SchoolDeck · School management

Every classroom, every parent, one student record.

Built for single and multi-branch schools. Admissions through report cards, attendance period by period, and a parent app that gets opened rather than uninstalled.

200 – 5,000 students on rollClass → section → subject → periodFront office, 7:30–9:00 every morningPer enrolled student, per academic year
SchoolDeck/Sr. Secondary campusAY 2026–27
Present today
94.2%
1,842 of 1,956
Fees collected
83.5%
₹42.6L / ₹51.0L
Open admissions
128
31 awaiting documents
Needs attention
4
across 3 desks
SectionFlagOwner
IX-BAttendance under 80% for three consecutive daysClass teacher
VII-ATwo instalments overdue past graceAccounts
XI-CReport card template not versioned for this termExam cell
Every figure here is a live read of the rows the desks write to. No morning report is compiled by anyone.
Illustrative interface. Figures are sample data, not a real institution.
Size band
200 – 5,000 students on roll
Structure
Class → section → subject → period
Busiest desk
Front office, 7:30–9:00 every morning
Billing unit
Per enrolled student, per academic year
Who it serves

Three people, three entirely different days

The same record is read from very different places. Each desk gets the screen its job actually needs.

The principal

Opens one dashboard: today’s absentees, fee position by class, staff on leave, and which sections are behind on assessment entry.

The class teacher

Marks attendance in four taps, enters marks against the school’s own grading scheme, and messages a parent without leaving the register.

The parent

Sees attendance, homework, fee dues and the bus location in one place — and pays without a phone call to the office.

8 modules

What an institution actually runs on.

Every module writes to the same record. Turning one on is a permission change and a form — never a migration, never a second login.

The full module matrix
01

Admissions & enquiry

Enquiry to allotted seat, with waiting lists, sibling rules and document checklists.

02

Period-wise attendance

Daily or per period, with automatic parent notification on an unexplained absence.

03

Fee heads & instalments

Concessions, siblings, transport slabs and late fees — computed, not maintained by hand.

04

Assessment & report cards

Your grading scheme, your report card format, generated for a whole section at once.

05

Timetable & substitutions

Conflict-checked timetables, and a same-morning substitution that notifies everyone affected.

06

Transport & routes

Stops, fees and live vehicle position, with boarding confirmation to the parent.

07

Staff & payroll

Leave, workload and salary structure, with teaching load visible against the timetable.

08

Parent app

One child or four, one login. Attendance, homework, dues, circulars and payment.

The academic year

One continuous record, carried forward

  1. Step 01

    Admission

    A record is created once, with documents attached, and never re-keyed again.

  2. Step 02

    Section & timetable

    Allotment drives the register, the fee schedule and the parent’s app view at once.

  3. Step 03

    Term assessment

    Marks entered by subject teachers roll into the report card without a spreadsheet in between.

  4. Step 04

    Promotion

    A whole cohort moves up in one action, carrying history, dues and documents forward.

Why this one

Three things institutions tell us break elsewhere

Report cards in your format

Boards and schools differ, and a template you cannot change is a template you will abandon. Formats are configured, not hard-coded.

Substitutions before assembly

A teacher calls in sick at 7:40. Cover is assigned, the timetable updates, and every affected class and parent knows before first bell.

Fees that survive real life

Sibling concessions, mid-term joiners, transport changes and partial payments are ordinary cases here, not exceptions requiring a workaround.

Solutions

Shaped to how you are set up

01

Single school

One campus, a few hundred students, an office of three. Everything on by default and nothing to configure for a month.

02

Multi-branch group

Shared fee policy and report card formats, separate ledgers and staff per branch, one board-level view.

03

Pre-school through senior secondary

Different grading logic per stage on one roll, so a child moves up without changing systems.

Assumptions

What SchoolDeck assumes about you

Every system encodes a view of how the work is done. Here is ours, written down before you buy it rather than discovered in month three.

We assumeWhat it buys youWhere it strains
One child, one record, for fourteen yearsAttendance, marks, fees and documents stay on a single ID from nursery to Class 12, so history survives every promotion.Schools that re-admit under a fresh number each year need a one-time merge before go-live.
The class teacher is the point of entryAttendance and marks come from the person who saw the child, not from an office re-keying a paper register at 4 pm.Where teachers have no device access, the office fallback screens work but cost the office an hour a day.
Fees are computed, never typedHeads, concessions, sibling rules, transport slabs and late fees are rules — so a receipt is reproducible two years later.A cash discount agreed verbally has to be entered as a named concession, or the ledger will not reconcile.
Parents are users, not recipientsOne family login covers every child on roll: ledger, receipts, attendance, homework, circulars and bus position.Below roughly 40% parent smartphone coverage, SMS fallback carries the load and the app’s value drops sharply.

If two or more of the right-hand column describe you, say so on the call — it changes the implementation plan, not the price.

Use cases

The weeks that decide the year

Admission season

Two hundred enquiries in three weeks, each with documents, sibling checks and a waiting list that reorders itself as seats free up.

Term-end report cards

Forty teachers entering marks against one scheme, and a whole section’s cards generated the same afternoon.

Fee defaulter follow-up

An ageing view by class, reminders that go out on a schedule, and a receipt the parent gets instantly.

Teacher absent at 7:40

Cover assigned, timetable updated, and every affected class and parent notified before first bell.

Load through the year

Five seasons, and what breaks in each

  1. Nov – Mar

    Admission season

    Two hundred enquiries in three weeks, each with documents and a sibling check.

    Enquiry forms, ~8× normal writes

  2. Apr

    Session start

    Sections allotted, timetables published, fee schedules generated for the whole roll.

    Bulk generation, one heavy night

  3. Jul – Sep

    Mid-term running

    Attendance and homework every day; the only season where nothing is exceptional.

    6 concurrent registers per section

  4. Sep & Mar

    Term-end assessment

    Forty teachers entering marks against one scheme, then a section’s cards in an afternoon.

    Marks entry, ~40 concurrent users

  5. Mar – Apr

    Promotion & audit

    A cohort moves up in one action; last year stays queryable and unmodified.

    Cohort write, run out of hours

Scope

Four things SchoolDeck deliberately does not do

A gap named in the sales conversation is a decision. The same gap found after go-live is a grievance.

No lesson content authoring

We store what was taught and assessed. We do not build your worksheets, videos or question banks — and we do not pretend an LMS is bundled.

No hostel as a first-class module

Rooms, mess and wardens are handled as fee heads and custom fields. A residential school with 600 boarders should tell us so in the demo.

No statutory payroll filing

Salary structure, leave and workload are here. PF, ESI and TDS returns stay with your accountant, and we export what they ask for.

No GPS hardware

Transport shows live position from devices you already run. We do not sell, fit or warrant the tracker in the bus.

Migration & service

Migration, and what we commit to in the contract

  1. Week 1Extraction

    You send whatever exists — spreadsheets, an old ERP dump, printed registers. We map it and return a gap list, not a quote revision.

  2. Week 2Dry run

    Your data in a sandbox with real fee heads and last year’s marks. The office signs off on ten receipts and ten report cards.

  3. Week 3Parallel

    Both systems live for one fee cycle. If reconciliation fails, we roll back and the clock stops.

  4. Week 4Cutover

    Old system read-only, not deleted. You keep the export for as long as you want it.

Support hours
8:00 – 20:00, six days
First response
Within 2 hours, in hours
Uptime target
99.9% monthly
Release cadence
Fortnightly, opt-in for majors

Service figures are placeholders pending sign-off — confirm the contracted terms before publishing.

Questions

Asked before every decision.

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Which boards does SchoolDeck support?

CBSE, ICSE and ISC, and state boards including Maharashtra, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. Board choice affects assessment structure, report card format and statutory reporting, all configured during implementation.

Can we keep our existing report card format?

Yes, and it is a standard part of implementation rather than a customisation charge. Templates are versioned, so a card issued in a previous year reprints exactly as it was issued.

Does attendance work without internet?

Yes. The teacher app holds the register locally and syncs when signal returns, timestamped when the marks were taken rather than when they synced.

Can we migrate mid-year?

Yes, though it takes longer than a year-start migration. Importing students is quick; reconciling opening fee balances and part-paid instalments is the slow part.

Before you talk to anyone

The price and the counting rule are on the page.

What a student counts as, when the count is taken, and what is never billed extra — written down, next to the number.

See SchoolDeck pricing

Bring your report card format

We will configure it live on the call, using your classes, fee heads and grading scheme.

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