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Graduway is the alumni community and mentoring platform in Gravyty's suite, sold to universities and schools with a success manager. AlumDeck is one $49-a-year product that an alumni association installs on its own hosting.
AlumDeck
vsOne product at $49 a year, or one product of seven, quoted after a demo
Graduway
A suite or a single product
A school that buys Graduway for mentoring and later wants donation forms is buying a second product with its own quote. That is not a criticism: large advancement offices want exactly that choice.
| Gravyty product | What Gravyty says it does | The nearest thing in AlumDeck |
|---|---|---|
| Graduway | Branded alumni platforms for engagement, mentoring and connection | Directory, class-year rooms, mentoring requests, jobs, events |
| Advance | Donation forms and branded giving sites | Appeals with running totals and recorded gifts; online forms planned for release 1.2 |
| Raise | AI tools for fundraising teams | Nothing comparable |
| Gratavid | Personalised video messages to donors and alumni | Nothing comparable |
| Ivy & Ocelot | Always-on AI agents answering students | Nothing comparable; not our market |
| Athlete Network | Support for student-athletes and athletics alumni | Nothing comparable |
| PeerPal | Listed in the menu without a description | Not applicable |
Product descriptions from gravyty.com/products, checked September 2026. AlumDeck is one download with every feature; there is nothing else to buy.
Side by side
Every Graduway answer links to the Gravyty page it comes from.
| Feature | AlumDeck | Graduway |
|---|---|---|
| Price you can read before talking to sales | Yes. $49 a year, on the pricing page | No. Quote after a demo, sized to your community |
| One price covers everything | Yes. Every feature, unlimited members and admins | Partly. Giving, video and fundraiser tools are separate products |
| Hosted and looked after for you | No. No. You install it on your own cPanel hosting and apply updates yourself | Yes. Yes, on AWS, with regional data residency |
| Runs on your own server | Yes. Yes. Your database, on your host, in the country you choose | No. No, hosted only |
| Try it without a sales call | Yes. The live demo: no form, reset every night | Partly. A demo, on request |
| Members-only directory with privacy | Partly. Members-only, with 10 privacy fields. Search by name, city, job, employer and class year | Yes. A searchable directory with filters |
| Groups and chapters | Partly. One private room per class year, made automatically. No other groups yet | Yes. Yes |
| Mentoring | Partly. Mentor profiles, requests and a monthly limit per mentor. No matching | Yes. Programmes, suggested matches and check-ins |
| Events with RSVP and QR check-in | Yes. RSVP, capacity, free QR tickets and check-in on any phone | Yes. Events and RSVPs |
| Paid tickets and online donations | No. Not yet. Gifts are recorded with numbered receipts; the money moves elsewhere | Yes. Embedded payments with cards and ACH |
| Email to segments of your members | Partly. Segmented email with opens counted. No unsubscribe link, scheduling or click tracking yet | Yes. Yes, with analytics |
| Mobile app | Partly. An installable web app on any phone. Not in the app stores | Partly. A mobile app or a PWA |
| Single sign-on | No. Not yet. Planned for release 2.0 | Yes. Several options |
| CRM sync | No. No. CSV import and export only | Yes. Salesforce and Raiser's Edge NXT |
| History, In Memoriam and hall of fame pages | Yes. History timeline, In Memoriam with family consent, hall of fame | No. Not in its feature list |
| Independent security certification | No. No. Your host runs the server; admin two-factor sign-in and an audit log are built in | Yes. SOC 2 Type II |
| WCAG conformance claim | No. Not claimed yet; an audit is planned for release 2.0 | Yes. WCAG 2.1 A and AA claimed |
| A public roadmap | Yes. Yes, on this site | Partly. A roadmap portal with idea voting, shown for Athlete Network |
| A success manager | No. No. Email support only | Yes. Yes, often former advancement staff |
Sources: Gravyty Graduway (checked Sep 2026); Gravyty products (checked Sep 2026); Graduway vs LinkedIn (Gravyty) (checked Sep 2026); Gravyty compliance and accessibility (checked Sep 2026); Gravyty embedded payments (checked Sep 2026); Gravyty CRM integrations (checked Sep 2026)
The fair part
Five areas where Graduway, or the suite around it, goes further than AlumDeck today.
Where AlumDeck is different
Remember
A notice goes live only after the family agrees: the consent box has to be ticked before anything publishes. Requests arrive through their own option on the contact form, so the committee sees at once what kind of message it is.
Gather
Members answer yes, maybe or no on the public event page. A yes on a ticketed event issues a free QR ticket by email, and anyone on your events team checks people in at the door on their own phone.
Decide
Proof without customer logos
We do not name customers or print testimonials. These are the things you can open and check tonight.
Check it
Sign in as an admin or a member and click anything. It puts itself back every night.
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$49 a year, the same for every association, with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
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Every release is in the changelog with its date and what changed.
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What is planned and in which release. Nothing on it is sold as finished.
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The honest list, before you find out for yourself.
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Admin two-factor sign-in, session limits, an audit log and tested backups.
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Graduway is one product in Gravyty's suite: the alumni community and mentoring platform. Gravyty also sells Advance (giving), Raise (fundraiser tools), Gratavid (video), Ivy & Ocelot (student support), Athlete Network and PeerPal, each separately (Gravyty products, checked September 2026).
Gravyty does not publish a price. It says Graduway is priced for each institution by the size of its alumni community, and that you receive a quote after a demo (Gravyty Graduway). AlumDeck is $49 a year for every association, with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Graduway does more. It runs structured programmes and suggests matches. In AlumDeck, members publish a mentor profile with topics and a monthly limit, mentees send requests, and each request is accepted, declined or completed with notes. There is no matching; that is planned for release 1.6.
AlumDeck is an installable web app: members add it to their home screen from the browser, with your name and icon. It is not in the app stores and sends no push notifications. Gravyty says Graduway offers a mobile app or a PWA.
Yes, if one person is comfortable with cPanel: the installer is six browser screens, and there is a step-by-step guide. After that the committee runs everything from the admin panel. Updates are manual, which is the part to plan for.
Keep reading
Six options for schools and associations, including AlumDeck, with prices where they exist.
AlumDeck against every rival that publishes a price, with the source for each figure.
The things AlumDeck does not do yet, in plain words, with the release that plans each one.
Six hosted alumni platforms and the marketplace scripts, side by side.
The live demo is open now. Sign in as the admin or as a member; it resets every night.