Services
Software is only useful when your school can actually use it.
Most failed school software was not bad software. It was installed, never populated properly, and abandoned by the third month.
Getting set up
Your academic session, classes, sections and subjects are configured first, because everything else hangs off them. Then roles: who marks registers, who collects fees, who may publish results. Getting this right at the start prevents most of the confusion that follows.
Bringing your data across
Students, guardians, staff and current fee balances are the four that matter. We take what you have — usually spreadsheets exported from whatever you run now — and load it, reporting every row that does not fit rather than quietly dropping it.
Historical data is a decision, not a default. Three years of attendance may be worth carrying; ten years of receipts usually is not.
Training the people who will use it
Separate sessions for the front office, the finance team, teachers and the transport desk. A teacher needs fifteen minutes on registers and homework, not an hour on the whole product.
Afterwards
Configuration changes as the school year turns — new sessions, new fee structures, new staff. Support covers that as well as the occasional thing going wrong.
Implementation
- Academic structure
- Classes and sections
- Fee heads and structures
- Roles and permissions
- School branding
Migration
- Student and guardian records
- Staff records
- Opening fee balances
- Historical attendance
- Documents
Training
- Administrators
- Front office
- Finance team
- Teachers
- Transport desk
Configuration
- Grading scales
- Report card format
- Notice audiences
- Transport routes
- Your own mail server
Support
- Product questions
- Session rollover
- New fee structures
- Adding staff and roles
On request
- Custom domain
- Payment gateway
- SMS and WhatsApp providers
- Data export
Integrations are configured per school against providers you hold accounts with. We do not resell messaging or payment services.
Next step
Ready to run your school on one platform?
Tell us how your school runs today — what is on paper, what is in spreadsheets, what your current software does badly. The demonstration follows that rather than a script, and we will be straightforward about the modules that are not built yet.
What a demonstration involves
- Thirty to forty minutes, on a call, with your screen or ours
- Roughly how many students and staff you have
- What you use today for fees and attendance
- Whether you run one campus or several
No obligation, and no pricing pressure on the first call. If SchoolOS is the wrong fit for your school we would rather say so then.