Features

Everything the school office
does, in one place

24 modules ready today, and apps for parents and teachers launching soon. Each one lists exactly what it does, so you can check it against how your school works before you talk to us.

Platform highlights

Apps, exams, bus tracking and the office, on one platform

The four things schools ask about most, and exactly where each one stands today.

Launching soon on Android and iOS

Mobile apps for parents, teachers and admins

One app to download from the Play Store and the App Store. Each person signs in with their mobile number and sees what their role needs.

  • Parents: attendance, homework, fee dues, results and the school bus for each child
  • Teachers: the class register from the classroom, notices and the school calendar
  • Bus crew: start each trip and tick every child on board
  • Admins: notices, the calendar and every running bus on the go
  • Parents stay signed in, so no notice is ever missed
Live today

Examinations with automatic grading

Plan every exam of the year once. Teachers enter marks, and Patashala360 works out the results.

  • Exam types, schedules and the weight of each exam set by your school
  • Your own grading scale, for State Board or CBSE patterns
  • Marks entered by each subject teacher, saved as they type
  • Grades, totals, percentages and class ranks worked out automatically
  • Report cards for a whole class in one print, and hall tickets
Launching soon in the app

Live GPS vehicle tracking

Parents follow the school bus in real time on a map. No GPS device to buy: the location comes from the bus crew's phone.

  • A real-time map with the child's stop and the expected arrival time
  • Alerts when the bus starts, nears the stop and reaches school
  • Boarded and dropped alerts from the attendant's list
  • Every running bus on one map for the office, with a history of each trip
  • Location shared only during trips, and only with that bus's families
Live today

Office and staff operations

The daily work of the school office in one place, with every action recorded under the person who did it.

  • Staff records, each person with their own login
  • 24 ready-made roles, so each person sees only their part
  • Notices to everyone, staff only, or parents and students
  • Expenses, the school calendar and holidays
  • Admission, employee and roll numbers given out automatically

Admissions & students

Admission enquiries

Turn every walk-in and phone call into a tracked enquiry, and never lose an admission to a missed follow-up.

  • Record every enquiry, with where it came from
  • Follow-up stages and comments your front office controls
  • A daily call-back list, so no family is forgotten
  • Turn an enquiry into an admission in one step
  • See which sources bring the most admissions
  • See how each member of the admission team is doing
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Student information

One complete profile for every child, carried from class to class for as long as they study with you.

  • Complete profile with parent and emergency contact details
  • Class history kept for every year the child studies with you
  • Brothers and sisters linked to the same family
  • Printable admission form
  • Find any student in the school in seconds
  • Students who leave are kept on record, never erased
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Parents & families

Every family in one place, with one parent login that covers all their children at your school.

  • One family record shared by brothers and sisters
  • Father's and mother's contact details in one place
  • One parent login for all their children at the school
  • Printed login slips, so parents do not need an email address
  • A phone number change follows the whole family, with a warning first
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Excel data import

Bring your existing lists in from Excel, so you start on day one with your real school data.

  • Student lists imported from your existing Excel sheets
  • Dates, classes and sections read the way school registers write them
  • Mistakes shown line by line before anything is saved
  • The same student is never added twice
  • Opening fee balances uploaded for the whole school at once
  • Bus places uploaded from Excel
  • A report of every import, kept for the office to check later
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Academics

Classes & sections

Set up your classes and sections once a year, each with its own class teacher.

  • Classes and sections for each academic year
  • A class teacher for each class
  • An in-charge teacher for the days the class teacher is on leave
  • Section changes during the year, with the date kept
  • Roll numbers given automatically within each class
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Subjects & teachers

Keep the subject list for every class, and know which teacher handles each one.

  • A subject list for each academic year
  • Subjects chosen for each class
  • A teacher for every subject in every class
  • Teachers see only the classes and subjects they handle
  • The same subjects carry into exams and report cards
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Student attendance

Daily attendance in a few taps, with a clear record for every student across the year.

  • Daily register marked by the class teacher
  • An in-charge teacher marks it on leave days
  • Holidays and Sundays blocked unless a senior allows it
  • Corrections recorded, never hidden
  • A full-year attendance report for every student
  • Absence alerts to parents through the app, once it launches
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Homework

Teachers set homework, students submit it, and teachers reply with feedback.

  • Homework set for each class and subject
  • Students submit their work
  • Teachers review each submission and give written feedback
  • Homework withdrawn if it was set by mistake
  • Parents will see homework in the app once it launches
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Academic calendar

The whole school year on one calendar, with holidays added for you.

  • Events and holidays for each academic year
  • Common holidays added automatically
  • Your own festival days and school events
  • A month view for the front office
  • Parents will see the calendar in the app once it launches
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Examinations

Plan every exam of the year, and let each subject teacher enter their own marks.

  • Exam types, grading scales and weightage for the year
  • Exam schedule, with maximum and pass marks per subject
  • Marks entered by each subject teacher, saved as they type
  • Marks checked and locked before results are published
  • Hall tickets printed for every student
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Report cards & results

Printable report cards, class ranks and the annual result, ready when you decide to publish.

  • Printable report cards for the whole class
  • Class rank for each exam and for the whole year
  • An annual result that brings every exam of the year together
  • A student-wise report across the year
  • Results stay private until the school publishes them
  • Parents will see published results in the app once it launches
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Fees & finance

Fee management

Collect fees with confidence: class-wise fees, part payments, concessions and a printed receipt with your logo.

  • Class-wise fees and instalments
  • Full and part payments in every payment mode
  • Concessions, discounts and refunds
  • One family payment split across brothers and sisters, with a receipt for each child
  • A printed receipt carrying your school logo
  • Late fees added automatically, as per your policy
  • A fee raised mid-year gets its own due date, so late fees apply only to money that is actually late
  • Opening balances for schools that join in the middle of the year
  • The same payment can never be entered twice
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Fee reports & dues

Know every day what was collected, how it was paid, and who still owes what.

  • Day book by payment mode
  • Outstanding dues for the whole school, a class or a student
  • Fee collection report
  • Transport fee report
  • Unpaid dues carried into the next year automatically
  • Fee reminders to parents through the app, once it launches
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Expenses

Record what the school spends, so income and spending sit side by side.

  • Expenses recorded against your own categories
  • Entries edited and corrected when needed
  • A full year of expenses in one list
  • Spending kept in the same academic year as fee collection
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Year-end

Academic years

Open, run and close each academic year, with every year's records kept safe.

  • Open, start and close each academic year
  • Past years kept exactly as they were
  • Year rollover to prepare the next year
  • Checks that stop overlapping or impossible year dates
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Student promotion

Move the whole school to the next class in one step, and undo it if anything looks wrong.

  • See who moves where before anything changes
  • Promote the whole school in one step
  • Undo the whole promotion if something is wrong
  • Unpaid fees carried into the new year
  • Bus places checked before promotion, with clear warnings
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Transport

Transport management

Routes, stops, buses and every child's bus place, managed in one place, live today.

  • Routes, stops and vehicles, with pickup and drop times for each stop
  • A transport dashboard: buses, routes, stops, riders, seats free, fees and expiring documents
  • Seats used against capacity for every route
  • A driver and a bus attendant for every bus, from your staff list
  • Students put on a bus one by one, in bulk or from Excel
  • Bus history for every student
  • A warning when a bus is over its seating capacity
  • Drivers see names and classes only, never phone numbers
  • The bus attendant sees parent phone numbers for their own bus only
  • Routes, stops and staff still in use cannot be deleted by mistake
  • Year-end bus report, with bus places carried into the new year
  • The transport list downloaded to Excel
  • Live bus tracking for parents, launching soon in the app
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Bus fees

Set the fare for each stop, and the right bus fee reaches every student's fee record.

  • A fare for each stop, every academic year
  • Fares copied into the next year in one step
  • The fare fixed on the day a student is put on the bus
  • Transport fee added to the student's fees automatically
  • Adjusted for students who join in the middle of the year
  • Collected together with the other fees
  • A separate transport fee report
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Vehicle documents

Never miss an insurance or fitness renewal for a school bus again.

  • Fitness, insurance, permit, pollution and road tax for every bus
  • Driving licence and verification for every driver
  • Expiry dates for every document
  • A clear warning 30 days before a document expires
  • Expired documents marked clearly
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Live bus trackingLaunching soon

Launching soon in the app: parents see the school bus on a real-time map, with the arrival time at their child's stop.

  • The bus on a real-time map during each pickup and drop trip
  • Your child's stop marked, with the expected arrival time
  • Alerts when the bus starts, is near your stop and reaches school
  • Boarded and dropped alerts, from the attendant's boarding list
  • The driver's and attendant's contact for parents
  • Messages from the office to the parents of one bus, such as a late running bus
  • Every running bus on one map for the office, with a history of each trip
  • Location shared only while a trip is running, and only with that bus's families
  • A trip ends by itself when the bus arrives or is parked
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Staff & administration

Staff management

Teaching and non-teaching staff, their roles, and their own secure logins.

  • Profiles for teaching and non-teaching staff
  • Employee codes given automatically in your own format
  • Every employee gets their own login, set up from an emailed link
  • Password reset by the office when email cannot reach someone
  • Classes and buses handed over before someone is removed
  • Removed staff signed out at once
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Roles & permissions

24 ready-made roles, from correspondent to bus attendant, so each person sees only what their job needs.

  • 24 ready-made roles in seven groups
  • Adjust any role, or build your own
  • Each person sees only what their job needs
  • Parent phone numbers shown only to the staff who need them
  • HR can give staff roles, but never the senior roles and never to themselves
  • Accounts locked after repeated wrong passwords
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Notices & announcements

Post a notice once, and it reaches exactly the people it is meant for.

  • Publish, edit and remove school notices
  • Choose the audience: everyone, staff only, or parents and students
  • Pin important notices to the top
  • Phone notifications to parents, once the app launches
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Automatic numbering

Admission numbers, roll numbers and employee codes given automatically, in your school's own format.

  • Admission numbers with your own prefix
  • Employee codes with your own prefix
  • Roll numbers within each class
  • No two students or employees ever share a number
  • The option to type admission numbers by hand
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Dashboards & reports

The numbers the correspondent asks for on a Monday morning, ready on one screen.

  • A dashboard for each role
  • Student, staff and class counts at a glance
  • The year's fee collection trend
  • The whole school downloaded to Excel: students, parents, staff, fees, attendance and marks
  • Your data, available to you whenever you want it
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Mobile apps

Parent appLaunching soon

Launching soon on Android and iOS: attendance, fees, homework, results and notices for every child, in one app.

  • One login for all their children at the school
  • Today's attendance, fee dues and homework
  • Published results
  • Notices and the school calendar
  • Phone notifications for absences, fee reminders, results and notices
  • Senior students see only their own record
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Teacher & staff appLaunching soon

Launching soon on Android and iOS: teachers mark the register from the classroom, and drivers run bus trips.

  • The daily register for the teacher's own class
  • School notices and the calendar
  • Bus trips started and ended by the driver
  • Each person sees only what their role allows
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Patashala360 is school management software for schools in India, with 24 modules in one school ERP, from the first admission enquiry to the year-end promotion. Comparing systems? Read how to choose the best school management software in India, or see school transport software and free school management software.

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