Full Feature List

NiftySchool is built for small to medium sized language schools. Every feature is focused on one thing: helping you manage and grow your business.

Student Management »

  • Clear overview screen
  • Full student details
  • Track student status (trial, active, etc)
  • Keep history of enrollments
  • Automatically check attendance
  • Take picture with webcam or upload
  • Track assesment tests and exams
  • How they heard about the school
  • Link to agencies
  • Duplicate entry checker
  • Send email & SMSes

Attendance »

  • Track presence, absence, lateness
  • Entry/exit times for laboratories
  • Attendance rate calculation
  • Attendance calendar per student
  • Support for holidays
  • Support for authorized absences
  • Daily/weekly class attendance
  • Print attendance report
  • Auto-mark as present
  • 1st/2nd hour for Callan method

Advanced Search

  • Quick student finder
  • Search by status
  • Search by Visa type
  • Search by start date
  • Search by interest
  • Search for kids/adults
  • Search private/groups
  • Download in Excel
  • Send bulk emails/SMSes

Accommodation Handling »

  • Store family details
  • Store beds/rooms info
  • Pets, smokers, internet etc.
  • Assign students to families
  • Full accommodation history
  • Accommodation matching
  • Advanced search
  • Accomodation calendar & availability
  • Email communication & SMSes

Payments »

  • Track payments
  • Multi-item payments
  • Support for multiple payment methods
  • Track who took the payment
  • Refunds, discounts, vouchers
  • Auto VAT/tax calculation
  • Current balance/cash flow
  • Export to Excel for your accountant
  • Managers can clear payments
  • Alerts when a payment is due/overdue
  • Online payments credit card/paypal
  • Send payment request
  • Track inventory (books, CDs etc)
  • Decrease inventory upon payments
  • Print customisable invoices/receipts
  • Print supermarket style receipts
  • Printable daily cashier

Teacher Schedules »

  • Manage teachers' details
  • Teachers can access the system
  • See timetable & track attendance
  • Print teacher's timetable in Excel
  • Print monthly list of lessons
  • Monthly summary with hours taught

Staff Access Control »

  • Unlimited users per school
  • Staff address book
  • Live search by name, role, etc
  • Multiple access roles
  • Track who creates/updates students
  • Track who takes payments/documents
  • Check last login time
  • Assign staff to multiple branches

Reports »

  • Overview and trends
  • Full history of the school
  • Student status report
  • Payments report
  • Contact media report
  • Nationality report
  • Top countries of origin
  • Top payment categories
  • Earnings from Visa students
  • Joiners, leavers, full lists
  • Birthday reports per month
  • SMS report
  • Download in Excel format

Contact/Prospects »

  • Track new contacts
  • Store interests
  • Assign follow-up actions
  • Filter and send promotional emails
  • Convert to active once enrolled

Visa Students Support »

  • Country specific Visas
  • Visa dates, number, passport etc
  • Alerts on document expiry
  • Alerts on program expiry
  • Alerts on poor attendance
  • Alerts on missing lessons

Group Classes »

  • Easy scheduling
  • Support rolling classes
  • Track room and teachers
  • Print daily/weekly register
  • Extended registers with signatures
  • Track class level/notes
  • Live search

Private Classes »

  • Quickly add series of lessons
  • Track attendance & topic
  • Reschedule,cancel, amend lessons
  • Print list of lessons
  • Handle substitutions

Laboratories/Self-study »

  • Track entry/exit times
  • Assign weekly attendance goals
  • Attendance up to the minute
  • Print registers with signatures

Timetable »

  • Interactive weekly timetable
  • Reschedule, cancel, amend lessons
  • Filter by teacher
  • Check unassigned lessons
  • Copy complex schedules from past weeks
  • Print & hang to message board
  • Print monthly list of lessons

Planning Tools »

  • Organize room usage
  • Print room usage in PDF
  • Enrolment forecasts per class
  • Number of 'seats' over time

Assessment Tests & Exams

  • Book assessment tests & track results
  • Create exam sheets (TOEFL/TESOL/IELST etc..)
  • Print exam sheets in Excel format
  • Save exam results & certificates
  • Include results in progress reports

Documents »

  • Track issued documents
  • Upload documents online
  • Automatic encryption and backup
  • Unlimited storage space
  • Managers can clear documents
  • Generate documents from Word templates
  • Generate student reports
  • Letters & enrollment agreements

Multiple Branches

  • Ability to add extra branches
  • Assign existing users to branch
  • Quick switcher / single sign on
  • Branches are indipendently customisable

Configuration

  • Enable/disable modules
  • Enable weekend classes
  • Class register printing options
  • Choose alerts notifications
  • Setup online payments using PayPal
  • Manage agencies & contact media
  • Payment/Document categories
  • Customise receipt printing
  • Language Levels
  • Holiday calendar

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