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Product releases, engineering write-ups and guides for the people who run schools.

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What changed in the August release

Bulk fee adjustments, a faster timetable builder, and the substitution workflow teachers have been asking for since March.

A realistic timeline for switching school software mid-year

Moving systems in the middle of an academic year is not ideal, but it is survivable. Here is the sequence that works.

How we cut attendance sync time by 70%

Teachers mark attendance in a 15-minute window every morning. That traffic shape broke our assumptions, so we rebuilt the queue.

Three schools, three very different fee structures

Kochi, Dubai and Nairobi. Concessions, multi-currency instalments and sibling discounts modelled in one system.

Report cards that do not need a designer

The new template editor lets office staff build a board-compliant report card without touching a stylesheet.

What to ask a school software vendor before you sign

Twelve questions that reveal more than any demo will, including four we find uncomfortable to answer ourselves.

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