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One roster, three modules
AuthExit runs classroom attendance, the school library and the car rider line from a single student roster and a single ID card. Most schools this size buy those three things separately, from three vendors, and then spend the year keeping three lists of the same children in agreement.
The cost of three tools is three rosters
Subscriptions are the visible cost and the smaller one. The real cost is that a student who joins in October has to be added three times, and a student who leaves has to be removed three times.
The day someone forgets, the library lends a book to a child who is no longer enrolled, or a name is missing from the pickup queue at the worst possible moment. Nobody plans for that; it arrives on its own, usually in the second term, and it is invisible until it is not.
What the three modules do
Attendance
Marked from a tablet in the classroom, by the teacher who is already standing there.
Class lists come from the same roster the office maintains. Staff attendance is taken by badge scan. Grade names are free text per school, so KG, P1, P2 or Balwadi all work — nothing assumes a US K-12 ladder.
Library
Circulation, holds and a reading log, run off the student ID card already in the child’s bag.
Checkout is a scan of the book and a scan of the student. Titles in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi or Arabic display and print in their own script, so a heritage collection is catalogued in the language it was written in.
Car rider line
Parents request from the car, children join a live queue, and every exit is closed by a scan.
The parent’s phone becomes the car tag — the family’s roll numbers full-screen, at maximum brightness, readable through a windshield. Approved grandparents and sitters get the same tag on their own phone once the office has approved them.
One card does both jobs
The QR code on a student’s ID card is the same code the door scanner reads at entry and exit and the same code the library reads at checkout. That is the bundle made physical: not two systems that exchange data overnight, but one record that two screens are looking at. There is no second barcode, and no second card to print, lose and reprint.
“A free car line app already exists”
It does, and for a school that needs nothing but a pickup queue it may well be enough. That is worth saying plainly rather than arguing with.
The free tiers cover one module each. A school that also takes classroom attendance and lends books is back to three products, three sign-ins and three rosters — and has paid nothing for the privilege of maintaining them. AuthExit is one annual fee for the whole school with every module included, so the comparison is against the combined cost and the combined admin, never against a single free tier on its own.
Built for schools that do not look like a district
| Assumption most systems make | What AuthExit does instead |
|---|---|
| Grades are K through 12 | Grade names are free text per school — KG, P1, P2, Balwadi, Level 3, whatever you already call them. |
| School runs five days a week | A school meeting one day a week is a first-class case, and is priced as one. |
| One campus, one timezone | Every school carries its own IANA timezone, so a group spanning California, Texas and Ontario reads correct local times everywhere. |
| Names are written in Latin script | Names and book titles display and print in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Arabic. |
Turn on what you need, when you need it
Every module is included in every price tier, and each one is switched on per school. A school can run dismissal alone for a term and enable the library before the next one, with nothing to re-import — the roster is already there. Parents sign in once and see whichever parts their school has turned on. The parent app is free, permanently.
Common questions
- Why not use three separate tools?
- Because the cost of three tools is not three subscriptions, it is three rosters. A student who joins in October has to be added in all three, and a student who leaves has to be removed from all three. The day someone forgets, the library lends a book to a child who is no longer enrolled, or the pickup queue is missing a name. AuthExit keeps one roster, so a student added once is present everywhere.
- A free car line app already exists. Why pay for this?
- It does, and for a school that only needs a pickup queue it may well be enough — that is an honest answer. The free tiers cover one module each. If you also need classroom attendance and a lending library, you are back to three systems and three rosters. AuthExit is priced as one annual fee for the whole school with every module included, so the comparison is against the combined cost and the combined admin, not against the free tier alone.
- Does the same ID card work at the door and in the library?
- Yes. The QR code on the student ID card is the same code the door scanner reads at entry and exit and the same code the library reads at checkout. There is no second barcode and no second card to print, because both modules read the same student record.
- Can we start with one module and add the others later?
- Yes. Each module is switched on per school from the Tile Access settings, so a school can run dismissal alone for a term and turn on the library before the next one. Nothing needs re-importing when a module is enabled — the roster is already there.
- Do parents need a separate app for each part?
- No. Parents sign in once and see whichever parts their school has enabled — requesting pickup, the digital car tag, and their children’s library loans, in one place. The parent app is free, permanently.
- Is this only for weekend and community schools?
- No. The same three modules serve small private schools — independent day schools, Montessori and Waldorf, faith-based schools and microschools. The difference is scale and vocabulary, not the problem: one driveway, a roster that changes, and a library nobody wants to run on a spreadsheet.
One annual fee for the whole school, never per student, with every module included.