Inkwelly vs Edunext. Same job, different decade.
Edunext has served Indian schools for a long time and knows the domain well. The schools that come to us from it are usually not unhappy with what it does — they're unhappy with how much effort it takes to get it done.
- Go-live
- Next working day
- Price
- ₹49–₹199 per student per year
- Migration
- ₹0 — we do the extraction
- Pilot
- 90 days, pro-rata refund
What schools tell us
The recurring theme is friction. Screens that take more clicks than the task deserves, a teacher app that gets avoided in favour of a paper register, and a parent channel that leans on SMS. None of it is broken; all of it costs somebody an hour a day.
That hour is the real cost of a school ERP, and it never appears on the invoice.
Side by side
| Inkwelly | Edunext | |
|---|---|---|
| Parent messaging | WhatsApp first, SMS fallback on every message | SMS-led, with app and portal options |
| Marking a class | Under a minute on a teacher's own phone | Longer — schools report teachers avoiding it |
| Pricing model | ₹49–₹199 per student per year, every module included | Quoted per school, often by module |
| Go-live | Next working day | Typically a multi-week implementation |
| Regional languages | 11 Indian languages across teacher and parent surfaces | Varies by module |
| Support | WhatsApp, answered by the people who build it | Ticket desk |
Where Edunext is the better choice: long-tenured vendors know the awkward corners of Indian school administration, and if you have a genuinely unusual process that they've already built for you, that's worth something real. Ask us to show you your awkward case on the demo before you assume we handle it.
What changes for teachers
- Attendance on a phone, in the classroom, in the language the teacher thinks in.
- Marks entered once and flowing straight into board-format report cards.
- Homework posted to parents on WhatsApp without a separate app.
- No desktop trip to the staff room to do something a phone should handle.
How the move works
Extraction, cleaning, a staging school you check, then a go-live date you choose. We do the data work; you do the approving.
₹0 migration, ₹0 training, ₹0 setup. Data extraction from your current system — or from Excel if the vendor won't cooperate — is on us.
Frequently asked
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.
How much of our staff's time will the switch take?
The data work is ours. What we need from your side is a few hours of the office's time to answer questions during cleaning — which class a duplicate student really belongs in, which of two phone numbers is current — and one full day for on-site training at go-live.
We have a custom process Edunext built for us. Will we lose it?
Maybe, and it's worth checking before you commit rather than after. Bring it to the demo and show us. Some things we already do differently and better, some we can configure, and a few we genuinely don't do — we'd rather tell you that on the call.
Our teachers aren't confident with software. Will they actually use it?
The teacher app does one thing well — attendance and marks, in under a minute a class, on any Android phone, in Hindi or your regional language. We do a full day of on-site training at go-live and stay on WhatsApp through the first month. If a teacher is still struggling after that, we come back at no cost.
Where is our data, and can we get it out?
Hosted on AWS Mumbai. Daily encrypted backups, role-based access, and a full export in standard formats whenever you ask — including on the way out.
See Inkwelly next to Edunext
30-minute demo. We open your Edunext account with you and load your data into Inkwelly live. Dated go-live plan by end of call.