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What it does not do

Everything AlumDeck does not do.

The whole list, before you find an item yourself. Against six alumni platforms we compared, AlumDeck lacks or does less of 177 capabilities: 137 are planned, release by release, and 40 we have decided not to build. The ones a committee notices are below, grouped, with the release that plans each.

See the roadmapWhat it does do

Area by area

Money, members and events.

On the left, what works today. On the right, what does not, and the release that plans it. No tag means it is not planned.

Money and giving

It records every gift. It does not take the money.

Appeals with goals and running totals, a gift ledger and numbered receipts by email work today. The money itself still arrives however you collect it now: bank transfer, cash, cheque or the form you already use.

  • Numbered receipts, emailed from the ledger
  • Totals kept per currency, never converted
  • Gifts export to CSV for the treasurer
How giving works
9 gaps in this area
  • Online donations or card payments: there is no payment gateway, card form or merchant account Planned: release 1.2
  • Recurring gifts Planned: release 1.2
  • PDF receipts, and receipt wording for each country's tax rules Planned: release 1.2
  • Financial-year reports: gift totals are by calendar year Planned: release 1.2
  • Local number formats: amounts always show as 1,234.56 with the symbol first Planned: release 1.2
  • Membership dues, tiers or renewals: membership is assumed to be free Planned: release 1.3
  • Paid event tickets: every ticket is free Planned: release 1.3
  • Pledges, matching gifts, giving days and peer-to-peer fundraising pages Planned: release 1.6
  • Currency conversion: each currency is totalled on its own

Members and community

Every class has a room. Wider groups come later.

Members search a members-only directory, and each class year gets its own private room automatically, with threads and replies.

  • Ten privacy fields per member; email and phone start hidden
  • A room per class year, nothing to set up
  • Contact requests instead of published email addresses
How the directory works
9 gaps in this area
  • Chapters, regional or interest groups: the only grouping is the automatic class-year room Planned: release 1.5
  • Custom profile fields, education or job history, and skill tags Planned: release 1.5
  • Directory filters by country or industry, and a map Planned: release 1.5
  • Private messages or chat: members send a contact request, and details are shared if it is accepted Planned: release 1.5
  • An activity feed, reactions, @mentions, images in forum posts, or editing your own post Planned: release 1.5
  • Reporting a post or a member Planned: release 1.5
  • Automatic approval of applicants: an admin approves each one Planned: release 1.5
  • Member types beyond alumni, such as parents, staff or friends Planned: release 1.5
  • A public directory or public profiles: the directory is for signed-in members only

Events

Free events work from invitation to the door.

RSVPs, capacity, free QR tickets, reminders and door check-in all work today, for signed-in members.

  • Yes, Maybe or No, and members can change their answer
  • An 8-character code and a QR ticket for each Yes
  • Attendance exports to CSV
How events work
7 gaps in this area
  • Registration for guests who are not members: they get an external link only Planned: release 1.3
  • Plus-ones, waitlists and custom registration questions Planned: release 1.3
  • Add-to-calendar files in event emails Planned: release 1.3
  • A meeting-link field for online and hybrid events Planned: release 1.3
  • An event report beyond live counts and the attendance CSV Planned: release 1.3
  • Recurring events
  • Table seating and name badges Planned: the backlog

Area by area

Email, programmes and the admin panel.

Email and messages

The email goes out. The finishing touches do not yet.

Campaigns to segments, automatic announcements, event reminders, birthday greetings and digests all send today, through your own mail server.

  • Segments by class years, cities, engagement, mentors or volunteers
  • Consent re-checked for every recipient as it sends
  • A WhatsApp list you send from your own phone
How news and email work
8 gaps in this area
  • An unsubscribe link in emails: members opt out in their profile, and every send respects it Planned: release 1.1
  • Invitations for imported members: nobody is emailed, and they must use "forgotten password" to get in Planned: release 1.1
  • Scheduled campaigns: "Queue send" starts now, in batches of 60 a minute Planned: release 1.4
  • Click tracking and bounce handling: campaigns count opens only Planned: release 1.4
  • An HTML or drag-and-drop email designer: campaigns are written in Markdown Planned: release 1.4
  • Sending WhatsApp messages from the server: you tap each wa.me link on your own phone Planned: release 1.4
  • Push notifications, and a notification inbox for members Planned: release 1.4
  • SMS Planned: release 2.0

Mentoring, volunteering, jobs

A simple version of each, today.

Members can offer to mentor and ask for a mentor, post and apply for jobs, answer surveys and polls, and say they can volunteer.

  • Mentors set their topics and a monthly capacity
  • Every job post is moderated before it appears
  • Surveys of up to 20 questions, with results as CSV
How mentoring works
7 gaps in this area
  • Mentor matching, scheduling or structured programmes: members ask a mentor themselves Planned: release 1.6
  • Volunteer sign-up: admins assign volunteer roles, and members cannot browse or apply Planned: release 1.6
  • Job alerts and filters; posts expire 60 days after submission and cannot be edited Planned: release 1.4
  • A general form builder with conditional questions Planned: release 1.6
  • Truly anonymous surveys: the member is always stored, and "anonymous" only hides names in results
  • Elections and voting Planned: release 1.6
  • Badges, points or leaderboards: the engagement score is for admins only Planned: release 1.6

Admin, content and data

A full admin panel, without the extras.

Thirteen permission areas, an attention queue, homepage blocks, menus, branding and four colours, all set in the admin without editing a file.

  • Three admin layouts, chosen per person
  • Command-K finds any screen or setting
  • Imports with a dry run; exports to CSV
See the admin panel
10 gaps in this area
  • Custom roles or read-only helpers: a helper either has an area or does not Planned: release 2.0
  • Finding members or posts from Command-K: it finds screens and settings Planned: release 2.0
  • A report builder or scheduled exports Planned: release 1.6
  • Tags, saved segments or notes on a member Planned: release 1.4
  • Merging duplicate members Planned: release 2.0
  • Bulk edit, or adding a member by hand: members arrive by approval or import Planned: release 1.5
  • Your own word for "batch", and editable headings on built-in pages Planned: release 1.1
  • A drag-and-drop page builder beyond the seven homepage block types Planned: release 2.0
  • Thumbnails: uploaded photos are stored at full size Planned: release 1.1
  • Custom CSS, font choices or a dark mode

Area by area

Security, platform and service.

Sign-in and security

Admins are well guarded. Members use a password.

Admins get two-factor sign-in, session limits and an audit log; members sign in with an email and a password of at least 10 characters.

  • Two-factor by app or emailed code, for admins
  • A rate limit on every sign-in form
  • A bot check and a honeypot on public forms
See the security controls
7 gaps in this area
  • Single sign-on or social login: members sign in with an email and a password Planned: release 2.0
  • Passwordless sign-in by emailed link Planned: release 1.4
  • Two-factor for members: it is for admins only
  • Admin two-factor on by default: today it is optional until you switch it on Planned: release 1.1
  • Old and new values in the audit log: it records which fields changed
  • An independent penetration test Planned: release 2.0
  • SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification

Languages, apps, connections

English, on the web, with files as the bridge.

The interface is in English, it works on any phone and installs to the home screen, and data moves in and out as CSV files.

  • An installable web app with an offline page
  • RSS, sitemap.xml and JSON-LD for search engines
  • CSV import and export
What it works with
6 gaps in this area
  • The interface in any language but English, or right-to-left scripts Planned: release 2.0
  • An API or webhooks Planned: release 2.0
  • Zapier or Make Planned: release 2.0
  • Native sync with a CRM or a student records system
  • Apps in the App Store or Google Play: members install the site to their home screen instead
  • AI of any kind: an optional writing assistant that uses your own key is planned Planned: release 1.4

Hosting and updates

Your hosting, and a few jobs that come with it.

AlumDeck installs on ordinary cPanel hosting in six screens and backs itself up every night. Updates and restores are done by hand today.

  • Nightly backups, restore-tested every Sunday
  • Installs without a terminal
  • Runs on your own domain or in a subfolder
Hosting requirements
8 gaps in this area
  • A hosted version: you need your own hosting
  • One-click updates: today an update is a folder swap plus a migration command Planned: release 1.1
  • A version number in the admin Planned: release 1.1
  • Back-up-now and download buttons: backups run from cron and are fetched over FTP or SSH Planned: release 1.1
  • A restore button: restoring is manual, with the commands printed on the Backups page
  • Backups on hosts that disable PHP's exec() function
  • An off-site copy of backups
  • PostgreSQL or Docker: MySQL or MariaDB on ordinary hosting only

Service and licence

One price, email support, and a guarantee instead of a trial.

Support is by email, from the people who build AlumDeck. There is no sales team to get past.

  • A public live demo, reset every night
  • A 14-day money-back guarantee
  • A published price: $49 a year
Pricing
3 gaps in this area
  • A free plan, a trial or a monthly plan
  • Phone support, an account manager, installation or data migration as a service
  • Named customers or reviews: AlumDeck is new, and we will not invent any

Works, but only partly

Here, but not finished.

These exist and you can use them today. Each has a gap worth knowing before you rely on it.

Features that work, but only partly
FeatureWhat worksThe gapPlanned
Directory privacyTen fields, each visible to members or hiddenHidden city, profession and employer still match a search1.1
Module switches7 of the 13 switch their feature offSurveys, mentoring and tickets pages still answer by address; the community, association and volunteers switches do nothing1.1
Default menus and sitemapBuilt for you automaticallyThey still list a module you switched off, until you build your own menu1.1
Analytics tags and YouTubeSettings for GA4, Tag Manager, Meta, LinkedIn and video albumsThe .htaccess shipped today blocks them on Apache1.1
Custom admin addressMoves the panel off /adminrobots.txt and the noindex header still only cover /admin1.1
Bot-check keysCloudflare Turnstile on public formsThe keys go in the .env file; there is no admin field1.1
Member data exportMembers download their data as JSONIt leaves out tickets, uploads, mentoring and survey answers1.1
Account deletionMembers ask; an admin deactivates or anonymisesNo confirmation email to the member, and no deadline1.1
Registration checksEmail check, classmate vouching and register matchingAll advisory: an admin can approve without them1.5
MentorsProfiles, requests and a monthly capacityTwo mentor flags give different counts in different placesNot yet planned

Jobs that are yours

What self-hosting asks of you.

None of these is hard. All of them are easy to miss, because nothing looks broken without them.

Never, and next

Where to read more.

Some gaps will stay gaps: a hosted version, apps in the phone stores, SOC 2 certification, phone support and native CRM sync among them. The reasons are on the roadmap.

Questions

About this list.

Why publish a list like this?

Because you would find every item yourself, probably after paying. A committee choosing software deserves the gaps up front, and a product that is honest about what it lacks is easier to trust about what it has.

Will these cost extra when they ship?

No. Every release is part of the same $49 licence: no tiers, no add-ons.

How current is this list?

It was compiled from the code itself on 24 September 2026, and it changes with each release. The changelog records what each release fixed.

Can we get something moved up the roadmap?

Tell us through the contact form what your committee does by hand today. The order and the reasons for it are on the roadmap.

Is anything here a dealbreaker?

For some associations, yes. If you need card payments on the site today, single sign-on with a student system, or an interface in another language, a hosted platform is the better choice for now, and our comparisons say which.

Still interested? Good.

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