TidyHQ vs Terrilink
Last reviewed November 2026
Terrilink is a French community platform built for diasporas, alumni networks and professional associations, hosted in France. It is strongest at helping scattered members find each other: a world map, a job board, housing between members and AI-suggested introductions. TidyHQ is built for running the organisation behind the community: memberships and renewals, events, committee meetings and minutes, on one flat price with a free plan. If your members live in 60 countries and need to find each other, look hard at Terrilink. If your committee needs the subs collected and the AGM minuted, TidyHQ does that.
Where TidyHQ wins
One price for everything, and a free plan to start on. TidyHQ Pro is $890 AUD/year, which works out to about $2.44 a day for the whole organisation, however many members you have. Terrilink's membership dues and events start on its Pro tier at €149 a month on the founding offer (~$2,900 AUD a year), rising to €249 a month at catalogue price after 31 December 2026. Committee governance Terrilink does not list: meeting agendas, minutes with action items, tasks assigned to committee roles, 25 GB of document storage. Digital membership cards in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet. And peak-body reporting across affiliated clubs through TidyConnect.
Where Terrilink wins
Terrilink is built for members who are spread across the world. Its interactive world map shows where members live, opt-in alerts tell members about events near them, and its job board, housing module and AI-powered "Network Radar" help members find each other. TidyHQ has none of those. Terrilink is hosted in France and GDPR-focused, which matters to European organisations, it is available in French, Spanish and English, and on Premium it issues automatic CERFA tax receipts for French donations. Members can sign in with Google or LinkedIn, and the member app installs from the browser as a progressive web app.
Best for
Clubs, associations and alumni committees whose main job is running the organisation: collecting membership fees, chasing renewals, running events and keeping AGM and committee minutes. Especially organisations that want a free plan to start on and one price that does not rise with features.
Feature comparison
Subscription
TidyHQ
$890 AUD/year flatTerrilink
~$110–$485 AUD/month founding offer (~$160–$810 catalogue from 2027) (est.)Cost per day
TidyHQ
About $2.44 AUD, whole organisationTerrilink
€2.30–€9.97 EUR by tier, as Terrilink publishes it (founding offer)Free plan
TidyHQ
Starter: unlimited members, no expiryTerrilink
✗ 14-day free trialMembership dues & renewals
TidyHQ
All plans, with tiers, auto-renew and family membershipsTerrilink
Pro tier and aboveTransaction fees
TidyHQ
Pro: 1% + 20c service fee + Stripe processingTerrilink
Not published; dues paid into your own Stripe accountEvent ticketing & QR check-in
TidyHQ
With member pricingTerrilink
Pro tier and aboveMeeting agendas & minutes
TidyHQ
Agendas, minutes, action itemsTerrilink
Not listedCommittee task management
TidyHQ
Assigned to committee rolesTerrilink
Not listedDigital membership cards
TidyHQ
Pro: Apple + Google Wallet, auto-updatingTerrilink
Not listedMember world map & nearby-event alerts
TidyHQ
Terrilink
Pro tier and aboveJob board & housing between members
TidyHQ
Terrilink
Jobs on Pro, housing on PremiumDiscussion groups & member messaging
TidyHQ
Email and SMS to segmented listsTerrilink
Groups on Pro, messaging on all tiersDonations with tax receipts
TidyHQ
Donations launching soonTerrilink
Premium, with French CERFA receiptsPeak-body reporting across clubs
TidyHQ
TidyConnectTerrilink
Not listedData hosting
TidyHQ
Australia (AWS Sydney)Terrilink
FranceInterface languages
TidyHQ
EnglishTerrilink
French, English, SpanishTidyHQ prices are what we charge in Australian dollars. Figures marked “(est.)” are our conversion of Terrilink’s prices, which it publishes in euros, at ECB rates on 29 September 2026 — Terrilink may charge a different amount in your currency.
Key differences
Every feature on one price
Terrilink splits its features across three tiers: membership dues and events need Pro at €149 a month, donations and a custom domain need Premium at €299, and both prices rise by about two-thirds when the founding offer ends on 31 December 2026. TidyHQ Pro is one price with memberships, events, meetings, the shop and communications included. You will not find out mid-season that the thing you need is a tier up.
Start free, decide later
TidyHQ's Starter plan has unlimited members and no expiry. Import your member list, set up your membership levels and run a test renewal on yourself while your current system keeps going. Terrilink offers a 14-day trial, which is enough to look around but not enough to see a renewal season through.
The committee runs in the same place
An alumni association or professional body still holds an AGM, takes minutes and carries action items between committee meetings. TidyHQ keeps agendas, minutes, committee tasks and 25 GB of documents next to the member records. Terrilink is built around members talking to each other, and does not list meeting or minutes tools.
Be honest about what Terrilink does better
If your members live in dozens of countries and the point of the organisation is helping them find each other, Terrilink's world map, job board, housing module and AI introductions are things TidyHQ does not do. Pick the tool that matches the job your members joined for.
What Terrilink does well
Terrilink is built for members who are spread across the world. Its interactive world map shows where members live, opt-in alerts tell members about events near them, and its job board, housing module and AI-powered "Network Radar" help members find each other. TidyHQ has none of those. Terrilink is hosted in France and GDPR-focused, which matters to European organisations, it is available in French, Spanish and English, and on Premium it issues automatic CERFA tax receipts for French donations. Members can sign in with Google or LinkedIn, and the member app installs from the browser as a progressive web app.
We think honest comparisons build more trust than pretending competitors don’t exist. Try both and see which one your committee actually uses.
Ongoing development
We have shipped every month since 2008.
The software you pick now is a bet on where it will be in three years, and no feature table tells you that. We have been building TidyHQ for eighteen years, across more than 30,000 commits. The public record is dated and checkable: 19 new features and 66 updates since November 2025 alone, the most recent on 23 September 2026.
Some of what landed
We have not tried to summarise Terrilink’s release history here, because we do not have reliable data on it and would rather not guess. Go and look for their changelog too. If a vendor cannot show you what they shipped last quarter, that is worth knowing before you sign anything.
Is TidyHQ right for you?
TidyHQ is the better choice if…
- You want a free plan and one published price, not three tiers and a founding offer that ends
- Your committee runs AGMs, minutes and tasks and wants them next to the member list
- Collecting membership fees and chasing renewals is the main job
- You want your members' data hosted in Australia
- You are a state or national body that needs reporting across affiliated clubs (TidyConnect)
Terrilink might be better if…
- •Your members are spread across many countries and need to find each other
- •You want a member job board, housing exchange or AI-suggested introductions
- •You need data hosted in France, or an interface in French or Spanish
- •You are a French organisation issuing CERFA tax receipts for donations
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about using Terrilink vs TidyHQ for membership organisations.
Terrilink has three monthly tiers. On its founding offer, which runs until 31 December 2026, Starter is €69 a month, Pro is €149 and Premium is €299. Catalogue prices afterwards are €99, €249 and €499. Membership dues and events start on Pro. TidyHQ Pro is $890 AUD, $690 USD or £490 a year, flat, with a 1% + 20c service fee on payments plus Stripe processing. TidyHQ's Starter plan is free, with a 3% + 20c service fee.
TidyHQ Pro billed annually works out to about $2.44 AUD, $1.89 USD or £1.34 a day, for the whole organisation, whatever your member count. Terrilink publishes per-day figures too: about €2.30 on Starter, €4.97 on Pro and €9.97 on Premium, on its founding offer.
No. TidyHQ does not have a world map of members, nearby-event alerts, a job board or a housing exchange. Those are Terrilink's strengths, and they suit diasporas and alumni networks whose members are spread across many countries. TidyHQ focuses on running the organisation: memberships and renewals, events, communications, committee meetings and minutes.
Terrilink does not publish one. It says membership dues are paid into the organisation's own payment account through Stripe, and that financial terms are set during setup. Ask them to confirm in writing. TidyHQ publishes its fees: 1% + 20c on Pro and 3% + 20c on Starter, plus Stripe processing.
Yes. The Starter plan is free with unlimited members and no expiry. Import your member list from a spreadsheet, set up your membership levels and run a test renewal while your current system keeps running. Upgrade to Pro once the committee has seen it work.
Sources
Claims in this comparison are based on publicly available information. Verify current pricing and features directly with each provider.
- 1Terrilink official website and pricing— Tiers, founding-offer and catalogue prices, per-day figures, features by tier, France hosting (reviewed 2026-11-13)
- 2TidyHQ pricing— Plans, service fees and Stripe processing rates
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