AlumDeck

About AlumDeck

Alumni software you own, at a price you can read.

AlumDeck is self-hosted alumni association software made by Cerevonix FZ-LLC, a small software company in the United Arab Emirates. It began as one institution's alumni portal, and it is sold the way we would want to buy it: one published price, everything included, on your own hosting.

Your domain

Your database

Why it exists

Built for one institution first, sold second.

It started with an ordinary problem. An institution wanted an alumni site. It had graduates spread across a spreadsheet, an old register and a messaging group, a committee of volunteers, and a budget that would not survive a monthly subscription. The quotes it received were priced for universities with development offices, which it did not have and never would.

So the portal was built: a directory, registration that a person approves, events with a real capacity, giving records, news, galleries and a committee page. Ordinary needs, but ones that had to work with volunteers running them and shared hosting underneath.

When others asked for the same thing, the specific version became a general one. AlumDeck is that software with the institution-specific parts taken out, an installer added so it goes onto anyone's hosting, and an admin panel over everything that used to be edited in code.

And a test that keeps it that way

Taking one institution out of a working system leaves traces, so the product's own test suite scans the code for the founding school's name, its city, its national tax clauses and its currency symbol, and fails if any of them would ship. Anything a buyer might need to change is a setting with a blank default, not an assumption.

  • 15feature areas in one install
  • 13admin areas you can hand out one at a time
  • 0caps on members, admins or storage
  • $49a year, the same for everyone

What we hold to

Three principles, each with a cost.

Principle one

You own it

AlumDeck runs on your hosting, in your database, under your domain. No alumni record ever reaches us. The cost: the server is yours to look after, and if you lose the database we cannot recover it, because we never had it.

  • Readable source you may change for your own site
  • Nightly backups to your own account, test-restored every Sunday
  • A lapsed licence pauses sign-in, never the public site
How security works

Principle two

The price is published

$49 a year for one licence, with every feature and unlimited members and admins. No tiers, no add-ons, no per-member charge and no sales call. The cost: there is no account manager and no phone line; support is by email.

  • The same price for a small school or a large university
  • A 14-day money-back guarantee on every payment
  • Four of the six platforms we compared publish no price at all
See pricing

Principle three

The limits are written down

What AlumDeck does not do is listed in plain words before you find out for yourself, and anything on the roadmap is called planned, never soon. The cost: this site will never sound as impressive as a vendor with a logo wall.

  • A public list of limitations
  • A roadmap, release by release
  • A changelog with dated releases
Read what it does not do
  • Card payments on your giving page Planned: release 1.2
  • Membership dues and paid events Planned: release 1.3
  • An interface in other languages Planned: release 2.0
  • An API or webhooks Planned: release 2.0

No customer quotes, on purpose

Check it yourself instead of taking our word.

Checkout is not open yet, so there are no customers to quote, and none will be quoted without their permission. Here is what you can check without talking to anyone.

  • Check it

    Live demo, no form

    A working alumni site with invented data. Sign in as an admin or a member; it resets every night.

    Open the demo
  • Check it

    A published price

    $49 a year, the same for everyone, with every feature included.

    See pricing
  • Check it

    Dated releases

    A public record of what shipped, and when.

    Read the changelog
  • Check it

    A roadmap that says planned

    What is coming, release by release, and nothing promised for a date.

    See the roadmap
  • Check it

    What it does not do

    The honest list, before you find out for yourself.

    Read the list
  • Check it

    Security you can check

    Each control, and how to see it for yourself.

    Security

The company

Who we are, and what to expect from us.

Cerevonix FZ-LLC is registered in the United Arab Emirates and sells AlumDeck directly from this website, to schools, colleges, universities and alumni associations anywhere. It is a small team: the people who write the code also answer the support email.

There is no phone number and no office to visit, because a number nobody answers is worse than none. Every route to a person is the contact form, which is read by the same people who build the product. If your finance office needs our entity details on an invoice, ask there.

We will

  • Publish the price as a number
  • Keep every feature in one licence
  • Answer support as a person, not a macro
  • Say when a hosted platform suits you better
  • Date every release on the changelog
  • Keep your alumni data out of our hands

We will not

  • Invent customers, reviews or star ratings
  • Hold features back to sell as add-ons
  • Take your public site offline over a licence
  • Quote a competitor's private price as if it were published
  • Put you on a sales sequence for asking a question

Questions

Questions about us

Who makes AlumDeck?

Cerevonix FZ-LLC, a small software company registered in the United Arab Emirates. The people who build AlumDeck are the people who answer its support email.

Where do you sell it?

Worldwide, from this website. There is one price, $49 a year in US dollars; if tax applies where you are, it is shown at checkout before you pay.

How can it cost $49 a year?

Because we do not run servers for your data. AlumDeck runs on hosting you already have, so the price pays for the software, updates and support, not for a data centre. It is also sold direct, with no marketplace cut and nothing held back to sell as an add-on.

Why are there no customer testimonials?

We do not publish customer names or quotes. You can check the product itself instead: the live demo, the published price, the changelog, the roadmap and the list of what it does not do are all public.

What happens to our site if AlumDeck stops trading?

It keeps running. The code and your database are already on your server, and the licence check fails open, so if our server never answers again nothing locks. Updates and support would stop, and keeping it current would fall to you or a developer you hire.

Open the live demo. It puts itself back every night.

Sign in as an admin or a member and click anything. Nothing you do can break it.

Sign-in details on the demo pageResets every night