There will always be a better way to improve on what you are doing. The paste at which technology is advancing, your school cannot be left out. We shared some enhancements/ updates done your school management software within few months.
One the things you need to know about your software development team is how often do they update their application to meet the current needs.
Below are some of the School Software Pro enhancements/ updates in the last 8 months.
| Feature | Description | Module |
| Graduation Transfer Certificate Generator | This new feature allows the institution to create a customized template and generate transfer certificates using this template. The fields for the certificate can be selected from system fields or custom fields as per the institutions requirement. | Transfer Certificate |
| Improved fee reporting | Fee reports in finance now comes with particular wise amount collected and discount given. Fees collected is split among different particulars in case of partial payment to give the correct report. | Finance |
| Overall receipt for Pay all Fees | A new overall receipt PDF is available in Pay all Fees receipts. This single fee receipt is a summary of the fees that were collected during a single payment. For all fees collected, a single SMS is only sent. | Finance |
| Online Fee payment settings to enable Partial Payment | This setting in Online Fee Payment allows school to enable or disable partial payment in a school. | Online Payment |
| Pay all Fees enhancement | Pay all fees has a checkbox against each collection to have the amount pre filled or removed from it. Uncheck the checkbox to remove the prefilled amount and enter a partial amount. | Finance |
| Applicant Registration
(Apply Online) |
Customize forms, configure custom applicant status, add instructions to fill up the form and also capture organizational level details with the new applicant registration module.
In addition to the features it now has a fresh and easy to use interface which makes the process of handling new applications easier than ever before. Note: PIN Group, subject based registration amount and approval system has been deprecated. In place of approval system, custom status allows moving applicant to different stages of approval. |
Applicant Registration |
| New internal messaging system | The internal messaging system in SS Pro has been given a complete change. The new messaging system only shows direct messages from users. Now users can select to message a single user or send to many users together as a broadcast message.
This new feature has a modern and refreshed interface and has a new messages counter in the menu bar. Messages settings now allow the institution to the users who have the privilege to create messages. It is useful for institutions to restrict messaging among certain types of users. Note: The old messages created and sent for each user before the release will be archived and available for export as CSV in the profile of that user in Profile > More > Message CSV Export. |
Internal Messages |
| Skip and override exams in Gradebook | Gradebook or Report Card or Student Result now supports the option to change the maximum marks for individual subjects in an exam. Individual subject exams in a group can also be skipped if required.
Changes include: 1. Manage Exams now called Manage Gradebook to differentiate from the old examination module 2. Derived exams can be calculated from Manage Gradebook page 3. Term exam and derived exam results can be calculated even after skipping exams for some subjects. |
Gradebook |
| Fee Receipt Mode | The fee receipt mode allows you to select how receipt numbers are generated during pay all fees.
Single Receipt Number: This mode generates a single receipt number for all the collections in the transaction Multiple Receipt Number: This mode generates one receipt number for each collection in the transaction. |
Finance |
| User Blocking | Users can be now blocked from accessing the application for reasons like non-payment of fees with just one click. The page has been redesigned to improve the search experience. | User Management |
| Tax Module | The all-new tax module allows institutions to enable tax on all types of fee transactions – general fees, instant fees, transport and hostel fees. This module can be used for VAT or other similar tax systems.
To collect tax on fees, enable it from the settings page in Finance section. Add the various applicable tax slabs and enter details such as Tax Identification Number. Tax is applied on fee particulars for general and instant fees and applied on fee collections for transport and hostel fees. The applicable tax slab is selected before the collection is scheduled and recorded in the various fee reports when the fee is actually collected from the student. Tax reports show the total amount of tax collected under each slab. |
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| Attendance Transfer | When transferring students from one batch to another, this new feature allows transfer of attendance to the new batch. Use this feature when the attendance records do not need to remain in the old batch, like when shuffling between batches of a class. | Batch |