October has been an exciting month as the community gears up for our annual in-person conference, this year the Mautic World Conference is coming to the UK in London. I can’t wait to meet people there, and am really looking forward to an entire week of Mautic with our two-day online conference following the in-person event.
Our Council will also be meeting in November – the Council are the folk who oversee the project as a whole and have fiscal responsibility for the running of the project. Learn more about them on the Council page.
October can’t pass without a shoutout to the amazing team who are putting on Hacktoberfest in the Mautic Community. Last year we received over 350 expressions of interest in contributing to Mautic, and we’re seeing similar levels this year. Join us in #hacktoberfest on Slack to learn more! We welcome contributions in both code and low/no code areas, and at the start of the month we had over 100 tasks that were ready for contributors! Learn more about contributing in our Community Handbook.
We are continuing to monitor the financial stability of the project as we’ve had several months where our outgoings exceed our income and we don’t have huge reserves available to dip into. On the positive, it seems that the Mautic World Conference will make a small profit for the first time, which is great news!
Finances
Here is the breakdown of our finances for the month:
Description |
Amount |
|---|---|
INCOME |
|
Mautic World Conference sponsorships |
$6,506.56 |
Event tickets |
$1,507.22 |
Trials revenue |
$2,120 |
Monthly sponsors |
$765 |
Individual memberships |
$396.80 |
Total Income |
$11,500.80 |
EXPENDITURE |
|
Mautic World Conference |
$13,914.01 |
Employee Payroll (August 2025) |
$9711.76 |
Travel and expenditure |
$1,610.58 |
Host Fee to Open Source Collective |
$1,121.29 |
Contractor Invoice (Barsha Devi, Sept 2025) |
$700.00 |
Admin support |
$356.16 |
Payment processor fees |
$496.21 |
Infrastructure |
$220.64 |
Council in-person meeting room hire |
$216.01 |
Refunds |
$212.77 |
Domain Renewal |
$74.72 |
Total Expenditure |
$28,634.15 |
As we come up to the Mautic World Conference we’ve had several invoices for the catering, print media, team travel and accommodation which mean it’s been a heavy month for expenditure. We’ve also had some great successes with the sponsorship team, bringing in several new sponsors for the event – great job!
This month also saw some funds coming over from customers who’ve converted from a trial user to a managed hosting user, which means we receive a 40% revenue share for the first year, decaying each year thereafter.
As we shift more towards using Stripe, we need to find a better way to calculate payment processor fees as these are not generally represented in our accounting processes very clearly. I’ve shown the fees here as represented by Open Source Collective and via an export from Stripe including both the payment processor fees and the Stripe fees, but it’s quite a clunky process! If anyone would like to help with this, please reach out to me directly.
Celebrating our community
A big thank you to all the organisations who have contributed to Mautic in October!
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 Days Report and you can now view this month’s report here: Mautic | Monthly Report for October 2025!
⬆️ = Increase from last month
⬇️ = Decrease from last month
Most active companies
Acquia 122 (⬆️ 17.31%)
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 116 (⬆️ 14.85%)
Moorwald | Sven Döring 96 (⬆️ 500%)
meritoo 46
Enable 32
Aivie 27 (⬆️ 8%)
UpScale 25 (⬇️ 56.90%)
EddieHubCommunity 25
Webmecanik 23 (⬇️ 66.18%)
Dropsolid 20 (⬇️ 72.60%)
Top contributing companies
Acquia 60 (⬇️ 10.45%)
Aivie 16 (⬆️ 14.29%)
UpScale 12 (⬇️ 67.57%)
meritoo 10
Leuchtfeuer Digital Marketing 8 (⬇️ 20%)
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham 6
IIT Vadodara 6
Webmecanik 5 (⬇️ 68.75%)
Friendly 3
Moorwald | Sven Döring 2
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!
A big thank you also to all the individuals who are helping us build this awesome community! 🫶🏻 🙌🏻
Most active members
Ayu Adiati 142
Jo 133
Sven Döring 96
Ekke Guembel 94
John Linhart 93
Favour Chibueze 68
Ima-Abasi Effiong 47
Abi beniyal 47
Krzysztof Nizioł 46
Aaron Pedwell 46
Top contributors
John Linhart 30
Rahul Shinde 15
Ayu Adiati 14
Martin Vooremäe 12
Abi beniyal 12
Favour Chibueze 11
Krzysztof Nizioł 10
Aaron Pedwell 9
Rohit Pavaskar 7
Aditya Ray 6
Welcome to our new contributors this month 💖
Abi beniyal
Aaron Pedwell
Aditya Ray
Govind S Nair
Jay Shenkar
JasmineGift
Jo
Oladeji Oluwaseun
Grace Chibueze
Krzysztof Nizioł
Tolu Laleye
mkauschmann
knizio
Chidi Confidence
Top supporters
Achilles Poloynis 3
Favour Chibueze 2
Ayu Adiati 2
Jo 2
Martin Vooremäe 1
Ekke Guembel 1
Sven Döring 1
Rahul Shinde 1
Renato Carabelli 1
Gustavo Balduino 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 15 new contributors 🚀 (⬆️ 36.36%) and 57 new members joining the community! 💖 (⬆️ 9.62%).
Community health
We saw a rise in GitHub Star count over the last few months – although this is in most cases a ‘vanity metric’ it’s positive to see a continuing growth in interest of Mautic.
We’re also continuing to see a strong growth in PRs submitted to the Mautic GitHub repositories (which includes the core product and also our documentation resources), averaging well over 100 per month at times.
Remembering that every pull request requires at least two reviewers, we’re also seeing a strong and consistent numbers of people who are taking the time to do reviews with around 60-80 new reviews each month – but we’re always needing more people to help with this, the more we have, the faster we can ship bug fixes and features! Check out our Contributor Handbook to learn how to get started.
We’re seeing almost 18,000 websites which the builtwith.com bot is detecting as running Mautic tracking as at the end of October 2025 – the chart below shows a cumulative line showing all domains that have ever installed Mautic tracking (blue line) and those which are still deploying Mautic tracking (yellow line), by the month in which the tracking was first detected. This is quite a blunt instrument when it comes to estimating the number of active instances because one instance can have tracking on many – or no – domains, and also there are many reasons why the bot may not pick up the tracking script – so we use this data as a very rough approximation which probably under-reports quite significantly.
In terms of how people are installing Mautic, we’re seeing a pretty similar distribution, with a few naming quirks over time represented by upper and lower case versions of the same install source. It’s good to see the consistent use of DDEV in our stats, which is predominantly from developers and test environments running on local machines.
Note: As I am a bit late with these reports, the server reports are including data from November and up to 18th December.
In terms of the versions in use when a Mautic instance is updated, we are seeing more of the 3.x and 4.x Mautic instances being updated this quarter, but still just under 25% of sites are still running Mautic 4 (which is only supported under an Extended Long Term Support contract) and 9% are running Mautic 3 (which is unsupported since 2022). Spare a thought for the folks running Mautic 2, which has quite a lot of very serious vulnerabilities which have been widely reported and exploited for over 5 years now.
On the positive side, over 50% of Mautic instances are on a currently supported version of Mautic.
Concluding thoughts
In my experience, October perfectly illustrates the investment required to sustain a global open source project. While our financial outgoings were significant due to conference preparations, they pave the way for our first profitable Mautic World Conference – a huge milestone for our sustainability.
The surge in new contributors that we experience during Hacktoberfest and the steady growth in PRs remind me that our community is our strongest asset. As we approach the Council meetings and the conference, our focus remains on converting this momentum into long-term stability – balancing our books, supporting our maintainers, and ensuring that every new contributor finds a home in Mautic.
