Guides for running a school
Practical advice on choosing and running school software, written for administrators and school owners in Pakistan. Written by the team that builds EDUTIG, and honest about where our own product stops.
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How to choose a school management system in Pakistan
A practical checklist for admissions, attendance, exams, fees, payroll, communication and onboarding, and the questions that separate a demo from day-to-day use.
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Biometric attendance for schools: what to check before you buy
Device compatibility, sync delays, manual fallback and what actually matters when a vendor offers biometric attendance.
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School fee management: billing and collection
Fee structures, invoices, receipts, concessions and the reports that tell you what is actually outstanding.
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Payroll for Pakistani schools: attendance, leave and salaries
How staff attendance and leave feed a monthly salary run, and what to get right before your first payroll in a new system.
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Running a multi-campus school: what changes operationally
What actually changes when a school grows from one campus to several, and which decisions to make before the software is chosen.
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School management software prices in Pakistan (2026)
Per-student, flat-package and one-time licence pricing compared, what drives a quote up, and how to compare vendors fairly at your student count.
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Free school management software in Pakistan
The four kinds of free, what a free plan has to include to run a school day to day, and where the hidden costs sit.
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Online fee collection for schools in Pakistan
Bank transfer with uploaded proof, wallet and card checkout through a gateway, and the receipts and reports that keep collection honest.
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WhatsApp for schools: fee reminders and alerts
What schools send on WhatsApp, what a provider account and per-message charges involve, and where SMS, email and the portal inbox still fit.
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What is a school management system?
A plain definition, the modules a school management system includes, and how an SMS differs from a school ERP and an LMS.
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Parent portal vs WhatsApp groups for schools
Why unmanaged WhatsApp groups wear teachers down, what a parent portal actually shows, and how schools in Pakistan use both together.
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School management systems for small schools
Does a 150-student school need software? Which modules to start with, what it costs, and how one person can run the whole system.
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How to reduce fee defaulters in your school
A monthly collection playbook for Pakistani schools: a reminder ladder, an arrears list that gets read, and late fines that stay fair.
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Moving your school from registers to software
What to migrate first, how to run old and new in parallel for a term, and how long the move from paper really takes.
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FBR e-invoicing and private schools: what SRO 288 says
What draft SRO 288(I)/2026 proposes for private schools, its actual legal status as of September 2026, and how to prepare without panic.
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How to make a school timetable that holds up
A practical method for the weekly grid: teacher loads, clash checking, cover for absent teachers, and when software earns its keep.
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How to make result cards for your school
What a result card must include, grade scales, combining term results, printing a whole class at once, and telling parents the right way.
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How to register a private school in Pakistan
The law and the registering authority in each province, the documents the process actually asks for, and the fee rules already on the record.
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Software for academies and coaching centres
How an academy's day differs from a school's, what that means for software, and the questions to ask before fitting either into the other.
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How to increase school admissions in Pakistan
Where new families actually come from, the admissions funnel most schools leak, and the follow-up habits that fill seats by March.
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Keeping student records safe: a school's duty
What student data a school holds, who should see what, the habits that leak it, and the questions to put to any software vendor.
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School fee vouchers and receipts, done properly
What belongs on a fee voucher, numbering an auditor can trust, receipts against bank transfers, and printing a class's challans in one run.
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EDUTIG, spreadsheets and older desktop school software compared
A category-level comparison across access, shared records, backups and the maintenance burden each approach carries.
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See EDUTIG with your own school in mind
Tell us how your school works today and we will show you the parts of EDUTIG that matter to you, using your questions as the agenda.