Pricing
We will give you a number in the first call, not the third.
Every school is quoted on what it actually runs. A 600-student single school and a four-school trust of 6,000 are not the same conversation, and pretending otherwise wastes your time and ours.
What we can do is tell you exactly what drives the number, so you can estimate before you ring.
What drives it
Four things, and none of them is a surprise.
Per student, per year
The base of every quote. It falls as numbers rise, and the step changes are real rather than cosmetic.
Which modules you enable
Modules are switched on per school. Fees and accounts together are the common starting point. Library, inventory and timetable are often added in the second year.
How many branches
A trust pays less per student than the same schools would separately, because it is one platform.
Implementation, in the first year only
Data migration, structural setup, fee rule configuration and training. This is not trivial and it is not free. A vendor who waives it is either doing it badly or recovering it elsewhere.
What is included
In the number you are quoted.
- Every module you enable, with no per-feature upcharge inside a module
- All updates, including statutory changes to tax slabs, PF and ESI ceilings
- Your own secure web address, set up for you
- Unlimited users. Charging per administrator punishes schools for delegating
- Support during Indian business hours
- Your data, exportable, and permanently deletable on request
What costs extra
Said here rather than in an invoice.
- Implementation in year one
- On-site training beyond the included days
- Custom report development beyond the built-in report builder
- Data migration from a system that cannot produce a clean export
What it really costs
The cheapest quote you receive will not be the cheapest system.
The licence is the small number. The one that matters is what your office spends working around the software afterwards.
The cost of a school ERP is not the licence. It is the weeks your office spends working around it, every year, because the fee rules could not express what your school actually does.
Ask every vendor to configure your three most awkward fee cases during the demo. It is the most useful twenty minutes in the whole evaluation. It is also the test that decided one school’s choice between us and several alternatives. Read what happened.
Bring the three cases you think will break it. That is the demonstration worth having, and it is the one that settles the decision.
Get a number
Tell us your student numbers and which modules you need.
That is enough for a real number. Not a range, and not “starting from”.