Dues Compliance and Employer Remittance
Union dues software that catches what employers miss
eMembership compares what every employer should have remitted against what actually arrived, flags the discrepancies, and keeps each member's payment history accurate through month-end close.
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Union clients
18
Configurable modules
20+
Years serving labor unions
0
Per-seat fees, ever
The Real Dues Problem
When a member falls behind, the member usually is not the problem
Dues administrators tell us the same story in nearly every conversation. Most members who show up as delinquent never chose to stop paying. Their employer submitted a short remittance, missed a negotiated increase, or dropped members from a checkoff file after a payroll change. By the time anyone notices, the union is weeks into an arrears conversation with a member who did nothing wrong.
Catching those discrepancies by hand means comparing employer files against contracts line by line. With thousands of members and dozens of employers, most locals simply cannot do it every month. eMembership does it automatically.
How It Works
Catch, correct, and close every month
Step 1: Catch
Compare expected against received
The exceptions report compares what each employer should have remitted, based on your contracts and rates, against what actually arrived. Underpayments, missed increases, and dropped members are flagged for follow-up before or after posting.
Step 2: Correct
Post recoveries to the right month
When an employer sends a catch-up payment or a double deduction, it posts to the specific back month it covers. Member payment histories stay accurate, so nobody gets flagged for a gap that was already made whole.
Step 3: Close
Review the close before it goes out
Run your month-end close as a draft, catch corrections while they are still easy, then finalize and send to your international. Balances and receivables are trackable by accounting period the whole way through.
What You Get
The full dues lifecycle in one system
From employer remittance to member payment history to the monthly close, everything runs on the same live member records.
Dues exceptions reporting
Flag employer underpayments, missed contractual increases, and short remittance files automatically, with an expected versus received comparison for every employer.
Employer remittance portal
Employers upload their remittances directly. Your team performs the reconciliation, and inbound access stays intentionally limited to what employers need.
Back-month allocation
Every payment carries a payroll or period date, so catch-up payments and double deductions post to the month they actually cover.
Balances and receivables by period
Track member and employer balances by accounting period, paid-through date, or amount, with support for dual checkoff and self-pay members.
Flexible per-capita and split dues
Configure per-capita as flat or percentage at the lodge, contract, employer, or member level. Split dues are calculated and distributed automatically.
Full audit trail
Every change is logged with the user, the timestamp, and the old and new values, so your dues records stand up to any audit or member question.
Dues compliance runs on the same records as the rest of the platform. See the Employer Payments and Billing, Member Payments and Billing, and Data Import modules, or explore all union database modules.
Frequently asked questions about
union dues software
Yes. An exceptions report compares expected versus received amounts for every employer, so your team can follow up on underpayments and missed contractual increases before or after posting.
Yes. Employers upload remittances through a portal and your team performs the reconciliation. Inbound employer access is intentionally limited to submission.
Yes. The month-end close can be run as a draft so corrections are caught before anything is finalized or sent. No direct integration with your international is required.
Yes. Payments carry a payroll or period date, so a catch-up payment posts to the month it covers and is reflected accurately in the member's payment history.
Yes. Per-capita can be a flat amount or a percentage and can be configured at the lodge, contract, employer, or even individual member level, with split dues handled automatically.
Yes. Checkoffs support manual entry, rollover from the prior month, adding or removing rows, and copy-paste. No file is required.
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Used by 55+ locals and international unions
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See how eMembership handles your dues cycle
Bring a recent remittance headache to the call. We will show you how the exceptions report would have caught it.
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