Connect · Member area
A join form that asks for proof, a queue where classmates vouch and your old register is checked, then a private member area with a profile, a card and a room for their class.
Registration queue
Tom Sato, Class of 2009
Email confirmed on 2 March
Vouched for by 2 classmates
Register match: roll 42, Class of 2009
Memory: "Mr Ade's lab, room 4"
Four consents recorded
Approve, or reject with a reason
4 separate consents
Vouched by 2 classmates
Member no. ALUM-2026-0131
From stranger to member
Five steps, from the join form to a member number. Your committee sees every signal in one dossier.
Contact details, class year, how they left, city, work and a memory that proves they were there, up to 5,000 characters. A hidden honeypot and Cloudflare Turnstile keep bots out; the form takes 10 applications an hour from one address.
A signed link, valid for 7 days, confirms the address and alerts whoever handles registrations, by email and on the admin bell.
Members see applicants within 3 years of their own class, and only those who have confirmed their email, and can record "classmate", "senior", "junior" or "other" with a note. One vouch per member per applicant. (A site that cannot send email lists every applicant and labels the unconfirmed ones.)
Import your historic student register (a CSV of up to 20,000 rows) once. The review screen then matches each applicant by name and roll number and shows up to 8 likely records.
Approve creates the account, gives the next member number and emails a set-your-password link. Reject needs a reason, and the applicant is told it. Approve several at once when the evidence is clear.
Inside the member area
Member home
Signed-in members land on a welcome with their class year and member number, a membership card, count tiles for the directory, their class room, jobs, mentors, association documents and contact requests, and the next event.
Profile and email choices
Members edit their name, phone, city, country, date of birth, profession, employer, four social links, a bio of up to 2,000 characters and a photo. They choose which of three kinds of email they get: membership, community and announcements.
Class of 2009
My profile
NameSam Njoroge
CityNairobi
CountryKenya
ProfessionCivil engineer
EmployerRift Valley Water
Listed in directoryYes
Willing to mentorYes
EmailsMembership, announcements
Bring your list
Upload a CSV, map its columns (common headings like "rollno" are matched for you), run a dry run that lists every problem, then commit. Email is the match key, so a second run links or updates people instead of duplicating them. When it finishes, "Invite all from this import" emails everyone who has never signed in a link to choose a password.
Step 3 of 4
Import members: dry run
Rows read1,284
Columns mapped14 of 16
New members1,190
Linked to existing81
Duplicates in the file3
Problems to fix13
NextFix, then commit
Their data
Any member can download their own data as a JSON file: account, privacy choices, their application with its consents, thread titles, job posts and RSVPs. Leaving is a request the committee acts on.
Account
My account
Member no.ALUM-2026-0131
Member sinceMarch 2026
Consents given4 of 4
PasswordChange
Download my dataJSON
Close my accountRequest
On their phone
Members add the site to their phone's home screen from the browser, under your icon, name and colours. Their membership card and their event tickets then open without signal, and signing out clears them from the device. A bell in the header collects what is meant for them: a reply, a message, a ticket, an approval.
4 new
Notifications
Arun replied in Class of 2014Community
Your ticket: Class of 2011 reunionEvents
Ana accepted your contact requestCommunity
Your job post was approvedMembership
On this devicePush notices off
Choose what you getNotification choices
Signing in
Every member can sign in with a password of at least 12 characters, or ask for a link by email instead: it works once, for 15 minutes unless you change that, and in the browser that asked for it. Switch on single sign-on and members use the account your institution already gives them, over SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect or CAS 3.0. Switch on sign-in providers and they use Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook or Apple, each through an app you register with that provider.
Riverside Connect
Sign in
Email and passwordAt least 12 characters
Email me a sign-in linkWorks for 15 minutes
Riverside College accountSingle sign-on
GoogleContinue
MicrosoftContinue
LinkedInContinue
Badges and challenges
Both start switched off. With Badges on, you write a catalogue: a badge is earned when a member reaches a count you set (events attended, volunteering done, mentoring given, a profile filled in) or is given by the committee. With Challenges on, you run a challenge between two dates, with points for real activity and two boards: one of members, one of class years.
Badges
My badges
Reunion regular5 events attended
Mentor3 conversations completed
Archive helperGiven by the committee
Who sees themAll members
Autumn challenge120 points
Show me on the boardsYes
Around the join form
Four helpers for a committee whose queue is growing. Two are on from the first sign-in, and two wait for you.
| More ways in | What it does | On a new install |
|---|---|---|
| Approval rules | An applicant who has confirmed their email is approved at once when one rule matches: their address is at a domain you list, they match your old register, they are on your invitation list, or enough members vouched. Each automatic approval is in the audit log and announced to the registrations team. | Off: every application waits for a person |
| Invite links | Each member has a personal link to send to classmates. An application that arrives through it shows who invited them, and the member is thanked when it is approved. One member can bring in 10 applications a day, unless you change it. | On |
| QR sign-up forms | A short public form behind a printed QR code, for a stand or an entrance: a name and an email address, with consent. Posters print in A4 or A5. A form linked to an event can register the person and check them in on the day. | On |
| Students who become alumni | Switch on the Student member type and students join with an expected leaving year. Once a year, on the date you set, those whose year has come become alumni members. | Off, until you switch the type on and set a date |
Not yet
A tag means a fix is planned. No tag means it is not.
FAQ
On a new install every application waits for a person on your committee, which is the point: the directory and the class rooms stay for real alumni.
If the queue grows, switch on approval rules in Settings. An applicant who has confirmed their email is then approved at once when their address is at a domain you list, they match your old register, they are on your invitation list, or enough members have vouched for them. Everyone else still waits for a person.
Name, email, phone, date of birth, class year, how they left (a list you set, such as "Year 13" or "Bachelors"), an optional roll number, city, country, profession, employer, four social links, and a memory that proves they were there. Then four separate consents.
It is the question only a real former student can answer: a teacher, a room, a nickname. The committee reads it next to the classmate vouches and the register match before deciding.
No, on purpose. Class year decides which private room a member can read, so only the committee can change it. Members edit everything else on their profile themselves.
They send a request from their account page. The committee then deactivates them (reversible) or deletes and anonymises them: the photo is deleted, personal details are blanked, and their forum posts stay as "Former member".
Yes, once you switch Membership dues on in Settings, under Modules. It starts switched off, and until then every member can use every feature at no charge.
With dues on, you set tiers that renew each year, run for a fixed term or last for life. Members pay online through your own Stripe, PayPal or Razorpay account, or by bank transfer or cash that you mark as paid. AlumDeck sends the invoices, receipts and renewal reminders, and can open parts of the member area to chosen tiers only.
The demo join form is public. Sign in as the administrator to see how an application lands in the queue.
Sign-in details on the demo pageResets every night