Duesroll vs Novi AMS

This isn’t an argument about capability. Novi AMS does size-based dues properly and is built for trade associations. The difference is what it costs and how you buy it.

Novi AMS does this properly

It handles dues that vary by member size natively, it was built for trade associations by people who ran one, and it does a lot this doesn’t. Committees, chapters, events, a website, accounting integration.

On capability, Novi AMS wins. This page is about whether you need all of it.

What it costs, and how you have to buy it

$829/mo

Novi AMS, lowest tier

$3,600

Onboarding, one off

$49/mo

Duesroll

Their lowest tier is $829 a month, aimed at associations up to $400K annual revenue, plus $3,600 to onboard, and it’s billed a year at a time. You can’t buy it without booking a call, so there’s no price you can act on today without talking to someone.

Put their two numbers together. An association at the top of that band pays about 2.5% of everything it takes in, every year, for its membership software. In the first year, with onboarding, closer to 3.4%. Below the top of the band it’s more than that.

Here the price is on the page, the trial is 60 days and doesn't ask for a card, and there’s no demo to book.

Novi AMS pricing, checked 2026-09-16. https://www.noviams.com/pricing-novi-core

Which one you want

Buy Novi AMS if

You have a full-time membership director.

You run a conference, committees and chapters.

You want one system holding all of it, including your website.

$9,948 a year, committed up front, is a line item and not a decision.

Buy this if

You have one to five staff and a dues schedule.

You already have a website you’re happy with.

The job you want doing is the 150-member renewal round, not the whole association.

You would rather put it on a card today than book a call for Thursday.

What you give up by buying this instead

Track record

Novi AMS has years of trade association customers behind it. Every figure on this site is sourced and dated instead, so you can check the argument instead of taking anyone’s word for it.

Everything that isn’t dues

No events, no committees, no chapters, no website, no email campaigns.

An onboarding team

Novi walks you through the move and charges $3,600 for it. Here you import a CSV yourself and there’s no onboarding fee, which is cheaper and also lonelier.

$49 a month, price on the page

No demo to book. Leave an address and we’ll write when it opens.

The first 10 associations pay $25 a month, permanently instead of $49.

For as long as you stay, in exchange for being willing to be named as a customer once you’re live.