Supporting our schools through COVID-19

As COVID-19 continues to impact the school community, it’s imperative that you are able to regularly communicate with your students and their parents. Our SMS Gateway ensures you can do just that, with the option to send text messages remotely using the iSAMS Desktop from any location in the world. Plus, you can view a clear history of what communications have been sent and when, and track any which failed to send. You can find out more about using SMS messaging to boost communications at your school here.

To help you keep communicating throughout school closures, we are offering our schools who don’t currently use the SMS Gateway this PAYG (Pay As You Go) functionality without the annual service fee. This means our schools will only be charged for any messages that are sent.

We developed our Parent and Student Portals so schools can more easily share key information with parents and students, including daily news bulletins, school directory, curriculum information, school reports and more. To help ensure students and their parents are reassured and stay connected to school life during these closures, we are offering the use of our Parent and Student Portals free of charge during school closures if you don’t use them already.

Providing students with direct access to your key information helps empower them to take charge of their education despite any school closures. Similarly, our Parent Portal acts as a doorway into school life for parents, ensuring they are never out of the loop.

We are available to help by discussing options for moving to our integrated fee billing and accounting solution. Being 100% cloud-based, iFinance enables all bursarial staff to continue working remotely as if they were in school.

As the nature of the software would involve migrating you to a new accounting system, unfortunately, we are unable to offer this product free of charge. However, we encourage schools to get in touch if you do feel that iFinance is something that can support your school through this challenging time and in years to come.