Glue Up alternative: event67, for the conference rather than the membership

An unusual disclosure has to come first on this page. We could not verify a single primary source published by Glue Up (Glue Up is a trademark of its respective owner) on 3 September 2026 — no vendor pricing page, product page or company page could be confirmed. Everything we describe below about the product therefore comes from third-party software directories rather than from the vendor, and we have deliberately published no price, no headquarters and no free-tier claim as a result. Where a comparison elsewhere gives you a Glue Up figure, ask where it came from, because we could not source one we were willing to stand behind.

With that stated, here is what those directory listings describe. Software Advice's listing and the related GetApp and Software Suggest entries describe an all-in-one platform covering membership management with renewals, recurring payments and multi-tier chapter support; event management with registration, ticketing and event pages; a built-in CRM with contact consolidation; email marketing and campaign automation; community engagement with a member directory; webinar and training modules; a member and attendee mobile application; and member-journey analytics with an AI assistant (accessed 3 September 2026).

Read that list and the architecture is legible even without the vendor's own words: the member is the primary record and the event is one of the things a member does. event67 inverts every part of that. There is no member record, no renewal, no recurring payment, no dues, no chapter hierarchy, no CRM and no year-round community surface anywhere in the product. An event67 attendee exists inside one event and nowhere else.

So the question that actually decides this is not which product has more features. It is what you are trying to hold onto. If the answer is a membership that must be renewed, segmented and marketed to across twelve months, a membership platform is the correct purchase and we are not a substitute for any part of it. If the answer is that you already have a membership system and what you now need is a serious app for the annual conference, then the comparison becomes real — and it turns on whose name the store listing carries, how much in-session engagement ships in the base product, and whether the price is legible without a sales conversation.

For an association, the membership is the institution and the conference is an expression of it. Third-party listings describe Glue Up as covering membership management with renewals, recurring payments and multi-tier chapter support, a built-in CRM with contact consolidation, email marketing with campaign automation, and member-journey analytics (Software Advice and GetApp listings, accessed 3 September 2026). Every one of those is absent from event67 — not thin, absent. We hold no member records, process no renewals, take no recurring payment, model no chapter structure and maintain no CRM. An association that buys us instead of a membership platform has bought a very good annual meeting and lost its operating system, which would be an obviously bad trade.

Consolidation is the second argument, and it is a strong one for a small staff. Those same listings describe events with registration, ticketing and event pages sitting inside the platform alongside webinar and training modules and a member directory (accessed 3 September 2026). One vendor across membership, events, email and community means one contract, one login for staff and one place where a member record lives. Adding event67 for the annual meeting means a second system, a second export and a second set of instructions for delegates — real overhead that a two-person secretariat may reasonably decline.

And we should be careful about what we do not know. Those listings describe a member and attendee mobile application, and we could not establish from any source whether it can carry an organiser's own branding or store listing. We make no claim about it either way, and any organiser weighing this should ask the vendor directly rather than take a comparison page's word for it — this one included.

1. Confirm you are moving an event, not a membership

   Almost nobody in this position should be replacing a membership platform with event67. What is on the table is carving the annual meeting out and running it separately. Write that down before you start, so scope does not drift.

2. Export the delegate list, not the member roll

   Name, email, organisation and any profile fields worth showing in the attendee directory, as CSV. Member records, renewal dates and payment history stay exactly where they are and never travel.

3. Rebuild the programme in the console

   Sessions, tracks, rooms, speakers and sponsors, plus workshop capacities where you want server-side RSVP limits with automatic waitlist promotion. For a 500-delegate meeting across several tracks, allow a working day and a review pass.

4. Theme, invite, then watch activations

   Logo, colours and typography flow to every screen with the WCAG AA advisory reporting as you go. Bulk invites carry per-recipient delivery tracking, and the console meter counts activated attendees from publication day. The charge follows 48 hours after the meeting ends, with the amount emailed first.

The genuinely awkward part is that your members now hold two identities. They have a membership account in one system and an event invite in another, and nothing reconciles the two automatically — no shared login, no synchronised profile, no integration. Someone on staff owns the export, the re-import when late registrations arrive, and the tidy-up afterwards. For an annual meeting that runs once a year, most associations decide that is a fair price for an app carrying their own name. For an organisation running monthly member events, that reconciliation work repeats monthly, and the calculation looks very different.