Brilliant Directories

Launch, manage, and monetize your own membership website to dominate your market

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Membership programs offer continued value for your customers while generating recurring income for your business. (Plus, you get to make members-only jackets and have a secret handshake.)

But juggling different tools to build, manage, and monetize your membership site or paying big money and waiting for a custom site can make the process more trouble than it’s worth. 

What if you could fully operate your membership program in one place with searchable directories, email marketing, and content publishing?

Introducing Brilliant Directories.

TL;DR

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Attract and engage your members with a fully-managed and hosted solution that looks great on every device
Maximize revenue with options to sell subscriptions, leads, digital products, event tickets, and more

At-a-glance

Overview

Brilliant Directories is a complete turn-key platform for launching membership websites, selling subscriptions, publishing content, and more.

Whip up your membership site

Brilliant Directories gets your membership website up and running quickly by doing most of the heavy lifting.

  • Simply connect your domain, choose a payment gateway, and start adding your own personal touches
  • Configure different membership tiers, each with its own pricing, features, and access privileges
  • Maximize your revenue with automated recurring payments and past due notifications

Brilliant Directories dashboard

Find everything you need to launch, manage, and monetize your membership site all in one dashboard.

Do more with user-generated content

Want to give your users control? Brilliant Directories lets you publish, protect, and even allow members to contribute user-generated content to your site.

  • Publish blog posts, discussions, events, coupons, photo albums, classifieds, and more
  • Choose which members can access certain types of posts
  • Save time by repurposing any post type to suit your website's needs, like cloning and updating events

Admin dashboard to manage posts

Creating and managing posts on Brilliant Directories is as easy as point and click.

Grow your business with premium content

Even better, you can enable free trial periods, offer discounted promo codes, or even import business listings into Brilliant Directories.

  • Protect your premium content by requiring visitors to register for paid plans
  • Create additional paywalls and generate more revenue by selling leads, digital products, services, ad placements, and more

Admin transaction history dashboard

Get an overview of your transaction history, including payments received, upcoming payments, past due, refunded, and stopped.

Build your own directory

  • Build a business, hobby, professional, or city directory so site visitors can find and contact your professional members for services
  • Monetize your business directory site by setting prices for leads and selling them to the businesses registered in your directory

And don’t worry about creating more busywork! You can let members edit, update, and manage their profiles with Brilliant Directories.

Frontend membership directory

Website visitors can find, contact, and get matched with professionals in your directory.

Brilliant Directories makes setting up, managing, and monetizing your membership site a breeze, so you can focus on the members who invest in you.

Launch your online community.

Get lifetime access to Brilliant Directories today!

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Deal terms and conditions: Lifetime access to Brilliant Directories. All future Website Plan updates. If Plan name changes, deal will be mapped to the new Plan name with all accompanying updates. No codes, no stacking—just choose the plan that's right for you. You must activate your license within 60 days of purchase. Ability to upgrade between 6 license tiers while the deal is available. Ability to downgrade between 6 license tiers within 60 days of purchase. GDPR compliant. Previous AppSumo customers who purchased this deal can upgrade their license to increase their feature limits. Previous AppSumo customers will be grandfathered into any new features and feature limits. Tiers 3-6: Receive a 75% off promo code for additional purchases through Brilliant Directories site. 75% off promo code valid to use within 6 months after purchase.
Brilliant Directories

Brilliant Directories

Brilliantdirectories.com
FoundedFounded
January 2009
HeadquartersHeadquarters
Marina del Rey, USA
Company sizeCompany size
11-50 employees
Product stageProduct stage
Expansion
Financial stageFinancial stage
Bootstrapped
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Q: Hallo Wie kann man einen cookie banner einrichten?

Für Deutschland ein muss

WADXPLUSApr 28, 2025
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Jason_BrilliantDirectories

Apr 28, 2025

A: Thank you for your question!
You can embed any cookie consent banner of your choice into your site. Different consent tools offer varying levels of coverage depending on the markets you serve. For websites in Germany, where stricter requirements apply, you may want to choose a solution that provides more robust consent management. We're happy to support you in embedding the tool that best meets your needs.

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Q: Ist es möglich die Domain auch zu ändern wenn man ein neues Projekt machen möchte

WADXPLUSApr 27, 2025
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Jason_BrilliantDirectories

Apr 27, 2025

A: Thanks for your question and for taking the time to check us out! 🌟

Yes — you can change your domain at any time if you decide to start a new project. Just point your new domain to your site and update a few settings in your Admin Panel. We also have a built-in tool to help make the switch smooth and easy.

Please let us know if you have any more questions – always happy to help!

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Q: Request for Video Tutorial/Webinar: Using BD for Selling Online Courses with Razorpay Integration

Hi Brilliant Directories Team,

I understand that your platform is primarily designed for creating search-based directories. However, I am interested in using Brilliant Directories for an upcoming educational academy that plans to sell self-paced courses (both written and video-based content) along with creating community for students.

Could you please provide a video tutorial or detailed guidance on how to:

1)Set up the platform to create community and sell courses (with secure access for logged-in users)
2)Integrate Razorpay for receiving payments
3)Ensure course content (videos and written materials) cannot be downloaded but can be accessed by users only after login.

This would greatly help us evaluate if Brilliant Directories fits our needs as an online course platform.

Thank you!

beckzrulezPLUSApr 21, 2025
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Jason_BrilliantDirectories

Apr 21, 2025

A: Thanks so much for your thoughtful question and for exploring how Brilliant Directories might support your educational goals! We love use cases like this — while BD isn’t a full Learning Management System (LMS), it can absolutely be used to sell online courses and build a secure student community. Here’s how:

✅ Here’s how you can set it up:

1. Sell Courses & Create a Community:
You can use the Sell Digital Downloads tool to sell course content (PDFs, videos, links, etc.) behind a login wall.
Pair that with private member chat, member categories, and blog-style posts to build a thriving student community.

🎥 Step-by-step video to help you get started:
How to Sell Courses & Digital Products:
https://www.brilliantdirectories.com/blog/how-to-sell-digital-products-on-your-membership-website

Complete Sumo Walkthrough (1 Hour Overview):
https://www.brilliantdirectories.com/sumostream

Design Customization Walkthrough:
https://share.brilliantdirectories.com/JruEpZGy

2. Razorpay Integration:
Yes! Razorpay is now one of our officially supported gateways and works great for selling memberships, downloads, and more.
See supported gateways:
https://www.brilliantdirectories.com/payment-gateways

3. Protecting Course Content:
You can restrict access to course materials using members-only settings and post-level privacy options. While BD doesn’t have native video DRM, you can:
• Host your videos on tools like Vimeo, Wistia, Loom, or YouTube (unlisted)
• Use password-protected videos or whitelist your BD site domain
• Embed those securely inside members-only pages or digital product pages

If you’re looking to start with one course and grow from there, BD is a solid option — and can be upgraded as your academy scales.

Let us know if you’d like help mapping out the structure — we’d love to help bring your idea to life!

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Q: Doesit it have geolocation, where members can search let's say services near by their location?

lavoismPLUSApr 22, 2025
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Jason_BrilliantDirectories

Apr 22, 2025

A: Thanks for your questions and for taking the time to check us out! 😊

Yes — BD sites include geolocation-friendly features to help users find services nearby. As users type into the location field, smart suggestions appear right away, powered by Google Maps.

For even more convenience, the optional Detect Visitor Location add-on can auto-fill the user's location based on their IP address, preloading it into the search fields. It's a small touch that makes a big difference.

https://www.brilliantdirectories.com/detect-visitor-locations

Please let us know if you have any more questions – always happy to help!

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Q: Multiple location/cities could be individual subdomains

Hi

I’m planning to have individual downloadable app for each jndividual city.

My question is can we lock each subdomain: example.com/location/houston as an individual domain when clicking home in the head, or is always redirecting to example.com.

Not trying to build different websites, but all under the same domain and dns.

Obviously I’m Will be getting the tier 6.

Regardless of the answer I will be buying it today before it’s sold out

Thank A lot.

marco737PLUSEdited Apr 21, 2025
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Jason_BrilliantDirectories

Edited Apr 22, 2025

A: Thanks so much for your question — and awesome to hear you’re planning to pick up Tier 6! 🚀 That’s a powerhouse option with plenty of room to grow your project.

To clarify your setup idea:
Subdomains like houston.example.com are treated as separate websites and would each require their own license. So if your goal is to create fully separate “apps” or sites for each city, those would each need a separate Brilliant Directories tier/license.

But here’s the good news — you don’t need subdomains to showcase different cities. You can easily create SEO-friendly pages like:

example.com/location/houston
example.com/location/chicago
example.com/location/dallas

Each of these can have their own member listings, posts, content, and even their own homepage-style blocks — all under one license and managed from a single admin panel. The global website search and dynamic filtering features make it easy for users to view content by location too.

Let us know if you have any more questions — happy to help and excited to see what you build! 💬

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