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Free School Management Software
Schools with up to 100 students run SchoolDeck Core free — the same student information system, fee management, attendance, exams, timetable and parent app that 500+ Indian schools pay for. Not a 30-day trial. Not a stripped starter edition. The boundary is your student count, and it's the only one.
The free plan is the same SchoolDeck Core that paid plans run. Twelve modules, one database, parent and teacher apps included.
Every student record, document and history in one place.
Enquiry to enrolment, without the paper register.
Daily class attendance with parent notifications.
Fee plans, receipts, dues tracking and collection reports.
Class and teacher timetables without clash headaches.
Exam schedules, marks entry and printable report cards.
Attendance, homework, fees and circulars on parents' phones.
Attendance, marks and homework from the classroom.
Assigned, submitted and tracked per class and subject.
School-to-parent communication that actually reaches.
Routes, stops and student-to-bus mapping.
The basic numbers a principal actually checks.
Pages about free software usually hide this part. Here it is as a table.
| School size | Plan | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 100 students | SchoolDeck Core — full features | Free |
| Up to 500 students | Small School · SchoolDeck Core | ₹24,999 / year |
| 501 – 1,000 students | Standard School · SchoolDeck Core | ₹49,999 / year |
| 1,001 – 2,000 students | Growing School · SchoolDeck Core | ₹99,999 / year |
| 2,001+ students | Enterprise School · SchoolDeck Core | ₹1,49,999+ / year |
Add-ons are separate annual subscriptions on free and paid plans alike — BookNest (library), StockWise (inventory), GateKeep (visitor management), PeopleDeck (payroll) and PaperDeck (question papers, Print and AI editions). They extend the core; they never gate it. A school that only needs the core modules is fully served by the free plan.
Flat pricing per band — not per student — and no setup fee on any plan, free included. Full details on the pricing page.
Most free school management software falls into one of three patterns. It's worth knowing which one you're looking at before you enter a single student record.
"Free" for 14 or 30 days, then the school pays or re-enters everything elsewhere. The cost isn't the subscription — it's the second migration of every student record you just typed in.
Free forever — but fees, report cards or the parent app sit behind the paywall. The modules a school actually runs on daily are precisely the ones locked.
The licence is free; the server, updates, backups and the person who maintains all three are not. Honest option for schools with IT staff — an expensive surprise for schools without.
Full core, cloud-hosted, no time limit, no locked daily-use modules, no server to run. The boundary is one number — 100 students — and it's printed at the top of this page.
New schools in their first sessions. A school opening with two sections of 30 doesn't need a ₹50,000 software line in year one — it needs admissions, fee receipts and a parent app that work from day one, and a system that's already in place when enrolment doubles. Starting on real software beats starting on Excel and migrating later, because the migration you skip is your own.
Standalone pre-primary and primary schools. Play schools and primary sections that will never cross 100 students get a complete, permanent system — fee plans and receipts for the office, attendance and photos-free circulars for parents — without a subscription that never made sense at their size.
Small budget private schools. Schools where the annual software budget is zero rupees are exactly who receipt books and WhatsApp groups fail hardest. The free plan replaces both with receipts that reconcile and messages that are on the record.
Schools that intend to grow. This is the honest part of the pitch: we offer the free plan because schools that grow past 100 students stay. If that's you, the plan you graduate onto is a flat ₹24,999 a year — and the graduation is a billing change, not a migration. Larger school evaluating the platform today? Start from the full SchoolDeck ERP overview or the pricing page instead.
Genuinely free and not time-limited. Up to 100 enrolled students, you run the full SchoolDeck Core — all twelve modules, parent and teacher apps included — for as long as you stay within the band. No expiry date, no feature-locked edition.
Small schools grow. A school that starts free at 60 students and crosses 100 becomes a paying customer on software it already runs — that's worth more to us than an expiring trial. No ads in the product, and the free plan is not funded by selling school or student data.
You move to the Small School plan — flat ₹24,999/year up to 500 students — on the same system. Student records, fee ledgers, attendance and exam history all continue untouched. It's a billing change, not a migration.
Add-on modules — library (BookNest), inventory (StockWise), visitor management (GateKeep), payroll (PeopleDeck) and question papers (PaperDeck Print and AI) — are separate paid subscriptions at every plan level. They extend the core; they never gate it.
No setup fee — onboarding is included on every plan, free included. It's cloud software: nothing to download or host, works in the browser, with Android and iOS apps for parents and teachers.
Any school with up to 100 enrolled students — new schools, standalone pre-primary and primary schools, small budget schools, single-section schools. The count that matters is students enrolled in the system.
A 20-minute demo sets up your classes, fee plans and parent app — then your school runs on SchoolDeck Core, free within the 100-student band.
