Migrating from Edumarshal to Inkwelly. ₹0, and we do the extraction.
Schools leaving a long-established ERP usually have several years of accumulated data and at least one module nobody has opened since the year it was configured. Both are normal, and neither is a problem.
- Go-live
- Next working day
- Price
- ₹49–₹199 per student per year
- Migration
- ₹0 — we do the extraction
- Pilot
- 90 days, pro-rata refund
- Cost of the move
- ₹0
Getting the data out
Module-by-module exports usually cover most of what's needed, with the fee side cross-checked against your accounts system — which is worth doing regardless, because the two don't always agree and it's better to find out during a migration than during an audit.
Where an export is incomplete, we work from reports, printed records and whatever the office can reach directly.
What reliably needs cleaning
- Modules configured years ago and abandoned, holding stale data that shouldn't come across.
- Fee heads accumulated across sessions, with retired heads sitting alongside live ones.
- Students never formally marked as left, inflating enrolment and every percentage from it.
- Parent contacts that predate WhatsApp being the primary channel.
- Staff records for people who left, still carrying access.
How the move actually runs
Extraction first. We take everything we can get — students, parents, fee ledgers, marks, attendance, staff records, transport routes — through whatever route works, and that's our job rather than yours.
Then cleaning, which is the part that takes the time. Duplicate siblings entered twice, phone numbers that stopped working two years ago, students sitting in a class they left last April, fee heads that mean different things in different years. We do the work and come back to your office with a short list of judgement calls only they can make.
Then staging. The cleaned data goes into a school you can log into and check — real screens, your students, your numbers — before anything is live. You approve it, or you send it back.
Then you pick a date. Go-live can be the next working day. You pick the date; we don't need months of parallel running to get there.
What happens to your history
Everything current comes across before go-live: enrolled students, their parents and contacts, outstanding balances, this year's marks and attendance, staff records.
Historical depth — old fee ledgers, marks from previous years, archived certificates, alumni records — is brought across on its own track afterwards. It doesn't hold up day one, and separating the two is why go-live can be quick without anything being lost.
Frequently asked
We have modules we configured and never used.
We'll identify them during cleaning and check with you before bringing anything across. There's no value in importing five years of data from a module nobody opened, and it makes the new system look cluttered from day one.
What if our current vendor won't help?
It slows us down; it doesn't stop us. We rebuild from whatever exists — spreadsheet exports, your accounts system, printed registers, PDF report cards, even photographs of ledger pages. It's a one-time effort and it's ours. Your data being awkward to get out is not a reason to stay.
Should we wait for the new session?
Most schools move at the start of a month, and a term boundary is tidiest for fee cycles — but there's nothing structural stopping a mid-session move, and waiting six months to escape something that's costing you time now is rarely the right trade. Your history comes across either way.
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.
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.
Can we try it before committing?
90-day paid pilot on your real data. If it isn't working at day 90, pro-rata refund and your data back in standard formats. We don't offer a free trial on dummy data — it proves nothing to either of us. The pilot runs on your real students, your real fees.
Start your Edumarshal migration
30-minute demo. We walk through the exact migration plan for your school. Dated go-live on the 1st of a chosen month.