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Three ways to put a chapter online. Here they are side by side — price first, because that’s where the differences start.
The short version: our price is the whole price — $35/month or $350/year with hosting and SSL included. Pinnacle’s $159/year maintenance sits on top of their $499 setup, and their recommended WinHost hosting ($119.40/year) and SSL ($50–100/year) are separate bills the chapter arranges and pays. HOG[SCAN] starts at $39/month, with a $300 setup fee in its terms.
Price
| MotoClub Sites | Pinnacle (MCS) | HOG[SCAN] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup | $300, once | $499 | $300 |
| Subscription | $35/month, or $350/year (two months free) | $159/year maintenance | From $39/month |
| Hosting & SSL | Included — hosting, SSL, and email are in the price | On you — their recommended hosting is WinHost Max ($119.40/year), plus SSL at $50–100/year | Included |
| Text messaging | Optional: $20 setup, $5/month, 2¢/segment — real SMS | “Texting” is email sent to carrier gateways — not real SMS | Listed as included |
| First year, all-in | $650* | ≈ $850 | From $768 |
| Every year after | $350 (annual rate)* | ≈ $350, across three separate bills | From $468 |
* Does not include SMS setup or usage costs. Your costs will vary based on usage.
Software & security
| MotoClub Sites | Pinnacle (MCS) | HOG[SCAN] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | Current — built on modern, maintained software, developed today | Dates to 2002 — a desktop-era, fixed-width design | Built on Drupal 7, which reached end-of-life in January 2025, with a theme that only fully supports Drupal 7 |
| On a phone | Fully mobile-friendly | No mobile design | Responsive site; officer app ($0.99 per user, iOS only) |
| Admin sign-in security | Authenticator-app two-factor for site and platform admins | Their manual advises webmasters not to enable MFA | Not published |
| Passwords | Hashed — nobody can see or recover them, including us | New members start with their H.O.G.® since-date as their password — not case-sensitive — and any officer can look it up (their manual) | Not published |
| Reports | Built in, on the site | Through a downloadable Microsoft Access database — Windows only, unsupported | Built in |
| Backups | Nightly, encrypted — 7 days on the server, 30 days off-site — and your club can download its own data package | Database only — and restoring it takes Microsoft Access on Windows | Daily database backups, kept 90 days; restores by request |
| Tracking on your site | None, ever — no analytics or tracking cookies on club websites | Not published | Not published |
Features
| MotoClub Sites | Pinnacle (MCS) | HOG[SCAN] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who it’s for | Any motorcycle club, riding club, or chapter | H.O.G.® chapters | Chartered H.O.G.® chapters only |
| Roster import | Yes — bring your current roster file | Yes | Yes — national roster import |
| Event sign-ups | Sign-ups with a waitlist, notifications, and mobile check-in with attendance tracking | Sign-ups; no waitlist | RSVP, plus app check-in at events |
| Polls & voting | Secret ballot — one member, one vote, totals at close | Not listed | Surveys in the email tool |
| Ride library | Yes — upload GPX routes, route links, descriptions, and a cover photo, and add the ride to an event in one step | Not listed | GPX shown on events; no library |
| Newsletters & minutes | Yes, with attachments | Not listed | Email campaigns; minutes not listed |
| Membership cards | Yes — printable card, sent with the welcome email | Not listed | Yes — printable, plus a virtual card in the app |
| If you leave | Take your data with you — export your roster, photos, and documents | Not published | Not published |
The bottom line
| MotoClub Sites | Pinnacle (MCS) | HOG[SCAN] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| First year | $650 — one bill, everything in* | ≈ $850, in pieces | From $768 |
| Every year after | $350 (annual rate)* | ≈ $350, in pieces | From $468 |
* Does not include SMS setup or usage costs. Your costs will vary based on usage.
Also in the search results: RumbleSeat
RumbleSeat is a car-club platform with a motorcycle-clubs page. There is no subscription — instead it takes a cut of the payments your club collects: 1% through 2026, rising in January 2027 to 4.9% plus card fees on its free tier, or $59/month to stay at 1%. MotoClub Sites is $35/month flat, and takes 0% of your club’s money, ever. On design, a RumbleSeat club supplies its name, colors, photos and words into a fixed, pre-built template — no page building and no layout control. A MotoClub Sites club adds its own pages and controls its own look and feel, so the site looks like the club, not the platform.
A private copy of a real club site with your club’s name on it — free for one hour.
Our platform is current, secured with two-factor sign-in and hashed passwords, runs real text messaging, and puts the whole price on one line. Ask us anything — or see the full feature list.
Competitor details from their public websites and published documentation, checked November 2026: Pinnacle/MCS pricing from pin-consult.com ($499 + $159/year maintenance), with hosting on WinHost Max ($9.95/month — the plan Pinnacle recommends) and SSL ($50–100/year) arranged and paid by the chapter, as Pinnacle directs. HOG[SCAN] setup fee from its published Terms of Service at hogscan.com; monthly price from its published “starting at $39/month”; its Drupal 7 platform per its creator’s published résumé. RumbleSeat pricing and template details from its public website, rumbleseat.com/for/motorcycle-clubs/, checked November 2026. HOG[SCAN] is a product of Brewmium, LLC. H.O.G.® is a registered trademark of Harley-Davidson, Inc.; MotoClub Sites is not affiliated with Harley-Davidson or H.O.G.®