Import opening balances once
Bring last term’s balances across in one import, then bill by fee type and record payments against the pupil, not a spreadsheet row.
Explore school feesFor bursars and administrators
Every balance right. Every family informed.
Keep balances, bills and payments on the pupil record the rest of the school already uses. Give every family a statement with the school’s bank transfer or Mobile Money details, and answer the morning’s questions from one screen.
The challenge
The office knows who owes. Nobody else does.
The fees spreadsheet is accurate on the bursar’s laptop and nowhere else. Families get a reminder by phone, and the head teacher gets a number a week late.
- Problem 1: Opening balances were carried over by hand, and the totals no longer match the bank.
- Problem 2: A parent at the gate wants a statement; it takes a search through three sheets to produce one.
- Problem 3: Student details, class lists and family contacts are kept in separate files that drift apart every term.
How SchooLane helps
One record for the money and the people.
Fees, student records and registers sit on the same pupil, so the office stops retyping names and starts answering questions.
Statements families can act on
Every statement shows what is owed, what was paid and the school’s bank transfer or Mobile Money details. Families see it in the Parents app.
See a family statementCollections you can check against the bank
See payments by week and by month, by fee type and by class. Ask Lane for the eight-week picture and check the dates and exact values.
See a collections questionStudent records that stay current
Student details, enrolment, classes, staff responsibilities and family contacts in the same place, with school-managed family invitations.
Explore School RecordsRegisters at a glance
See which class registers are not started or in progress, with unmarked counts and the designated teacher, before the attendance report is due.
Explore Lane’s school questionsTimetables, dates and transport
Keep the school calendar, the timetable and transport routes on the same student and staff records as everything else.
Explore OperationsFees is an optional add-on to the Core and Connected plans. Your proposal sets out the included features and the total cost before you decide.
Platform preview
The morning’s fee question, answered with sources.
Ask Lane what is owed and how collections have gone. The answer carries a date, a scope, the outstanding balance by class and the records behind it.
- Outstanding balance as of today, by class
- Collected amounts with the payment entries behind them
- Sources you can open before you follow up
The SchooLane difference
The spreadsheet, retired.
Fees are not a separate product bolted on to the side. They live on the pupil record, so a statement, a report and a register all agree about who the child is and which class she is in.
For example
A parent arrives at 07:50 asking what is still owed for the term. The bursar opens the pupil, sends the statement to the Parents app with the school’s bank transfer details on it, and the payment is recorded against the same pupil before assembly ends.
Everyone around the pupil
The rest of the school, on the same record.
The head teacher, the class teacher, the bursar and the family each see the same pupil from their own side of the day.
The full platform behind you
Every part of SchooLane, one sign-in.
Bring your school’s questions to a walkthrough.
A walkthrough takes about thirty minutes and starts from your school: your size, your current tools, and the work you want to make easier.
- Role-based staff access
- School-controlled publishing
- Family accounts linked by the school
- Encrypted connections
- Security and data