if it were. Novi's is the whole point of their product and they've done it properly, so if your treasurer needs the member system and the ledger talking to each other right now, go and look at Novi. We mean that.
Most chambers we talk to aren't shopping for that. They want to know who owes them money, get the newsletter out, and not pay a fortune for the privilege. So that's what we built.
The numbers your treasurer needs are already sitting in the admin: profit and loss, who's behind and by how long, what's renewing, what came in, deposits, 1099s. Export any of it to CSV or PDF and hand it to your bookkeeper. It's not a sync, and we're not going to call it one.
We'd rather lose a deal than win the wrong one. Start a 14-day free trial with your own data, or have a look at what each plan costs first.
Novi is an accounting platform with a member system attached. This is a chamber system that keeps your books happy. Here's the difference in practice.
Then stop. Most chambers need a handful of numbers, not a ledger bolted to their member system. Ours are built in and export to CSV or PDF, which is what your bookkeeper actually asks you for.
Ours are right in the admin. Profit and loss, who owes you and how late, what's renewing, what came in, 1099s. Email any of them to your treasurer on a schedule. Nobody on your board needs a QuickBooks login to see how you're doing.
Ours is in the same login, in every paid plan. Pick a theme, change a page, post an event, update the directory. No second vendor, no second bill.
Not here. Build the newsletter block by block, schedule it, see who opened it. We check your SPF, DKIM and DMARC too, so it lands in the inbox rather than the spam folder.
| What you're comparing | ChamberBuilder | Novi AMS |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Chambers of any size | Associations running on QuickBooks |
| Pricing | Free up to 50 members, then $249, $449 or $799 a month | Custom quote; commonly listed around $829 a month |
| Accounting | Reports built in, export to CSV or PDF (QuickBooks sync in the works) | Two-way QuickBooks sync, certified by Intuit |
| Financial reports | Seven built in, schedulable by email | Reporting through QuickBooks |
| Website builder | Included in every paid plan | Separate |
| Email and newsletters | Included, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks built in | Add-on |
| Setup and onboarding fees | None | Ask about fees |
| Moving your data over | We import it for you, free | You're exporting out of it |
Novi's pricing is by quote, so we can't put a number here, and its real strength is QuickBooks-native accounting, which we don't do at all. Weigh that honestly against what your chamber actually needs. This reflects what chambers tell us when they come to us, not a quote from Novi.
Pull your members, events, and history out of Novi. If you're not sure how, tell us and we'll walk you through exactly which export to run.
Send us the export and we load it into ChamberBuilder. Members, businesses, renewal dates, and history come across. This is included, not a paid migration.
You check the import against your old system before anything is public. Nothing flips over until you're happy it's right.
Point your domain at ChamberBuilder, tell your members, and close out Novi at the end of your term. We'll be on the other end of the line if anything comes up.
Don't see yours? Email [email protected] . A real person responds same-day. Or read the full pricing breakdown .
For most chambers, yes. Novi is built around a deep QuickBooks integration, so you end up paying for accounting depth most chamber offices never touch. We start at $249 a month and it's free under 50 members.
Not yet. We're building it. We're telling you that rather than letting you find out after you've signed up. Today your treasurer gets the numbers built into the admin (profit and loss, who owes you and how late, dues forecast, deposits, 1099s) and you can export any of it to CSV or PDF for your bookkeeper. Novi has a two-way sync certified by Intuit and ours isn't finished, so if that integration is the whole reason you're shopping, buy Novi today and come back to us later.
Yes, and we do it for you. Send us the export and we load your members, businesses, events and renewal history in. You check it before anything goes live.
Ours is on the site: free up to 50 members, then $249, $449 or $799 a month, and yearly billing charged at ten months for twelve if you pay yearly. Novi quotes per organization and is usually listed around $829 a month. Compare the full number you'd actually pay them, not a starting figure.
The QuickBooks integration, for now. It's in progress, not shipped. You don't get single sign-on yet either. Everything else (members, dues, events, website, email, portal, board committees) is in there and it costs a lot less. We'd rather you knew that today than found out in month two.
No. Month to month, cancel whenever, no setup fee.
ChamberBuilder brings members, billing, events, directory, website, and email into one place so your team can spend less time managing software and more time running the chamber.
