Gather 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Gather

4.8

(14)

Pricing

Starting at $99.00 per year

About Gather

In the past, there were two options for building your digital experience. The first involved spending large sums of money and time on bespoke solutions. The other was to use a patchwork of “free” tools like Eventbrite and Facebook to create digital programs that could be disjointed and confusing for audiences. Gather combines the best of both options to provide a third, different way.

Gather is a subscription software product enabling museums and institutions of all sizes to create a dynamic digital environment for their supporters. Each space lives as a part of the museum’s website, providing a seamless experience for members.

Our no-code technology is easy to use. It works seamlessly with existing websites and systems, so any institution can build a unique digital home to bring their on-site, online and on-demand experiences together in one place.
For museum membership directors and leaders, Gather lets you:

-Gather People: Bring together all of your audiences in a single digital home. Increase engagement by creating community and connections between your audiences and your institution.
-Gather Programs: Deliver and manage your live and on-demand programs in a secure, easy...

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Gather Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $99.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$99.00

per year

No plan information available

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Gather Features

Popular features found in Membership Management
Application Management
Communication Management
Dues Management
Email Marketing
Event Management
Member Directory
Member Portal
Membership Renewals
Payment Processing
Promotions Management
Registration Management
More features of Gather
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Attendance Tracking
Credit Card Processing
Customizable Branding
Customizable Forms
Data Import/Export
Electronic Payments
Email Templates
Enrollments/Onboarding
Event Calendar
Invoice Management
Member Communication
Member Database
Member Types
Recurring/Subscription Billing
Reminders
Reporting & Statistics
Self Service Portal
Third-Party Integrations
Website Management

Gather Integrations

Ticketure

Blackbaud Altru

Zapier

Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud

Tessitura

Blackbaud CRM

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Gather User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.8

Ratings Breakdown

79%

21%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.9

Value for money

4.9

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.6

Have you used Gather and would like to share your experience with others?

Mary K.

Verified reviewer

Museums and Institutions

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed January 2023

Gather: An Excellent Option for Museums and Other Institutions

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Gather allows us to effectively manage our events and registrants, and its intuitive design supports the ease with which we and our users can navigate the platform. In addition to hosting registration pages for virtual and in-person programming, Gather also allows us to list on-demand content, like videos, virtual exhibitions, and recordings of previous events; this is an excellent way for users to become more engaged with the power of design and with MODA itself.

Cons:

In many contemporary web-based platforms, content saves automatically; this is not yet the case with Gather, and from the administrative end, one is not presented with a pop-up confirming their intention to close an in-progress program webpage if their finger slips. The addition of a pop-up denoting unsaved changes (or an autosave feature) would be very helpful for those rare instances.

Vendor Response

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review and for your valuable feedback. We are thrilled to hear that Gather is an excellent option for museums and other institutions to effectively manage events and registrants. We are glad that you found our platform easy to navigate and that you have been able to use it to host registration pages for virtual and in-person programming as well as on-demand content like videos, virtual exhibitions, and recordings of previous events. It's great to know that our platform is helping you to engage your users more with the power of design and with your institution. Regarding the feedback you have provided us on the autosave feature, we hear you! That is a great idea that I just circulated to the team. We'll think about the best way to incorporate that functionality, but rest assured, we'll add it. We appreciate your partnership and look forward to continue to support you in the future.

Replied January 2023

Laura F.

Verified reviewer

Design

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Gather is a Game Changer

Love many things about Gather including the hands-on, personalized help in building a virtual home for our online programs, the Gather team's willingness to make changes to accommodate our needs and problem-solve alongside us, and the ease of use for both staff and museum patrons.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

With Gather, we've built a frictionless experience for people who want to attend online programs — the simple click of a button allows individuals to register for a program without filling out forms over and over or keeping track of Zoom links. The ability to shape this platform to meet our specific needs — both in terms of functionality and design — has been great.Gather has a clean interface that's intuitive and easy to use, both for staff and museum patrons. We're able to collect and see data about user registrations with ease.

Cons:

Honestly, there's nothing to complain about. Working with Gather has been an amazing experience.

Reasons for choosing Gather

Ease of use for patrons and staffAbility to customize design to fit into our websiteAccess to data about registration and moreAmazing experiences with the Gather team

Reasons for switching to Gather

We disliked the complexity of registration for virtual events on other platforms — museum patrons were spending too much time filling out forms and keeping track of Zoom links, while museum staff were spending too much time posting events and getting them ready for registration. We also disliked sending patrons away from our website to register for a program. We wanted to create a seamless registration and attendance experience for our patrons that would live on our website and be a virtual home for museum programs.

Vendor Response

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a review and share your positive experience with Gather. We're thrilled to hear that you're finding the platform intuitive, easy to use, and customizable to meet your specific needs. The fact that it has streamlined the registration process for both your staff and patrons is a testament to the impact Gather can have on making online events more accessible. We're glad to hear that our team has provided personalized, hands-on help in building a virtual home for your online programs and that we were able to accommodate your needs and problem-solve alongside you. This is what sets Gather apart, and we're proud to be able to offer this level of support to all of our customers. Thank you again for choosing Gather, and we look forward to continuing to work with you to create amazing experiences for your museum patrons.

Replied February 2023

Troy M.

Verified reviewer

Museums and Institutions

201-500 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Reviewed February 2023

Exciting, easy to use software with some minor growing pains, but great customer support.

Our Gather userbase is small but engaged, and it seems that for the most part everything runs quite smoothly for them. On the one occasion when an event didn't run smoothly, we had a member of the Gather team there with us who was able to help us troubleshoot the issue in real-time, and we were able to get the event started quite quickly.This is a great platform for user engagement, and I look forward to seeing how it continues to grow in the future.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The software is very easy to use. I do not come from a particularly technical background, but I'm able to use all of the functions without much effort. The team at Gather is incredibly receptive to new ideas and feedback on what could be working better, and on the occasions where they are unable to do exactly what we asked, they are able to offer a good workaround that will meet our needs. On the occasions when a bug is found, the team is always great at finding a solution quickly. For example, I was having trouble updating a pre-recorded video program, and was able to hop on a call with someone at Gather within the hour. They had a short-term fix ready for me when I logged in the next morning, along with a promise of a longer-term solution coming soon, a short video on how to implement the patch, and an offer to manually edit the video metadata that was causing the issue.I love being able to give feedback on potential new features. I am especially looking forward to when we are able to integrate with Tessitura. Setting up new events and programs in Gather is a breeze, as is viewing them as a guest.

Cons:

There are some user interface issues that I think could be improved both on an admin side and as a user. Things like unnecessary scrollbars and difficulties controlling the cropping on an image when that image is used on multiple pages. The software is still somewhat buggy as well.I wish we could integrate this platform more closely with our own website, as we just went through a lot of effort to get our website looking and working just the way we want it to.I dislike that I have to provide my email address and wait for a link every time I need to log in rather than the traditional method of logging in, but I also recognize that this is the direction many companies are going these days.

Vendor Response

Thanks for taking the time to write out this thoughtful feedback, Troy. We don't expect anyone to come to our product with loads of technical expertise. Just the opposite, it should be easy to use from day one! We are happy to hear that you have found our platform easy to use and that our customer support team has been responsive and helpful in addressing any issues that you have encountered. We appreciate your comments on the areas where you think we can improve, and we are always working to make our software even better. We are glad to hear that you and your deeply engaged userbase have had a positive experience with our platform, and we look forward to seeing how we can continue to support your needs in the future.

Replied February 2023

Anne M.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed February 2023

One-Stop Registration and Learning Platform

My experience with Gather has been superb. The team is responsive, helpful, dedicated, calm, and very patient. The team hung in with us through thick and thin and we continue to add new features and make changes which they have been very open to. They are a wonderful team of collaborators.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of use for students is very important. It is so easy to create an account - students simply need an email address. I also like that we can add an image so we can convey the course content visually as well as with words. The student is fully in charge of making payments rather than having to make a phone call to a registration department or log into a different platform with different ID requirements. The course reminders are wonderful and the "Join Now" button on the course page is my favorite feature!

Cons:

I find the class times a little tricky to enter accurately sometimes - it can take a few tries to get it right - it's a little like auto-correct!

Dawa D.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Gather Solves Critical Challenges

The Gather staff are excellent, we meet regularly and they are very prompt and pro-active in solving any issues and concerns we come cross. From meeting to meeting, through feedback loop, we have collectively done a wonderful work in deploying the software effectively.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Access to Gather through individual email eliminates the need to create and remember a password for the site. For our students this is a major problem solver. Otherwise, in the past we would receive tons of requests to help change password because students do tend to forget.

Cons:

We have added things along the way through feedback loop and this software is great in adapting, nothing "least" like to comment here.

Vendor Response

Thank you for taking the time to leave such a positive review of Gather. We love hearing that our platform has effectively solved some critical challenges for your organization and that our team has been able to provide the support you need to deploy the software effectively. Music to our ears! We treat feedback as a gift, and are trying our best to adapt to the industry's needs. Great to hear it's working well for you on your end, and we're excited to deploy more in the future.

Replied January 2023

Alfredo M.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed January 2023

Gather Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The product is engaging in terms of display and each class page has all the materials the students need for the course. Customer support is very helpful.

Cons:

Potentially integrate contributions made on the enrollment page with our Salesforce platform (i.e. automatically send acknowledgment letters, etc)

Reasons for switching to Gather

We wanted a database that was more interactive for our students and a space that would keep our content more secure.

Vendor Response

Thanks Alfredo! We are thrilled to hear that you find our product engaging in terms of display and that it has met the needs of your students. The fact that you find our customer support has been helpful is a testament to our commitment to providing excellent service. We wouldn't want it any other way. We hear you on your suggestion for building an even deeper integration with Salesforce. We launched our first version last year and have some exciting updates in the new year to make it even easier to use (and avoid duplicates!). We appreciate your partnership and look forward to continue to support you in the future.

Replied January 2023

Derek L.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed February 2023

Help Through the Pandemic

Our students now enroll and pay for classes through Gather. Then, when the classes meet, they can go to the Gather platform to find the zoom class links.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Gather helped us move our lifelong learning community of elder adults online during the global Covid-19 Pandemic. Many of our students were unfamiliar with online enrollment and online courses - Gather helped us make it as easy as possible for them and for us so we could continue providing the social interactions that are so important to the aging community.

Cons:

It isn't as customizable as we thought it would be - there are several things that cannot be done because their system won't allow it.

Reasons for choosing Gather

The staff of Gather are very responsive.

Elena B.

Verified reviewer

Design

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed January 2023

Gather Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Gather has made our lives so much easier. It combined a lot of systems that we were using for online and IRL programming and made them so easy to use.

Cons:

I wish we could handle membership through them without using another membership management suite.

Vendor Response

Thanks for the review, Elena! Streamlining these systems is our #1 goal. We've loved how you've used the product to support both online and IRL (in-real-life). We have the foundations laid for handling your entire membership, so we'll see what the new year has in store!

Replied January 2023

Savannah F.

Verified reviewer

Museums and Institutions

11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed January 2023

Gather Helps Institutions Connect with Constituents

Overall, Gather is incredibly considerate of users and forward thinking in their design.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Gather is designed to make the material as accessible as possible. It has eliminated the barriers (like repetitive information input or sign-ins) that discourage users. Not only does it make it easy for members to access information, it allows them to continually return to events they have interacted with and is set up to keep the conversation going. I think this usability will ultimately help leaders to better connect with each other and engage with content.

Cons:

Some features relating to user metrics are still "in progress" but I expect they will improve over time. Gather is extremely responsive to questions and concerns, so any issues have been possible to resolve with them.

Vendor Response

Thank you for taking the time to leave a review of Gather! We're thrilled to hear that you find our platform accessible and easy to use, and that you appreciate our efforts to remove barriers for our users. We're always working to improve and provide the best experience possible, so we're glad to hear that you have had a positive experience so far. We appreciate your feedback on the "in progress" user metrics, and you're right that there are improvements soon-to-come there. Thank you for your support and trust in Gather!

Replied February 2023

Herbert G.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed January 2023

They make online education easy as 123

Working with Gather was simple. We made a plan and did exactly as we planned. Would not change anything.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Gather has made online enrolling easy and enjoyable for our students.

Cons:

Nothing negative to say. When we ran into any issue with our platform, it was taken care of right away. Great work.

Reasons for switching to Gather

Update

Vendor Response

Thank you for your kind words about Gather, Herbert! We are delighted to hear that our platform has made online enrolling easy and enjoyable for your students. It's great to hear that you had a positive experience with our team, and that any issues you encountered were promptly resolved. We appreciate your feedback that working with Gather was simple, and that you were able to execute your upgrade plan as intended. We're happy that you're happy, and look forward to continue supporting you.

Replied January 2023

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