Essential features to start the school year

A new school year begins

A new school year begins and, probably, you are considering upgrading your management tools to have greater control and organization in your school this year. There are many complicated tasks that take up your time or lead to errors. A management software for academies will allow you to automate tasks so you can dedicate time to things that really matter, like getting more students.

What should the ideal management software have?

Let's analyze how technology can help us achieve better results. Here are the main features that will make the start of the school year easier for you and your students:

Cloud-Based

Your information will always be available from your home, school or any location and device with an Internet connection. Forget about paper student records or complicated Excel sheets that are hard to keep updated. Additionally, your students will also be able to review and modify their information.

Online enrollment

Make the process easier for your current and future students. They won't have to go to school to request information or enroll. With a couple of clicks, they can do it comfortably from their mobile phones, and you'll have the information instantly. You can open enrollments weeks before reopening the school and prepare your classes and groups in advance.

Online payments

We are increasingly used to shopping online. Why not offer your students the option to pay online? They will have better visibility of their payments, receive automatic reminders, and you won't have to deal with the annoying task of chasing them for pending payments.

Mass communications sending

You probably spend a lot of time now answering WhatsApp groups for all your classes, individual students, parents… In the end, you're not sure if you've informed everyone. What if you had a tool to send filtered emails by groups, classes, parents, former students, and more.? And if it also gave you delivery data (who received it, who read it, incorrect emails, etc.), you could run much more effective marketing campaigns: reclaim former students, inform parents of any changes, propose events or new classes… There are many possibilities!

Mobile App

Nowadays, mobile applications are very popular among young people (and not so young people). Whatever the average age of your students, they would surely be delighted to be able to check their classes, schedules, fees, etc., from the school's own app. It’s a differentiating factor to consider.

Take a step further

In summary, everything we can automate and bring into the digital world will be helpful, from payments and enrollments, to how we communicate with students. As a final thought, we would advise you to invest your efforts in things that really help you grow: training and new knowledge to improve your business and especially the technology you need to be prepared and offer exactly what your students need.