One login, every linked child
A parent with children on different campuses switches between them from the same account.
08 · Parents see what you allow.
Parent Portal
Parents see fees, attendance, progress, and receipts for their child.
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EdSyft module 08
Why it matters
The operating detail behind the promise.
Most of what a parent wants to know about school is small and specific: did my child's fee payment go through, is my child marked present today, has the report card come out yet. Answering that shouldn't require a phone call to a front office that's also trying to run a fee counter. Edsyft's parent portal is built around exactly those questions, and it works on the phones parents actually have, no separate app to install, no password gymnastics, just a browser login the school sets up.
Fees are shown the way a parent actually reads a bill: due amounts broken down by fee head and installment, receipts with a genuine PDF download for every payment, and any refund or adjustment shown as its own line, not folded invisibly into a total, so a family can see exactly why a balance moved. Attendance goes further than a single daily label: for schools that mark attendance twice a day, a parent can see morning and afternoon status separately for a single day, not just one summary tag, and the percentage shown is the same number the school's own reports use, not a client-side guess.
A published report card appears exactly as the school approved it, with a genuine print link, and a parent can also see individual tests a teacher has chosen to share ahead of a report card, clearly marked as practice or as counting toward the report, so nothing is mistaken for a final result. A child's admission documents are available to view and download, sectioned by what still needs action, what's with the school, and what's already accepted. And a parent raising two or three children across different campuses in your network switches between them from the same login, without juggling separate accounts.
One honest note: a messaging thread between parents and teachers is on the roadmap and visible in the shell today, but it isn't a working conversation yet, what's live right now is the notifications bell and the school-updates feed, which do work, and stay accurate to what the school has actually published.
What it handles
The work that should not disappear between screens.
Every capability below maps to a real operating decision, handoff, or record inside the module.
Attendance, down to the slot
Schools marking attendance twice a day show morning and afternoon separately, using the same percentage the school's own reports use.
Fees, receipts, and refunds, itemized
Dues by fee head, a real receipt PDF for every payment, and refunds or adjustments shown as their own line, not folded into a total.
Report cards, once published, and printable
A published card appears exactly as approved, with a genuine print link, plus shared tests clearly marked practice or report-counting.
Documents, sectioned by status
Documents are grouped as needs action, with the school, or accepted, so parents can see what is still pending.
School updates, in one feed
Notices and notifications land in a single feed with an unread count, live today, ahead of full messaging.
How it is controlled
Rules that make the workflow trustworthy.
Permissions, approvals, and state changes are part of the workflow itself, not instructions left for a staff meeting.
Access is granted, never guessed
A parent's login is created by the school against a verified guardian record. It's never inferred just because a phone number matches.
Nothing shows before it's published
Marks, report cards, and notices reach a parent's phone only once the school has chosen to release them, never a draft, never early.
Value propositions
A better day for the people doing the work.
What changes for the team once this module is running in daily work.
Guardian-verified access
A parent's access is granted by the school, never guessed from a phone number.
Nothing shares until it's published
Marks, notices, and updates reach a parent's phone only once the school has chosen to release them.
A statement that matches the office's own numbers
Attendance percentages and fee balances shown to a parent come from the same calculation the school's own reports rely on.