Preschool & Playschool Management Software
A preschool runs on trust: parents handing over three-year-olds want receipts that reconcile, updates that arrive daily, and an office that never says "let me check the register". SchoolDeck gives a playschool the same operational backbone 500+ bigger schools run on — sized, and priced, for yours.
A 60-child playschool generates more parent interactions per student than any other kind of school. Admissions run all year — a walk-in on a Tuesday in November is normal — and every enquiry is a conversation, a tour, a follow-up call that lives in the owner's phone. Fees arrive in instalments negotiated family by family, recorded in a book, receipted from a pad whose carbon copies fade. The daily update — did she eat, did he nap, what did they make today — runs on a WhatsApp group per class that mixes birthday invitations with fee reminders and swallows anything important within an hour. And the two questions that actually matter — who is authorised to pick this child up and what are this child's allergies — live in an admission form filed in a cupboard.
None of this fails until it does: the double-entered fee that takes a week of book-flipping to untangle, the update that a parent misses and escalates, the pickup question answered from memory. Preschool owners don't lack diligence — they lack the ten minutes a day the paper systems quietly eat. That is the whole pitch of putting a playschool on software; nothing here is transformation-speak, just the office's daily list, done properly.
Enquiries and admissions, year-round. Every walk-in and call logged with a follow-up date, so the enquiry from Diwali week doesn't die in a diary. Admission converts the enquiry to a student record in one step — the admissions module at playschool scale is mostly about never losing a family who showed interest.
Fees in instalments, receipts that reconcile. Fee plans carry your real structure — admission kit, term fees, meals, transport — with instalment schedules per family, proper receipts, and dues visible at a glance. Sibling concessions get applied once with a record, not remembered at the counter. The free instalment calculator shows the arithmetic this module then runs daily.
The daily parent rhythm, off WhatsApp. Attendance marked in the classroom reaches the parent app; circulars and daily notes go to the right class without a group; fee reminders arrive politely and automatically. Parents get one app where nothing drowns; teachers get their evenings back from group-admin duty.
Records that answer the important questions. The student record carries what preschools actually need at hand: authorised pickup persons, medical notes and allergies, emergency contacts, photos permission — retrievable in seconds at the gate, not filed in a cupboard.
Staff and vans. Staff attendance for a team of eight, and transport records — routes, van-wise student lists, driver contacts — for the two-van fleet that parents ask about most.
What a preschool doesn't need — board-exam modules, senior-school timetabling — simply sits unused. There's no "preschool edition" to outgrow: the same platform runs the K-12 schools your students graduate into, which matters the day your playschool adds a primary section.
Here's the part that usually ends the evaluation: most preschools pay nothing. SchoolDeck Core is free for schools with up to 100 enrolled students — full features, not a trial, no setup fee — and the typical standalone playschool sits well inside that line. The exact boundaries are stated plainly on the free plan page; the short version for this segment: run your whole preschool free, and if you grow past 100 children, the Small School plan is a flat ₹24,999 a year on the same system, with nothing to migrate. A software line of ₹0 is the correct price for a 60-child school, and we'd rather say so than invent a "starter tier".
Preschool brands running multiple centres get the same system per centre with consolidated oversight — enrolment, fees and dues across branches in one view, the model our multi-branch use case describes. And playschools adding grades — the common Indian trajectory from playgroup to full primary — keep their records and simply grow into the modules that were waiting: exams, report cards, the full school ERP. Start where you are; the platform is already where you're going.
Free for up to 100 enrolled students — full features, not a trial — which covers most standalone preschools. Past 100, the flat Small School plan is ₹24,999/year on the same system.
Year-round enquiry and admission tracking, instalment fees with receipts, daily parent communication, records with pickup and medical details, staff attendance and transport. The K-12 modules it doesn't need stay unused.
Yes — attendance, daily notes, circulars, fee reminders and receipts in one place, ending the per-class WhatsApp group era.
Fee plans handle instalments, custom heads and per-student concessions with an approval record — the arithmetic preschool fee books are full of.
That's the design assumption: guided setup, onboarding included free, one admin login plus the owner's oversight. No IT staff assumed.
A 20-minute setup call — your classes, your fee plans, your parent app. Free within the 100-student band.
