Industry
Schools and colleges
Where fee balances are reconciled by hand, parents phone the office to ask what is owed, and results are compiled from a stack of mark sheets.
The picture
A school's administrative load is heavy and repetitive, and almost all of it is the same few tasks: recording who paid what, telling parents what is outstanding, and turning marks into reports.
What usually goes wrong
The problems we keep seeing
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Fee balances are worked out by hand
A parent asks what is owed and somebody goes through a ledger. The answer takes a day and is sometimes wrong.
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Parents are told late or not at all
Balance reminders go out when somebody has time to write them, which is rarely when they would do most good.
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Results take weeks to compile
Marks come in on paper, are typed up once, checked twice, and still contain errors.
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Records sit in one filing cabinet
Student history, discipline, medical notes, all on paper, all in one building, with no copy anywhere.
What we do about it
The work that fixes it
Each one is something we already do, with its own page and its own price. Nothing here is invented for this page.
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Service
Business software
Fees, balances and results in one system that the office and the parents can both see.
From KES 80,000
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Service
Bulk SMS and USSD
Balance reminders and announcements that reach every parent, including the ones without a smartphone.
From KES 15,000 to set up, plus message credits
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M-PESA integration
Fees paid by M-PESA and matched to the student automatically.
From KES 40,000 to connect one system
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Store category
Computers and screens
Office computers and printers for the administration.
Priced to your needs
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Store category
Networking
A network that reaches the classrooms and the office without falling over.
Priced to your needs
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