School management for madrasas and minority institutions. In Urdu, alongside the state curriculum.
Institutions running a religious curriculum alongside a state one carry two academic records for every student, often in two scripts, frequently with residential students and fees that come from donations rather than families. Very little school software is built with any of that in mind.
- Go-live
- Next working day
- Price
- ₹49–₹199 per student per year
- Migration
- ₹0 — we do the extraction
- Pilot
- 90 days, pro-rata refund
- Scripts
- Urdu and Arabic, with English
- Fees
- Zakat, waqf and scholarship funding
Two curricula, one student
A student following both a madrasa board syllabus and a state board syllabus has two sets of subjects, two assessment patterns and often two report cards. Holding that as one messy record, or as two disconnected ones, is how most institutions end up back on paper.
Inkwelly keeps both streams against the same student, each with its own subjects, assessment scheme and report card, so a parent can be shown either or both without anything being reconstructed.
In your script
- Urdu across the teacher app, parent messages and printed records, rendered right-to-left properly rather than as an afterthought.
- Arabic subject names and text where the curriculum uses them.
- Student names held in Urdu and in English on the same record — one for your report cards, one for state paperwork.
- Hindi and English available alongside, for staff and families who prefer them.
Residential students
Many of these institutions are wholly or partly residential, and the hostel is not a side module — it's where the students live. Room and bed allocation, mess management and charges, in and out movement, visitor records and guardian contact all sit alongside the academic record rather than in a separate book.
Where a student's guardian is at a distance, WhatsApp is usually the only practical channel, and attendance, health and fee messages go out the same way they would for a day school.
Fees that don't come from families
- Zakat, sadaqah and donor-funded places recorded as their own funding source against the student.
- Waqf board and government scholarship funding tracked with the paperwork attached.
- Full and partial concessions applied by rule, with the reason recorded.
- Donor-facing records that show what a contribution supported, without exposing a student's circumstances to anyone who shouldn't see them.
Frequently asked
Does Urdu actually work throughout, or only in a few places?
Throughout the surfaces that matter — the teacher app, parent messages, report cards and printed records — with right-to-left handled properly. Names can carry in Urdu and English on the same record so nothing has to be retyped for state paperwork.
We teach a madrasa board syllabus and a state board syllabus.
Both run against the same student, each with its own subjects, assessment pattern and report card. You can issue either separately or both together.
Most of our students board with us.
Hostel management is part of the same system, not a bolt-on — rooms and beds, mess charges, movement in and out, visitors and guardian contact, all against the same student record.
Our fees come from zakat and donors, not from parents.
Funding source is recorded per student — zakat, sadaqah, waqf board, a government scholarship or a named donor — with documents attached and concessions applied by rule. Donor reporting is possible without exposing a family's circumstances.
Are we required to do things a state school does?
That depends on your affiliation and your state, and it's a question for your board rather than for us. What we can say is that the records the system produces — transfer certificates, registers, student and staff data — come out in the standard formats, so whatever you are asked for, you can produce it.
How quickly can we go live?
Go-live can be the next working day. You pick the date; we don't need months of parallel running to get there. Bringing across years of historical records — old marks, past fee ledgers, archived certificates — runs on its own track afterwards and doesn't hold up day one.
What does Inkwelly cost?
₹49–₹199 per student per year, flat at any school size — no enrolment slabs and no per-module upsell. A 500-student school on the middle plan is about ₹49,500 a year. Migration, training and setup are ₹0. The only external costs are WhatsApp message fees and your payment gateway's transaction charge, both billed at cost.
See Inkwelly on your school
30-minute demo. We open your current system with you and load your data into Inkwelly on the call. Dated go-live plan by the end of it.