Not a feature list. The screens themselves — drawn from the real product, with fictional students in them. If a screen here looks like something your staff would avoid, tell us on the call.
Admissions · Enquiry pipelineSCHOOL OS
Enquiry24
IIshaan G.
Grade VIWebsite
DDiya M.
Grade IWalk-in
Campus tour11
KKabir R.
Grade IXReferral
AAnaya P.
Grade IVMeta ads
Assessment7
VVihaan K.
Grade VIIWebsite
Seat blocked5
MMyra T.
Grade IIWalk-in
Every enquiry on one board, from first call to seat blocked.
One system, not nine
Count the invoices on your desk
Every line below is a separate vendor, licence or credit pack. None of them reconcile, so your office reconciles them by hand.
Free on your own computer8
School ERP licence + annual maintenance
Admission enquiry tracking
Fee receipts & day book
Attendance registers
Report card formatting
Library issue / return / fines
Timetable building
Local Windows server + backup drive
Added when you go online4
Parent mobile app
Online fee collection & reconciliation
Bus GPS tracking
Bulk SMS / WhatsApp for parents
Quoted per school. No credit packs that expire.
Eight modules, one system
Eight modules, one database
A library fine lands on a fee statement without anyone retyping a name.
The questions every principal asks on the first call
Is the desktop app really free, or free for a trial?
Free, with no time limit and no student cap. It runs on a local database on your own computer, and the records it holds are yours. We charge only when you want the online half — the parent app, real payments, live transport and sync across devices — and that is quoted for your school.
Our internet is unreliable. Does that break everything?
No. Unlike a pure web ERP that stops when the broadband does, the desktop app runs on an embedded local database. The front office keeps registering visitors, issuing receipts and taking attendance offline, and the moment a connection appears it syncs both ways through a conflict-free queue.
How is the online version priced?
We quote per school, because a 300-student campus and a six-branch trust are not the same conversation. The quote covers the subscription, the fee-payment platform fee and managed onboarding, in writing, with no hidden credit packs. Tell us your strength and your boards and we will send it the same working day.
Why is there no free SMS credit pack?
Because free credit packs are how other vendors hide their costs. Circulars, homework, attendance and report cards go out free over in-app push notification and digital notices. WhatsApp and SMS are kept for genuinely urgent things — a bus delay, an emergency closure — and billed at what they cost.
We have fifteen years of data in Excel and an old ERP. Now what?
You hand us the messy sheets. Our onboarding team cleans them, maps them and hands you back a populated system with your students, staff, fee heads and historical ledgers already in it. Your staff do not do the data entry.
Our senior clerk will refuse to use anything new.
That is the single most common reason school software fails, and it is a design problem, not a training problem. Every screen is built to be learnable the way WhatsApp is learnable. If a screen needs a manual, we treat the screen as broken.
When should we switch?
Schools decide between November and February and deploy for the April session. If you are reading this in that window, now. If you are not, start on the free desktop app today and go online when the session turns.
How is this different from an open-source school ERP?
An open-source ERP is free to download and expensive to run: somebody has to host it, patch it, back it up, upgrade it across breaking versions and build whatever your board needs that the community did not. That somebody is usually a contractor on a retainer, which is an AMC under a different name. SCHOOL OS Desktop is free as a finished product — it installs, it runs, it is supported, and the roadmap is ours to deliver rather than yours to fund.
What if we leave?
You export your students, staff, ledgers, marks and documents, and you keep running the free desktop app on your own machine. We would rather earn the renewal than hold your records hostage.
Start free today. Decide about the cloud in April.
Install SCHOOL OS Desktop on one office computer this week and run your admissions, receipts, attendance and report cards on it for nothing. When you want the parent app and online fees, we are one call away.