Owldid Schools
Every fee and every pupil in one ledger, with M-Pesa matched and parents told by SMS.
The story.
The brief
Schools were running fees on old systems, spreadsheets and M-Pesa messages read by hand. They needed one place where a balance is always right, and where parents hear from the school without a teacher spending their own airtime.
What we built
- Fees and M-Pesa, with payments matched to the right pupil and a receipt with its counterfoil, or every payment shown as bank for schools that bank everything.
- Parents told by SMS, balances and marks sent in bulk, and a parent login with just a phone number and admission number.
- The register, marks and reports, tap to mark a class, and terms that roll over with arrears and credit carried forward.
- Buses on a live map, every route and who is on board.
- Moved in with care. Sosera’s whole fee ledger was rebuilt, 231 of 238 balances matching to the shilling; Shiners came in with eight years of fee records.
Where it is now
Running every day at Sosera Group of Schools and Shiners. A school switches to the new design with one tap, and new schools start on it. KES 9,999 a month for schools under 500 pupils. Read the full case study →
Money in KSh.
A school office trusts numbers, so the numbers lead: big Talon figures for what’s billed, collected and still owed, on the calm sage the schools already know, with lavender kept for charts.
Palette
Type
Signature · The money ring
On the phone, the term’s collection is one ring: how much is in, of how much billed, at a glance.
