Most ERP software sold to coaching institutes was written for schools and then had a few labels changed. A school has one fee, one timetable and one admission a year. A coaching institute has batches that start in July and September, fees on five different plans, a teacher who also runs the front desk, and parents who expect a WhatsApp the same day. Drishtaa was built inside a two-branch institute in Surat to run exactly that.
Three things a school product gets wrong, and what it costs you every month when it does.
The enquiry becomes the admission, the admission becomes the fee plan, the fee plan drives the reminder, the attendance feeds the parent alert and the teacher score. One student, one record - not a fee sheet, an attendance register and a WhatsApp group that disagree with each other.
Each branch sees only its own students, staff and collections. The owner sees both on one screen - which batches are thinning, which branch is behind on fees, who has not marked attendance today. Staff at one branch cannot open the other branch's data, by design.
Attendance is marked at the classroom door. A fee is collected at the desk and the receipt is on the parent's phone before they leave. The owner reads the day's digest at night. Nobody has to sit at an office computer for the institute to run.
Every module below is live today in a running institute. None of it is a roadmap.
A school ERP assumes one admission season, one fee, one timetable and a large office. A coaching institute has rolling batches, several fee plans per standard, a small team wearing many hats and parents who expect a WhatsApp today. Drishtaa was built inside a coaching institute, so those are the defaults, not the workarounds.
Students, batches, fee plans and what has already been paid come across from a spreadsheet on the first day. WhatsApp connects to your own number the same week. Most institutes are collecting fees and marking attendance in it within a few days.
No. A single branch simply never sees the branch switcher. The rest - fees, attendance, WhatsApp, parents - is exactly what a one-branch institute uses every day.
Each institute's data is kept separate from every other institute's. It is backed up automatically every second day and a copy is emailed to you. The security page explains how it is stored and who can see it.
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Bring one batch, its fee register and last month's attendance. In an hour it is inside Drishtaa and you are looking at your own institute, not a demo dataset.
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