About the new navigation in GrowthZone AMS

A refreshed left-hand navigation, organized around the way you work.

Starting in June 2026, GrowthZone AMS is rolling out a refreshed left-hand navigation. The same pages, settings, and tools you use every day are still here — they're just organized in a clearer, more intuitive way. This article explains what's changing, why we made the change, and what to expect when the new navigation reaches your account.

GrowthZone AMS has grown a lot over the years, and the left navigation has grown with it — to the point where finding the right place to do a task often means scrolling, hunting, or remembering exactly where something was put. The new navigation is designed to fix that by organizing the platform around the way association staff actually work, instead of around the way the software was built.

The redesign was shaped by direct customer research and industry-standard UX principles, with input from membership directors, event coordinators, billing managers, and association leaders. The result is a navigation that:

• Reduces the time spent hunting for things. Related work lives together, so you spend less time clicking between unrelated areas of the platform.
• Brings settings closer to the work they affect. Configuring memberships now lives inside Memberships. Tax setup lives inside Finance. No more separate Setup detour.
• Makes the platform easier for new staff to learn. The menu now reflects the shape of association work, which means a new hire can find their way around without memorizing where everything was put.
• Gives GrowthZone room to grow. The new structure scales as we add capabilities, so the platform can get more powerful without becoming more cluttered.

The 21 top-level modules in today's navigation are being consolidated into nine role-shaped rails. Each rail groups related work — operations and configuration — into a single place. The legacy Setup menu, which contained 133 separate items, is going away; its contents have moved into the modules they belong to.

Each rail is built around a job to be done, not around a feature category. Most users will spend the majority of their day inside one or two rails.

The left rail is collapsed by default

When you log in, the left rail shows just the nine rail icons. Hovering over any icon reveals its name. This gives you more room for the work itself, and most users find they live with the rail collapsed once they're inside their primary rail for the day.

Click a rail to see what's inside

Clicking a rail opens a sub-navigation menu with named sections that group related pages. For example, the Memberships rail has sections for Memberships, Benefits, Engagement, and Info Hub. Only one rail is open at a time, so the menu stays clean and easy to scan.

Settings live where the work lives

Every module now has a Settings item as the last entry in its sub-navigation, marked with a gear icon. That means when you're configuring a membership type, you don't have to leave Memberships to find it — it's right there. The same is true for event setup inside Events & Learning, tax setup inside Finance, and so on. Only truly cross-cutting settings — like staff access, integrations, and website configuration — live in the dedicated Association Settings rail.

Action badges show what needs your attention

You'll see small numeric badges next to menu items that have something waiting for your action — like applications to review or items to approve. Badges are reserved for action items, not record counts, so a badge always means something needs you.

This release reorganizes how you get to things. It does not change the pages, the data, or the logic behind any feature.

• Your pages look the same. When you click into Contacts, Events, Invoices, or any other page, you'll see the same screen you see today.
• Your data is untouched. Members, events, invoices, communications, settings — all of it remains exactly as it is.
• Your permissions still apply. Staff users will only see the rails and items they have permission to access, just as today.
• Your workflows still work. Every task you do today can still be done — you'll just get there through a more organized path.
• Your integrations are unaffected. Connections to Constant Contact, MailChimp, Zoom, Higher Logic, and other integrations continue to work as configured.

The new navigation will roll out to GrowthZone AMS accounts in phases beginning in June 2026. You'll receive in-product messages and email notifications before the change reaches your account, along with a short walkthrough video and updated Knowledge Base articles. Your Customer Success and Support teams will be fully trained on the new navigation in advance, so help is available the moment you need it.