Excel and registers
- Free and familiar
- Vouchers, defaulter lists and result cards are made by hand every month and every term
- Easy to overwrite or lose, and hard for two people to work on at once
- No receipts to parents on WhatsApp, no reminders, no offline sync between computers
Desktop software
- Installed on one office computer, so it works without internet
- Teachers cannot mark attendance or enter marks from their own phones
- Backups are your job; if the computer fails, the data can go with it
- Updates and a second campus often mean another installation
Online school software
- Works in the browser on every phone, tablet and computer, and installs like an app
- Backed up automatically; the principal can see the school from anywhere
- Teachers mark attendance and enter marks from their own phones
- Every campus in one account
- The weak point is internet — so check that it keeps working offline
Where Skoolyte fits
Skoolyte is online school software that is also offline-first: it keeps a copy of your school on each device, so attendance, fees and marks keep working without internet and sync when the connection is back. It is free for schools with up to 300 students, and your lists can always be exported to Excel.
Common questions
- Is online school software safe?
- Skoolyte runs on Amazon Web Services with daily backups, encrypted connections, two-step sign-in and a permission for every role. Each school’s records are kept separate from every other school’s.
- What if the internet goes down?
- Skoolyte keeps working. Attendance, fee collection and marks entry are saved on the device and sent when the connection comes back.
- Can we take our data out later?
- Yes. Your lists, such as the student list, can be exported to Excel at any time.