X-NGO Charity CMS — The All-in-One, Self-Hosted Charity & NGO Management Platform

Three products in one self-hosted deployment: a polished public charity website (home, about, causes, events, gallery, volunteers, blog, newsletter and contact), an admin panel of 28 Filament resources covering fundraising, donors, beneficiaries, projects, procurement, compliance, communications and content, and a built-in email marketing suite with subscriber lists, tags, campaigns with queued sending, and open and click tracking. Everything the public sees is edited through the admin panel.

PHP 8.2 or newer (tested on 8.3) with the Laravel 12 framework and Filament 4 for the admin panel. You need Composer 2, the pdo_sqlite, mbstring, intl, fileinfo and zip extensions, a minimum of 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended), and a domain or subdomain with its document root pointing at demo-build/public. It runs on standard shared hosting such as cPanel, Namecheap, SiteGround or Hostinger, behind Apache, LiteSpeed or Nginx.

No. It defaults to SQLite at database/demo.sqlite for zero configuration on shared hosting, and uses the database driver for queues, cache and sessions — so no Redis or Memcached is required. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQL Server are supported for production via standard Laravel configuration, and for scale you can move the queue, session and cache stores to Redis without changing any application code.

You compose a campaign and target it using Email Lists and Email Tags. EmailCampaignService matches the recipients and enqueues one SendCampaignEmail job per recipient onto the database queue; a worker running php artisan queue:work processes them, rendering the CampaignMessage mailable for each recipient and recording tracking tokens. Delivery, open and click state is then held per recipient on Email Campaign Recipients, and the Communications Overview dashboard widget reports subscribers, campaigns and open and click rates.

Online payment gateways are not pre-wired. Donations are recorded as bookkeeping entries — each gift captured with donor, cause, amount, currency, channel, reference and status — and Site Settings holds donation bank details for the public site. Gateways such as Stripe, Paystack, Flutterwave and PayPal integrate through standard Laravel packages.

Demo Mode makes the same build safe to expose publicly for previews, sales presentations and evaluation. It is enforced by two independent layers: the DemoMode HTTP middleware rejects every non-GET request while DEMO_MODE=true (except the navigation endpoints whitelisted in config/demo.php), and an Eloquent event guard registered in AppServiceProvider rejects every create, update, delete, restore or force-delete originating from a web request. Console commands such as migrations and seeding are unaffected. Turning DEMO_MODE=false in .env converts the identical build into a fully writable production installation.

Not out of the box. There are no custom policies, gates or role and permission tables — any authenticated administrator has full access to every panel resource. There is no public user registration; all admin accounts are provisioned internally. Because the panel is auto-discovered, adding policies or role separation is a standard Laravel extension task.

The public website is fully responsive and works on desktop, tablet and mobile, and the package includes a responsive screenshot gallery at screenshots/index.html. The platform is delivered as a web application — a single monolithic Laravel deployment serving both the site and the admin panel — rather than a native mobile app.

Branding and content are managed from the admin panel: Site Settings holds contact details, socials, donation bank, footer content and impact statistics; CMS Pages and Page Sections compose editable static pages; Navigation Items control the website menu tree; and Sponsors and Testimonials manage partner logos and supporter quotes. You can also choose between two homepage designs, classic and modern. Deployment settings live in .env — APP_NAME, APP_URL, the MAIL_* values for a real SMTP provider, and optionally DB_CONNECTION=mysql with your credentials.

Upload demo-build.zip to your hosting account and extract it, point your subdomain document root at demo-build/public, then run composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader, php artisan migrate --seed, php artisan storage:link and php artisan optimize. The site is then at your domain and the panel at /admin, with the NgoDemoSeeder providing realistic demo content across every module. For backups, the SQLite database and the uploads under storage/app/public are ordinary files, so standard hosting backups or a simple file copy protect the entire application state.