Built in Lagos, for Nigerian private schools

Every parent hears
their own figure.

Not a broadcast to four hundred people. One message per family, listing exactly what that family owes, itemised, with the deadline in words — sent to the phone they already read.

See how a term works
✓ No app for parents to install✓ Works without a signal✓ CBT examinations built in✓ Naira pricing, no dollars

The walkthrough

One term, start to finish

Seven phases, in the order they actually happen. Every panel shows the real thing the software produces — the message a parent receives, the register a teacher taps, the card that reaches home.

SurnameAdebayo
First nameChidera
ClassJSS 1A
GuardianMrs Adebayo Folake
Phone0803 555 0142
Admission no. CR202627001841 — issued

Class teacher

A child joins, once

The class teacher enters them — or photographs the admission register and the details are read off it. An admission number is issued automatically. Nobody types a name twice.

New

Your school can sit exams on a screen

WASSCE has begun moving to computer-based testing, centre by centre. A child who has never sat an exam on a screen meets that transition cold. This is how a school practises for it — in its own hall, with its own papers, on the phones the children already have.

Teachers set the paper, the exam officer approves it

A subject teacher writes their questions and hands the paper in. Nothing reaches a child until the examination supervisor has read it, set the timetable and released it. That is how a school already works, and now the software works that way too.

Type the questions, or photograph the paper you already wrote

Upload a Word file, a PDF or a photograph of a typed paper and the questions are read off it — objectives, options, theory questions and their parts. You check every one before anything is saved. Where a question needs its diagram, you attach it.

Objectives and theory as two separate sittings

Just as in a WAEC hall. The objective section runs on its own clock; when a candidate's time is up their paper is submitted and that section closes. Theory opens only when the supervisor releases it, with its own duration.

Nothing is lost when a phone dies

Every answer is saved the moment it is given, not when the paper is handed in. A battery that fails at question 31 costs a child question 31 and nothing before it — and the server submits their paper where they stopped, even if the browser never comes back.

The supervisor sees the whole hall

Who has handed in, who is still writing and how long they have, whose device has stopped responding, and who never started. Retakes are granted by name, with a reason — for the child whose phone failed, or who missed the day.

The mark reaches the report card by itself

Objectives mark themselves. Theory is marked on screen against your own marking guide. The total is scaled into whichever exam the paper was set for, and lands on the report card — no one keys a mark in twice.

And a practice bank for the exam itself

Separate from your own papers: WAEC, NECO and BECE practice questions students work through on their own phones, at their own pace. Nothing is timed and nothing counts towards a report card. The answer and the reason appear the moment a student answers — because a child practising alone has no teacher to ask. Their scores build into a trend, and the topics they keep missing are named back to them.

Everything in one place

What SchoolLedger does

Not modules a school pays extra for. All of it, from the first day.

Fees that match how you charge

Tuition fixed per class level, billing the whole level in one action. Transport, hostel and books assigned only to the children who use them. Discounts per student, in naira or percent, with a reason recorded.

A reminder to each parent, individually

Their child, their categories, their balance, their deadline. A parent with three children receives one message, not three. The balance is worked out at the moment of sending — never a stale figure.

Payments you can actually trust

Paystack, cash, POS, or a transfer with a screenshot. A claimed payment stays a claim until the bursary confirms it against the bank. Every receipt reaches the parent's own page.

Arrears that follow the child

What was not paid last term does not vanish. It carries into the new term, ages by term, and the start-of-term message shows both figures together.

A register marked in two minutes

Tap to change present to absent. Parents of absent children hear at the end of the day, once the child has genuinely not arrived — not at 8am when they are simply late.

Works with no signal at all

Registers and results save on the phone and send themselves later. A mark taken at 8am never overwrites a correction made at 10am. Nothing is lost, and nothing silently overwrites.

Results, scaled correctly every time

CA1, CA2 and mid-term make 50 at half term; after the break that 50 scales to 30, plus CA3 and the exam. The arithmetic lives in the database, so it is right on every card in the school.

Report cards that say something

Comments drafted from the marks themselves — the weakest subject named, the direction against last term, the character ratings. Fully editable, because some children need a sentence no rule can write.

A parent page with no app to install

Fees, results, attendance and receipts at one private link. No download, no password, no account. Works on the cheapest handset in the family.

Every branch, properly separate

Each branch has its own staff, classes, fees and registers. Only the proprietor sees across all of them. Switching branch changes everything on screen, and nothing leaks between them.

Roles that match real jobs

A class teacher marks their own register. A subject teacher enters their own subjects. A bursar invoices but does not edit records. A driver sees only his payslip.

Payroll with real Nigerian PAYE

Progressive bands, pension, NHF — computed, not guessed. Payroll is blocked until a human enters rates they have confirmed with a practitioner, and every payslip shows its working.

Accounts that explain themselves

Income against spending, charted, with a plain-English note on what moved the profit. “Repairs rose 342%. The largest single change against last term.”

ID cards you print yourself

Eight to an A4 sheet at true card size, with your crest, your colours and the principal's signature. A printer and scissors, not a card machine.

Census figures already counted

Enrolment by class, sex and age band, staff, attendance and facilities — computed for the government portal so filling it is reading, not counting four hundred children by hand.

CBT examinations, run properly

Mid-term and terminal papers sat on screen. Set by the subject teacher, approved and timetabled by the examination officer, objectives and theory in separate sittings, marks landing on the report card by themselves.

WAEC, NECO and BECE practice

Objectives a student works through alone, with the answer and the reason shown straight away. No timer, nothing counted. Scores build into a trend and name the topics worth revising.

A bank alert read off a screenshot

A parent sends a transfer alert on WhatsApp at 11pm. Upload it and the amount, date and reference are read off the image, then matched against the right invoice — ranked on the amount, never on the name, which on a Nigerian transfer is as often an uncle as the parent.

One view across every branch

The proprietor sees all branches side by side at the same scale — collected, outstanding, overdue and collection rate — with the differences between them pointed out rather than left to be spotted.

Withdrawals that tell you something

A child who leaves is archived, not deleted, with the balance frozen at exit. Twelve withdrawals coded the same way is a pricing decision the proprietor has not yet made consciously.

The small things parents remember

A birthday greeting to the child. A thank-you when fees clear. An event reminder a fortnight before the excursion, not the night before.

The part proprietors ask about first

Know what the school is actually worth, today

Most school software counts children well and money badly. This counts both, so a proprietor can answer a bank, a regulator or a spouse without a week of reconstruction.

A financial statement at any moment, not at year end

Income against spending for any period you choose — a week, a term, since the school opened. Salaries, rent, diesel, repairs and fee income in the same picture. No waiting for an accountant to assemble it in March.

Payroll ready in a minute, with real PAYE

Progressive tax bands, pension and NHF computed rather than guessed. Every payslip shows its own working, so a teacher querying their tax gets an answer instead of an argument. Approved payroll cannot be quietly rebuilt afterwards.

Bank reconciliation, so a claim is never a receipt

A transfer stays a claim until someone confirms it against the statement. Photograph the alert and the amount, date and reference are read off it and matched to the right invoice. What the books say and what the bank says stay the same number.

Government census figures already counted

Enrolment by class, sex and age band, staff, attendance and facilities — computed for the portal. Filling the return becomes reading, not counting four hundred children by hand at a deadline.

What moved the profit, in plain English

Not just a chart. “Repairs rose 342% — the largest single change against last term.” The figure a proprietor needs is rarely the total; it is which line moved and by how much.

Decisions with the evidence attached

Which branch collects worst and by how many points. Which fee category carries the most unpaid money. Why children left, and whether the reason was money. The things a school usually learns a year too late.

Four people, four different days

What changes, for whom

For the school

  • Fees collected earlier, because every parent knows their own number
  • Old debt visible and ageing, instead of buried in a notebook
  • One figure for what the month actually cost — salaries included
  • Every branch on the same system, with nothing leaking between them
  • Census and payroll figures ready, not reconstructed at the deadline
  • Ready for computer-based examinations before the transition arrives

For parents

  • A message that names their child and their balance — never a group broadcast
  • One private link for fees, results, attendance and receipts. No app
  • Proof of every payment, visible the moment the school confirms it
  • Results and report cards the day they are released, not weeks later
  • Told about the excursion a fortnight early, when it can still be planned for

For staff

  • A register that takes two minutes and works with no signal
  • Marks entered once, scaled and totalled by the system
  • Report card comments drafted from the marks, then edited — not written thirty times
  • Payslips a teacher can open themselves, with the tax working shown
  • Exam questions set once, approved by the exam officer, marked on screen
  • No access to anything that is not their job, which protects them too

For students

  • An ID card that looks like the school issued it, because it did
  • Attendance recorded honestly, so a genuine absence is not lost in a heap
  • A report that names the subject to work on, not “could do better”
  • Character and skills assessed, recorded and shown — not an afterthought
  • Practice for computer-based exams before it is the real one
  • A birthday greeting from their school, which children remember

The difference

Why a school moves, and stays

Parents are spoken to, not announced at

Every other system sends the same message to everyone and calls it communication. A parent who owes ₦12,000 and a parent who owes nothing should not receive the same text. Here they never do.

It works where the network does not

A teacher in a classroom with no reception still takes the register. It saves on the phone and sends itself later — and a mark from 8am never quietly overwrites a correction from 10am.

Money is never guessed

A transfer stays unconfirmed until someone sees it in the bank. Arrears carry forward and age. Approved payroll cannot be rebuilt. Nothing shows a number the school cannot defend.

Ready for CBT before it is compulsory

WASSCE is moving to computer-based testing in phases. A school that has already run its own mid-terms on screen meets that with children who know what to expect, rather than discovering it on the day.

Nothing is hidden behind a higher tier

Payroll, accounts, report cards, the parent portal, ID cards, census figures, CBT examinations — all of it, from day one. Schools are charged per student, not per feature.

Priced in naira, by a school's own size

Agreed with you, per student per term — three bills a year, when fees actually come in. Free student allowances included, and no dollar pricing that moves with the exchange rate.

Built by one person who answers the phone

When something breaks you speak to whoever wrote it. That is not a limitation of a small company — for a school it is the whole point.

Pricing

One rate, everything included

Agreed with each school by size and circumstance, then fixed. Every feature on this page is in it.

Per student, per term

₦1,500 – ₦6,000

Agreed with you, based on what your school charges. Not a list price.

  • Free student allowance — up to 30 children billed at nothing
  • 2 free parent messages per student, every month
  • Extra messages at ₦12, only if you use them
  • CBT examinations and the practice bank included
  • Every branch, every feature, every user
  • No setup fee, no per-feature charge, no annual lock-in

What that means in practice

A school of 200 students at ₦1,000 with 20 free places pays for 180 — about ₦180,000 a month, everything included.

Against one term of fees collected earlier because parents actually knew what they owed, that is usually the cheapest line in the budget.

Rates are reviewed as a school grows, never raised mid-term.

What comes next

Already being built

Named honestly — these are not available today. Schools using SchoolLedger get them as they land, at no extra cost. Receipt reading, the all-branches dashboard and CBT examinations were on this list and have since shipped.

Next

Fee payment plans

An agreed instalment schedule per family, with reminders following the plan rather than one deadline.

Soon

Transport and route management

Which child is on which bus, with a pick-up and drop-off record parents can see.

Later

Library and book issue

Textbooks and library stock, issued against a student and chased when overdue.

Later

Alumni and transfer records

A leaving certificate and a transferable record when a child moves school.

See it with your own students

Send a message and we will set your school up with real classes, real fees and a real reminder — sent to your own phone, so you can read what a parent would read.

A demo takes about twenty minutes. No commitment, and nothing to install.