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Built for UK primary schools, nurseries and trusts

School communication that gets things done.

Keep families informed, collect digital consent, take meal and trip payments and coordinate safe pickup — from one platform that shows your office exactly what still needs attention.

  • No app download for parents
  • Chases only families who haven't replied
  • UK GDPR Article 28 agreement

A day in the school office

School communication shouldn’t create more work.

Office teams spend hours chasing permission slips, counting dinner money and fielding end-of-day phone calls. Parents juggle paper, email and group chats — and still miss what matters.

  1. 08:15

    Chasing

    Reminders go to everyone — including the parents who already replied — because nobody has a reliable list of who hasn't.

    Reminders target only outstanding families.

  2. 11:40

    Counting

    Consent lives in one spreadsheet, payments in another, and neither matches the register on the morning of the trip.

    Consent and payment recorded together, per pupil.

  3. 14:55

    Calling

    Who is collecting Oliver today? The office finds out by phone, with a class teacher waiting at the door.

    Parents set pickup plans; teachers see a live board.

How it works

Send. Act. See what’s left.

Three steps, one loop. Every action a school sends becomes a task a parent can complete on any phone — and the dashboard only shows what is still outstanding.

1

New announcement

Draft · requires office approval

Year 4 Museum Trip — Final Details
Coaches leave at 08:45 sharp. Please pack a waterproof coat and a packed lunch in a named bag…
Year 4Class 4AClass 4B+ Attach consent form

60 families · 112 verified guardians

Schedule 16:00

School sends

Staff create an announcement, form or payment item and target exactly the right families — whole school, a year group, a class or named pupils.

2

Good morning, Emma

Things you need to do

  • Give permission & pay £12.50

    Ollie · Museum trip

    Due Fri
  • Top up dinner money

    Ollie · balance £3.80

    Today
  • Book Autumn parents' evening

    Millie · Oakwood CE

    12 Nov

Installable web app · no app store

Parents act

Families see one clear list of things to do across every child and school, and complete them in a browser. No app store required.

3

Needs attention

Tue 3 Nov · 08:15
17

trip consents outstanding

14

meal balances below £5.00

6

pickup changes today

7

parents not reached by email

43 families completed · nothing to chase

Staff see what's left

The exception dashboard shows what is still outstanding. Reminders chase only families who haven't responded — never the ones who have.

Forms & consent

A tick on a paper slip can't tell you who agreed, when, or to what.

Every consent decision records the verified guardian, the pupil, the exact wording version and a timestamp as an append-only event. Edit a form and existing responses keep the words they actually answered.

  • Verified guardian authority on every response
  • Versioned wording with withdrawal history
  • Combined consent + payment in one parent flow
  • CSV and PDF exports for trip leaders

Consent record

Year 4 Natural History Museum trip

Ollie Hartley · 4B · Oakwood CE Primary

Consented · £12.50 paid
  1. Gave consent

    v2

    Emma Hartley · Mother · verified · Tue 3 Nov, 08:12

  2. Reminder sent

    v2

    Office · C. Ward · Reminder · Mon 2 Nov, 16:00

  3. Version 2 published

    v2

    Form published · Wording updated · Fri 30 Oct, 09:30

  4. Viewed form

    v1

    Daniel Hartley · Father · verified · Thu 29 Oct, 19:48

Wording v2 (recorded verbatim): “I confirm I hold parental responsibility and consent to my child attending the visit on Monday 9 November.”

Automated reminders

Chase the 17 who haven't replied. Leave the 43 who have alone.

Set reminder timing, maximum counts and quiet hours once. ParentSignal targets only outstanding recipients, suppresses reminders the moment any authorised guardian completes a pupil's task, and escalates bounced contacts to the office.

  • Pre-deadline and after-period reminders
  • Quiet hours 20:00–07:30 by default
  • Office escalation for undeliverable contacts
  • Maximum reminder counts per task

Reminder run · Museum trip consent

Scheduled 16:00 · quiet hours 20:00–07:30 respected

60

families assigned

43

completed · skipped

17

reminded

Reminder 2 of max 3Next: 24h before deadline
  • Hartley familyCompleted Tue 08:12
  • Okafor familyReminder sent · email
  • Patel familyEmail bounced → office escalation

Safe pickup & dismissal

Who is collecting Oliver today? Answered before 14:55.

Parents set going-home arrangements and authorised collectors from their phone. Class teachers see a live dismissal board that highlights every change made today — no phone calls, no sticky notes.

  • Authorised collectors recorded per pupil
  • Changes logged with who, when and why
  • Class and year-group boards for teachers
  • Wraparound and club handovers included

Dismissal board · Class 4B

Today, 15:05 · 1 change since 14:00

Live
  • OH

    Ollie Hartley

    —

    After-school club
  • AO

    Aisha Okafor

    Mrs Okafor (authorised)

    Collected by grandparent
  • LP

    Leo Patel

    Parent permission on file

    Walking home
  • MH

    Millie Hartley

    Emma Hartley

    Collected
08:12

Good morning, Emma

Things you need to do

  • Permission & pay £12.50

    Ollie · Museum trip · Due Fri

    Due Fri
  • Top up dinner money

    Ollie · balance £3.80

    Today
  • Book parents' evening

    Millie · Oakwood CE

    12 Nov
  • Friday going-home plan

    Millie · Oakwood CE

    Thu
  • Log today's reading entry

    Ollie · Oakwood CE

Recent messages

  • Year 4 Museum Trip — Final DetailsMon
  • Parents' Evening bookings openFri

Parent experience

One list. Every child. Every school.

Parents see a single consolidated list across all their children and schools: give permission, pay, book, top up, log reading. Each task shows the child, school, amount, deadline and one clear action.

  • Works on a 320px phone with no app-store download
  • Accessible email fallbacks for every notification
  • Language preferences and WCAG 2.2 AA with reduced-motion support
  • Separated parents each receive their own verified copy

Platform

Everything a school office needs. Nothing it doesn't.

Twenty modules built around real school workflows — each one connected to the same families, pupils and audit trail.

Privacy and security

Safeguarding by design, not by policy document.

Verified guardian relationships, tenant isolation tests that block releases, encrypted consent payloads and audit logs for every permission change. Internal staff never have default access to pupil records.

  • Single-use, time-limited guardian invitationsA child's name never grants access.
  • MFA required for privileged staffHttpOnly sessions with CSRF protection.
  • UK GDPR Article 28 agreementPublished subprocessor register and DPIA pack.
  • Parent funds to school-owned Stripe accountsWe never pool parent money.
  • Cross-tenant isolation tests in CIFailures block the release.
  • No advertising, no data resaleEver. It's in the contract.

Audit log

Append-only
  • Guardian invitation accepted

    emma.hartley@… · DOB check passed · 08:09

  • Role changed: Teacher → Office staff

    By headteacher@… · MFA verified · 07:52

  • Consent payload decrypted for export

    Reason: DPIA audit · expires 1h · 07:40

  • Cross-tenant isolation test passed

    Release gate · 214 checks · 02:00

Release gate · 02:00

214 / 214 passed
  • Cross-tenant read isolation128 checks
  • Guardian link enforcement54 checks
  • Consent payload encryption32 checks
AES-256 at restTLS 1.2+ in transitUK/EU data residencyAppend-only audit log

Pricing

Transparent pricing for every school size.

Illustrative VAT-exclusive launch pricing. No parent-facing fees for essential communication. Switch to annual billing for two months free.

Starter

£49/month

Up to 200 pupils · Small primary schools

  • Announcements and messages
  • Digital consent forms
  • School calendar
  • Basic delivery and response reports
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Most popular

School

£99/month

Up to 600 pupils · Typical primary schools

  • Everything in Starter
  • Parents' evening bookings
  • Meals, trip and club payments
  • Advanced form templates
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School Pro

£199/month

Up to 1,500 pupils · Larger schools

  • Everything in School
  • Meal pre-ordering and kitchen exports
  • Advanced workflows
  • Department and year-group permissions
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Academy Trust

Custom

Custom · Multi-school organisations

  • Central trust dashboard
  • Multiple schools under one organisation
  • Trust-level billing
  • Cross-school scoped reporting
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FAQ

Questions schools ask us.

Straight answers on parent access, payments, data protection and trials. Anything else — our UK schools team replies within one working day.

No. The parent portal is an installable progressive web app that works in any modern browser. Email fallbacks are always available.

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