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Fedena 3.5.4 Ganymede Is Here!

April 11, 2017

And it came bearing some goodies

For the last few months, we’ve been working away at building a new and improved Fedena release, and we’re proud to announce that it’s finally ready to meet you! Each release brings new features that make Fedena the school management ERP of choice, and this release is no different. Fedena 3.5.4 Ganymede promises to make life a little bit easier for students, teachers, and administrators. It is focused on exactly those small features that you don’t realise you need until they’re missing, and that addresses niggling issues that you might currently be resolving with tedious workarounds. Let’s take a deeper look at some of the updates you can look forward to:

1. Introduction of HR Leave Group– Institutions often have different leave policies based on employee position, seniority, department, and other classifications. Naturally, the leave type and leave count that applies to each of these groups varies. Fedena now allows your institution to classify employees into groups, assigning different leave types and counts to group members.

2. Revamped Applicant Registration Module- Fedena’s new revamped application registration module contains all the features schools want, making it the most personalisable experience to date. The updated module allows you to customize fields, create custom statuses and provides an improved user experience, along with many other changes.

3. Improved Fee Reporting – Fee payment is an arduous experience for both administrators and parents. Fedena had previously eliminated several of the cumbersome processes and long queues that plagued this process, and it continues to do so, by setting up a financial reporting system that is easy to parse. Reality can’t be denied – fees don’t always apply smoothly across the board. Parents are often able to only make partial payments, students incur fines, or earn discounts. All these details are now reflected in finance reports making it more accurate than ever before.

4. Discipline Complaint Records – It’s not just administrators that are benefiting with the new release. Whether it is discipline complaints reported by teachers or against them, Fedena lets you maintain a detailed ongoing record. This record is also searchable by username or by the name of the complaint, allowing for easy tracking and retrieval of disciplinary complaints.

5. Symbol Support in Admission Number - And finally, a small, but much-needed update. Fedena now supports the “/” symbol in the admission number, further enabling going paperless in your institution.

Ganymede will be out in a couple of weeks - so mark your calendars to remember when you can begin breathing easy. The intuitive updates promised in the new release will make school management less stressful than ever before.

Styx : Fedena 3.5.3

March 10, 2017

Fedena 3.5.3 is live for our users around the world. This release comes with a new mode to calculate Loss of Pay in HR, Timetable PDF changes, a common sorting setting for all examination pages and a lot of small but useful changes. We are dedicating this release to a very famous Mathematics teacher from not very long ago. Jaime Escalante was born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1931 and started teaching there before moving to the United States in the1970s.

He started teaching at the James A Garfield High School, Los Angeles which had many Hispanic students of working class parents who were below their grade levels in terms of academic skills. He was determined to bring these children up in Mathematics and offered to teach AP Calculus. Changing the status quo was not easy and he faced a lot of criticism from the school authorities who complained he was coming early and staying late without permission. Not deterred by this, he continued teaching them advanced math and even proposed dropping the number of basic math classes. Eventually, he took his first calculus class and with the help of fellow teacher taught AP calculus to 5 students, two of whom passed. By 1981 this number increased to 14 out of a class of 15.

His popularity and success grew to such an extent that his students making it to the University of South California outnumbering the students from all schools in the East Los Angeles region combined. The life of Jaime Escalante was featured in the 1988 book Escalante: The Best Teacher in America and the 1988 Oscar nominated film Stand and Deliver. We leave you with a famous clip from the movie:

What’s new in Styx?

1. Loss of Pay Calculation mode
2. Examination Student sorting control
3. Feature access settings for Parent accounts
4. Notifications of Timetable swaps and cancel

What’s updated in Styx?

1. Generate receipts for pay all fees.
2. Partial payments can be done via online payments.
3. Pay all fees can now come with a default number and this can be changed when a partial payment is being done.
4. The Timetable format has changed to accommodate the entire batch on one single page.
5. Library data can now be exported using a CSV with additional data.
6. Transport module has been updated with reports specific to batches, courses, and routes.
7. The UI for student reports center has been updated for ease of use and access.

There have also been a number of issues fixed in this release, you can find them in the Fedena 3.5.3 Release notes.

Loss of Pay Calculation mode

A new Loss of Pay (LOP) calculation mode – Deduct LOP from Payroll categories has been added to Payroll calculation. This mode allows deduction of LOP from one or more payroll categories instead of a direct deduction. For example:

Let’s consider a simple salary structure. The Basic Salary is 10,000 and Tax is 20% of Basic Salary. If the total working days are 20 and the employee having no leave takes 2 LOP days. The LOP can be configured in two ways now:

As a direct deduction
LOP is 1000
Basic Salary = 10,000
Tax = 2000
Loss of Pay = 1000
Net Salary = 7000

As a deduction from Payroll Categories
LOP = 1000
New Basic = 10000-1000 = 9000
Tax = 1,800
Net Salary = 7,200

While in Fedena you can find the option under payroll calculations, here’s a screenshot of the update.

Notifications for Timetable Swapping & Cancelling

The timetable is the one document which holds power over all your teachers, students, and your school. It’s the one document which sets the pace for the whole academic year. In most schools and institutions the timetable is a dynamic document as it depends on the availability of teachers. Keeping this in mind, last time we had released a new feature of automatic timetabling and the ability to swap classes in the timetable to fill the unavailability of any teacher. With your feedback we realized that a notification when the swap occurs or a cancelation of a period occurs seemed to be highly important to reduce the confusion created in the school. We have added an automatic notification which goes out to teachers as well as students when a swap or a cancel is done in the timetable for the day, giving the information immediately to everybody involved with the class. The feature looks something like this:

What’s coming up?
Our team is already working on a host of new features that will enhance your experience with Fedena. A mobile application for admins, students and parents is getting rigged in our workshop. The features you have requested will soon be live in Fedena, the number one school management system.

Opening up the power of the HR Module in Fedena

March 1, 2017

How to stop worrying and start managing your Payroll like a Pro

Hint : Use Fedena!

The value a school ERP provides for an institution is provided by the problems it is solving for process planning and execution. Managing employee payrolls, loss of pays, and leaves play a huge role in any institution and we have been continuously working towards providing the best solution for any and every school.

Softwares like Fedena or other school ERPs come with a huge bundle of modules and plugins, some of them which are essential for a school and some of them which serve a specific niche purpose. We have been working on the HR module in Fedena over the past few updates and we feel some of you might have missed these important changes we have added.

Creating a Canvas for your HR Problems

In the first phase, we built the HR module from the bottom up to bring in many new features. The two major changes we did were the addition of Payroll Groups and Loss of Pay calculation.

Payroll Groups allow institutions to configure different salary structures for different types of employees. For example, your administration staff and your academic staff may have different salary heads. With payroll groups, you can ensure your employee salaries remain distinct.

Leaves and Loss of Pay calculation have been a high-demand feature from institutions. The Loss of Pay formula given to a Payroll Group is used to calculate the Loss of Pay when additional leaves are taken. Loss of Pay being a management decision varies from institution to institution and hence the user has the option to apply & choose the Loss of Pay leaves. The admin staff also have freedom to configure the formula for the Loss of Pay calculation as these formulas differ from management to management.

Drawing out the solutions for your HR Problems

After completing the first phase of the revamp with Payroll Groups, Leaves and Loss of Pay changes, we set out to improve other features. Based on input from different types of institutions a new mode of salary calculation was added to the Payroll Groups. This new Custom Mode released in Fedena 3.5.3 (Nix), is beneficial for institutions (especially schools) who calculate the salary from a single payroll category like Basic Salary. With Fedena 3.5.4 we are also bringing a new prorated Loss of Pay calculation mode to give more options to calculate the Loss of Pay.

In this new mode, the Loss of Pay (LOP) can be pro-rated across multiple payroll categories. This allows more flexibility for institutions where Loss of Pay means the other categories are also pro-rated accordingly.

An Illustration

Let’s consider a simple salary structure. The Basic Salary is 10,000 and Tax is 20% of Basic Salary. If the total working days are 20 and the employee having no leave takes 2 LOP days. The LOP can be configured in two ways now:

As a direct deduction
LOP is 1000
Basic Salary = 10,000
Tax = 2000
Loss of Pay = 1000
Net Salary = 7000

As a deduction from Payroll Categories
LOP = 1000
New Basic = 10000-1000 = 9000
Tax = 1,800
Net Salary = 7,200

Adding a few final strokes

We are bringing further changes in the HR module in the coming weeks. With more options in leave management, you will be able to configure different leaves for different employees.

Being hosted in servers with latest security measures ensures your payroll and payslip data is safe in Fedena and only accessible to whom you give privilege.

For any further assistance in figuring out the new Human Resources Features, do get in touch with our support team. So what are you waiting for? Get started with Leave and Payroll management with your favourite school management system.

7 Life saving tips for your Fedena account

February 24, 2017

Every school ERP implementation boils down to the same old thing- “The correctness of the data”. The more concise the data in the ERP the better it performs. And just like the way the human brain implements knowledge acquired from vicarious training, school ERPs take data and give you insights you need the most.

Having understood the relation between ERP and data, the school admins try a lot of different things to get the best out of ERPs used in schools. If you are the school admin, you never know which report you may be asked in the next meeting with your school management. So here at the support wing of Fedena, we make things simpler by giving our users tips and tricks for a successful implementation in all of our customer interactions.

Here are 7 such life-saving Fedena hacks which go unnoticed at times, but can really help you in making your job easier

Imagine a Scenario, when you are asked to re-assign user Privileges of all your employees at a go in the next hour. All you need to do is make use of the Bulk edit feature of Fedena by merely entering the employee usernames and entering NULL for the respective privileges in your CSV file before clicking Bulk edit next to your Export in the Custom Import module.

It is often observed that while printing the Fee receipts in the Schools, the schools spend a hefty amount on A4 size papers. Needless to say, Fedena offers an A5 mode to print these Fee receipts. And how do you get an A5 size paper? Just cut your Regular A4 size paper into two equally sizes while in portrait mode. Since A5 size is exactly the half of that of A4, this can cut the cost of printing Fee Receipts by half. Stop wasting paper and start saving trees (and money).

In an Institution with a healthy number of students and elective subjects, it becomes difficult to track students who have opted for a particular elective subject. In such a case, the subject details in Data and Reports from Home > Reports > Subject comes to the rescue. The user can select the batch and proceed to check the option elective subjects to get the exact number of students enrolled in the subject.

We all know, how the allocation of Labs are managed in our Institutions. For instance, when group A has Physics lab on Tuesday, group B of the same batch can have Chemistry for the same period and vice versa on some other day of the week. In such cases, the elective group options help you in managing this while setting up timetables for the batch. Please follow our detailed article on this to know more.

The Fees counter of the schools have always been on the radar of the finance department in the institution from the beginning. It is one of the daily chores of the cashier to let the department know the total cash collected for the day. In such cases, the cashier can opt to use the Finance receipts option from Home > Finance > Finance Reports > Fee Receipts > Advanced Search and select the relevant cashier name to extract the CSV file containing the payments receipts generated for the day. Can it get any simpler?

The Teachers often ask the students to visit a particular website of educational significance for a detailed research. Just consider how easy it would be for the users, if students visit Fedena and the website of the day is already on the Appframe section from Home > App Frames. Click here to set it up for your students.

Now comes the uber-hack among the ones mentioned above- the Advanced payslip reports. The Finance Department asks you a report of the total money outflow towards employee Payslips. We do understand searching each and every individual employee records for the Payslips can be a really tough task and hence, we have included the exhaustive Payslip reports in our latest release which is accessible from Home > HR > Payroll and Payslip Management > Advanced Payslip Reports

So, Sign up for a quick Fedena demo here to see how this happens in real time scenarios. You can thank us later.

The Fedena Audit Plugin : Your secret to success

February 17, 2017

The tracking of every activity in schools or institutions is not an easy task especially when it’s done manually. All activities that are associated with the school should be tracked and logs need to be maintained as it helps in understanding how the school can optimize and grow.

Especially when the school management moves to an internet platform, the manual intervention of activities gets heavily restricted. A track of all log activities needs to be maintained, to check how the users are performing in different departments like finance activities, managing user accounts and scheduling or deleting activities.

The Fedena audit plugin helps in logging all activities your users (employees, students, parents) perform, what time they are performed, and what data they have accessed or tried accessing.

The audit plugin tracks the following activities in three different categories:

Activity Audit:

Data Audit:

User Audit:

There are various scenarios where the Audit plugin has helped us in sorting confusions on data discrepancy.

Once such scenario was when one of the school was worried about the student information been changed without being notified to the admin. Since these days most of the software runs under a SAAS platform, they do not get the access to the log at their side.

However, with the introduction of the audit plugin, the user activities can be tracked and we were able to find out the reason how the changes was reflected in the student profile.

The main advantage of the audit plugin is highlighted when it comes to managing financial transactions. Most schools and institutions face a discrepancy while collecting various fees from their students and find it incredibly difficult to keep a track of which student has paid which fees. With student numbers only increasing in schools, it is also becoming increasingly difficult to maintain these records physically or using financial tools like Tally since they do not involve tracking payments to specific users in your system.

As Fedena allows fees to be tracked to specific student profiles as well as teacher profiles. The audit plugin clearly tracks all activities each user performs when it comes to transactions. The information on scheduling fee collection, collecting fees and reverting the fee collected is listed in log. Our customers have come back to us and have always expressed the immense amount of value the audit plugin has brought to them purely because it maintains a log of all actions being performed in Fedena and because of this very simple but powerful feature of Fedena, our customers have always located and removed mismatched fee collections and had a clean financial record to save up to 56% of their finances year on year.

Fedena is a powerful school ERP which puts the user first. What are you waiting for? Stop losing money because of bad records and mismanaged documents.

Fedena 3.5.3 : Styx – What to expect from your favorite school management system

February 10, 2017

Just like how restrictions are important for creativity, hurdles are important in giving us directions in where to go and what to jump over.

The very first update to Fedena in 2017 is almost ready to ship out. We’ve been busy making important changes to Fedena and making things easier for your school management. With Fedena 3.5.3 we are bringing small but important changes requested by you. The updates are centered around reports from various modules, outward communications for schools as well as a few new exporting options along with notifications which matter.

Fedena 3.5.3 – Styx: Preview

Here’s a sneak preview of what’s upcoming in the latest update

Styx will be out in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned for further updates from your favorite school management system, Fedena.

Why having a Discussion Module is important for a School ERP

February 3, 2017February 3, 2017

Community building is a very important aspect of schools in every society. Back in the day, when computers and smartphones weren’t available students, teachers and staff held discussions in classrooms, the school hallways, and whenever you would come across the right person to express your ideas, problems and solutions to. The introduction of the internet, computers, and smartphones has completely changed this landscape.

Now students, teachers, and staff use social media, messengers and various other online platforms to engage and find community. Making it very important for a school to build a community for their staff, teachers, parents and students. Building an online portal just for building a community, having a discussion board also involves a lot of technical development and investment.

But, what if you didn’t need to build anything or invest extra in a software which helps you maintain your school’s community?

School ERPs with a Discussion module

Online discussion forums continue to provide an ideal place for expressing ideas and understanding problems. A controlled discussion forum in a school ERP helps schools in opening new spaces for students and teachers to share their suggestions, knowledge and build a thriving school community.

The Discussion module should provide a platform which enables students, teachers, and staff to interact and exchange ideas, discuss grievances.
Admins should be able to decide who takes part in which discussion.
When a staff/teacher gets the privilege to be a part of the discussion he/she can view the post and comments. Post comments to continue the discussion.

There are many advantages which accompany an online forum or discussion module,

Advantages of having an online discussion platform.

Can reduce the amount of time taken by the teacher while taking initiatives for a meeting
- For example, when a teacher is planning to arrange a meeting for discussing the upcoming sports meet, he/she has to undertake the cumbersome effort of informing all participants, arrange a room, fix a timing that is suitable for all the participants etc. If the school ERP comes with a discussion module, all of these can be done by just logging in and creating a discussion in the ERP and the participants will be notified and an event will be created as well.

Shy students get more of a chance to raise their suggestions in discussions.
- In most offline meetings and discussions the number of participants is only limited to students who are comfortable addressing a crowd. To bring in everybody’s opinion online discussions help students with coming forward and sharing ideas and problems.

Encourages reflection and deeper thinking.
- Since online discussion forums provide enough time for understanding the opinion of different participants, discussions are done more effectively.

Posts and comments will be available for all participants.
- If we plan to conduct discussions within certain participants, there is a chance that some of the employees will not be able to participate in the discussion in the given time. In the case of an online discussion, contents of the discussion will be available all the time.

Documentation of discussions.
- It is very common to forget what was discussed in a meeting if you weren’t making a note of it. A discussion plugin/platform helps with that too, once the discussion is being done online, every little detail is documented to the last dot.

Easily Avoid ‘No time’ problem.
- Since discussions can be done using a PC or your mobile on the school ERP, participants can post their inputs at any time. This helps in having multiple discussions on multiple topics over everybody’s free time, which in turn keeps the school connected.

Community Building
- Forums provide a very good space to create a meaningful relationship among students and teachers. Students get motivated when their ideas are accepted among peers as well as teachers and vice versa.

Online Discussions in schools are offering all the students and teachers to get to know each other without conducting a face to face meeting. Even though social media platforms provides space for discussing, it is not suitable for an educational environment. Educational communities need centrally controlled discussions and have to make sure that there are no unwanted comments.

Does your ERP come with a discussion module? If it doesn’t, it’s time to change to Fedena.

Effectively using Forms in a school ERP

January 20, 2017

When we talk about the growth of schools and institutions, at most times we stop at just increasing the number of students, quality of education imparted, and improvement of grades. But what we fail to see is that schools just like all other organizations have tremendous opportunities to grow in every aspect. Especially in areas such as Parent-school communications, teacher satisfaction, faculty growth, admin satisfaction, curriculum relevancy etc. Most of these are achieved through strong feedback process cycles and to strengthen these processes a school ERP helps tremendously.

Every school ERP mostly comes with Feedback forms, survey forms in a manner of plugins or features. (If yours doesn’t, we suggest you immediately contact us to help you strengthen your processes and grow) These forms are the best way to setup feedback processes with teachers, admins, parents, students alike to get a better understanding of the people running your institution.

Set smarter goals and track your school’s progress

Sometimes you can only understand what your survey results really mean when you put them in context. You can gain perspective on where your school stands.
For example, you might find 47% of parents are satisfied with the school’s programs. Is that high? Is that low? You won’t know until you compare those results to other schools. Then you can highlight your strengths and define areas that need more focus.

Let’s take the Fedena Forms Plugin and see how it helps you track your school’s progress.

Use Cases:

Forms can measure Teachers and employees satisfaction at school
Forms can also be used for student evaluations, problems, and suggestions
Forms can help learn about teachers overall school experience and find out how they enjoy working at the school
Forms allow schools to get parents’ feedback on utilities in the school.

Let’s take a few example cases as to how we think schools could be using the Forms plugin in our school ERP.

Use Case 1:

The school management has decided to introduce a Teacher’s welfare fund programme with the mutual participation of all teachers and school management. Since the idea came from management, the success of this programme will depend on the decision of both parties, the school as well as its management. Before starting the discussion the school management can collect primary data by creating a survey template in Fedena by including the survey questions to grab the individual interest of such programme. In this, the management can get a tabular form of data in excel/table for the in-depth analysis of faculty involvement.

There is absolutely no need in disrupting class timings just to discuss starting the programme. This makes the complete process hassle free, collects information from teachers at their leisure and provides you a complete analysis of every faculty’s opinion as well as the school’s opinion about the Welfare fund programme.

Data analysis. ✓
Minimum participation time. ✓
Data Collection from the appropriate targeted audience, ✓
Freedom to express every individual’s opinion. ✓

Use Case 2:

The school management and teachers council has decided to give IELTS/TOEFL training programme to the students in order to increase the opportunity to get a better higher education abroad. Even though the idea is really good and acceptable, the management is finding it hard to take the decision without the parents’ consent and cooperation. The final exams are due and time is essential for teachers. They won’t be able to spare a whole day in arranging a parents meeting to initiate the project. If this project gets implemented before the final exams this would give a competitive edge to the students as well as the school. Generally, one would collect the opinions from parents by using some online survey forms or emails etc. But by using these the user participation would be less and due to nonuniformity and unfamiliarity of survey tools, more time would be wasted in making such a survey.

Here is where Fedena forms come in handy for collecting data from parents easily without wasting much of anybody’s time. What’s more, you already have every parent’s details in Fedena already, so all you need to do is make a form and use the internal messaging/notification system to notify them and voila, you have an instant approval rating for your new training programme.

Time management. ✓
Data collection. ✓
Ease of Use. ✓

Each school survey covers a different aspect of education—from parent engagement to student demographics—and can give anybody in your school a way to give feedback that’ll help you make targeted improvements to your school.

You can give students an anonymous, easy way to tell you their troubles. can use to find out whether your school has a problem, gauge its severity, and give victims an option to identify themselves.

For teachers, it can be helpful to understand how parents feel about their child’s education and school. What’s the right teaching style for their children? How often do they help their kids with homework? Are their children fitting in at school?

Find out the answers to these questions and to help teachers and administrators understand parent efficacy and whether or not students’ education continues outside of the classroom.

Get Smart. Get Fedena.

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Expanding A School ERP System To Hostel Management

January 13, 2017

Understand the role and advantages of using a school ERP

Education is no longer provided solely in the confines of a geographical border. Today, the international geopolitical environmental and economic boundaries are getting increasingly blurred and this newly evolved world demands a global education for students.

Consequently, today there are an increasing number of students traveling and seeking an education beyond the confines of their home city. There has emerged a demand for a hostel management system for students that efficiently manages several aspects of the entire residential facility reducing repetitive and manual work. Using a school ERP has proved to be an efficient solution to the day to day challenges in the management of a student hostel.

The relevance of an ERP system as compared to any other school management can simply be attributed to the efficiency it brings into the job. It helps to pursue mundane operations with accuracy and reliability of the secured data. An ERP based software is also operationally feasible due to its ease of use, as it can be effortlessly operated by any technical or non-technical person.
In schools, processes like fees collection, timetable management, attendance management, data management and other similar functions are done manually which takes a lot of time, energy, and resources. But using an ERP system helps schools and other educational institutions to manage their administrative activities at the click of a button.

A similar school ERP, when applied to a hostel eliminates the stress of manual data management and creates an operative roadmap for school administrators that assures the smooth administration of the hostel in a way that demonstrates efficiency, ingenuity together with cost saving. This form of data management covers hostel attendance, room allocation, mess usage, check in – check out times and many other requirements. It ensures comprehensive control over the entire hostel workflow.

Using a school ERP to manage your hostel data provides manifold benefits and to a variety of audience.

To the Hostel warden and other hostel employees, such a system allows for smooth flow of information and easy access to specific tasks. They can easily manage tasks such as inventory management, room information, room allocation, schedule fee collections, collect hostel fees and track fee defaulters. The addition of custom fields allows for easy recording of additional information if need.

For students, it offers an easy option to choose a room based on their preferences and requirements.

Add intentionally for parents, such a system allows parents and guardian to check the rooms and the fees associated with the room. It allows them to track the various activities of the students remotely and take any disciplinary action if deemed necessary.

In Conclusion, managing a hostel through traditional data management is a tedious task and efficiently leveraging a school ERP software offers a dynamic as well as practical approach. It helps hostels with precise inventory planning, offers a systematic approach and ensures accurate control of administrative processes to ensure that the hostel is able to function at its highest capability.

With Demonetisation, School ERPs are Non-Negotiable

January 10, 2017

How School ERPs like Fedena have made online fee management a breeze,
and why it matters

For students who come from lower-income families, school fee payment can often be a draining endeavor. Interacting with bureaucrats, and the system itself can be a time consuming, humiliating and laborious experience for parents who are already worried about having to make difficult financial decisions to secure their child’s future.

Technology has been a boon in this regard. School ERP systems like Fedena allow parents to plan for their children’s fees in advance, set payment dates that work for them, receive receipt confirmation in a timely fashion. Being able to foresee such expenditures helps parents and administration ensure that their student’s focus remain on what is most important – learning to their full potential.

School ERPs are not just for the privileged few. One can argue that they are, in fact, even more, necessary for lower and middle-income schools. Fedena makes repetitive processes like fee collection more efficient for school administrators, and less anxiety-inducing for parents who might be struggling to plan their financial outlay for the school year. They make economic sense for schools – the financial and temporal expenditure made by the administration on fee collection is drastically reduced after a one-time investment in software like Fedena’s. Parents are able to plan for all contingencies, since Fedena allows for not just school fees, but also the hostel and transportation fees, library fines, and other miscellaneous instant fees to be easily collected.

Efficiency does not come at the cost of personalized attention with Fedena. Its software allows for individual fee particulars to be shared, instant discounts to applied, custom pay dates to be set, and fee receipts to be generated for every student. It enables easy fee refund whenever necessary, even allowing for recurring refund rules to be set by administrators at their discretion. The financial status of every student and parent can be considered while these decisions are being made without the added hassle of getting time-consuming approvals for administrative exceptions and override processes on a case-by-case basis.

Remember the gut-churning anxiety of having to remember to get your parents to sign off and give you a cheque or cash for that school trip you and your friends were excited for? Or how about the science kit your teacher was ordering for the class for that semester’s final project? Fedena allows for the collection of different types of fees through its software, instead of having to rely on students and teachers to manage the task. Payments can be made on-the-go at the convenience of the parent, and expenditures can be tracked through itemized details and easy receipt generation, letting children focus on actually learning from their museum visits and lab experiments.

With the demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes, our financial lives have dramatically changed. From how you pay your local grocer to how you manage recurring payments, our increasing reliance on electronic money transfer portals cannot be denied.

What does this mean for the education sector? What School ERPs have already been offering – better planning, increased transparency, and faster transactions. These are seen across the education sector with a decrease in capitation fees, and increased focus on equitable treatment based on merit.

What does this mean for individual schools and students? Whether it is financing a new library allowing students to quickly access the best material to support their learning, building better physical education facilities to produce the next PV Sindhu, or increasing support and salaries for teachers and staff, Fedena enables schools to focus on channeling funds and human resources towards bettering lives of the people who matter the most in the system – their students.

2016 – Fedena : A Year in Review

December 30, 2016December 30, 2016

2016 has been a long and productive year. Taiwan elected their first female president, the Panama papers stunned the world of finance, Djokovic made history by holding four grand slams concurrently, Brexit, Modi demonetized India, Trump won the U.S elections, and over 200 Indian startups closed down. It’s been a roller-coaster of a year. Among all this madness, we had a few achievements as well. Here’s what kept the team behind the number one school management system busy this year:

We kicked things off with one of the biggest updates to Fedena. Fedena 3.5 released in February.

4,506,763 New Fedena Users were recorded in 2016!

We completed 7 years this April!

2,807,963 New students were admitted in schools running Fedena this year!

Our mid-year release, Namaka, Fedena 3.5.1 came out in July 2016. We dedicated this update to Savitribai Phule.

1,480,168 New Parents were introduced to Fedena to get better informed about their children’s schools, pay fees, and loads of other things!

In August we kicked off Fedena live chat support and haven’t looked back since!

A total of 5429 happy interactions with our customers in 2016!

Fedena servers recorded the highest availablility in 2016 at 99.95% !

And finally our latest release, Fedena 3.5.2, Nix. This was one of the marquee updates to Fedena. Accompanied with a very unique plugin – The Automatic Timetable Generator

Also,

With this, we bid adieu to 2016 and welcome 2017, a year with unlimited possibilities, opportunities, and growth. Here’s wishing everybody a very happy new year!

5 Reasons Why Investing in School Management Software Will Make You Future Ready

December 27, 2016

Why efficiently leveraging school management software is vital for success

Think back to a typical day when you were at school. Specifically, think back to the first five minutes of every class – when our teachers pulled out a massive tome to mark attendance. A time consuming, clunky, and laborious process, it often became an excuse for particularly cheeky students to pull a fast one over a naive teacher by having them mark a missing student as present, or an opportunity to cut into teaching time by dragging the process out for as long as they could.

This issue, along with many others that plague education management, is now obsolete thanks to school management software like Fedena. In an increasingly competitive environment, excellent school management translates directly to student success. It is no longer enough for a student to just have a dedicated teacher, or an involved parent, or a well-administered school. Effectively managing all stakeholders and resources available to parents, teachers, employees, and students leads to an educational experience that can define the next few generations of our country.

Here are 5 reasons using a school management software is no longer just an option, but a necessity:

1. Partnering with Parents to Enable Success: Parents are increasingly involved in the nitty gritty of their child’s schooling. Fedena allows parents to access their child’s grades, attendance, results, and more at any time, enabling them to make educational decisions more efficiently. This empowerment extends out of school too, with features like transport tracking, homework management, and custom reports for each student.

2. Personalising a Student’s Experience: Fedena enables teachers to share comments on specific student actions, communicate with them one on one via SMS or the in built messaging system, and share news and information relevant to students, resulting in the the kind of personalised attention to a student that is key to their success. It’s no longer a one size fits all education plan!

3. Efficient Course Management: Teachers, students, and parents alike are able to track progress for multiple courses and use their in-class and after-class time more efficiently with features like task assignment and library management. Fuss free examinations across levels and school boards are made possible using Fedena’s in built tools. This end to end tracking ensures that no child is left behind at any stage of the school year.

4. Seamless Fee Management: With Fedena the focus where it should be – the student, not inefficient and time-consuming paperwork. Eliminate the need for easily mismanaged and expensive school fee reminders. Instead use Fedena’s powerful engine that automates a cost effective fee collection process segmented according to fee classification. Parents also benefit since this school management software allows them to pay fees online and on the go.

5. Robust School Administration: From admission processes that power the creation of an incoming class that is the best fit for your school, to at a glance access to employee details, and their attendance and leave status, to having access to across the board student records at the click of a button, school administration is markedly more organised with Fedena. Experienced educators know that a strong administration results in a school that runs smoothly – creating an optimum learning environment for the student.

It isn’t enough for a school management software to merely provide the very basic of features needed for efficient functioning. Why stop there when you can go above and beyond? School management is a constantly evolving field, which is why the basic source code of Fedena is open source – customize the software to your school’s need with plugins and modules. Fedena is future ready enabling you to make the most of schooling.