Everything an African school needs to run the term.

• Set fees by class or student by student, and attach a discount for siblings, staff children or a scholarship without rewriting the whole fee plan.
• See what you have collected and what is still outstanding on any day of the term, by class or by student.
• Issue a numbered receipt on every payment - one the parent cannot lose and you can trace years later.
• Record part-payments, levies, cash and bank transfers against the same student record, in the order they land.
• Post a refund and keep the books balanced, because a correction writes a new entry instead of editing the old one.

Record cash and bank transfers, or let parents use supported Flutterwave methods online. Takadar verifies online payments before issuing a numbered receipt and takes no cut of your institution’s fees; parents paying online see any processing charge, and in Nigeria a small published Takadar fee, before they pay. See the per-student school software pricing in naira , with the annual figure alongside the monthly one.

• Let the form teacher mark the register in class on the phone in her hand, not from a paper list at four o’clock.
• The register is marked in class. Absences are recorded against the child’s record the moment it is submitted, and the guardian sees them in the parent portal.
• See the whole school’s attendance by mid-morning, class by class, without ringing round for numbers.
• Keep staff attendance on the same record as the students’, so lateness is a figure you can look up.
• Post the day’s diary entry and the class notice in the same sitting as the register.

Be clear about what that means: the portal is where a guardian looks, not something that reaches out to her. SMS is on the roadmap and is not live yet, so Takadar does not text or ring anybody on your behalf - it puts the absence on the record the moment the register is submitted, instead of at closing time.

• Move an applicant from first enquiry through assessment to admitted, with every status change stamped and kept.
• Hold guardians, phone numbers, class and admission number on one record, so nobody keeps a private copy in a notebook.
• Import your existing student list straight from a spreadsheet instead of typing it all in again.
• Promote a whole class into the next year in one action at the end of the session.
• Set the year up once - the session and its three terms, your classes, arms and subjects - and work from it until you close.
• See who teaches what: every class and subject carries the teacher assigned to it, and the form teacher is named on the class.

Every change of status on an application is written down as it happens, so you can see who moved a candidate to offered, and when, long after the admission season closes.