Plans & pricing
Priced for associations that run on volunteer hours.
Chamber software is normally quoted, not published, and small chambers are commonly paying $150 to $300 a month before anyone mentions setup. We publish our numbers, and we start below that floor on purpose — because the associations that need this most are the ones with a four-figure annual budget and a secretary who is doing it after their real job.
Subscription
One price, by how many members you have.
Main Street
$948
per year · $79/mo equivalent
$99/mo if you'd rather go month‑to‑month
Up to 75 members. A volunteer-run business association, a merchant group, a downtown association. No paid staff, and a budget measured in low four figures.
County
$1,788
per year · $149/mo equivalent
$179/mo month‑to‑month
76 to 250 members. A county-wide association or a small chamber, usually with one part-time staffer. This is the tier most chambers land on, and it is roughly half what a quoted platform costs at the same size.
Regional
$3,588
per year · $299/mo equivalent
$349/mo month‑to‑month
251 to 600 members. A staffed chamber, an economic development corporation, or an association covering several towns with their own sections.
Network — several associations under one roof · quoted
A county, an economic development agency or a regional council standing Gather up for several associations at once: each one gets its own site, its own directory and its own record, administered together. Priced on how many associations rather than how many members, and always less than the sum of separate subscriptions. Tell us how many and we will quote it.
Locale build — one time · $500 / $1,000 / $1,500 by tier
This is the part that makes it yours rather than a blank template: your identity and colors, your meeting details, your domain or a subdomain we host, the local links your members actually need, your existing member roster imported, your secretary trained to run it, and whatever agendas and minutes you already have loaded so the archive opens with history in it. It is a deliverable with a fixed price, not a fee. Waived entirely for the first five founding locales — see below.
If those numbers do not work
Tell us what your association can afford, and what you are trying to build.
The prices above are what we publish. They are not a gate. Plenty of the associations that would get the most out of Gather are the ones running on a few thousand dollars a year and a volunteer secretary — and we would rather build for them than price them out. Write to us and ask for a number that works. We read every one and answer it ourselves.
What to send
The link below opens an email with the questions already written into it. It asks for real numbers — members, dues, non-dues revenue, operating budget, paid staff — alongside your goals for the year and what is getting in the way. Rough figures are fine and “zero” is a real answer. We ask the same questions again at each renewal, so what you send now becomes the baseline we measure your association’s growth against rather than a form that gets filed and forgotten.
What we do with it
We come back with a number, and usually with more than that. Knowing what an association is actually trying to do — fill empty storefronts, keep a main street alive, get local vendors in front of county buyers — changes what we would set up for you and what we build next. Year on year it also lets us show you what changed, using what Gather itself counts rather than what either of us remembers.
What it is not
It is not a haggling exercise and there is no discount code waiting behind it. It is a real conversation about whether Gather helps your community and what you can sustain. Sometimes the honest answer is a smaller number, sometimes it is a grant we help you find, and sometimes it is “wait a year.”
Be clear before you buy
What every plan includes — and what we have not built.
In every plan, no upsell
- The public member directory, with each member controlling their own listing, their email visibility, and whether they appear at all
- Member-to-member invitations with association approval, sent in the inviting member’s name
- Member sign-in and self-service listing management
- Your meeting calendar, and a link-out to MyHometown.events where it covers your area
- The public agenda, minutes and recording archive — unlimited, free for anyone to read, no account required
- Hosting, updates, security patching and backups
- Email support to your secretary and board, from us, not a ticket queue
Not built yet — so you can plan around it
- No dues billing or payment collection. Gather does not invoice your members or take their money. Keep doing that however you do it now
- No job board, no deals or coupons module
- Member logos in the directory are in progress, not shipped — listings are text today
- Visitor analytics are not wired up yet, so we cannot hand you traffic numbers on day one
- If any of these four decide the purchase for you, wait — or tell us, because what associations ask for is what we build next
Two ways to make this cheaper
Most associations do not have this in the budget. Here is how it gets paid for anyway.
Founding locale — first five
The first five associations to come on get the locale build at no charge, saving $500 to $1,500, and their first-year subscription held at the Main Street rate whatever their size. What we want in return is plainly stated: your name as a reference, a quote we can publish, and honest feedback when something is wrong. Five, counted publicly, and not renewed once they are gone.
Grant funding — we will help you look
Rural business associations rarely have room in a dues-funded budget, but economic development money does exist for exactly this kind of local capacity — USDA Rural Development, EDA, and state rural programs among others. KSG builds GrantsOS, so looking is something we can actually do with you rather than suggest. We cannot promise you will find one, and we will not tell you to count on it before it is awarded.
What happens after you apply
A short call to understand your county, your member count and what you run on today. Then a written scope: your tier, your locale build, what we would import, and a date. Nothing is charged before you have that in hand and your board has seen it. If the honest answer is that your association is too small or too busy this year, that is the answer you will get.
Why our number is lower than the ones you have been quoted.
Two reasons, and neither is that this is a lesser product for lesser places. The first is that Gather is deliberately narrow — it does the directory, the referrals and the public record extremely well and does not pretend to be an accounting system. The second is that we are early, with one live association and a portfolio of community software around it, and we would rather have ten counties running Gather at a price they can defend to a board than two paying what the incumbents charge.
What that means for you
Our published prices are for new subscriptions. If you come on now, your rate is held while you stay — we raise prices for the next association, not for you. Growing past your plan’s member count never triggers an automatic increase. If you outgrow a plan we will say so and talk to you about it at renewal. Recruiting members is the thing Gather is for; it should not generate a bill.
What it means for us
We need references more than we need margin this year. That is the trade, said out loud, and it is why the founding-locale offer exists at all.
What it does not mean
No free tier and no indefinite pilot. Software nobody pays for is software nobody maintains, and an association that has budgeted for this is one that will actually use it.
Apply for your county.
Email us with your association’s name and county, roughly how many members you have, and what you run on today — a spreadsheet, ChamberMaster, a Facebook group, nothing at all. That is enough for us to come back with a tier, a locale-build price and a straight answer about timing.