Who it is for
For weekend and community schools
A community school runs a real school in borrowed rooms, one day a week, on volunteer time. The software written for K-12 assumes almost none of that is true — and then charges per student for the privilege.
The job, as it actually is
Classrooms are rented and the layout changes. Teachers are parents who volunteered and may rotate every term. Registration happens once a year in a rush, and then the roster lives in a spreadsheet that three people email around. Pickup is a fifteen-minute window in a lot shared with whoever else uses the building.
None of that is a smaller version of a K-12 school. It is a different shape, and it is the shape this was built around.
The assumptions we do not make
| Usually assumed | Here |
|---|---|
| School meets five days a week | One day a week is a first-class case and is priced as one — whichever day that is. |
| Grades run K through 12 | Grade names are free text per school. KG, P1, Balwadi, Level 3. |
| Names are Latin script | Names and book titles display and print in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Arabic. |
| The school owns its car park | Pickup lanes are named by you, and the location check can be switched off. |
| One campus, one timezone | Every campus carries its own timezone, for groups spanning several states or provinces. |
The library is the part nobody else does
Heritage schools lend books — primers, readers, story collections, often the only copies in the city. Those get tracked in a notebook or not at all, because library software is sold to institutions with a librarian. Here circulation runs off the same student ID card the door scanner reads, checkout is two scans, and a title in Tamil is catalogued in Tamil.
What it costs
$300 a year for a school meeting one day a week with up to 500 students — flat, for the whole school, never per student. Every module is included. The parent app is free, permanently.
An organization running several centres pays a $250 base plus each campus at half its standalone rate, from two campuses upward, on one invoice. Work out your own number.
Common questions
- We only meet one day a week. Are we paying for a full-time system?
- No. A school meeting one day a week with up to 500 students is $300 a year, flat, for the whole school — that tier exists because a school running roughly 40 dismissals a year should not be priced like one running 180. It applies whichever day you meet, Saturday, Sunday or a weekday.
- Our grades are not K through 12. Does that matter?
- No. Grade names are free text per school, so KG, P1, P2, Balwadi, Level 3 or whatever your committee already calls them all work. Nothing assumes a US grade ladder.
- Can it print ID cards with names in our script?
- Yes. Student names print in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Hindi and Arabic script, not transliterated into Latin letters. Book titles in the library do the same, so a heritage collection is catalogued in the language it was written in.
- Our teachers are volunteers who change every term. Is it hard to learn?
- Taking attendance is a class list on a tablet with a tap per student. Library checkout is two scans. The parts that need training are the office-side tools, which the same one or two people use every week — not the parts a rotating volunteer touches.
- We pick up in a rented parking lot we do not control. Does that work?
- Yes. You name your own pickup lanes to match whatever the lot actually looks like, and the location check is optional — a school that shares a lot with a church or a community centre can switch it off entirely and still run the queue.
- We are one organization with schools in several cities. How does that work?
- Network pricing: a $250 base for the organization plus each campus at half its standalone rate, from two campuses upward, on a single invoice. Each campus keeps its own timezone, so a group spanning California, Texas and Ontario reads correct local times everywhere. One current limit worth knowing: there is no single dashboard across all campuses today, though it can be built.
Attendance, the library and the pickup line from one roster and one card.