Collect dues and event fees online. Stop chasing the stragglers.
A typical pack moves about $20,000 a year: dues, campout fees, derby kits, the Blue and Gold. Almost all of it still gets collected with a spreadsheet column, a Venmo handle, and a volunteer sending reminder emails from their own address. MemberCairn collects it for you, and collecting is free on every plan.
Founder offer, through October 1: the whole Guide plan plus your own .org web address for $0 today, then $149 after 30 free days for your first full year. Money collection is free either way.
Who paid and who still owes, one glance
Four times a year it gets ugly.
Not because anyone is disorganized. Because the money and the headcount live in different places, and one volunteer has to reconcile them by hand.
Annual dues come due
How it goes now
A spreadsheet column, a Venmo handle in a group text, and three families who pay in cash at a meeting. Sibling discounts get worked out by hand, twice, because someone joined in October.
With MemberCairn
One collection for the whole pack, sized per Scout, with a sibling discount if you want one. Every family gets their own link. Who has paid is a glance, not a reconciliation night.
A campout needs $25 a head
How it goes now
You post the fee, collect RSVPs somewhere else, and spend the next two weeks matching names against payments and sending "friendly reminder" emails from your own address.
With MemberCairn
The fee rides on the RSVP itself. A family taps yes and pays right there, by card or straight from their bank. The headcount and the money are the same list.
Somebody still has not paid
How it goes now
A volunteer has to become the bad guy, by name, in a group chat, to people they see every Tuesday.
With MemberCairn
On the Guide plan your AI assistant follows up privately with the families who said yes but have not paid. Nobody on the committee has to be the one asking.
The committee wants numbers
How it goes now
Export, sort, cross-check the bank statement, discover a duplicate, rebuild the tab before Thursday.
With MemberCairn
Collected and still-out totals per collection, and the money already sitting in the pack’s own bank account, where the treasurer can see the payouts.
Three steps, once.
Connect the pack’s bank account
Your treasurer links the pack account once through Stripe, the payment company behind millions of businesses. It takes a few minutes and it is the only setup step.
Say what you are collecting
Annual dues per Scout, a campout fee, a derby kit, the Blue and Gold. Set the amount and the due date. Add a sibling discount if your pack uses one.
Families pay from their phone
No account to create, no app to install. They tap a link or an RSVP and pay by card or bank transfer. You watch it land.
What the family sees
A link, an amount, and two ways to pay. No account to create, no app to install, nothing to remember. Paying straight from a bank account is always offered, because it is the cheapest way for them.
On the Guide plan, your AI assistant follows up privately with the families who said yes but have not paid, so no volunteer has to be the one asking.
Free to collect. On every plan.
Collecting money is not a paid feature here and never will be. It is free on the Free plan, with no card to start and no cap on how much you collect. We are not going to charge a volunteer committee for the privilege of getting paid.
Collecting is free on every plan, including Free, and the fee schedule is public: the family paying online covers one service fee at checkout, 3.5% plus 49¢ by card or 1.5% capped at $8 straight from their bank account, always the cheapest way. That fee covers Stripe's processing and MemberCairn's share (at most 0.6% plus 19¢ on card, at most $3.74 on bank), which is exactly how the software stays free. Flip a switch and the pack absorbs it instead. For comparison, Scoutbook's own online payments charge families a flat 3%.
We never touch your money.
Handing a volunteer committee’s money to software you found on the internet deserves a straight answer, so here is exactly how it works.
The money is the pack’s from the first payment
Every payment goes to a Stripe account in your pack’s name, not into a MemberCairn account that pays you later. We never hold your funds, so there is no balance of yours on our books and nothing of yours to lose if we go away.
We never see a card number
Families type their card into Stripe’s own checkout, not into a MemberCairn form. Card and bank details never touch our servers, so a MemberCairn breach cannot expose them.
The money trail belongs to you
Payouts, refunds, disputes, and bank details live in the pack’s own Stripe dashboard, which your treasurer signs into directly. Refunds are yours to issue, not something you ask us for.
None of this is a policy we could quietly change. It is how the payments are wired, and it is the same on the Free plan as on any other.
A volunteer fronts the money. Get it back to them.
Someone always ends up buying the derby track lumber or the campout firewood out of their own pocket, then chasing a check for weeks. On the Organizer and Guide plans, they just email a photo of the receipt.
They email a receipt
A photo or PDF to your pack’s own reimburse@ address, or any address a family already uses. No form to fill out first.
Your treasurer reviews it
The details are ready to check, right beside the fees and dues coming in. Approve, deny with a note, or ask a quick question.
It’s paid and logged
Check, Zelle, bank transfer, whatever you use. Every payment lands in a check log you can export.
On the Organizer plan you press one button to read a receipt’s details. On the Guide plan your AI assistant reads it the moment it arrives, no button required.
Every emailed receipt, read and lined up for the treasurer
What treasurers ask first.
- Does MemberCairn hold our money?
- Never. Every payment goes to a payment account in your pack’s name, so the money is yours from the first payment and there is no balance of yours on our books. Payouts, refunds, and bank details live in an account your treasurer signs into directly.
- What does it cost to collect?
- Collecting is free on every plan, including Free, with no cap. The paying family covers one small service fee, shown to them before they choose how to pay, and paying straight from a bank account is always the cheapest option.
- Can we still take cash and checks?
- Yes. Record what arrives by cash or check against the same collection, so one list still answers who has paid.
The treasurer is not the only one holding something.
MemberCairn gives each person on the committee the part of the work they own, so the money person is not also the one chasing headcounts.
You bring the families in
Take the sign-in on a phone, follow up the same evening, and keep every question answered until they are in.
See what changesYou run the pack
A calendar that stays current, a real headcount before you buy the hot dogs, and parent questions answered without you.
See what changesCollect this season’s dues without the spreadsheet.
Set up your pack in about ten minutes, connect your bank account, and send your first collection. Free to start, free to collect, and your data is always yours to take with you.
