Most nonprofit CRMs charge $50/month per seat, forever. They get bigger, slower, and more expensive every year.
Cortex is a deliberate counter-offer. One payment, real source code, your own server. We can even set it up for you — handed over with the keys.
Three years of a typical donor-CRM subscription buys an espresso machine. Three years of Cortex buys… nothing else, because you already paid.
A robust CRM that scales with your organization. Everything below ships in the ZIP, day one.
Addresses, phones, emails, tags, conversation history, relationship reminders, monthly-donor flags — all in one screen.
Mixed orders that can include both donations and product sales. Take card payments through your own Stripe account — over the phone, or with a payment link the customer opens on their own device. Unpaid invoices print with a QR code to the same link.
Sixteen ready-to-run reports across donors, giving, finance, inventory, outreach, and calls. Filter by date range, export to CSV, drill into any row.
Product catalog with photos, shipping weights, sales velocity, depletion tracking, and projected stock-out dates. Group products into bundles — with variants like KJV, NKJV, or ESV — and add them to an order in one click.
Compare live USPS, UPS, and FedEx rates from your ShipStation account right on the order, send the order to ShipStation for labels, and see tracking once it ships.
Donors sign in with a one-time email code to see their giving history, monthly pledge, and year-to-date total, and download their own receipts.
Generate year-end receipts for every donor, then email them or print them out.
Six permission levels — from view-only intern to super-admin — covering donor relations, bookkeeping, fulfillment, and reporting. Two-factor authentication is built in.
Call a donor from their record — through your computer's headset, or by having Cortex ring your own phone first. Donors see your organization's number, the call is logged to their conversation history, and a report shows who called whom, how often they answered, and for how long. Runs on your own Twilio account.
Email a donor from their record and it goes out from your own Google Workspace mailbox, with your signature — so it lands in your Sent folder and replies come back to you. Each email is logged to the donor's history. An optional AI draft can get you started from their giving and conversation history, or from a teammate's comment.
The shots below are the live application. The same UI ships in your install. Light mode and dark mode included.
$899 buys the full source as a ZIP, the setup guide, and 30 days of email support. Optional white-glove setup is $1,499 flat — we'll set up the server, train your staff, and hand you the keys. Never a subscription.
We're not pretending Cortex is for everyone. Read these before you buy.
Yes — or someone technical on staff or contracted. Cortex is PHP & MySQL; setup involves a server, a database, and an AWS account. If you don't have that person, consider our White Glove service for a flat fee of $1,499.
The full PHP source as a ZIP, the MySQL schema, the setup guide, and 30 days of email support. You can modify it, fork it, share it within your org, host as many copies as you want.
You still have the source. You still have your database. Nothing turns off. That's the entire pitch.
Absolutely. Add fields, rename modules, write new reports — it's standard PHP.