Build a coaching system around your batches and your test series.
A coaching centre runs on a timetable and a results sheet: which batch, which faculty, which room, which chapter, which test. Parents also need to be told when a student misses a mock test.
Much of this sits in a register, a WhatsApp group and one senior teacher’s memory. Admissions arrive with the results, and enquiries noted on a pad are called back after the student has joined elsewhere.
A coaching system holds the student from the first enquiry to the last test paper: batch, attendance, instalments, marks, and a message to one parent about one child.
Coaching businesses we can build for.
A neighbourhood tuition class and a competitive exam institute with eight branches teach differently and collect fees differently. The software has to match whichever one you run. This page assumes a test series and a rank list behind it. A centre whose product is a course and a certificate should read the training institutes page. If you are franchising the brand itself, with royalties and territories, look at franchise businesses.
- Tuition centres
- Competitive exam coaching institutes
- Engineering entrance coaching
- Medical entrance coaching
- State and regional entrance coaching
- School board coaching
- Foundation programme centres
- Bank and government exam coaching
- Civil services coaching
- Defence services entrance coaching
- Law and judiciary entrance coaching
- Olympiad and scholarship exam coaching
- Repeater batches
- Accountancy and company secretary exam coaching
- Online and hybrid coaching businesses
- Test series providers
- Multi-branch coaching chains
- Coaching networks running several centres under one brand
The modules, and what each one covers.
Nothing here is a fixed package. Each module is built, left out or changed to match how your organisation already works.
Student record
One record per child, which survives a batch change.
- Student profile and photograph
- School or college
- Class and stream
- Target exam and year
- Parent names and contact numbers
- Address
- Admission date
- Course and batch
- Fee plan
- Attendance history
- Test history
- Documents
- Notes from faculty
When a student moves batch, the attendance, fees and marks move with the record instead of splitting into two half-records.
Enquiries and admissions CRM
Walk-ins after the results, calls from a billboard, referrals from a parent and forms from the website, all in one list.
- Enquiry source
- Student and parent details
- Class and target exam
- Counsellor assigned
- Counselling notes
- Demo class offered
- Follow-up date
- Fee quoted and discount sought
- Converted admissions
- Lost enquiries with reason
- Referral by an existing parent
Admission
- Enquiry
- Counselling
- Demo class
- Scholarship test
- Fee plan agreed
- Admission form
- Batch allotment
- Material issue
Courses and programmes
- Course name and duration
- Target exam
- Class and stream
- Subjects included
- Number of sessions
- Test series included
- Study material included
- Fee structure
- Instalment pattern
- Crash and revision variants
- Online, offline or hybrid
Batches
- Batch code
- Course and academic year
- Timing and days
- Classroom
- Faculty per subject
- Batch strength and limit
- Start and end date
- Batch status
- Waiting list
- Batch transfer record
Timetable
The timetable screen shows room and faculty clashes between batches.
- Weekly timetable per batch
- Faculty-wise timetable
- Room allocation
- Subject hours per week
- Doubt session slots
- Test slots
- Holiday calendar
- Clash detection
- Substitution when a faculty is absent
- Timetable published to students
Syllabus and portion tracking
Chapter coverage is recorded against the plan.
- Subject-wise chapter list
- Planned date per chapter
- Chapter marked covered
- Faculty confirmation
- Portion completed against plan
- Lagging batches
- Revision planning
- Pre-exam portion status
Attendance
- Session-wise attendance
- Subject-wise attendance
- Late arrivals
- Absence reason
- Continuous absence alert
- Attendance percentage per student
- Batch attendance trend
- Parent intimation on absence
- Faculty attendance
Attendance by card or biometric needs a device at the door. Where that is not practical, marking from the faculty’s phone at the start of the session works and takes a few seconds.
Faculty
- Faculty profile and subjects
- Batches assigned
- Hours taught
- Visiting or full-time
- Availability
- Leave record
- Substitutions handled
- Student feedback
- Payment basis per hour or per month
- Payment record
Tests and assessments
- Test scheduled
- Question paper assigned
- Test conducted
- Answer sheet evaluated
- Marks entered
- Rank list generated
- Result published
- Parent intimation
Test types
- Daily practice tests
- Chapter tests
- Weekly tests
- Cumulative tests
- Full syllabus mock tests
- Scholarship tests
- Board pattern tests
- Subject-wise test series
- Online tests
- Retest for absentees
Marks and analysis
Marks are analysed chapter by chapter, so a parent can see where marks are lost.
- Marks per subject
- Chapter-wise performance
- Question-wise accuracy
- Attempted and unattempted
- Negative marking impact
- Rank in batch
- Rank in centre
- Progress across tests
- Weak chapters
- Comparison with batch average
OMR scanning depends on the sheet design and the scanner you have. It is checked with your own sheets before it is promised.
Question bank
- Subject and chapter tagging
- Difficulty level
- Previous year questions
- Question type
- Solution and explanation
- Images and diagrams
- Paper generation by pattern
- Paper version control
- Faculty contribution record
Fee structure
- Course fee
- Instalment plan and due dates
- Registration and admission fee
- Material fee
- Test series fee
- Transport fee
- Hostel fee
- Discount and scholarship
- Sibling concession
- Approval for a non-standard discount
Fee collection
Overdue amounts appear on a screen and not in a receipt book.
- Instalment due list
- Receipt on payment
- Cash, bank transfer, card and cheque
- Online payment link
- Part payment
- Cheque bounce record
- Late fee
- Fee refund on withdrawal
- Outstanding by batch
- Outstanding by counsellor
- Parent-wise statement
Fee reminders
- Instalment due
- Reminder before due date
- Due date
- Overdue reminder
- Counsellor call task
- Payment
- Receipt sent
Reminders go to the number on the admission form, usually the parent’s. A parent who has ignored several messages still needs a call from a counsellor.
Parent communication
One message goes to one parent about one child. Batch averages are not discussed in a group.
- Absence alert
- Test result with marks
- Progress summary
- Fee reminder and receipt
- Parent-teacher meeting invitation
- Holiday and timetable change
- Faculty remark
- Achievement intimation
Parent portal
- Attendance record
- Test marks and rank
- Progress charts
- Fee due and payment history
- Pay online
- Timetable
- Study material access
- Faculty remarks
- Raise a query
Student application
- Timetable and today’s class
- Attendance
- Assignments and practice problems
- Test schedule
- Online tests
- Marks and rank
- Study material and notes
- Recorded sessions
- Doubt posting
- Notifications
Study material
- Module and booklet issue
- Issue register per student
- Pending issue
- Digital notes
- Recorded classes
- Access by batch
- Download control
- Material stock
- Reprint requirement
Doubt sessions
- Doubt posted by a student
- Subject and chapter
- Faculty assigned
- Answer with working
- Face-to-face slot booking
- Resolution time
- Repeat doubts by chapter
- Unanswered doubts
Results and outcomes
Your own record of what your students achieved, kept year by year.
- Board results entered
- Entrance exam results
- Rank and score record
- Batch-wise outcome
- Faculty-wise outcome
- Year-on-year comparison
- Alumni record
- Consent for publicity
The system records what your team enters and what a student shares. It does not fetch results from any examination board.
Transport and hostel
For centres that run either, the parts parents ask about most.
- Route and stop
- Vehicle and driver
- Student allocation
- Transport fee
- Hostel room allocation
- Warden and attendance
- Mess record
- Gate pass and leave
- Parent intimation
Branches and franchises
- Branch-wise batches
- Branch admissions
- Branch fee collection
- Faculty shared across branches
- Common test series
- Branch-wise results
- Franchise royalty record
- Consolidated management view
Roles and access
- Management
- Centre head
- Academic head
- Faculty
- Counsellor
- Front office
- Accounts
- Student
- Parent
Management dashboards
- Enquiries and conversion
- Admissions this season
- Batch strength and vacancy
- Attendance trend
- Fee collected and outstanding
- Instalments overdue
- Test participation
- Average marks by batch
- Faculty hours
- Dropouts and reasons
- Branch performance
- Enquiry source performance
Integrations
- WhatsApp and SMS providers
- Payment gateways
- Accounting software
- Online class platforms
- OMR scanners
- Biometric attendance devices
- Website enquiry forms
- Cloud storage for recordings
Joining an online class from inside the application depends on what the class platform allows through its own interface.
One connected workflow, end to end.
Every stage below can sit in one system, so nobody re-enters what the last stage already captured.
- Enquiry
- Counselling
- Demo class
- Admission
- Batch allotment
- Fee instalment
- Classes and attendance
- Portion tracking
- Tests
- Rank list
- Parent update
- Doubt sessions
- Results
You do not have to replace everything at once.
Each phase is usable on its own, so the system earns its place before the next part is built.
- 1
Students and batches
Admissions, student records, batches, the timetable and attendance. The front office and the faculty can work on this much alone.
- 2
Fees
Fee plans, instalments, receipts, reminders and outstanding by batch.
- 3
Tests and progress
Test scheduling, marks entry, rank lists, chapter-wise analysis and the parent portal.
- 4
Material and analytics
Study material, doubt sessions, the student application, branch reporting and management dashboards.
How a build actually runs.
- 01
Understand
We sit through an admission counselling session and a test day.
- 02
Map
Courses, batches, faculty, fee patterns, test patterns, approvals and who speaks to the parent.
- 03
Design
Screens for the counsellor, the faculty and the parent, each built for the few minutes they have.
- 04
Build
Admissions, batches and fees first, because they carry the load in results week.
- 05
Test
One batch runs on it for a full test cycle before the rest of the centre moves.
- 06
Deploy
Go-live is timed away from the admission rush.
- 07
Improve
The student application, the question bank and the analytics follow once daily use is settled.
What you bring, and when.
The build moves at the speed of the answers. These are the things we ask for, in the order we ask.
- 01
Admission forms, batch sheets and fee ledgers
We begin with what you hold now: admission forms, batch lists, the timetable, fee ledgers and a recent mark list. The receipt book format is useful. Notebooks and spreadsheets both work.
- 02
Academic head, counsellor and fee counter
The academic head, the admissions counsellor and whoever sits at the fee counter should be easy to reach. Discount and batch rules sometimes clash. The centre director has the final word.
- 03
Instalment plans, concessions and test formats
Instalment schedules, concession ceilings, late fee rules, the tests you run and how ranks are worked out all need answers. These shape the fee and test screens. Teachers and counter staff try each part as it is shown.
- 04
Students, parents and dues before a new session
Current students, parent contacts, outstanding fees and syllabus progress per batch are loaded in. A messaging gateway account, if you use a gateway, is connected. The director approves the changeover.
Systems we can put together for you.
- Coaching centre management software
- Student CRM and admission systems
- Batch and timetable systems
- Attendance systems
- Fee collection systems
- Test and assessment platforms
- Online test engines
- Question bank systems
- Parent portals
- Student mobile applications
- Faculty portals
- Study material portals
- Management dashboards
- Multi-branch coaching platforms
Questions owners ask before starting.
What is custom coaching centre software?
It is software built around one centre’s courses, batch patterns, fee instalments and test series, instead of a school package bent into shape. Coaching runs on batches and tests, not on classes and terms.
Can it handle instalment fees?
Yes. Each student’s plan carries its own instalments and due dates, and the overdue list is a screen rather than a page in a receipt book.
Can parents get their own child’s marks?
Yes. A message or a parent login can carry one child’s attendance, marks and rank, instead of a group post.
Are test series and rank lists supported?
Yes. Tests, marks entry, negative marking, batch and centre ranks, and chapter-wise analysis can all be part of the build.
Can students take tests online?
Yes. An online test engine with a timer, sections, a question palette and instant scoring can sit beside the offline test series.
Will OMR sheets work?
Usually, but it depends on your sheet layout and your scanner. We test with your own sheets before committing to it, because a badly aligned sheet reads wrong rather than not at all.
Does it manage a batch change mid-course?
Yes. The student keeps one record, and the attendance, fees and marks follow the student rather than the batch.
Does it track whether the portion is covered?
Yes. Chapters are marked as they are taught, so a batch that is lagging shows up in November and not in February.
Can several branches run on one system?
Yes. Each branch runs its own batches and collections, faculty can be shared, and the test series can be common across branches.
Do you have a ready product for coaching?
We have a School and College Management System. Its admission enquiries, fee instalments, attendance, timetables and marks cover a fair part of what a centre needs. The product is built around classes and terms rather than batches and test series, so we will say which way after looking at your fee and test patterns.
Can we start small?
Yes. Start with admissions, batches, attendance and fees, then tests, then the student application.
Can it be sold to other coaching centres later?
Yes, if it is designed for that from the start. A product that other centres log into needs their batches, question banks and fee data kept apart from yours.
How we work with this trade.
Ready products for this work.
If one of these fits, it is cheaper and faster than building from scratch. We will say so.
Build a coaching system that survives results week.
The two weeks after results decide a coaching centre’s year. Enquiries arrive quickly, batches are formed and re-formed, and fees are agreed at the counter in several ways.
Send your batch list, your fee register and one test result sheet. Between the three we can usually see which one is costing you students, and that is the part to build first.
Tell us how your coaching centres runs today.
We will tell you what can be digitised, what can be connected, what is worth automating, and what you should leave alone.
What happens after you share your requirements
- A senior engineer reads your answers. Nobody phones first.
- Within one business day you get a written note: what we understood, what we would start with, and the questions we still have.
- If it fits, a proposal follows with the order of work, what we need from you and what you receive at each step.
- No call is booked and nothing is paid until you have read the note. Your details stay with us.
Start with your requirements
Seven short steps that tell us what you need. A senior engineer reads them before anyone gets in touch.
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