Most schools lose their alumni in the silence after graduation. Alumnly closes the gap before it opens — in four hours, not four months. Ninety percent of your graduating cohort joins within weeks.
Every day a graduate is out there without your community is a day they drift further from the school they once called home. Most platforms take three to six months to set up. By then, the moment is gone.
We built Alumnly so it never has to be.
Self-syncing profiles. Clone-and-launch events and campaigns. Snapshot emails that auto-promote new content. Stripe handling every payment. Every module contributes to the 95% reduction — not by cutting corners, but by automating what your team shouldn't have to do.
Most schools' alumni software treats every graduate the same. Sam's relationship with her school will change five times before she turns forty. Alumnly is built for every chapter.
Updates her details. Joins her year-cohort group. First newsletter lands in her inbox.
Attends her first reunion. Reconnects with twelve classmates she'd lost touch with.
Mentors a Year 12 student. Shares career advice from her own field. Gives back to the next generation.
Contributes to the school's bursary fund. Three of her classmates do the same.
The platform that knew her at eighteen knows her at thirty-five. Same login. Same school. Different chapter.
A single platform with eighteen modules to choose from. Start with what you need. Add the rest when you're ready.
Physical or virtual, free or paid, with Stripe built in. Load an event in minutes from a template, and the weekly snapshot promotes it for you. No separate ticketing platform taking a cut, no newsletter to write.
Broadcast newsletters when you have something specific to say, and automated snapshot digests when you don't. Both run on your Directory's data, both replace Mailchimp, and the snapshot only sends when there is genuinely something new.
Upload your school magazine, yearbook or annual report as a PDF, and the platform turns it into a paginated, searchable, browser-readable publication in under three minutes. On the alumni site, in the app, and no separate Issuu subscription.
Photo albums for reunions, events and daily school life. Alumni add their own photos, comment and tag classmates, so the gallery becomes a living conversation, not a static archive. Manual or automatic moderation, your call.
A two-way board: school vacancies on one side, roles alumni post from their own employers on the other. Alumni self-post, you approve with a click, and the whole thing feeds your snapshot emails. A recruitment channel the school finally controls.
Public or private chat boards for year groups, interests and events, with real-time, alumni-led conversation. Smart Moderation powered by OpenAI flags anything inappropriate for your review before it reaches the community, so safety scales without a full-time moderator.
Featured stories curated by your team, and stories submitted by alumni themselves. A dedicated narrative channel where the achievements and journeys of your past students get the editorial treatment they deserve, instead of scrolling off a news feed in a fortnight.
Mentoring hubs, partner directories, scholarship application portals, committee pages. Build whatever your alumni programme actually needs, on the same database, login and brand as everything else, and embed any module's content inside it. No agency, no procurement.
Your alumni already tell you they want to give back. Mentoring matches them to the students and younger alumni who need them, and runs the whole programme on the profiles and data you already hold. In development now, joining the plan tiers at launch.
Stripe payments and a live progress bar, built in. Launch a campaign in minutes, relaunch last year's in one click, and let every donation, donor and tax receipt handle itself.
Alumni and the wider school community advertise their businesses to the network, on standard and premium listings that recur automatically via Stripe. Members verify with a one-time code and list themselves, so the revenue compounds with zero admin per listing.
Registrations, active members, money raised, connections, engagement scores per year group. Plus a single School Engagement Score and AI recommendations that name the next move, all exportable to a board pack in one click.
The school's editorial channel to the alumni community. One article becomes a website post, an embed on your main site, a card in the next snapshot email, and a story on the mobile app, from a single entry, with no copy-paste.
Branded merchandise that builds school identity and generates revenue. Shopping cart, real-time Stripe payments, simple shipping rules and fulfilment tracking, all inside the CMS you already use, with the income sitting alongside events and fundraising in one ledger.
A real native app on iOS and Google Play, branded for your school, live from day one. Same database, same content, same brand as the website. Alumni install once and carry your community in their pocket, included in every plan at no extra cost.
Scholarship appeals, reunion pages, capital campaign hubs, careers panels. Drag-and-drop pages that auto-match your school's brand and go live in under an hour, so the page is ready while the campaign moment is still here.
Alumni share their own updates straight to the network - a new job, a move overseas, a milestone worth marking. Their followers are notified in the activity feed, the community likes and comments on their profile, and the network stays alive without your team writing a word. Full admin oversight, no approval queue.
One AI feature moderates conversations before they reach the community. The other tells you what to do next, not just what is. Built in, not bolted on.
Most schools avoid running alumni chat platforms because of the moderation burden. Alumnly's AI flags inappropriate content for admin review before it's published to the community — profanity, harassment, off-topic spam, all caught automatically
The full-time community manager you'd otherwise need — or the reputational risk of running an unmoderated channel.
Most analytics dashboards tell you your engagement is at 47%. They don't tell you what to fix. Alumnly's AI analyses engagement patterns and surfaces specific recommendations — plus a single School Engagement Score that becomes your board-pack headline
"Your Class of 2010 hasn't been emailed in three months — schedule a snapshot."
AI moderating your community. AI recommending what to do next. Both built into the plan you're already on.
The platform is easy to use, and the Alumnly team were fantastic in the transition, set up, and launch. We love to see that their team actively listens and responds to feedback from their clients and are consistently developing new features on the platform.
/ Average join rate within four weeks of launch
Average join rate from graduating cohorts at Toowoomba Christian College within four weeks of launch. The industry average is nineteen percent.
/ New enrolments come through alumni connections
Build brand advocates in the community.
/ Photos uploaded on the Alumnly platform
Nothing drives engagement like photos, available on all plans.
/ Total setup time from signup to live alumni network.
Schools are typically live within one week of starting their trial. Traditional alumni platforms can take three to six months.
No IT department. No project plan. No PowerPoint kickoff. Sign up in the morning. Send your first newsletter at lunch. We mean it literally.
Sign up. Pick your modules. Upload your school crest.
Brand colours configured. Initial alumni list imported.
First newsletter drafted. Domain pointed. Almost there.
Live. Lunch.
30 days. Every Pro feature. No card required.
Each plan adds the modules in the plan before it. Clear pricing, no quote forms and no multi-year contracts.
All plans include unlimited admins, full customer support, and your school's branding.
No contract. Cancel any time.
Updates her details, joins her year cohort group. First newsletter lands in her inbox.
Attends her first reunion. Reconnects with 12 class mates she'd lost contact with.
Mentors a Year 12 student. Helps the careers programme from her own field. Attends her first reunion. Reconnects with twelve classmates she'd lost touch with.
Contributes to the school's bursary fund. Three of her classmates do the same.
Sign up this morning. Send your first newsletter by lunch. Every chapter after that is yours to write.
30 day trial. Every Pro feature. No card required.