Pricing
One licence, every feature, unlimited members and unlimited admins. No tiers, no add-ons, no charge per member, and a 14-day money-back guarantee. If a year is ever missed, your public alumni site stays online; only signing in pauses.
Everything included
One licence, one price
$49/ year
The same price for every association, college, university and school, in every country.
Every licence includes
Checkout
The software is finished and running in the live demo; the till is the last piece. Leave an address and we will tell you once, on the day it opens.
This form is the whole sign-up. There is nothing to confirm.
On the day checkout opens: one email with the link. Nothing before it, nothing after it.
Once that message has gone, the list is emptied. It is never used for anything else.
Rather ask something first? The contact form reaches a person, not a sales team.
Five years of AlumDeck: $245. Five years of Hivebrite Core at its published $895 a month (checked September 2026): $53,700. Four of the six platforms we compared publish no price at all. Run the cost calculator
If a renewal is missed
This is the difference between owning your alumni site and renting it. The licence guards signing in, and nothing else.
Keeps working
News, events, the history pages, the hall of fame, the photo archive, the giving pages, the sitemap and the RSS feed all stay up, and search engines keep crawling them. Your database and your uploads are never touched.
Public site · still serving
Search results · unchanged
Pauses, after 21 days
AlumDeck checks the licence about twice a day, and only when someone uses the admin panel or the member area. When a renewal is missed, an amber banner appears on every admin screen for at least 21 days. After that, admin and member sign-in pause behind a short notice with a "Check again now" button.
Licence
Sign-in paused
Public siteOnline
Member sign-inPaused
Admin sign-inPaused
Your dataUntouched
Renewed?Check again now
What one licence covers
One live site. A licence runs one AlumDeck site for one institution or association, on your own domain or in a subfolder. A second live site, for a second campus or for a client, needs a second licence.
Plus a staging copy. The licence terms let you run a copy of the same site to rehearse an update or test a change. Keep it closed to the public and to search engines. Today the licence server holds one active address per key, so on a copy running at a second address the admin and member sign-ins stay paused while the live site holds the key; public pages still show. A proper staging slot is planned.
Moving hosts. The licence follows the site, not the server. A slot left unused for 30 days frees itself, so a move never needs a second purchase.
No caps anywhere. Nothing in the software limits members, admins, events, pages or storage. Your hosting is the only limit. The full terms are on the licence page.
Hosting
Ordinary cPanel shared hosting passes. Nothing on this list has been unusual for years.
| Requirement | What AlumDeck needs | Why |
|---|---|---|
| PHP | 8.3 or newer | The framework underneath is Laravel 13. |
| Database | MySQL or MariaDB | One empty database, and a user with full rights on it. |
| PHP extensions | 14 standard ones: pdo_mysql, mbstring, openssl and the usual set | The installer names any that is missing before it writes anything. |
| Cron | One line, every minute | It runs 11 scheduled jobs: reminders, digests, campaigns, backups and the restore test. |
| exec() | Allowed | Backups call mysqldump. On a host that disables exec() there are no backups. |
| Outbound HTTPS | Allowed | The licence is checked at install, then about twice a day. |
| Disk | About 200 MB, plus your photos | Uploads are stored at the size they arrive. |
| Web server | Apache or LiteSpeed, with .htaccess | The security headers ship in the .htaccess file. |
| Shell access | Not needed to install | Six screens in a browser: no Composer, no build step. |
Not sure? Send this table to your host, or read the step-by-step cPanel install guide first. If your host fails a row and will not change it, that is what the 14-day guarantee is for.
Not in the $49
The rest of the gaps are on one page: what AlumDeck does not do.
Honest fit
No customer quotes yet
AlumDeck is new, so there are no logos or testimonials to show you. Here is what you can check for yourself instead.
Check it
Sign in as an admin or a member tonight. It puts itself back every night.
Open the demoCheck it
Every release, what went into it, and what the shipped docs got wrong.
Read the changelogCheck it
Seven planned releases in order, with no dates we might miss.
See the roadmapCheck it
Every gap, grouped, before you find one yourself.
Read the listCheck it
Admin two-factor, an audit log, and headers you can check with one command.
See the controlsCheck it
The requirements above, and the six-screen installer that checks them.
Read the install guideQuestions
Your public alumni site carries on. News, events, the history pages, the archive, the giving pages, the sitemap and the RSS feed all keep serving, and search engines keep crawling them. Nothing is deleted, and your database is never touched.
What pauses is signing in, for admins and members alike, and only after at least 21 days of grace with a banner on every admin screen. Renew, press "Check again now" on the notice, and both sign-ins are back the same day.
Yes. If AlumDeck is not right for your association, ask through the contact form within 14 days of buying and the $49 comes back. Install it on your own hosting, show it to the committee, then decide. The full wording is in the terms.
Not yet. AlumDeck does not process payments: there is no payment gateway, card form or merchant account in it today. It records gifts that arrive however your association already collects money, keeps a running total on each appeal and emails numbered receipts.
Online donations into your own Stripe, PayPal or Razorpay account are planned for release 1.2, with no platform fee on top.
As many as your hosting holds. There is no cap on members, admins, events or pages anywhere in the software, and no charge per member.
One thing does grow your disk: photos are stored exactly as they are uploaded, so an archive of phone photos takes more room than thousands of member records. Thumbnails are planned for release 1.1.
Not to install it. The installer is six screens in a browser, and everything it needs is already inside the zip: no terminal, no Composer, no build step.
You do need one person comfortable in cPanel for three jobs: adding one cron line, filling in the mail settings, and putting two Cloudflare keys in the .env file if you want the bot check on your forms.
Yes. The licence covers one live site, not one server. Moving is a file copy and a database import, like any website, and a licence slot that sits unused for 30 days frees itself for the new address.
Every country. The price is $49 in US dollars wherever your association is, and the software runs on hosting you choose, so your members' data can stay in your own country.
We are not publishing a date, because a date we miss helps nobody. Leave your email in the form on this page and you get one message on the day it opens, and nothing else, ever.
Open the live demo, sign in as an admin or a member, and click anything. It puts itself back every night.