"Sir/Ma'am, we built OneShiksha after visiting 50+ schools and asking one question: what actually wastes your time every day? The answer was always the same — fees, attendance, and parent calls. So we focused on making those three things effortless."
No More App Juggling
Your accountant uses Excel for fees, teachers use WhatsApp for notices, and you have a separate app for attendance. That's three logins, three systems, three places to check. OneShiksha puts it all in one place.
₹49/Student/Month
Less than ₹2 per student per day. Teachers and admins are free. No setup fees. No per-message charges. The price you see is the price you pay — unlike some competitors who charge extra for 'premium features' that should be standard.
No App Download Needed
We designed for the ₹8,000 Android phones teachers actually use. Open Chrome, log in, done. Works offline too — mark attendance on the bus, syncs when you're back online.
98% Open Rate
We tested this with a school in Mumbai: SMS reminders got 31% open rates. WhatsApp got 94%. Same message. The school switched to 100% WhatsApp and fee collection jumped from 72% to 89% in three months.
Fewer 'Did My Child Attend?' Calls
Every school tells us the same thing: parents call 2-3 times a week asking about attendance. After OneShiksha, those calls dropped by 60%. Parents check the app. Teachers get their time back.
CBSE, ICSE & State Boards
Emergency holidays, stream/section logic, Indian payment methods, Hindi + English support. We didn't adapt a Western product for India — we built it for India from day one.
Live in 24 Hours
We import your data, configure roles, train your staff — all included. Most schools are live within a day. One school in Delhi said their biggest surprise was that the setup was actually faster than promised.
Auto-Generated Monthly PDFs
Instead of spending Sunday making fee reports, the AI generates them automatically. Color-coded defaults, attendance trends, collection rates — ready for your Monday management meeting.
Audit Trails (Not Surveillance)
When a parent disputes a fee payment or a teacher says 'I sent that notice,' you don't have to guess. The system shows exactly who did what and when. It protects your staff as much as it holds them accountable.
Student data is sensitive. Names, phone numbers, addresses, medical info. Here's exactly how we protect it — no vague "we take security seriously" language.
Not "we take security seriously" — we mean your students' names, phone numbers, addresses, and medical info are encrypted using AES-256. The same standard Indian banks use. If someone somehow accessed our database, they'd see gibberish.
We run on Vercel (AWS infrastructure) — the same cloud that powers Nike, Target, and Loom. Automatic scaling, daily backups, 30-day retention. If a server dies, another takes over in milliseconds.
We log who accessed what, when, and from where. Not to spy on your staff — but because when a parent disputes a fee payment or a teacher says "I sent that notice," you need proof. Audit trails protect everyone.
We enforced this at the database level, not just the UI. A Class 5 teacher literally cannot see Class 8 student data — the query won't return it. Accountants see fees but not medical records. Parents see only their children.
These aren't optional certifications. They're Indian laws that apply to every school. Here's what each one means for you.
Critical issues — data breach, system outage, payment failure — get a response within 2 hours. Not "we'll get back to you." An actual person, with an actual fix. We publish our response times because accountability matters more than promises.
Student Data Protection
Names, phone numbers, addresses — encrypted at the database level. Even a system administrator cannot export raw student PII without triggering an audit log entry.
Automated Daily Backups
Full database backup at 2 AM IST every day. Stored in a separate AWS region (so a regional outage doesn't take your data with it). 30-day retention with one-click restore.
Public Uptime Dashboard
We don't just claim 99.9% uptime — we track it publicly. Maintenance windows are announced 48 hours in advance via WhatsApp and email. No surprises.
Anonymous Complaints (POCSO)
Each complaint gets a unique tracking ID. The reporter's identity is never stored — not in the database, not in logs, not anywhere. This isn't a feature. It's the law.
Every feature below came from a real conversation with a school administrator. Not a product roadmap. Not a competitor analysis. Just: "This wastes my time. Can you fix it?"
A school in Pune told us they were spending 3 hours every week calling parents about overdue fees. Awkward for everyone. Our automated WhatsApp reminders recover 85% of overdue fees within 7 days — no phone calls needed.
We timed it. A teacher marking attendance on paper: 8-12 minutes per class. On OneShiksha: 30 seconds. Multiply that by 6 classes a day, 200 school days a year. That's 80+ hours back — roughly two full working weeks.
POCSO requires anonymous complaints. DPDP Act requires data encryption. CBSE wants digital records. Most schools scramble before inspections. With OneShiksha, the reports are already generated — one click, done.
We hear this from every school: parents call 2-3 times a week asking about attendance. After switching to OneShiksha, those calls dropped by 60%. Parents check the app themselves. Teachers get their time back.
One accountant told us she used to spend every Sunday preparing fee reports for the management. Excel formulas, cross-checking, formatting. Now it's one click — the system generates it automatically with color-coded defaults.
Activity logs sound like surveillance. They're not — they're protection. When a parent disputes a fee payment or a teacher claims they sent a notice, you don't have to guess. The system shows who did what and when.
We designed OneShiksha for the ₹8,000 Android phones that most teachers actually use. No app download. Works in Chrome. Loads in 2 seconds. Even works when the network is flaky — syncs when you're back online.
A school in Mumbai ran a test: SMS reminders got 31% open rates. WhatsApp got 94%. Same message, same content. The school switched to 100% WhatsApp and their fee collection jumped from 72% to 89% in three months.
Book a 15-minute walkthrough. We'll import your existing student data and show you exactly how OneShiksha works for schools like yours — live, not a recording.
We've talked to over 200 school administrators across Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Karnataka. Here's what they actually told us — not what we assume they need.
We visited a school in Pune last year. The principal showed us their "digital management system" — a custom ERP that cost ₹8 lakhs. It had 200+ features. You know how many they used? Four. Attendance, fees, notices, and parent messages. Everything else sat there gathering digital dust.
That's the problem with most school software. Engineers build what sounds impressive on a sales call, not what a teacher actually needs at 8:15 AM when 40 kids are waiting to be marked present.
OneShiksha does 5 things well: collect fees, mark attendance, send notices, track complaints, and talk to parents. If you need something else, we probably don't do it — and that's on purpose.
Here's something no one talks about: most parents want to pay fees on time. They forget. They're busy. They don't have cash on the due date. The schools that recover fees fastest aren't the ones with the fanciest payment portals — they're the ones that send a WhatsApp reminder on the right day, with a payment link that works in 2 taps.
Our FeeSense AI figured this out. Instead of blasting reminders on the due date (when everyone's busy), it learns each parent's payment pattern and sends the reminder when they're most likely to act. Sounds simple. Took us 8 months to build. Worth it.
Quick question: does your school have a documented anonymous complaint mechanism? If you're thinking "we have a suggestion box in the hallway" — that doesn't count under the POCSO Act. The law requires a system where complaints can be filed without revealing the reporter's identity, with a unique tracking ID.
And with the DPDP Act 2023 now in effect, every school that collects student phone numbers, addresses, or medical info has legal obligations for data protection. Most schools don't know this yet. When the inspections start, they'll wish they did.
We built POCSO-compliant anonymous complaints and encrypted student data into OneShiksha from day one — not because it's a selling point, but because it's the law.
We did a test with a school in Mumbai. 300 parents. Half got fee reminders via SMS, half via WhatsApp. Result: 94% of WhatsApp reminders were read within 2 hours. SMS? 31% within 24 hours. Same message, same content, different channel.
The school switched to 100% WhatsApp. Their fee collection rate went from 72% to 89% in three months. No new features. No new staff. Just a better channel.
There are several "free" school management tools out there. Here's what they don't mention on the pricing page: free plans are capped at 50 students, don't include fee management, show their branding on your parent portal, and have zero support.
To get comparable features, you'll pay ₹200-500/student/month. That's 4-10x what OneShiksha charges. For a 500-student school, that's the difference between ₹24,500/month and ₹1-2.5 lakhs /month. Over a year, you're paying an extra ₹10-27 lakhs for the "free" option.
Book a 15-minute walkthrough with our team. We'll show you exactly how OneShiksha works for schools like yours — no sales pitch, just a live demo.