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. Donation designations, packing slips, tax receipts, and advanced reporting at your fingertips.
Eighteen ready-to-run reports across donors, giving, finance, inventory, and outreach. Filter by date range, export to CSV, drill into any row.
Product catalog with sales velocity, depletion tracking, and projected stock-out dates.
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.
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.