Your alumni network, on your own server, for $49 a year
AlumDeck is a complete alumni portal you install on your own hosting. Member directory, events, giving, mentoring, news and a full admin panel. $49 a year, unlimited members, and your alumni data never leaves your server.
PHP 8.2 and MySQL. Installs on ordinary cPanel shared hosting through a web installer, in about ten minutes.
A real AlumDeck install, configured as a college alumni association. Every screenshot on this site is the running product, not a mockup.
The maths that made this product
Alumni software is priced for universities with development offices. Most institutions do not have one.
A whole alumni operation, not a directory with extras bolted on
Every module below is in the one licence. There is no add-on store, and nothing is held back for a higher tier, because there is no higher tier.
A directory your alumni will actually use
Searchable by name, batch year, city, country, profession and employer. Members control what is visible. Admins see everything, the public sees what you allow.
Verified members only
Every registration waits for a human to approve it. Check the applicant against your own records before they appear.
Events and RSVPs
Reunions, chapter meets and AGMs, with capacity limits and attendance you can export.
Giving pages
A branded donation page and campaign tracking, with no platform cut on what you raise.
Mentoring
Match students and younger alumni to mentors, with capacity limits so volunteers do not get buried.
Change it without touching code
Logo, colours, menus, footer columns, homepage blocks and per-page SEO all live in the admin panel. Turn whole modules off if you do not want them.
News, newsletters and the archive
Publish news, email your members, run photo albums by era, record your institution's timeline and put your notable alumni on the wall.
Your alumni get a site worth visiting
Most alumni software gives your members a login screen. AlumDeck gives you a public website with a members area behind it, so the people who never log in still see the reunion, the news and the giving page.
The screenshots on this page are a real AlumDeck install with real content in it, not a mockup.
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AlumDeck against hosted alumni platforms
Hosted platforms do things AlumDeck does not, and that is in the table too. What follows is the shape of the trade, not a hit piece.
| AlumDeck | Hosted alumni SaaS | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost, year one | $49 a year | $3,000 to $25,000 a year, typical |
| Cost, year five | $245 | $15,000 to $125,000 |
| Members included | Unlimited | Often tiered or per record |
| Where your alumni data sits | Your server, your country | The vendor's cloud |
| Price published openly | Yes | No |
| Works if the vendor disappears | Yes | No |
| You maintain the server | Yes | No |
| Backups are your job | Yes | No |
| Someone else applies security patches | No | Yes |
| Phone support with an account manager | No | Yes |
SaaS figures are ranges from published pricing and third-party review sites, not quotes we were given. The last two rows are the real reason some institutions should buy hosted software instead, and we would rather say so than sell you the wrong thing.
Upload, answer six screens, done
AlumDeck ships with a web installer that checks the server before it writes anything. If your host cannot run it, the installer tells you which line to send them.
Upload and unzip
Into your hosting account, the same way you would upload any website. No terminal, no SSH, no Composer.
Create an empty database
In cPanel, exactly as you would for anything else. The installer tests the connection and proves the user can create tables before it continues.
Answer the wizard
Licence key, server check, database, your site name and admin account, review, install. It writes the configuration for you and then closes itself permanently.
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One price, and we will tell you exactly where it stops
In the licence
- Every module, with no add-on store
- Unlimited members, users and admins
- Updates while your licence is current
- Email support while your licence is current
- Install on one live site, plus a staging copy
- Readable source, apart from the licence check
If the licence lapses
- The public alumni site stays online
- Your data stays yours, in your database
- Renewal keeps the logins working and the updates coming
- Your public site stays online, whatever happens to the licence
Not included, on purpose
- Hosting. You bring your own, from about $3 a month
- A domain name
- Someone else running the server for you
- A cloud version. There is not one, and there will not be one soon
Built for the institutions the big platforms price out
Schools
A proper alumni site for a budget that was never going to stretch to a subscription.
For schoolsColleges and universities
Mentoring, giving and events across every batch, with no cap on how many alumni you hold.
For higher educationAlumni associations
Committee pages, elections, dues and reunions, run by volunteers on a volunteer budget.
For associationsDevelopers and IT
Laravel, MySQL, a normal file layout and no obfuscation. Install it for a client in an afternoon.
For developersThe questions everyone sends first
What happens if the licence lapses?
Your public site is untouched. Every page still loads and keeps its place in Google, with all of your data in your own database. What pauses is signing in, for admins and members alike, until you renew.
Signing in stops, for admins and for members. The public alumni site does not: news, events, history and the archive keep serving, and keep their search rankings. Renewing turns the logins back on the same day.
Is $49 a year really the whole price?
For one installation, yes. Every module is in it, including donations, mentoring, events and the committee pages. There is no add-on store where the useful parts turn out to cost another $29 each.
You need your own hosting, which you probably already have, and a domain. Nothing else.
How many alumni can it hold?
There is no limit in the software. The practical ceiling is your hosting, and ordinary shared hosting handles tens of thousands of member records without complaint.
You are never charged per record, and adding your 5,001st alumnus does not move you into a new tier.
Do I need a developer to install it?
No. If you can upload a zip file to your hosting and create a database in cPanel, you can install AlumDeck. The wizard does the rest and checks the server first so you find out about problems on screen rather than halfway through.
If you would rather someone else did it, any web developer will recognise a standard Laravel application.
Can I move it later?
Yes. It is your files and your database. Copy both to a new host, point the domain, and it runs. Move the licence across from your account, or email us and we will do it - there is no export process to request.
Is there a cloud version?
No, and that is deliberate rather than a gap we plan to fill this year. AlumDeck exists because self-hosting is the whole point: your alumni data stays on infrastructure you control, in your own jurisdiction, at a cost that does not scale with how successful your association becomes.
Your alumni site never goes dark
One licence, $49 a year, unlimited members, updates and email support included.
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