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title: "SignUp.com Pricing: The Real Ad-Free + Text Cost (~$20/mo)"
description: "SignUp.com Starter is $9.99/mo, but ad-free costs +$9.99/mo even on paid plans — about $20 for ad-free texts, next to a flat $9 scheduled-reminder plan."
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last_updated: 2026-08-18
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# SignUp.com pricing: the real cost of ad-free text reminders

**SignUp.com's advertised Starter plan is $9.99 a month. The version most coordinators actually want — text reminders, and no ads on their volunteers' screens — is about $20 a month, because ad removal is a separate $9.99 add-on that sits on top of any paid plan.**

We build VolunteerReminder, so we are not a neutral party here. Every SignUp.com number below is sourced to their own pricing page or their own help center, and further down we say plainly who should stay on SignUp.com.

The arithmetic is worth doing before you enter a card number, because the number on the pricing page and the number on your statement are not the same number.

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## What are SignUp.com's advertised prices?

SignUp.com's paid tiers, from their premium pricing page ([signup.com/premium-offer-pricing-plan](https://signup.com/premium-offer-pricing-plan)):

- **Starter — $9.99/mo**
- **Plus — $24.99/mo** ("most popular")
- **Max — $49.99/mo**

Annual billing works out to 12 months for the price of 10 — for Starter that is $99.90 a year, about $8.33 a month effective ([signup.com/faq-premium-subscription](https://signup.com/faq-premium-subscription)).

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SignUp.com advertises "Unlimited Text (SMS) Reminders" on all paid tiers, with fine print limiting coverage to the US, Canada, and Australia and noting that standard carrier charges may apply ([signup.com/premium-offer-pricing-plan](https://signup.com/premium-offer-pricing-plan)). That is their claim about their product, quoted as they word it. We cannot tell you how it is enforced in practice, and neither can their pricing page — ask them before you commit.

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So far, so reasonable.

## Why do ads still show up on a paid SignUp.com plan?

SignUp.com's free plan shows ads — most tools in this category do. What is unusual is that **paying does not remove them.** Ad removal is a separate add-on: **$9.99 a month, or $99.00 a year, on top of any premium plan**, listed in SignUp.com's own help center among the premium features ([signuphelp.zendesk.com](https://signuphelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202399194-What-are-the-premium-features)).

That is worth sitting with, because the ads are not on your screen. They are on the screen of the volunteer who has covered the Tuesday sorting shift for nine years, on a page that carries your organization's name, and the fix is a second line item.

## What does ad-free plus text reminders actually cost?

Here is the honest arithmetic:

| | Monthly billing | Annual billing |
|---|---|---|
| Starter plan | $9.99/mo | $99.90/yr [reported] |
| Ad-free add-on | +$9.99/mo | +$99.00/yr |
| **Real total** | **$19.98/mo** | **$198.90/yr (~$16.58/mo)** |

Twenty dollars a month is not outrageous for what SignUp.com does. The problem is that it is not the price you shopped for. What a coordinator usually wants is a text that reaches the volunteer and a sign-up page with nothing else on it, and that combination costs double the headline. See [plans and pricing](/pricing) for how we price the same job.

## What do SignUp.com reviewers complain about?

SignUp.com is a well-liked product — 4.8 out of 5 across 390-plus reviews on Capterra ([capterra.com/p/135391/SignUp-com/reviews](https://www.capterra.com/p/135391/SignUp-com/reviews/)) — which makes the specific complaints worth reading rather than dismissing. Two come up more than once: the mobile experience does not match the desktop one, which confuses volunteers who are less comfortable online, and the calendar view leans toward showing upcoming openings rather than a full recurring schedule at a glance.

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None of that is disqualifying. But if your roster skews older or low-tech, every point of confusion between "reminder sent" and "volunteer shows up" costs you people on shift day.

## What does the flat-rate version look like?

VolunteerReminder does the volunteer-reminder part and nothing else. **[Deluxe](/pricing) is $9 a month** for scheduled text and email reminders to up to 60 volunteers, two texts per shift.

- **No ads. Ever.** Not on the sign-up page, not in the reminder, not on any plan, from $3 a month up. It is not an add-on, because it was never a feature — we would rather charge you $3 than sell your volunteers' attention.
- **One price, not a plan plus an add-on.** Deluxe is $9. There is nothing to bolt on to get the ads off, because there were no ads.
- **Nothing for volunteers to install or log into.** Reminders arrive as an ordinary text or email — no app, no account, no password. The Tuesday regular with the flip phone is covered without doing anything at all.
- **Recurring rotations are the core model.** Set the weekly schedule once; it repeats, and so do the reminders. No sheet to rebuild every month.
- **Carrier registration (A2P/10DLC) is handled for you at the platform level** — the compliance step that gets do-it-yourself texting from a personal phone or a Google Voice line silently blocked. You never register a brand or campaign yourself, and no carrier or number fees land on your bill. Texts go out over the platform's registered number, and a volunteer who replies STOP is unsubscribed across the platform.

Worth being blunt about what the $9 is not, because a flat price sitting next to an advertised-unlimited one invites the wrong idea: **Deluxe is not a bulk-text plan and not a per-message credit pack.** It sends scheduled reminders for shifts already on the rotation — two per shift. If the job is texting your whole mailing list at nine at night about a canceled event, that is a mass-texting product and we are not one. If the job is Saturday's crew remembering without anyone chasing them, that is this.

So the honest shape of the comparison is not one uncapped-texting claim against another. SignUp.com advertises uncapped text reminders and charges $9.99 more to take the ads off your volunteers' screens. We make no uncapped-texting claim, and we have never shown an ad at any price. Which trade is better depends entirely on whether the job is scheduled shift reminders or blasting a list.

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**[Pro](/pricing) is $19 a month** for up to 150 volunteers, a third reminder per shift, and the substitute finder: when someone drops out, it texts a batch of your bench — you set how many people are in a batch and how long it waits — and the first YES takes the shift. If nobody answers, it moves to the next batch rather than blasting the whole roster. **[Basic](/pricing) is $3 a month** for email and calendar reminders to 40 volunteers, if you are not texting yet.

Annual billing is $33 / $90 / $190 — about two months free — and every plan starts with a **30-day free trial and no credit card**.

## How do SignUp.com and VolunteerReminder compare?

| | SignUp.com | VolunteerReminder |
|---|---|---|
| Ads on volunteers' screens | On free, and on paid plans unless you buy the add-on | Never, at any price |
| Cost to remove ads | +$9.99/mo or +$99/yr, on top of any paid plan | $0 — there are none |
| Text reminders | Advertised as "Unlimited Text (SMS) Reminders" on paid tiers, US/Canada/Australia, standard carrier charges may apply — their claim | Scheduled shift reminders on Deluxe ($9/mo) and Pro ($19/mo) — two per shift, three on Pro; not a bulk-text plan |
| Entry price for texts with no ads | ~$19.98/mo | $9/mo |
| Recurring weekly shifts | Repeating spots; organizer-assigned recurring shifts; self-sign-up is date by date | The core feature |
| Filling a last-minute gap | Repost the sheet and hope | Substitute finder (Pro): bench batch, first YES takes the shift |
| Volunteer accounts or apps | Web sign-up pages | None — text and email only |

Sources: [SignUp.com premium pricing](https://signup.com/premium-offer-pricing-plan), [ad-removal add-on](https://signuphelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202399194-What-are-the-premium-features), [SignUp.com premium subscription FAQ](https://signup.com/faq-premium-subscription).

## How much does this cost for 40 volunteers?

Say you coordinate 40 volunteers on recurring weekly shifts, you want them reminded by text, and you do not want ads in front of them. Monthly cost:

| Tool | Monthly cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| **VolunteerReminder Deluxe** | **$9** | Up to 60 volunteers; scheduled text and email shift reminders, two per shift; no ads at any price |
| SignUp.com Starter + ad-free | ~$19.98 | [Pricing](https://signup.com/premium-offer-pricing-plan) + [ad-free add-on](https://signuphelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/202399194-What-are-the-premium-features) |
| WhenToHelp | $54 | 31–60 helper band ([whentohelp.com/pricing.htm](https://whentohelp.com/pricing.htm)); advertises email and text notifications as included in that band price, with no published per-message rate or cap; their comparison-grid reminder row still reads "Email schedule reminders" (grid fetched 2026-08-18) |
| Deputy Lite | ~$200/mo (40 × $5) | Employee scheduling, not volunteer software; $5/user/mo against a $30/mo minimum ([deputy.com/pricing](https://www.deputy.com/pricing)); SMS $0.01 per 160 characters on top |

Two footnotes so the table is not read as more than it is. **VolunteerReminder** at $9 is scheduled shift reminders — the right comparison for a weekly rotation, not for mass texting. **SignUp.com's** row is the ad-free price, because that is the like-for-like version; at $9.99 their volunteers still see ads.

If your sign-ups live on sheets rather than a rotation, [the same honest breakdown for SignUpGenius](/alternatives/signupgenius) covers that corner of the market, where the texting is metered by tier instead.

## Who should stay on SignUp.com?

Plenty of organizations, honestly.

- **Schools and PTAs already living in it.** SignUp.com has a long history in classrooms. If your parent community already knows it and nobody minds the ads, the switching cost may exceed the savings.
- **One-off event sheets with many kinds of slots.** It is a sign-up-sheet tool first, and a good one — potluck dishes, conference slots, a carnival with fourteen stations. That is not what we do.
- **Anyone who genuinely needs the free tier.** If $0 is the budget and ads are acceptable, it works, and $0 is a legitimate budget.

Where it fits badly is exactly where we fit well: the same volunteers, the same shifts, every week, with attendance that lives or dies on whether the reminder got seen. If you want to put a number on the no-shows you already have, our [volunteer no-show cost calculator](/tools/no-show-calculator) will price them for you, no email required.

## How do you switch — or run both?

Most organizations do not have to pick. Keep SignUp.com for the one-off sheets, and use VolunteerReminder for the weekly rotation where reminders and no-shows are the actual pain. Export your roster, or send us the link, and we will help you turn it into a schedule and a rotation. Your volunteers do nothing at all — the next reminder simply arrives as a text.

**[Start your 30-day free trial](/signup)** — no credit card. Or send us how your rotation runs and we will tell you honestly whether this fits: [info@volunteerreminder.com](mailto:info@volunteerreminder.com).

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## FAQ

### Is SignUp.com's SMS really unlimited?

Their pricing page advertises "Unlimited Text (SMS) Reminders" on paid tiers, limited to the US, Canada, and Australia, where standard carrier charges may apply. That is their claim about their own product. We cannot tell you how the limit is enforced in practice — ask them before you commit.

### What does SignUp.com cost with no ads?

About $19.98 a month. Starter is $9.99 a month and ad removal is a separate $9.99-a-month add-on that applies on top of any paid plan. Billed annually it is $198.90 a year, roughly $16.58 a month, since annual billing runs 12 months for the price of 10.

### Are VolunteerReminder's texts unlimited on the $9 plan?

No. Deluxe is $9 a month for scheduled shift reminders: up to 60 volunteers, two texts per shift. It is not a bulk-text plan and not a per-message credit pack. If the job is blasting a whole mailing list, a mass-texting product is the honest answer.

### Does VolunteerReminder show ads to volunteers?

No — no ads on any plan, at any price, from the $3-a-month Basic plan up. Removing them is not an add-on here, because there is nothing to remove.

### Can we switch from SignUp.com without losing our current sign-up sheets?

For recurring weekly shifts, yes — export your roster or send us the link, and we will help you set up the rotation; volunteers do not have to do anything. For one-off multi-slot event sheets, SignUp.com's sheet tool is still the better fit, and plenty of organizations keep both.

### What happens when a volunteer drops a shift?

On Pro, the substitute finder texts a batch of your bench — you set how many people are in a batch and how long it waits — and the first YES takes the shift. If nobody answers, it moves to the next batch rather than texting the whole roster.

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