For association, society, and chamber executives
Your board is asking about non-dues revenue. Come back with a real answer.
Beyond Dues helps you find, evaluate, and financially model new revenue ideas built around your members — not generic advice pulled off a blog. Go from "we should probably do something" to a board-ready plan in an afternoon.
Free to use. No credit card. No sales call.
Most of your members are quietly worth more than their dues.
They pay every year. They renew. And then they never buy another thing from you.
That gap between "a member" and "an active buyer" is where non-dues revenue lives. Most associations know it's there. Very few have a systematic way to find it, size it, and prove to a board that it's worth pursuing.
So the ideas that get pursued tend to be the ones someone remembered from a conference session — not the ones that fit your members, your capacity, and your mission.
Dues dependence
Membership dues still carry the majority of the budget at most associations.
Untapped buyers
A large share of members never purchase anything beyond their membership.
Cost of outside help
A non-dues revenue consulting engagement is out of reach for most budgets.
Four steps. One connected workflow.
Most tools stop at brainstorming. Beyond Dues takes an idea all the way to a defensible number.
Discover
Tell us about your association once. Beyond Dues reads your website, your uploaded documents, and your goals, then generates revenue ideas specific to your members, your industry, and your constraints.
Five different ideation approaches — including Jobs-To-Be-Done, First Principles, and Systematic Inventive Thinking — so you get genuinely different angles, not five versions of "run a webinar."
Evaluate
Score every idea against five criteria: strategic fit, feasibility, revenue potential, resource readiness, and member impact.
Get an AI deep-dive on what could go wrong before you commit staff time to it.
Model
Build a real financial model — events, subscriptions, courses and credentials, or webinars and sponsorships. Conservative, expected, and aggressive scenarios.
Break-even, cash flow, staff capacity, and contribution margin. A validation engine flags any assumption that looks optimistic.
Decide
Get a plain-language decision summary you can take to your board, plus a print-ready export.
Compare models side by side so you can defend not just what you chose, but what you passed on.
It also tells you when an idea might create a tax problem.
Every association executive has had the same quiet worry about a promising revenue idea: is this going to trigger UBIT?
Beyond Dues flags it up front. Every idea gets an automatic Unrelated Business Income Tax risk read — low, review, or high — based on your organization's tax status, with plain-English reasoning, the exceptions that might apply, and specific questions to bring to your CPA.
It's not tax advice. It's the heads-up you'd want before you spend three months building something.
A 501(c)(6) chamber and a 501(c)(3) foundation get different answers to the same question. Beyond Dues accounts for that.
Automated early-warning flag only. Confirm with a qualified tax advisor before acting.
Built for the person who owns the revenue number.
Trade associations
Find revenue that serves your industry without competing with your own members.
Professional societies
Turn certification, education, and career-stage needs into recurring revenue.
Chambers of commerce
Move past sponsorship packages and into programs your business community actually asks for.
Association management companies
Run the same rigorous process across every client you serve, without rebuilding it each time.
Why not just hire a consultant?
You can. A good non-dues revenue consultant will interview your staff, benchmark your peers, generate ideas, and hand you a deck. It works. It's also out of reach for most associations, and by the time the deck arrives, your budget cycle has moved on.
Beyond Dues runs the same underlying methodology — structured ideation, weighted evaluation, financial modeling — on your schedule, for free. Use it to do the work yourself, or use it to show up to a consulting engagement already knowing what you want.
Cost
- Consultant
- Significant budget line
- Spreadsheet
- Free
- Beyond Dues
- Free
Time to first answer
- Consultant
- 6–12 weeks
- Spreadsheet
- Weeks of nights and weekends
- Beyond Dues
- An afternoon
Tailored to your members
- Consultant
- Yes
- Spreadsheet
- Depends on you
- Beyond Dues
- Yes
Financial modeling
- Consultant
- Yes
- Spreadsheet
- If you build it
- Beyond Dues
- Built in
Tax risk flagged
- Consultant
- Sometimes
- Spreadsheet
- No
- Beyond Dues
- Yes
Reusable next year
- Consultant
- No
- Spreadsheet
- Not really
- Beyond Dues
- Yes
Everything below is free. There is no paywall to hit today.
- Unlimited AI revenue idea generation
- Catalog of proven non-dues revenue ideas across 8 categories
- Five-criteria idea evaluation with AI deep-dive
- Full financial modeling — events, subscriptions, courses, sponsorships
- Three-scenario forecasting with break-even and cash flow
- UBIT risk flagging on every idea
- Multiple projects with separate knowledge bases
- Document upload for association-specific context
- Print-ready exports for board presentations
- 2-minute revenue assessment with branded PDF report
No credit card. No trial countdown. No sales call.
Not ready to sign up? Start with the number.
Take the 2-minute Revenue Assessment. Answer a handful of questions about your association and get an estimate of your untapped non-dues revenue potential, delivered as a branded PDF you can forward to your executive committee.
No account required.
Questions association leaders ask
Your next board meeting is coming either way.
Show up with three modeled ideas instead of one vague intention. It takes an afternoon and costs nothing.
Free while in early access. No credit card. No sales call.