Where the bell, the register, and the bursar all read the same record.
A direction for UK education providers — independent tutors, private schools, training providers, and course creators. Admissions, timetable, billing, and reporting on one stack so the teaching hour stays sacred and the back-office stops chasing paper. Built around the rhythm of the school year, the working week, the bell.
Same method, different shape. Pick the provider type closest to yours — each has a deep page with the sector-specific stack, proof, and how we measure.
Whether you are a single tutor on TutorBird or TutorCruncher, a 240-pupil prep school on iSAMS or Engage, or a training provider on Arlo or Accessplanit, the same six surfaces decide whether the term runs cleanly. We make them speak to each other.
01 · Admissions intake
The first form, the first deposit, the first email.
Online enquiry through to offer letter — forms, deposits, document upload, parent comms. The admissions registrar stops re-keying applications between a website form, a spreadsheet, and iSAMS.
Branded enquiry & application forms
Deposit capture via Stripe / GoCardless
Document upload (passport, school report, references)
Automated parent acknowledgement & offer comms
02 · Timetable & attendance
The register that updates itself.
Real-time roll, parent and student notifications, absence triggers. Pulls from Class.com, ParentMail, or your existing MIS — staff mark once, the right people get told.
Live class roll across rooms & sites
Parent-app notifications on absence
Late-mark and unauthorised-absence triggers
Cover-teacher and timetable-clash alerts
03 · Billing & invoicing
Termly invoicing without the spreadsheet.
Termly invoicing, recurring billing for course-creators and training providers, late-pay automation. Sibling discounts, scholarship adjustments, and direct-debit runs handled in the same place the register lives.
Termly & monthly invoice runs
Sibling discounts & bursary adjustments
GoCardless / Stripe direct debit
Late-pay reminder cadence & statements
04 · Reports & assessment
Term reports the night before, not the week before.
Term reports, parent portal, assessment tracker. Comments collected from teachers in-line, formatted, signed off by the head, released to parents in a click.
Teacher-comment collection & review
Assessment tracker (formative & summative)
Parent-portal release with read receipts
Year-on-year trend reports for SLT
05 · Compliance & safeguarding
The folder the inspector asks for, ready.
DBS records, GDPR, ISI/Ofsted documentation. Single Central Record kept current, policy review-dates tracked, evidence indexed against ResearchSchool / inspection frameworks.
Single Central Record (SCR) automation
Policy review-cycle tracking
GDPR data-subject request workflow
ISI / Ofsted evidence library
06 · BrainBase
The school handbook, searchable.
School handbook, SOPs, supplier list, tone of voice — searchable. The folder of PDFs nobody opened, replaced with a knowledge stack the new starter can actually use on day one.
Staff handbook & SOPs, indexed
Supplier & contractor directory
Tone-of-voice and parent-comms templates
Searchable, exportable, owned by the school
Sample engagement
The prep school that cut admissions admin from 14 to 4 hours a week.
240 pupils. iSAMS for records, ParentMail for comms, Excel for admissions, Word for offer letters.
A 240-pupil prep school ran admissions across an enquiry form on the website, an Excel pipeline updated by hand, offer letters written in Word, and deposits chased by phone. The registrar spent 14 hours a week on intake. Three-week build: a single admissions surface that wrote back to iSAMS, captured deposits via Stripe, generated offer letters from a template, and posted parent comms through ParentMail. Six months in: admissions admin dropped from 14 to 4 weekly hours, offer-to-acceptance time shortened by nine days, and the registrar started taking lunch.
How we measure: registrar time logged in a shared diary across weeks 1, 4, 12, 24; offer-to-acceptance interval drawn from the iSAMS application timestamp vs deposit-cleared timestamp (n = 86 applications); cohort matched against the prior year's intake window.
14 → 4weekly admin hours
−9 daysoffer-to-acceptance
1 stackiSAMS / ParentMail integrated
Adjacent industries
Different shape of the same problem.
If your work isn't exactly this, the nearest sectors share the rhythm. Or browse every industry we build for.