Run the whole school from one record of every child

Admissions, fees, attendance, exams and parent messages share the same student, so the office stops reconciling and the families stop calling to ask.

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A normal Monday in a school office

By eight the phones have started. A parent wants to know why the fee voucher still shows last term's balance. A teacher has gone home sick and the timetable needs covering. Two admissions enquiries from the weekend are on sticky notes, and the transport coordinator is asking which children were moved to the new route.

None of these are difficult problems. They are slow ones, because each answer lives in a different place: the fee sheet, the register, the admissions folder, the transport list. Somebody has to look in each, check they agree, and call back.

Scolvia puts those answers on one record. The child admitted at the front desk is already on the class list, the fee position and the bus route. A teacher marks attendance on a phone and the parent sees it that morning. The office answers the question instead of researching it.

What it handles

Grouped by the job it does across the school year.

Admissions and enquiries

Every enquiry tracked from first call to confirmed seat, with siblings linked to one family record.

Classes and sections

Classes, sections, subjects and roll numbers, with students moved between sections without losing history.

Attendance

Marked by the class teacher, visible to parents the same day, and totalled for reports without anyone typing it up.

Fees and concessions

Fee structures per class, sibling and staff concessions, part payments and a defaulter list that is current.

Exams and result cards

Date sheets, marks entry by subject teacher, and result cards produced from the marks, not retyped.

Timetable and cover

A timetable that respects teacher load, and substitutions when someone is absent.

Transport

Routes, stops and vehicles, with each child on a route and the fee to match.

Staff and payroll

Staff records, leave, attendance and the monthly salary run from the same data.

Parent communication

Notices, diary and messages to a class, a section or a single family.

The cases most school systems get wrong

Three children, three fee structures, one family. The eldest is on a scholarship, the middle child on a sibling concession, the youngest joined in January. The family wants one voucher and one receipt. A system that bills per student hands them three, and the office reconciles by hand every month.

The child who changes section in October. Attendance, marks and the diary belong to the old section until the move and the new one after it. Systems that store the current section only rewrite history, and the term report is wrong for exactly the children whose parents are already worried.

The withdrawal nobody told accounts about. A family leaves in week six. The class teacher knows, the gate knows, and the fee system keeps sending reminders for a term they will never attend. When the withdrawal is recorded once and every department sees it, that call does not happen.

Results day. Thirty teachers enter marks in thirty spreadsheets, and one correction after the cards are printed means doing it again. Marks entered once, by the teacher who owns the subject, turn into result cards the office only has to check.

Who sees what

Four portals on the same records. Each person sees their part and nothing else.

Administration

The office and leadership: admissions, fees, staff, reports and settings for the whole school.

Staff

Teachers: their classes, attendance, marks, diary, timetable, leave and payslips.

Students

Students: timetable, homework, results, attendance and notices.

Families

Parents: every child under one login, with fees, attendance, results and messages.

How a school is set up

Onboarding starts with your structure: the classes and sections you run, the subjects taught in each, and the fee terms you charge. Existing student, family and staff records come across from spreadsheets, and the import shows anything that needs a decision before it goes live.

Most schools switch on admissions, attendance and fees first, because those save time from the first week. Exams, timetable, transport and payroll follow when the office is ready, each starting with records already in place.

The staff, student and family portals and the mobile app come with the platform. Payment gateways and SMS providers depend on your country, and we confirm which are available where you are before you commit.

In practice

High school · 900 students · PK

Fee collection without the end-of-month chase

Automated reminders and a family payment portal replaced a manual defaulter list rebuilt every term.

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Outstanding balances
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Questions school leaders ask

Can we start with only some modules?
Yes. Most schools begin with admissions, attendance and fees, then add exams, timetable, transport or payroll later. The records are shared from the start, so each module you add already has your students in it.
Do parents need to install an app?
No. The family portal works in a browser, and the mobile app is there for families who prefer it. Either way a parent with several children sees all of them under one login.
How are sibling concessions handled?
Concessions are set per student or per family, so a sibling discount, a staff child concession and a scholarship can apply to children in the same family, and the family can still pay against one combined balance.
Can teachers mark attendance on a phone?
Yes. Teachers mark attendance for their own classes from the staff portal on any device, and parents can see it the same day.
What do we need to provide to get started?
Your class structure, fee terms and existing records in whatever spreadsheets you keep them in. We map them during onboarding and you review the import before anything goes live.

Bring the family your office dreads

The one with three children, two concessions and a part payment. We will show you their record in Scolvia.

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