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Book a demo run on your data, not a sample school

A SchoolDeck demo takes about forty minutes and is run against your own report card format, fee structure and timetable rather than a sample school. Bring those three documents and you will see whether the system fits before any commercial conversation.

A demo is not required to see pricing. The rate card and volume bands are published, so you can size the cost before booking anything.

Most software demos are a tour of menus. That tells you what exists and nothing about whether it fits, which is the only question that matters — and the one that decides whether a school is still using the system in November.

So bring your documents. We would rather find out in the demo that your report card has a component we cannot reproduce cleanly than find out in February.

Length
About forty minutes
Run against
Your report card, fee structure and timetable
Pricing
Published — no demo needed to see it
Follow-up
A written summary, including anything that does not fit
01

What to bring

Three documents. Nothing needs to be prepared or cleaned up first.

  • Your report card, as you issue it, including anything unusual — the odd grade band, the remarks column, the second page nobody likes.
  • Your fee structure, with the concession policy and the instalment schedule as they actually run, not as they were designed.
  • One week of your timetable, ideally a week that had a substitution in it.

If you also have a list of the things that break in your current system, bring that. It is usually a more useful agenda than ours.

02

What we will tell you that a demo usually does not

Where SchoolDeck is not the right answer. If you need a learning management system in the same product, if you have in-house IT who want to hold the deployment, or if your school is under about two hundred students and genuinely well served by spreadsheets, we will say so.

The follow-up summary states anything from the demo that did not fit, in writing. A vendor who cannot name a limitation has either not understood your school or is not telling you.

Procedure

How it is done, step by step

In order. Each step assumes the one before it is finished.

  1. Step 01Send the three documentsReport card, fee structure and a week of timetable. As they are — no cleaning up.
  2. Step 02We configure before the callYour format, heads and schedule are set up in advance, so the demo shows your school rather than a sample one.
  3. Step 03Forty minutes, on your questionsStarting with whatever breaks today. Time the substitution flow yourself.
  4. Step 04A written summaryWhat fitted, what did not, an indicative cost at your enrolment, and what migration would involve.
FAQ

Questions people ask

Phrased the way they arrive, answered so each one stands on its own.

Do we have to book a demo to see pricing?

No. The rate card and the volume bands are published, so you can size the cost yourself before speaking to anyone.

How long does a demo take?

About forty minutes. Longer if your fee structure is complicated, which is usually the part worth spending the time on.

Will you use our data?

Only the three documents you send, only to configure the demo, and it is deleted afterwards unless you go ahead. Send redacted versions if you prefer — the structure matters, the names do not.

What happens after the demo?

A written summary including anything that did not fit, an indicative cost at your enrolment, and what migration would involve. No obligation and no follow-up sequence.

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Provenance

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Accountability

Checked by the Implementations desk on 1 September 2026. Corrections go in the page, dated, rather than quietly.

No call required

Tell us your enrolment, we will tell you the number.

Pricing is on the page, in the open, with the counting rule written next to it. Nobody has to book a call to find out what it costs.

See pricing

Bring your own structure. We configure it live on the call.

Forty minutes with an implementation engineer — your classes, your fee heads, your grading scheme, entered as we go. No slides, no sample school.