A Membership Toolkit alternative for the weekly jobs
Membership Toolkit: Membership Toolkit is an all-in-one platform for parent groups covering membership, directories, a store, volunteers, and a website. It is a brand of Lumaverse Technologies, alongside SignUpGenius and AtoZConnect.
All-in-one platforms are built for the annual jobs: enrolling members, collecting dues, running the store. Those matter, and they happen a few times a year.
The jobs that happen every week are smaller. Get the calendar right. Tell people something. Keep one list. TangoHive is built for those, and is free to start, so it is easy to run alongside whatever handles your dues.
Where TangoHive is strong
One live calendar instead of a page people re-check
Families subscribe once and your events land in their own calendar app. Change a date and it changes everywhere, without anyone republishing anything.
Announcements that render properly everywhere
The post lives at a permanent link and the email carries a short announcement plus that link. That is why it looks right in Gmail, Outlook, and on a phone, instead of collapsing into a wall of broken images.
The list is tagged, and every send knows who it reaches
Import the parent list once, tag by grade, room, or role, and pick an audience per message. Bounces and unsubscribes are handled without anyone thinking about it.
Set up in an evening
Paste your schedule, upload your list, pick a colour and a logo. There is no implementation project and no annual contract to start.
When Membership Toolkit is the better choice
Genuinely. If any of these describe you, TangoHive is not the right tool and we would rather you knew now.
- Membership enrolment, dues, and a store are the centre of how you operate. TangoHive does not do payments.
- You need a full family directory with opt-in privacy controls per household.
- You want one vendor and one invoice covering every job, and are happy to trade focus for coverage.
The jobs TangoHive does not do, done by the same team
TangoHive stays narrow on purpose: the calendar, the list, the posts, and your public page. Signups and paid registration are handled by GrasshopperSignup and JupiterSignup, built by the same people and integrated with TangoHive. An all-in-one gives you six average tools on one invoice. This is the good version of each, made to work together.
GrasshopperSignup
Signup sheets and volunteer slots, for when you need people to claim a shift or bring something.
JupiterSignup
Registration and paid signups: describe the event, it builds the page, takes payment, and tracks who is coming.
What you get with TangoHive
A calendar that lands on parents' phones
Not a list on a website someone has to remember to check. People subscribe once and a moved practice updates itself in the calendar app they already use.
Turning a schedule someone sent you into events
Paste the season schedule, the school newsletter, or a link. TangoHive proposes the events and you approve them, instead of typing 40 dates.
One member list the whole board shares
Not a spreadsheet emailed between officers each August. Tag people by grade, room, or role, and every message knows who it reaches.
Telling everyone something, reliably
Write it once. It lives at a permanent link, and the email carries a short announcement plus that link, so it renders properly in every inbox.
A public page for the group
One address to put on the newsletter and the fridge magnet: your logo, your links, your calendar. No website builder, no separate hosting.
Working for people who install nothing
Grandparents, new families, the sitter. Reading is never behind a login or an app download.
Common questions
- Can we use both?
- Yes, and that is a common shape: keep the platform you use for dues and the store, and run the calendar, posts, and public page in TangoHive. Both can point at the same audience.
- How do we get our contacts in?
- Upload a CSV, or add people as they sign up. There is also an API if you want another system to push contacts in automatically.
- Who owns the data if we leave?
- You do. Calendars export as standard ICS feeds and contacts export as CSV.
See a real group before you move anything
Maple Hill PTA is a fictional school running on the actual product: the page families see, the posts they read, and the calendar that lands on their phones.