About us

We finished developing iSAMS’ HR module, designed to help schools track and manage all of their staff.

We also launched our online Parent and Student Portals. These features made us the first school management software provider to publish school-related information directly to parents and students over the Internet.

Impressed by the software and the testimonials of our early adopters, more and more well-known schools migrated to iSAMS from other school management systems.

We finished developing and launched our cloud hosting service, which meant that as well as being free to host iSAMS on their own on-site servers, schools could choose a hassle-free cloud server option.

We welcomed our first prep school to the iSAMS family, attracted by the flexible features available. We added more modules too. Reward and Conduct was designed as a flexible pastoral care module to suit each school’s own internal systems and store every positive and negative event.

We also released Tracking Manager, enabling teachers to track and analyse the performance of classes or individual students.

iSAMS hit the global market, with installations in our first international schools in Asia and the Middle East, welcoming schools in Singapore and Qatar.

We also released the Cover Manager module, recognising schools’ need for a reliable way to cover for absent teachers.

We barely registered our five-year anniversary among all the new school database installations, but we did launch a new module combining old technology with new.

SMS Gateway allows schools to send SMS text messages straight from iSAMS. The feature transforms broadcast and emergency parent communications.

In our sixth year, we guided our 100th client, Cheadle Hulme School, through its migration to iSAMS.

iSAMS mobile was launched, making it the first school management software provider with an iOS app for taking registers and accessing core student data. Teacher feedback showed that system accessibility from anywhere at any time was a huge time-saver.

We launched iCommunity, our dedicated and completely free knowledge-sharing online community for iSAMS schools.

The Fee Billing module is released, making it easier for bursars and finance departments to manage complex student bills.

More than 300 schools were now enjoying the iSAMS experience and our team released the Census module, helping schools fulfil all UK and international census requirements.

In our 10-year anniversary year, we launched our core suite of apps on both Android and iOS: iTeacher, iParent and iStudent. A hit with teachers and an immediate lift in engagement and communication with parents and students.

The apps give access to almost every area of daily school life; it’s hard to imagine iSAMS without them now.

Now the leading school management software supplier to independent schools, we introduced the Marketplace. iSAMS Marketplace brings schools and third-party providers together to make powerful integrations with iSAMS via our comprehensive APIs.

We also launched the online Admissions Portal, a paperless portal linked to the Admissions module.

International Baccalaureates (IB) became increasingly popular in the UK and iSAMS’ network of partner schools around the world continued to grow.

We worked closely with Faria Systems to achieve iSAMS integration with ManageBac, the integrated learning platform for international schools.

Our 750th school takes ownership of its iSAMS system and to enhance school operations we launched the iReport App, enabling teachers to complete reports even more easily, wherever they are. Further feature launches include the GDPR data protection module for data compliance and Wellbeing Manager for pastoral support.

The most significant achievement this year is the launch of our fully integrated finance management software, iFinance. We are the first school management software provider to offer a fully integrated finance and school management software.

We welcomed over 950 schools to our ever-growing client community, which now spans more than 75 countries around the world. Plus, with our improved user interface and secure single sign-on functionality enabled across our suite of portals and multilingual Apps, accessing key school information whenever you need it and wherever you are is now even easier.

We are excited to share a significant announcement from our Service Centre: we have opened an office in Sydney, Australia! This new office allows us to provide iSAMS Support, an essential part of our services, 24 hours a day, Monday to Friday.

As we celebrated 15 years since the founding of iSAMS, we also joined the IRIS Software Group, positioning iSAMS as the most complete school management software on the market, incorporating finance, HR and payroll solutions with our powerful cloud-based system.

We also welcomed the 1,000th school to our growing community, which now spans more than 80 countries.

We welcomed our 1,300th school now spanning 90 countries. We launched iUniversity, an on-demand learning platform, a payment gateway enabling parents to pay school fees securely online, a self-service HR solution and our cloud-based admissions portal.

We launched Central, powered by PowerBI, and now support 1,600+ schools globally with 1.5M student profiles managed within iSAMS. We upgraded our Ideas Portal for user feedback and innovation allowing staff using iSAMS to provide feedback and new ideas to the product and development teams.

From humble beginnings nearly 20 years ago, we are proud to celebrate our 20th anniversary of serving over 1,600 schools worldwide. We were recently honored at the Global EdTech Awards and continue to take data security seriously, having received the ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 accreditations. We are also excited to take innovation to the next level with AI functionality in our powerful business intelligence reporting system, Central, and our dedicated academic school report design tool. A recently launched module now supports schools that offer US curriculums.