AlumDeck
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Who it's for

One product. Four kinds of people who run it.

The software, the price and the licence are the same for everyone: $49 a year, every feature, unlimited members and admins. What changes is who holds the hosting login, which parts you switch on first, and which limitation would stop you. Pick the page that sounds like your committee.

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130 members in the demo

Every feature, one licence

Runs on shared hosting

Pick your page

Three kinds of alumni body, one install each.

Each page says what usually goes wrong for that kind of organisation, what AlumDeck does about it, and a realistic first month.

  • Alumni associations

    Volunteer committees that turn over every two years. What lands: a site the next committee inherits, a login for every post and one small line in the accounts.

    For associations

  • Colleges and universities

    An alumni office of two or three people and forty batches. What lands: no per-record or per-seat fee, and alumni data on servers the institution controls.

    For colleges

  • Schools

    One member of staff doing alumni relations between other jobs. What lands: a renewal nobody has to defend, and the school's history online at last.

    For schools

Developers and agencies

Installing it for someone else?

If you are the person who puts it on the hosting for a school, a college or an association, there is a page for you: the exact requirements, the six install screens, the branding settings and how the licence works across several clients.

  • Laravel 13 and Filament 5, on PHP 8.3, 8.4 or 8.5 with the ionCube Loader, and MySQL or MariaDB
  • A browser installer: no SSH or Composer on the server
  • One licence for each client site, $49 a year each, and no staging copy
For developers and agencies

Side by side

What changes between them, and what does not.

The price, the licence and the feature list are identical. The job around them is not.

  • $49a year, one licence
  • 15feature areas, all included
  • 13admin areas to hand out
  • 1site per licence
The same software in every column
AssociationsCollegesSchools
Who runs it day to dayA committee that changes at each AGMAn alumni office of two or threeOne person, between other jobs
The argument that landsThe next committee inherits itNo per-record or per-seat feeA renewal nobody has to defend
Switch on firstDirectory, events, association documentsDirectory, mentoring, events, givingEvents, history, photo archive
Where it usually goes wrongThe treasurer's card is cancelledIT will not adopt another appThe member of staff leaves

Read this before any of it

Who should not buy AlumDeck, in two minutes.

Better to rule yourself out now than in March. If any of these is a hard requirement, look elsewhere.

  • You are in a place where AlumDeck is not sold. It is sold only in the places on its list, and the checkout asks for your country and refuses the rest.
  • You need a staging copy beside the live site. One licence runs one site at one address, and a test install on your own computer counts as that site.
  • Your host cannot switch on the ionCube Loader. AlumDeck's own PHP is encoded and will not run without it.
  • Your members need a ready-made translation. The interface can run in another language once someone fills in its wording, but only English ships.
  • You want a vendor to host, patch and back it up for you. AlumDeck runs on your hosting, and there is no hosted version.
  • You need phone support, a named account manager or an SLA. Support is through the contact form.
  • Your policy asks for an independent penetration test or a certificate such as SOC 2. Security is tested in-house, and the results are published.
  • Nobody will own the hosting login and press the button when a release ships.

Everything else AlumDeck does not do is on the full list, and what comes next is on the public roadmap.

Use cases

Or start from the job in front of you.

Most committees buy alumni software because something is coming: a reunion, an appeal, an anniversary. Each of these pages shows the parts of AlumDeck that job uses.

  • Class reunion website

    RSVPs counted against the hall capacity, QR tickets that are free or priced, check-in at the door and a room for each year.

    Plan a reunion

  • Alumni fundraising website

    Appeals with running totals, gifts by card or recorded by hand, numbered receipts and a CSV for the treasurer.

    Run an appeal

  • School heritage archive

    A timeline, In Memoriam with the family's consent, a hall of fame and a photo archive.

    Keep the history

Whoever you are

Four jobs the licence does not remove.

The same four, for a school of 300 leavers or a university of 30,000.

  1. Hold the hosting in the organisation's name

    Ordinary shared hosting, the kind of web hosting plan many associations already pay for, with PHP 8.3, 8.4 or 8.5, the ionCube Loader (a tick box on most cPanel hosts) and MySQL or MariaDB. Send the full list to the host before you buy. Buy the plan, and the domain, in the association's or the school's name, so the logins pass on with the post and not with a person.

  2. Add one cron line

    One line in the hosting control panel runs every scheduled job: announcements, event reminders, digests, email campaigns and the nightly backup. Without it the site looks fine and nothing scheduled happens; the dashboard says so until the line is in place.

  3. Set up email once

    AlumDeck ships sending nothing, on purpose. Enter your mail server under Settings, Email and send the test email. Until then, invitations and receipts go nowhere.

  4. Find two hours a week

    Approving registrations, posting events, sending the newsletter. No software removes this at any price, and an alumni site nobody tends is the most common way one dies.

Questions

Before you pick a page

Is the software different for each kind of organisation?

No. There is one product, one price and one licence, and every install has all 20 feature areas. What differs is which modules you switch on (there are more than fifty switches under Settings, Modules) and who holds the hosting account.

We are an old pupils' association attached to a school. Which page is ours?

Both, probably. Read the associations page for the committee side (handover, logins, AGM papers) and the schools page for the history and the archive. The software is the same either way.

Does a bigger institution pay more?

No. It is $49 a year for each site, in US dollars with no tax added, whether you have 130 members like the demo or 30,000. There is no member cap, no admin seat cap and no storage cap in the software. The practical ceiling is your hosting.

Can we try it before we pay?

Yes. The live demo is a full install: sign in as an admin or as a member and click anything. It resets every night. There is no trial download. Your first purchase has a 14-day money-back guarantee, for any reason. A renewal is not refundable: it can be cancelled any time before the renewal date, and the licence then runs to the end of the paid year.

Who do we talk to before buying?

Use the contact form. Support goes through the same form, from the people who build AlumDeck. We aim to reply within one working day, Monday to Friday: a target, not a guarantee. There is no sales call and no account manager.

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

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