School Accounting Software Review
#1 ActiveEducate - Class Registration Software                        
Review date: 01.16.2012

Description:

This online payment and cash management solution helps your schools maximize participation in your programs. Moreover, you can manage the lifecycle of textbook, from check-out to check-in and monitor damaged inventory with one central program.

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Price:

Free Demo

Advanced Features:

  • Equipment rentals
  • Textbook tracking
  • Bank reconciliation and deposits
  • Fee tracking and receipting
  • Communication tools
  • Online registration
  • No set-up costs. Easy to implement
  • Facility management
  • Online fundraising and donation
  • Automated reports
  • Prevent double bookings of resources
  • Improve utilization planning
  • Personalized targeted email

Review:

In addition, the program generates reports in accordance with government standards.
  • Allows you to maximize your resources with one system.
  • Activity fund accounting including Report creation for advisors, schools and districts.
  • This web-based software tool automates the collection and management of school activity funds.
  • Enables you to have the ability to manage student fees and integrate payment management software.
  • You can streamline your admissions process with online applications.
  • Includes school districts and public K-12.
  • Update content in real time with development tools through a web-based interface.
  • Includes all of the software modules most organizations require, in one solution.
  • Enables you to track student fundraising activities.
  • The application allows you to accommodate payment plans and financial aid for each family.
  • You can manage all registrations, withdrawals and waiting lists.
Today’s schools need to manage more information than ever before. ActiveEducate enables you to facilitate communication across your entire school organization

#2 Rediker - School Administrative Software                             
Review date: 01.16.2012

Description:

Built specifically for small colleges, the main modules perform the administrative tasks such as: student records management, transcripts and attendance, available as a windows or web based solution. Queries and reporting can also be done from Microsoft Access.

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Price:

Free demo

Advanced Features:

  • Customized tuition plans
  • Robust reporting tool
  • Comprehensive applicant histories
  • Time-saving correspondence tools
  • Easily call up any student's record
  • Payment request letters
  • Design customized tuition plans
  • Easily set up IB report cards

Review:

Best of all, the software can separate and view groups of prospects by year of graduation, year of application.
    Enables to produce statistical and financial reports.
  • Students are identified with either a PIN or card.
  • Manages all aspects of an academic institution's operations.
  • Online inquiries, applications and payments.
  • Document financial aid promised to each applicant.
  • Automatically keep parents and staff informed about applicant progress.
  • Enables administrators to manage school records on the district level.
  • Eliminates duplicate data entry with Student invoices based on family or sponsor criteria.
  • Ability to report on the entire calendar.
  • Dual currency capability for international schools.
  • Complete fund accounting software program for schools.
Overall, this web-based PK-12 school administrative software enables you to simplify and speed up class attendance tasks. Besides, it includes support and interactive self-help user guide.

#3 Advanta Rapid - Institute Management Software                 
Review date: 09.04.2010

Description:

This college administration and management software covers each and every aspect of your college. The software is a desktop application bundled with scalable and supports multiple modules.

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Price:

Free demo

Main Features:

  • Financial reports and aging reports
  • Suitable for all types of schools and colleges
  • Fees collection and staff attendance
  • Student Registration. Admissions module
  • Disciplime management software
  • Send direct emails

Review:

  • Easy to use billing information.
  • All the incomes generated from students are reflected in all accounting books and reports.
  • Provides a centralized cash register function.
  • Microsoft Windows-based municipal software for the public sector.
  • Ability to assess finance charges and to accommodate variable sales taxation.
  • Allows you to move the entire budget process to Excel.
  • The Basic Edition is suitable for very small institutes.
  • You can allocate ledgers to any fund type.
  • Allows you to consolidate data from multiple schools.
  • You can send direct email to management, staff, teachers, parent and students.
You can easily check whether the book is in Library or has been issued and you can print due fee slips for the selected students.
#4 HeadMaster OnDemand School Solution                                 
Review date: 01.31.2010

Description:

Designed for schools and other childcare facilities, HeadMaster is a complete administrative solution. Besides, teachers can track and store information it is to keep their assignments related to the classes they teach.

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Price:

From $299.00

Software Summary:

This web-based software helps you manage a variety of student, parent, teacher, and class information.

Main Features:

  • Student information management
  • Background checks
  • Instant software upgrades
  • Tuition and billing management
  • Grade and progress reports
  • Associate individual students with activities

Review:

It gives you the school management software you need to manage virtually any size institution.
  • Parents may view student’s assignments and grades.
  • Administration can access all school information from anywhere and anytime.
  • You can setup multiple grading scales.
  • You can promote students from one year to the next without manual data entry.
  • Increases security with student and staff picture ID cards with remote data backups.
  • Associate and track activities with individual children.
You can also add-on features to the individual packages to meet the unique needs of your organization. Moreover, all your data in HeadMaster OnDemand is automatically backed up on a daily.
#5 Regent Education - Financial Aid Software                            
Review date: 01.07.2012

Description:

This program allows the school to set access levels for confidential informations for its students.

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Price:

Free demo

Software Summary:

Donation and Building Fund Manager belongs to the Bluebird accounting application.

Main Features:

  • On-demand applications
  • Maximum functionality
  • Integrated eForms
  • Dedicated project manager
  • Free upgrades and technical support
  • Total flexibility

Review:

Besides, the software offers SaaS delivery platform with automatic updates, including state and federal regulations.
  • Reduced training time and support costs.
  • Ability to view projected aid for an entire program of study.
  • Allows multi-campus institutions to centralize management.
  • Student self service portal provides 24/7 multilingual service.
Overall, this turnkey solution in financial aid management eliminates hardware expenses, and ongoing IT maintenance.

2012 School Accounting Software Comparison
  • We rank the best school administration software and student information systems.

    Developed to Microsoft's latest specification for Windows, they enable you to track applicants from initial inquiry to enrollment and to oversee school fund accounting and financial transactions.

    Besides, K-12 student informations systems allow teachers to access student records over the Web. They also provide complete online registration software for schools and classes.

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