Fees: Schools can now give each student an optional tag, such as the ledger or folio number from their old paper fee register, and call it by their own name ("Ledger No.", "Folio No.") in English or Hindi. At the fee counter, office staff type the number and the student comes up instantly.
Feedback: Org admins, teachers, office staff, parents and bus drivers now see a short survey card on their home screen in the app and the school portal, in English and Hindi. It takes about 30 seconds, and answers go straight to the Inkwelly team — schools never see them.
Inky: School owners and principals can now ask anything about Inkwelly on our website — pricing, modules, or switching from Entab — in English, Hindi or Hinglish. Inky answers only from our own published pages and shows which page each answer came from.
Remove background: Cut-outs now keep clean edges around hair, dupattas and shoulders, with no white or coloured halo when you place the photo on an ID-card blue or white background. Stray specks are cleaned up automatically. Finding the subject runs on our servers, so even a basic Android phone gets the same result as a laptop, with no big download.
Media picker: A cleaner way to pick school photos and documents. Search and folder switching sit in one bar, files show as square thumbnails, and a breadcrumb shows exactly which folder a file lives in. A side panel adds a large preview, copy link, download and image descriptions for screen readers.
Student exam profile: One page shows a child's whole exam year: trend against the class average, every exam with their own datesheet, seat and admit card, subject-wise marks with class rank, co-scholastic and NEP competency grades, and report cards to download. Ready for any PTM or parent phone call.
Staff list: A new Profile column shows each employee's completion percentage as a coloured ring. Office staff can spot incomplete HR records at a glance without opening every profile. The column is on by default and can be hidden from Columns.
Staff records: Office staff can now fix records for up to 100 teachers and staff at once — names in English and Hindi, mobile, Aadhaar, PAN, PF, ESI, UAN, photo, department and joining dates — instead of opening each profile. Filter by department or gender, review every change, then save.
Fees: The fee dashboard is now one clear page. Office staff search any student by name, admission number, parent's name or phone, see their dues and collect the fee in one click, protected by the Transaction PIN. See the student fee module.
Fees: Fee reminders now cover only overdue bills by default, so parents no longer get a WhatsApp nudge in October for an instalment due in January. Office staff can pick Overdue, Due soon (7, 15 or 30 days) or All unpaid, and narrow by instalment or last year's dues in the student fee module.
Fees: Two new role permissions, "See fee totals" and "See each student's fee amounts". Staff without them see ₹•••••• in the student fee module, mobile app, exports and PDFs, while statuses, due dates and counts stay visible.
Leave board: The leave allocation screen now shows every staff member against every leave type, with days given, used and pending, plus tabs for staff who have no leave yet. Staff can apply for leave from the Inkwelly app only after it is allocated, so gaps stand out at once.
Staff attendance: Until now every staff member followed their department's timing. Principals can now give any one teacher, driver or guard their own in and out time for each weekday, Mon–Sat in one save, with their own late time, grace, absent cutoff, check-in window and minimum hours. See staff attendance.
Fee Sheet: One screen per class shows every student's fee, head by head. Accountants set a student's own yearly fee (no transport, fee agreed at admission) or whole-year discounts in ₹ or %, for one or many students. Student fee module.
Fees by chat: Office staff can now set up and run school fees by talking to Inkwelly AI — fee heads, monthly or quarterly installments, class mapping, late-fee rules, sibling and staff-ward discounts, scholarships, fee profiles, monthly invoices, fines and previous-year dues from the old ERP. See the student fee module.
Fees: When collecting a fee payment, staff can now split it across fee heads themselves, for example ₹3,000 towards Dress and Tuition while Registration stays pending, instead of the fixed order. Receipts, head-wise collection reports and reversals follow the chosen split. Works on the web portal and the staff app, in English and Hindi. See the student fee module.
Inkwelly AI: Whole-school questions now read every record, not just the first 100. September's absent list returns all 1,316 entries, and a fees + transport + parent-contact sheet for 524 students matches the school's books to the rupee. Schools using ChatGPT or Claude through the Inkwelly connector get the same fixes.
Inkwelly AI: A new Share button turns any chat into a public link that principals can send on WhatsApp in one tap. Anyone with the link can read it on their phone without an Inkwelly login. The link keeps the chat as it was when shared, with one-tap Update link, Stop sharing and expiry after 7, 30 or 90 days or never.
AI compute: ask for any list, total, comparison or audit across the whole school — every student with fees paid and outstanding, absent students with dues, class-wise collection — and the AI fetches every page of data on the server, calculates exactly, and delivers the result as a downloadable sheet with a short summary. No more 100-row limits or hand-typed numbers.
AI cards: ask about one student or staff member and Inkwelly AI answers with a rich card — photo, badges, and key numbers with color-coded meaning — and can add KPI strips, progress bars and donut/bar charts to its answers, all matching the portal theme in light and dark mode, in English or Hindi.
AI files: ask for any list as Excel ("class 10 ke students ki list Excel me do") or a report as PDF — the AI builds the file and previews it beside the chat: an Excel-style grid with gridlines, column letters, banded rows and sheet tabs, or an A4 document page, each with a one-click Download.
Skills: a new Skills panel in the AI chat lets admins teach Inkwelly AI school-wide working styles ("fee answers hamesha table me dikhao") and lets every user add personal ones — the AI reads and follows them in its answers.
Inkwelly AI: Ask anything about your school in plain English or Hindi — pending fees, today's attendance, timetable gaps — and get real answers pulled live from your school's data. Every answer respects the asker's role, so a class teacher only ever sees what a class teacher should.
Staff attendance: Schools using phone check-in can now switch on auto-absent. Staff who have not checked in — by phone, biometric machine or office entry — by their department's "Full-day absent after" time are marked absent, so no day stays "not marked" and payroll counts it. See the staff attendance module.
Staff attendance: Teachers and staff can now check in from the Inkwelly app only when the phone's front camera sees their own face, live. A random head turn, a photo-and-screen check and a match with their approved face stop a colleague from punching in on someone else's phone. Set it up in the staff attendance module.
Check-in reminders: Staff who check in on their phone get a nudge at their start time, a last call a few minutes before they would be marked late, and a reminder to check out before leaving. Each goes by app notification, WhatsApp, SMS or email, chosen per reminder. See staff attendance.
Sign-in: Staff and parents can now open the school portal on any computer and sign in by scanning the code with the Inkwelly app — no OTP, no waiting for an SMS to arrive. Built for the shared front-desk and staff-room machines where the phone is never in the same room.
Employee attendance: Teachers and staff can now mark their own attendance from the Inkwelly app with a Check in / Check out button that works only inside a circle the school draws around its campus. Punch time comes from the server, fake-GPS and weak-signal fixes are refused, and the school can ask for a selfie with every punch. No biometric machine, PC or bridge needed. See the employee attendance module.
Examinations: Schools can now set the date, timing and duration of every paper for every class from one screen, instead of opening each subject one at a time. One timing can be applied to every paper at once, and entering any two of start time, end time or duration fills in the third. See the examinations module.
Student Diary: Principals now decide in Diary settings who can read and write diary notes, and about which students — every staff member, only a teacher's own classes, or rules for chosen staff, departments, grades, classes or single students. Write-only access suits gate and bus staff. See the student information module.
Fees: Office staff now confirm every counter collection and reversal of school fees and transport fees with a personal 4-digit PIN, just like UPI. A borrowed or unlocked phone can no longer record a payment. Works in the mobile app and on the web portal, in English and Hindi. See the student fee module.
Promotions: Undoing a promotion that shouldn't have happened used to stop with a message telling you to go clean up attendance, exam results and report cards screen by screen. They now appear as one checklist on the promotion record — with the dates and exam names shown — and you clear the ones you pick after typing the student's admission number to confirm.
Students: One sheet per class now creates the child, the class enrolment, the permanent address and both parents together, instead of four separate uploads in the right order. You pick the session and class on screen, so nobody types them into sixty rows. See the student information module.
Fees: A new Notify parents button on the late fees screen sends the late-fee notice again to every family whose bill still carries an unpaid fine — everyone at once or one class at a time, on WhatsApp, SMS, email or the app. Until now that notice went out once, when the fine first appeared, and a fine standing for weeks was never mentioned again. See the student fee module.
Fees: Schools now choose what a percentage late fee applies to in the student fee module — the full invoice, or only what a family still owes. A parent who has paid most of their fee is fined on the remainder rather than the whole bill. Existing rules keep their current behaviour until a school switches them over.
Late fees: The late fees screen was only loading the first page of bills, so schools with many overdue transport bills saw just a fraction of them and every total ran short. It now pages through the full list, and the summary tiles count every overdue bill.
Bus odometer: The transport office can now pull up any day's readings on a phone and see at a glance which buses were never logged. Missing days can be filled in and wrong readings corrected with a reason kept on record, so the distance each bus ran always reconciles against its fuel bills.
Transport fees: Office staff can now take money off a specific bus bill, or charge a fine for damage, a lost bus card or misuse of the bus. Pick which bill it lands on, or park it and add it to the next one. Anything applied can be undone, and the bill returns to exactly what it was. See the transport module.
Period timings in one step: Say "8 periods of 40 minutes from 8am, lunch after the 4th" and the full week's timings are worked out for you, including a shorter Saturday. Doing this by hand meant filling in one form per period, per day, before a single subject could be scheduled.
Tests: Staff with the right access can now open Tests in the app and see every class test in the school — who set it, which class sat it, and how much marking is still outstanding. Until now only the teacher who set a test could see it. Part of the examinations module.
Transport: Every running bus now shows as an actual bus on the live map, labelled with its registration number and colour-coded so office staff can tell at a glance whether its GPS is live, weak, or has gone quiet. Buses glide along the road instead of jumping between updates.
Payroll: School accountants can now withhold one employee's salary while paying everyone else, or leave someone out of a month's pay run entirely. A withheld salary still counts towards PF, ESI and TDS and stays in that month's returns, so statutory filings remain correct.
School Diary: The parent app now shows a teacher's notes as a real school diary — ruled pages grouped month by month, with appreciation and concerns colour-coded so a parent can tell them apart without reading a word.
Student app: A new bottom menu puts Home, Today, quick actions, every section and the student's own profile one tap apart. Home now opens on what matters today instead of a single grid of twenty-five icons.
Fee discounts: A concession now comes off the invoice you pick, and sits as Not billed until someone adds it to a bill when none is open yet. Earlier, a discount recorded after the invoice went out left that invoice untouched, so parents were still asked for the full amount. See the student fee module.
Student 360: Attendance, marks, fees, transport, hostel, library, health, house and awards for one child now open together on one page, instead of a dozen separate screens. Office staff and principals get the whole picture before a parent meeting. See the student information module.
Study material: Teachers and coordinators can now write revision notes for each syllabus topic — formatted text, images from the school's media library, and YouTube videos. Notes stay a draft until published, then students read them in the app beside the chapter they are studying.
Subject screen: A teacher opens any subject they take and swipes between four pages — chapters covered, homework set, tests taken and study material shared. The class list, syllabus progress and teaching journal sit at the top. Part of academics.
Student records: Class teachers can now open a student's parents and contacts, academic history, documents, fee status, transport, health, exam results, diary and achievements — but only the parts your school chooses to share, decided for each class teacher on each class. Attendance stays open to every class teacher exactly as before.
Today: Teachers now open the app to their actual day — every period in order with the live one highlighted, and one-tap buttons to mark class attendance or record what was taught. Homework waiting to be graded shows up on top.
Competitions and awards: Every competition a school runs or sends children to — inter-house, district, state, national — now lives in one register with the entrants and what they won. A 20-member choir is recorded as one entry, not twenty. Medals stay with the child for life, so a Class 9 prize still shows on the Class 12 student record.
Grievance redressal: Every complaint a school receives now lives in one register with a case number and a full history. Everyday matters — a late bus, a wrong receipt, a broken tap — carry a promised reply-by date, while bullying, ragging, child-safety and workplace-harassment cases are sealed to a named list of people, with the legal deadline and the section of law it comes from printed on the file.
School diary: Class teachers and office staff can now open any student and read a full year of diary notes — appreciation, concerns and the family's replies — grouped day by day. A "what the family sees" switch shows exactly what the parent's app shows, so a note meant only for staff is never on screen during a parent meeting.
Houses: Schools can now set up their houses — Red, Blue and Green, or named after figures like Tagore and Shivaji — each with its own colour, crest and motto. A student stays in one house for their whole time at school, so it carries across promotion every year without being re-entered. Part of the academics module.
UDISE+ matching: Inkwelly now compares each student's name, date of birth, gender, PEN and Aadhaar against the government UDISE+/SDMS portal and shows every mismatch side by side. Office staff resolve each one in a single click — accept the UDISE value or flag it to fix in UDISE — with no retyping.
AI assistant: Inkwelly AI can now set up and run academics for you — create classes and teaching batches, assign class teachers, arrange the weekly timetable, and cover a teacher's leave with a same-day substitute — all in plain language, with a preview and confirm before anything changes. See the academics module.
Letterhead designer: Design your school's official letterhead once — logo, header, footer, watermark — with press-quality typography: gradient and vertically stretched school names, and separate Hindi/Devanagari fonts for the address, board affiliation, contact and UDISE lines. Ready-made classic, modern and minimal starting designs.
AI Connect for organizations: Owners running multiple schools can now connect Claude or ChatGPT once and ask across every school — "attendance across all my schools today", "which school collected the most fees this month" — with one-call answers covering schools, attendance, fee collection, dues, enrollment and parent communication usage.
AI actions: School staff can now ask ChatGPT or Claude to do the work, not just answer — draft and publish homework, add exams and functions to the school calendar, plan Annual Day programs, and log daily syllabus coverage — in English or Hindi.
AI Connect: School staff can now ask ChatGPT or Claude — in plain English — about far more of their school. Alongside fees and students, the AI assistant now answers on staff, staff attendance, homework, school events, lesson-plan progress, the school store, roles and access, ID cards, transport, academics, and parent communication.
AI Connect: Schools with ChatGPT, Claude, or Grok connected can now ask any attendance question in English or Hinglish — today's summary, who's absent in a class, a student's full-year record, 75% board-eligibility lists, monthly registers, class rankings and trends. See the student attendance module.
Inkwelly AI: Schools can connect the AI assistant they already use — ChatGPT or Claude — to Inkwelly and ask about fees, dues and students in plain English or Hindi. Defaulter lists, monthly collections and a student's full fee status come back in seconds, with no reports to run or exports to build. See the AI Native School ERP.
Fees: School owners can now choose which staff see the exact rupee totals on the fee collection dashboard. Accountants and principals see the real figures; other office staff see them masked as ₹••••••, set per role from the staff access permissions. Keeps whole-school collection numbers private across both the web dashboard and the staff mobile app. See the student fee module.
Online admissions: A complete admission CRM for Indian schools — record walk-in and phone enquiries at the front desk, share a QR code that opens a public enquiry and application form for parents, and let automatic WhatsApp acknowledgements, duplicate detection and follow-up reminders make sure no enquiry is ever missed.
Implemented a new helper to accurately capture client IP addresses in the audit logs, addressing previous issues where web logins recorded 127.0.0.1.
School Store: Schools can now run their own online store inside the app — parents and students browse and buy uniforms, books and supplies, pay securely, and track orders, while the office manages stock and dues in one place.
Health profiles: Every student gets a medical record — blood group, allergies, chronic conditions, medicines and emergency contacts. Teachers see only critical safety alerts while full details stay with the school nurse, keeping sensitive health data private in line with India's data-protection rules.
School store: Parents buy uniforms, books and stationery from the school's own online store, pay by UPI, and skip the counter queue — each order gives a pickup QR code to collect at school. Every child sees the recommended class kit for one-tap buying.
Tests: A dedicated module for the everyday class tests teachers run — weekly tests, unit tests, dictation, oral and more — separate from formal term exams. Teachers create a test for one or several class-sections at once, then record marks roll-by-roll in seconds, give a grade or symbol like A+ where marks don't apply, and attach a photo of each answer sheet.
Communications: Schools can now show an eye-catching, auto-sliding image banner at the top of the student and staff app home screens — ideal for promotions, fee reminders, event notices, holiday announcements and important circulars. Banners rotate automatically like the offers on popular apps, and tapping one can open a screen inside the app (such as fees or notices) or a website link.
Feedback: Teachers, students and parents can now report a problem, send feedback or request a feature from anywhere in the app — shake the phone or open the Help menu. Attach a screenshot or record a quick voice note, and the app captures the screen and device details automatically so issues are easy to reproduce and fix.
Status updates: Teachers and staff can post quick photo, video or text "status" updates — like WhatsApp Status — that every student and staff member sees inside the app. Each one disappears after 24 hours, keeping the school feed fresh and lively.
Speed: The app now opens to the login or profile screen almost instantly, instead of sitting on a loading screen for several seconds. The gain is largest on the budget Android phones common in Tier-2 and Tier-3 schools.
Admission form PDF: Schools can now download a professional, print-ready admission form for any student — newly admitted or admitted years ago — straight from the student profile on the web dashboard and the staff mobile app. It replaces the paper admission form that office staff fill in, sign, seal and file by hand.
Admissions numbering: The student-ID and admission-number setup screen now shows the exact next ID a new student will be given, with a colour-coded breakdown of each part — prefix, school code, year and serial number — so office staff understand the format at a glance. See the student records module.
Transfer certificates: Schools can now export a transfer certificate design to a file and import it into any other school — logos, seals and watermarks travel inside the file and are recreated automatically, so the exact TC layout reappears in seconds. Useful for groups of CBSE, ICSE and State board schools that want one shared TC format. See the student records module.
Academics: Teachers and office staff can now handle the school's academic setup from the Android and iOS app — browse classes, add subject offerings and teaching batches, and view, publish or set timetable substitutions — all on the current academic year automatically, with no year picker. Everyone only sees the parts their role permits. See the academics module.
Mind Arena: A new mind-sports program brings five skill-building challenges to students — Chess, Sudoku, Word Battle, Math Battle, and a Memory game. Students can play solo to practise, take on a friendly computer opponent, or compete head-to-head with classmates, with a daily puzzle that refreshes for everyone each day.
Quiz Module: Introduces practice quizzes, scheduled assessments, daily challenges, and live competitions for continuous learning.
ID cards: Schools can now start from a gallery of polished, ready-made student and staff ID card designs — pick one, then fine-tune it in the drag-and-drop designer instead of starting from a blank card. Ships with classic, modern, minimal, vertical lanyard, playful, elegant, and board-style looks for both students and staff.
Installments & auto-billing: Schools can split transport fees into installments with due dates, and bus-fee invoices now generate automatically each cycle instead of being run by hand. A daily catch-up also bills students who join mid-term, so office staff never miss a transport-fee cycle. See the transport module.
Transport (app): Parents and students can now pay bus fees online straight from the Inkwelly app, not just the website — powered by Razorpay. Pay any outstanding transport invoice from the fee list or the invoice detail screen, in full or in part.
Parent live map: A redesigned "where's my child's bus" screen — your child's boarding status front and centre, live ETA and stops-away, the bus moving smoothly along the real roads, and one tap to call the driver.
Live bus tracking: Parents watching the school bus on the live map now see the real reason it stops moving — "driver is offline", "weak GPS signal", or "driver's location is turned off" — instead of one vague grey dot. A small "updated 8s ago" freshness indicator shows exactly how current the bus position is, reassuring parents on patchy 2G/3G connections in Tier-2 and Tier-3 towns. See transport tracking.
Transport alerts: When a driver marks a child absent at their stop, parents now get an instant WhatsApp, SMS and push alert in English and Hindi — so families know at once if their child wasn't on the school bus. See transport tracking.
Live tracking: Parents follow their child's school bus on a live map with a stop-by-stop timeline — which stops are done, how many are left, an honest ETA, and a truthful "X stops away" to their own stop. WhatsApp and push alerts fire when the bus starts, is near the stop, and is next. The live stream now connects instantly and self-heals through patchy network without restarting the app.
Driver app: A dedicated bus driver app with a simple Home, Routes, and Trips layout, built for non-technical drivers — big buttons, faces instead of forms, and full Hindi and English support.
Fees: Parents and students can now pay school fees online from the Inkwelly mobile app — by UPI (Google Pay, PhonePe, Paytm), card, or netbanking, with instant receipts. Brings mobile fee payment to parents in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities who live on their phones; the web portal already supported it. See online fee collection.
Receipts: Every fee payment now sends the parent a WhatsApp message and email that already carry the GST-ready receipt PDF — no more "kya aap receipt bhej do" follow-ups. WhatsApp shows it as a tap-to-open document chip; email has a "Download Receipt PDF" button; SMS now also calls out the receipt number. Hindi variants added for email and app notifications too, so Hindi-medium schools across Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities get the same parent-facing copy. Works for CBSE, ICSE, and State board schools out of the box..
A4 receipts: Schools can now print or share a polished A4 fee receipt with their own logo, signature, amount in words, and a tamper-proof verification QR. Labels render in English, Hindi, or both — useful for Hindi-medium schools. Part of the fee management module.
Payment links: School office staff can generate a Razorpay UPI payment link for any unpaid fee invoice and share it instantly over WhatsApp, SMS, email or app push, bilingual in English and Hindi. Parents tap once and pay via UPI (PhonePe, GPay, Paytm), cards or netbanking — the invoice is marked paid and the receipt fires automatically. Useful for Tier-2 and Tier-3 city schools chasing fees without phone calls. See online fee collection.
Fees: When a school adds a fine to a student's fee account, parents now receive an instant alert on WhatsApp, SMS, email, and push notification — bilingual in English and Hindi out of the box. Saves school office staff from explaining the charge over phone and matches the parent communicationflow parents already trust for fee receipts.
Reports: New Gateway Charges report at Student Fees → Reports. Shows exactly what Razorpay deducted per transaction — MDR + GST per method, net settlement to the school's bank, and any shortfall between what parents paid and what landed. Fee and transport online payments combined; filterable by date range, drill-down to each payment. Saves Indian school accountants the monthly Razorpay-vs-bank-statement reconciliation. See fee management module.
Payments: Parents can now pay fee and transport invoices online from the student portal using Razorpay — cards, UPI, netbanking, or wallets. Partial payments allowed; receipts and WhatsApp / SMS / email confirmations to parents continue to fire automatically. See fee management module.
Push notifications: Parents on the Inkwelly Android app now receive instant alerts for fees, attendance, homework, and marksheets the moment they happen. Schools never configure Firebase or service-account keys — push is built into the platform from day one, alongside the parent communication module.
Email notifications: Every Inkwelly school now sends transactional email — fee receipts, attendance updates, admission confirmations, exam results — without setting up an AWS account, DKIM keys, or DNS records. Messages go out as "<school name>" <[email protected]> with the school's chosen Reply-To address, so parents reply straight back to the school.
Fee receipts: Cashiers can now print the school fee receipt directly to an 80mm or 58mm thermal printer (Olivetti PRT80, Epson TM-T82, similar) — no browser dialog, no PDF detour. A visual paper-size picker shows both widths side-by-side, and the workstation remembers the last choice for next time. Built for busy fee counters in Tier-2 and Tier-3 schools printing dozens of receipts a day.
Students: Each student now has a single-screen overview showing exam scores, attendance trends, fee status, and co-scholastic grades across the academic year. Built for parent-teacher meetings at CBSE, ICSE, and State board schools.
Media: One organised place for every visual asset across the school. Folder hierarchy, duplicate detection, and direct integration with marksheet, ID card, and admit card flows. Office staff stop emailing the same logo around to teachers.
Timetable: When a teacher applies for leave, the timetable suggests free substitute teachers across the school for every affected period. One click to swap. Saves 30 minutes a day for office staff at large schools.
Reports: Principals can slice exam performance any way they want. Class topper lists, subject-level analytics, printable summary reports — all with one-click PDF export. Built for CBSE schools running large examination cycles.
Parents: Faster app on entry-level Android phones used in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities. Single-tap access to attendance, fees, marksheets, and homework — no app install required, accessible on the same WhatsApp chat where reminders arrive.
Timetable: Generate a full school timetable in seconds. Detects teacher clashes, room conflicts, and subject distribution rules across CBSE, ICSE, and State board patterns. Manual overrides preserved across regenerations.
Fees: Every printed fee receipt now carries a UPI QR. Parents pay from any UPI app — PhonePe, Google Pay, Paytm, BHIM — by scanning at home. Auto-reconciled to the student account in the fee management module.
WhatsApp: Inkwelly is WhatsApp-native. Attendance updates, fee reminders, marksheet links, and emergency notices reach parents on the channel they actually use — no app install required. See parent communication.
Homework: Teachers post daily homework once on the class dashboard — students and parents see it on web and on the parent app, and a WhatsApp summary goes to parents at the end of every school day.
Marksheets: Universities, employers, and parents verify any Inkwelly-issued marksheet by scanning its QR. Anti-tampering signature with full audit trail. Useful for ICSE/ISC and CBSE schools whose students apply to universities abroad.
Fees: Fee receipts export to Tally with proper GST line-item splits — service tax, GST, head-wise breakup. Schools with multiple fee heads (tuition, transport, lab, exam) reconcile in minutes instead of the month-end Excel chaos.
WhatsApp: Retry logic, exponential backoff, and message queue improvements for schools in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities with patchy connectivity. Reliably delivers attendance and fee reminders even on 2G fallback.
HR: Leave balances now carry forward from FY 2025-26 to FY 2026-27 with configurable rules per leave type. Casual, earned, sick, and compensatory leaves each follow your school's policy automatically.
Students: Every test, every assessment, every co-curricular achievement — preserved across academic years and visible to parents and class teachers. Data follows the student for the full school journey, board to board.
Security: TOTP-based 2FA (Google Authenticator, Authy, Microsoft Authenticator) for principals and organisation admins. Critical for schools storing student records, fee data, and parent contact information.
Security: See who's logged in, from which device, and revoke any session in one click. Critical for Indian schools with rotating administrative staff or shared computers in the office.
Admissions: Schools that take 200+ board exam students every year can now bulk-import the admission list from a CSV. Auto-creates student records, generates roll numbers per CBSE / ICSE / State board conventions, and links to the admit card flow.
Attendance: Plug-and-play support for ESSL, Mantra, and other biometric devices used in Indian schools. Live sync to staff attendance with shift, late, and overtime rules feeding directly into payroll.
Fees: Set up custom instalment plans per student or per fee head. Each instalment triggers its own WhatsApp reminder schedule. Used by boarding schools, IGCSE schools, and budget private schools running flexible payment terms.
Subjects: Subject order on report cards, marksheets, and dashboards now matches your school's preferred convention — board sequence, alphabetical, or custom. Set once, applies everywhere.
Fees: Different late-fee policies for tuition, transport, and exam fees. Configurable grace period, percentage / fixed amount, and capping rules. Auto-applied on the fee receipt without manual intervention.
Examinations: Class teachers paste marks directly from Excel — Inkwelly auto-validates against grade scales and flags out-of-range entries before saving. Saves hours on board exam result-day workloads.
Marksheets: Once marksheets are issued they're locked from edits — only the principal can unlock with a written reason that's logged for audit. Critical for ICSE/ISC and IB schools who must maintain examination integrity.
Media: Edit student photos, school logos, and certificate images directly in Inkwelly without bouncing to Photoshop or Canva. Background removal included. Saves the office staff at most schools a separate Canva subscription.
ID cards: Design once at the start of the academic year, print for the entire school in one job. Front-back layout, photo placement, QR code with verification link, and academic-year-aware data binding.
Examinations: Different exams use different grade scales — board pattern, internal CCE, scholastic vs co-scholastic. Each exam stands on its own. Useful for schools running both CBSE and IGCSE patterns side by side.
Events: Plan annual day, sports day, parent-teacher meetings, and school trips on a unified calendar. Parents RSVP directly through WhatsApp — confirmations auto-collected for headcount and lunch planning.
Examinations: Set up Mid-Term once, clone for every section in seconds. Subject mappings, grade scales, and weightages copied with one click. Saves a full afternoon of work for examination committees at large schools.
Website: Run your school's public website from inside Inkwelly — announcements, photo galleries, principal's message, admission notices. Auto-pushes to WhatsApp and notifies parents of new posts.
Marksheets: Switched the rendering engine for board-result-day workloads. A 500-student class now exports in under 30 seconds. Critical for CBSE and State board schools running examination cycles for thousands of students.
Marksheets: Discipline, work education, art education, and health & physical education each get their own grade scales as required by CBSE board guidelines. Keeps CBSE schools compliant without manual workarounds.
Dashboard: Fee collection, attendance summary, and teacher activity widgets now load in under 500 milliseconds even at 5,000+ student schools. The first thing a principal sees when they log in shouldn't be a spinner.
Marksheets: Every marksheet ships with a tamper-proof QR code linking to a public verification page — universities and employers verify authenticity instantly. Standard issue for CBSE, ICSE, and IB school marksheets.
Marksheets: Import board results in CSV format and Inkwelly maps them to your students automatically. Generate the entire batch of marksheets — for the whole school — in one click. Built for the CBSE / ICSE / State board result-day rush.
Marksheets: Pixel-perfect designer. Upload your school crest, set fonts and colours, position fields where your board requires. Templates are reusable across exams and academic years — designed once, used forever.
Attendance: Configurable shift timings, grace periods, and half-day rules — automatically applied to monthly payroll. Used by schools running double shifts or pre-primary morning sessions.
HR: Standardised onboarding flow for new teachers — Aadhaar, PAN, qualification certificates, prior employment proof, joining letter. Documents stored in the employee profile for the full tenure.
Notifications: Centralised inbox for school-wide announcements, fee reminders, attendance alerts, and homework updates. Read receipts for parent communication so principals know exactly what reached parents and what didn't.
Homework: Class teachers post homework once. Students see it in the portal, parents get a WhatsApp summary at end of school day, and parent acknowledgement is tracked for accountability — solving the daily 'did you do your homework?' battle.
HR: Leave types, balances, application workflow, and substitute teacher assignment — all linked to attendance and payroll. Casual, earned, sick, maternity, and compensatory leaves all configurable per school policy.
Notifications: When WhatsApp delivery fails (parent has no internet, blocked the number, or device offline), Inkwelly auto-falls-back to SMS. Schools never miss reaching a parent on a fee due date or attendance alert.
Payroll: Compliant with Indian statutory requirements. One-click monthly payroll, salary slips with school letterhead, and Form 16 generated automatically at end of financial year. Eliminates the need for a separate payroll software subscription.
ID cards: Design student and staff ID cards with photo, QR verification, school logo, and academic year. Print-ready PDF for the standard PVC card sizes used by Indian printers.
Transport: Manage bus routes, assign students to stops, and let parents track the bus live on their phone. Works with any GPS device. Used by day schools across Mumbai, Delhi, Pune, and Bangalore.
Library: Librarians issue and return books by scanning the barcode with their phone camera. No dedicated scanner required — runs on any cheap Android phone with WhatsApp installed.
Attendance: Optimised database access patterns. Class-section attendance now loads in under a second even at peak morning traffic. Tested on the largest schools in Maharashtra and Karnataka.
Library: Full library management with ISBN lookup, hold queues, and automated overdue fine calculation. Replaces the legacy software most Indian schools have been using since 2010.
Transport: Drivers see the next stop, the students assigned, and confirm boarding with a tap. Parents get a WhatsApp notification when their child boards or alights. Ends 'where is the bus?' calls to the school office.
Attendance: Class teachers mark attendance in under a minute on a cheap Android phone. Absent students trigger a WhatsApp message to parents within 30 seconds. Built for the Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities where SMS still costs ₹0.15 per message.
Attendance: Lost network in the middle of marking? No problem. The mobile app buffers attendance offline and syncs the moment connectivity returns. Solves the daily 9am internet-outage problem at most North-Indian schools in winter.
Admissions: Parents upload Aadhaar, birth certificate, and previous school records during the admission application. Admission committee reviews and approves online. Cuts in-person paperwork at most Indian schools by 80%.
Platform: Every school gets its own isolated tenant. Data, users, and configuration never leak across organisations — built for scale from day one. Supports day schools, residential schools, and multi-branch school networks.
Security: Principals and admins log in with their Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 accounts — no separate password to remember. Critical for schools already standardised on Google for Education or Microsoft Education.
Dashboards: Each role sees the metrics they actually need on the home screen. Principal sees fee collection and attendance trends; teachers see today's classes and pending marks; parents see their child's day at a glance.
Photos: Drop in a phone-camera selfie at admission, Inkwelly removes the background and produces a clean ID-card-ready photo. No more reshooting at a studio for the school's records.
Admissions: Public admission form with custom fields per board, document upload, application status tracking, and one-click conversion to enrolled student. Used by schools running CBSE, ICSE, IB, and State board admission patterns.
Audit: Every sensitive action — fee waiver, marksheet edit, student deletion, admin role change — logged with who, when, and what. Filterable by user, module, and date range. Required for ISO-style data integrity reviews.
Fees: Every payment generates a GST-ready receipt with your school's branding. Reconciliation export for Tally is one click — no more month-end Excel chaos for the accountant.
Events: Annual day, parent-teacher meetings, sports day, school trips — one calendar visible to staff, students, and parents. Auto-WhatsApps a reminder to parents 24 hours and 2 hours before each event.
Fees: Online fee collection with automatic reconciliation, partial payments, instalment plans, and late-fee rules. Pick whichever payment gateway your school already has an account with. Full setup at the fee management module.
Reports: Slice any module by any date range — quarterly attendance for Class 10, board-exam fee collection by section, teacher attendance for the financial year. One screen, every report a principal could ever want.
Platform: Database query patterns rewritten for the largest school groups running 10+ branches under one parent organisation. Reduces page loads from 2.5 seconds to under a second across the board.