What a school could get back
Pick the systems your school uses, give its size, and see an estimate of the office time and money involved, worked out from your own figures.
The systems your school uses
A typical fee-paying school's tools, until you choose yours.
Slooch takes over
Spreadsheets for registers, mark schedules, report compiling and fee tracking
Paper and online forms (consent, absence notes, medical forms, re-enrolment)
Slooch works with
SA-SAMS, d6, Ed-Admin, Xero, Google Workspace, Siyavula, Mathletics, Reading Eggs, SOCS, ADAM, STASY, iSAMS, Saspac, Scadsys, Rise, PowerSchool, Staffroom, EduVista, CEMIS, Microsoft 365, Sage Accounting, Sage Pastel, Sage Payroll, Payfast, Paygate, Karri, IEB online, SACAI portal, Cambridge Direct, Gauteng admissions, WCED admissions, Northern Cape admissions, Limpopo admissions and WhatsApp are the names of their owners' products. Slooch is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them. Each connection is one the school switches on.SA-SAMSBuilt
Imports learner, family and staff lists from an SA-SAMS export; sends attendance and marks for the school's returns
d6Planned
Imports learner, family and staff lists from an export; nothing goes back until the school asks
Google WorkspacePlanned
Sign-in and class lists
Slooch leaves alone
WhatsApp
WhatsApp stays as a channel Slooch sends notices through.
Your school's figures
Your estimate
Every figure below is an estimate, worked out from what you enter. Change any rate under How we worked this out.Office hours back each week: from your learner count and our rates.Value of that time: at R 180 an hour.Spend on the tools Slooch takes over: includes our assumption where you chose Not sure.Fees collected sooner: our assumption of R 12 000 a learner a year until you choose a fee band.Estimates from your figures.
- Office hours back each week
- 5 to 15,5 hours
- Value of that time
- R 35 000 to R 112 000 a year
- Spend on the tools Slooch takes over
- R 0 to R 12 000 a year
- Fees collected sooner
- R 216 000 to R 432 000
Notices reach an estimated 380 to 460 families on the phones they already read, and the office sees who opened each one and who acted on it.
Monthly spend on the tools Slooch takes over
How we worked this out
- Consent forms chased
- 600 learners × 1 to 3 forms a term ÷ 10 weeks × 25% outstanding × 6 min
- 1,5 to 4,5 hours a week
- Absence notes processed
- 600 learners × 1 to 2 absences a term ÷ 10 weeks × 4 min
- 4 to 8 hours a week
- Fee reminders sent
- 375 to 462 accounts × 15% in arrears × 1 to 2 reminders a month ÷ 4,33 weeks × 5 min
- 1 to 2,5 hours a week
- Term reports compiled
- 17 to 24 classes × 20 min a term ÷ 10 weeks
- 34 to 48 min a week
- Timetable change notices
- 600 learners × 3 changes a week per 600 learners × 10 min
- 30 min a week
- Applicant document checks
- 600 learners × 10 to 20% applying a year ÷ 40 weeks × 15 min
- 23 to 45 min a week
- Office hours back each week
- 8 to 17 hours a week × 60 to 90% that Slooch takes over (our assumption)
- 5 to 15,5 hours a week
- Value of that time
- 5 to 15,5 hours a week × R 180 an hour × 40 school weeks
- R 35 000 to R 112 000 a year
- Spend on the tools Slooch takes over
- Your monthly bands for spreadsheets, and paper and online forms × 12; Not sure counts as R 0 to R 500 a month (our assumption)
- R 0 to R 12 000 a year
- Fees collected sooner
- 600 learners × R 12 000 average annual fee (our assumption) × 3 to 6 points of the fee book
- R 216 000 to R 432 000
- Families reached
- 600 learners ÷ 1,3 to 1,6 learners a family
- About 380 to 460 families
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