20 years of school transitions, in one guide.
Switching providers is one of those decisions where the wrong move costs you a year. So this guide is built around the things that actually determine how it goes: a five-phase framework for the switch itself, a blueprint for implementation, and the questions most schools wish they'd asked their old provider — and their new one — before signing.
There’s usually a long gap between the moment a school realises its systems aren’t working and the moment it actually does something about it. Months. Sometimes years. The friction is visi...
If you’re at the point of comparing providers seriously, you’re past the question of whether to switch and onto the question of which one. Different problem. Different stress. And in some ...
“How long is this going to take?” is usually the second question a school asks when it starts thinking about switching providers. The first is “is it actually worth it?” Once t...
The most common reason schools defer a software switch isn’t disagreement about whether to do it. It’s disagreement about when. Term’s already started. Inspection’s coming up. ...
Most schools spend the bulk of their procurement effort comparing features. Which platform handles boarding management better. Which one has the cleanest curriculum module. Whose admissions workflow l...
Picture a bursar on a Thursday evening. Three browser tabs open. A spreadsheet that started life as a “temporary fix” sometime in 2021. She’s cross-referencing student records betwee...
