Open Startup Report #25 – March 2025

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Key points

  • We’re working hard towards financial stability, you can help us by using Mautic’s hosted service (which gives 40% of the income back to the open source project), becoming an individual or corporate member of Mautic, or by purchasing Extended Long Term Support.
  • We’re continuing to see new contributors stepping up to support Mautic but there are many areas where we’re very short on contributors. Check out https://mau.tc/contribute for how you can get involved
  • Mautic usage is continuing to grow strongly, both from the uptake on the trials and also through installations and instances that call back to our updates server.
  • We’re now over 9,000 active people in our community, how awesome is that! 🎉

Finances

Income

March was a quiet month when it comes to memberships with only four new individual members, however we did receive a larger than usual transfer from GitHub Sponsors which we think is some backdated funds from previous months (we’ve checked with Open Collective and it was a genuine transfer).

We also received a refund on fees from a duplicated community tier membership which was on auto-renew for one of our members.

DescriptionAmount
Individual members$400
Monthly sponsors$1,885
Refunds$173.10
Total$2,458.10

Expenditure

This month we had several of our domain names renew which is why there’s slightly higher than normal expenditure on the infrastructure line item. As mentioned above, a duplicated membership had to be refunded which is why it’s showing here as a refund. Other expenses are as expected.

DescriptionAmount
Employment$8,717.53
Refund$1,200
Infrastructure$494.32
Host fees$178.50
Consultants$159.90
Payment processor fees$53.94
Total$10,925.26

Contributions

A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in March!

These organisations are making Mautic and helping to grow our awesome community.!

🔎 You can always take a look at the data for the last 90 days via this link: Mautic | 90 day report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for March 2025!

⬆️ = Increase from last month
⬇️ = Decrease from last month

Organizations

Most active companies

Acquia 249 (⬆️ 50.91%)

Dropsolid 87 (⬇️ 60.81%)

UpScale 83 (⬆️ 167.74%)

Webmecanik 81 (⬆️ 131.43%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 80 (⬆️ 2.56%)

Aivie 46 (⬇️ 39.47%)

Crafting.email 42 (⬆️ 35.48%)

Twentyzen 35 (⬇️ 25.53%)

Matic Zagmajster s.p. 16

Surge Media 15

Top contributing companies

Acquia 96 (⬆️ 54.84%)

Dropsolid 45 (⬆️ 73.08%)

Webmecanik 29 (⬆️ 190%)

UpScale 27 (⬆️ 28.57%)

Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 10 (⬆️ 11.11%)

Aivie 8 (⬇️ 11.11%)

Comarch 5 (⬇️ 16.67%)

Axelerant 4

Friendly 1

Twentyzen 1

Contributions are as defined here with the addition of Jira issues being closed as completed, GitHub Pull Request reviews and Knowledgebase articles being written or translated, which we track through Savannah’s API.

Want to appear on this list? Get contributing, and drop me a line with your company name, domain and the folk who work for you and we’ll make sure that you are attributed correctly!

Individuals

A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community 🫶🏻 🙌🏻

Most active contributors

John Linhart 209

Martin Vooremäe 83

Anderson José Eccel 76

Zdeno Kuzmany 45

Rahul Shinde 43

Ricardo Freire 42

Dirk Spannaus 35

Ekke Guembel 28

Norman Pracht 25

Lenon Leite 23

Top contributors

John Linhart 63

Anderson José Eccel 40

Martin Vooremäe 27

Levente 18

Saurabh Gupta 15

Zdeno Kuzmany 13

Norman Pracht 12

Miroslav Fedeleš 9

Ima-Abasi E. Effiong 8

Rahul Shinde 7

Welcome to our new contributors this month đź’–

Farzam Madani

ujale

Judy

Luiz

Jeroen Spitaels

ccamusso

Sonvir

Sara Matos

Kingsley Udoh

Dalton McGehee

Jun

georg_bnm

Chirag Moradiya

Guilherme Gomes

Top supporters

georg_bnm 1

Norman Pracht 1

ccamusso 1

Dirk Spannaus 1

John Linhart 1

Martin Vooremäe 1

Supporters are folks who have had conversations with people directly before they make a contribution, so most likely helping with that process.

This month we had 14 new contributors :rocket: (⬆️ 114.29%) and 86 new members joining the community! 💖 (⬆️ 6.17%).

Usage of Mautic

We continue to see a strong trend based on the sites which are updating and pinging our updates server. In Q1 we had just over 15,000 Mautic instances checking in after being updated. This is the highest rate we’ve seen in all time.

A chart showing the number of Mautic instances by date last updated. There's an increase around 2020 Q1 then a drop, but the drop is reversed from 2023 Q4 onwards where it's rising to a peak in Q1 2025.

We’re also continuing to see a strong growth in signups for the official Mautic trial, with nearly 700 signups in March which is our highest yet.

A chart showing the number of signups by the month the trial was requested, with a steady growth over time through to March 2025 where it's at the highest rate of 692.

When it comes to installations we’re seeing a strong growth in Composer-based installs of Mautic 5, which is to be expected as it comes into Long Term Support (LTS) status.

A screenshot of stats from Packagist showing strong growth in Mautic's core-lib package being installed since November 2023. There's also a chart below showing different versions by number of installs, with 4 significantly dropping from mid-2024 and 5 taking a strong growth from mid-2024.

Community Health

This month has been a big month for releases, with the latest in our series of bug fixes for Mautic 5 – 5.2.4 – being released with 15 bugs fixed, in addition to 6.0.0 beta, Release Candidate and General Availability.

I’m delighted to welcome Martin Vooremäe to the team of volunteer release leaders – it’s great to see more people stepping up and helping to support Mautic’s release process. He’s carried out releases as assistant lead, and next month will be leading his first release.

I’ve also put out a call for maintainers for the Docker repository and the WordPress plugin – two important areas where we’ve not had active maintainers for several years that really need reviving. Please let me know if you’d be interested! We also have several teams who need people to step up and support various initiatives, from putting on our Mautic Conferences to writing the newsletter and helping improve our documentation. Check out https://mau.tc/contribute to see how you can get involved.

We’ve also now topped out at over 9,000 active members since back in 2014 when Mautic was founded, which is pretty awesome!

A chart showing membership growth over time excluding bots, topping out at over 9,000 active members. There's a steady growth since 2020.

Conclusion

We still have a lot of work to do when it comes to income generation, however we’re making good progress and managing to keep our outgoings lower than budgeted.

We continue to see a growth in adoption of Mautic both from trial users but also through installations, which shows the ongoing growth potential for Mautic.

Community members are continuing to step up and start contributing (but there’s always more to do, so please lend a hand!) and we’re retaining contributors as well, which has been exciting to see.

Onwards and upwards!

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Ruth Cheesley

Ruth is an Open Source advocate with over 18 years of experience using and contributing to many different projects. Having served on the Community Leadership Team of the Joomla! project and built a full-service digital agency, she now works as Project Lead for Mautic, supporting the community who build and maintain the world’s first Open Source Marketing Automation platform. Ruth is a lover of cats, a keen runner and flautist (but not at the same time!) and is based in the East of England.

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