automate bus-fee billing with concessions and late fees
New feature shipped to Inkwelly— India's most actively developed school management software. This change is in production at real Indian schools today, not on a roadmap.
- 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.
- Concessions & discounts: Schools can now give a student a transport-fee concession — sibling, staff ward, EWS, or a custom percentage or fixed-amount discount — straight from the student's profile. The discount is applied automatically when their bus-fee invoices are generated.
- Late fees: Overdue bus-fee invoices now charge late fees automatically by the school's own rules, with one-tap apply, partial waive, or full exemption per invoice and a complete action history. Parents are alerted on WhatsApp, SMS, email, and app push the moment a late fee is added.
- Clearer invoices: Bill a single student's pending installments in one click, see exactly why some invoices were skipped (for example, already billed for that period), and every invoice now shows which installment it belongs to plus a clear breakdown of its discount and late fee.
- Fixes: Bus-fee invoice numbers no longer clash after an invoice is deleted, unpaid and overdue invoices can now be removed, and the pickup and drop stops load correctly when editing a student's transport assignment.
This isn't a roadmap. It's already running in your competitor's school.
Every update on the Inkwelly changelog is in production at real Indian schools today. If you're tired of ERP vendors who promise features for “next quarter”, let's talk. We run a 90-day paid pilot with a pro-rata refund and full data export.