We have just released Android and iOS versions of our new smartphone app for students. This is a great way to increase the “stickiness” of a student to your school. Once they can see that you are providing them with a way to connect to your school at all times, it will make it more […]

  SchoolMate is now available to users in 15 languages as we have just released the following new language versions of SchoolMate: Bulgarian Greek Hungarian  Romanian This is in addition to the 11 existing SchoolMate languages: Catalan Croatian Czech English French German Italian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish The default language of SchoolMate is English, but […]

  With this latest update, we have added the ability for you to send WhatsApp messages to your students and teachers from their card in your SchoolMate account. To be able to do this you only need a basic WhatsApp account. This is not for bulk sending of messages which requires a business account and […]

The teachers’ app is now available for both Android and iOS phones. Teachers can now mark student attendance and lesson and homework information from the comfort of their smartphones. If you have teachers working away from your school site, you can add the address of the lesson with all information on how to get there. […]

The two latest updates to SchoolMate concern contracts. The first is E-Contracts where the agreement is “signed” in electronic form – no paper is used – by the student via their SchoolMate account. The second simplifies the way that you create contracts for students for their lessons. Hopefully, both of these additions will find save […]

We have added an online teaching platform to SchoolMate! Instead of developing one ourselves, we thought it would be better to link with a service that specialises in online platforms. We looked at a number of platform providers, in particular Zoom and LearnCube. We decided to link with LearnCube as it is a professional virtual […]

For our Italian schools, we are happy to announce that SchoolMate can now produce invoices in XML format that can be uploaded into the Italian government’s invoicing system. We have formatted these files to work with Aruba and any other SdI who work to this standard. How do I start using it? Well, you will […]

What type of people are visiting your About Us page?  Most likely, they’re prospective students considering if your school is one at which they would like to study. Your About Us page is the one place you can subtly sing your own praises and tell the world why your school is wonderful. So how do I go […]

Passport, sun cream, phone charger; everything you need for your summer break. But, before you head off for a few weeks of well-earned relaxation, there are a few things you might like to put in place in your SchoolMate account before the next academic year begins. Deactivate students and lower costs! A great way to […]

It takes a lot of guts, a lot of patience, and a whole lot of time to get a new academy up and running. There are certain areas which you must get it right in order for a project to fly. The 3 main reasons language schools fail are: Lack of market research. Failure to […]