How much does a school website cost in India?+
A pre-school or single-campus K-12 website with admission enquiry form, programme pages, gallery, news, and basic SEO sits in the ₹40k–₹1.2L range. A full K-12 site with online admission application, fee payment integration, parent portal, teacher dashboard, result publishing, and bilingual content typically lands at ₹1.5L–₹4L for the launch and ₹15k–₹40k per month for content, hosting, and feature updates. A multi-campus school chain or a college with ERP/SIS integration, online learning module, alumni portal, and full multilingual support runs ₹4L–₹10L for the launch with ₹40k–₹1L per month ongoing. Hosting on Vercel is ₹0–₹2k per month for most schools; payment gateway transaction fees are pass-through (typically 1.95–2.5% per transaction). We quote in INR with module-level line items so you can see exactly what each piece costs and start with the modules that matter for the next admission cycle.
Can parents apply for admission and pay fees online?+
Yes — and this is usually the first module schools ask for and the one with the highest immediate ROI. Online admission flows include class selection, parent and student details, document upload (Aadhaar, previous mark sheet, photographs, transfer certificate), application fee payment, and a confirmation screen with a printable application receipt. The admin dashboard shows incoming applications grouped by class with shortlist, interview-call, and admit-decision states; admit letters can be auto-generated as PDFs. Fee payment integrates with Razorpay, PayU, Cashfree, or HDFC SmartGateway depending on your existing banking setup — UPI, cards, net banking, and EMI for higher-fee programmes. Receipts are auto-generated, GST-compliant where applicable, and stored against the student record. Schools we have shipped this for typically see admission enquiries grow 30–60% within the first cycle because parents can apply at 11 PM after work instead of waiting for the school office to open.
Do you integrate with our existing ERP or SIS — Fedena, MyClassCampus, Edumarshal?+
Yes — ERP and SIS integration is one of the most-asked features and one of the most worth doing properly. We have integrated with Fedena (the open-source education ERP), MyClassCampus, Edumarshal, Campus 365, Schoology-style custom SIS systems, and a few in-house PHP and .NET ERPs that schools have run for a decade. The integration is usually a REST API adapter — bidirectional, so attendance marked in the ERP reflects on the parent portal, and an admission completed on the website creates a student record in the ERP. For ERPs without a public API, we offer a polling layer or CSV-based nightly sync as an interim. We document the integration thoroughly: which fields sync, in which direction, with what frequency, and what happens on a sync failure. If you are still choosing an ERP, we can advise based on what we have seen work for schools of your size and board affiliation.
Can parents and students log in to see fees, attendance, and results?+
Yes — the parent and student portal is a default module on every school website we ship. After admission, each parent and student gets a login (usually keyed off the student admission number plus a secondary verification). The parent view shows fee history with paid and pending balances and one-click pay-now, attendance with monthly summaries, exam results with subject-level marks and class rank, homework assigned per subject per day, school notices with read receipts, transport tracking if your school uses GPS-enabled buses, and event RSVP. The student view shows the same data filtered to their own record plus homework submission, library issue history if integrated, and project deadlines. Permissions are role-based — a parent of two children sees both children's data without re-logging in; a class teacher sees their class only. Two-factor authentication is available for institutions that need it. The portal is what turns the website from a one-time admission tool into a daily-use app.
How does the site handle the admission-cycle traffic spike or result-day load?+
School websites have predictable traffic spikes — admission cycle (4–6 weeks of 5–20× normal traffic), result publication day (sometimes 100× normal traffic in the first hour), exam admit-card download windows, and major event registrations. Sites built without these patterns in mind crash on the day they are most needed. We architect for the spike: result pages are pre-rendered and CDN-cached so the origin server never sees the result-day traffic; admission forms are queued and rate-limited at the edge so a payment gateway timeout does not become a checkout failure; the parent portal uses connection pooling and read-replicas for high-concurrency reads. We load-test before each cycle (synthetic 50× concurrent users) and have a documented runbook for the day of result publication: a single button publishes the results, fans out the SMS and WhatsApp broadcast, and warms the cache so the first parent visit is sub-300ms. We have run successful result-day events for schools with 10,000+ students.
Can the website be in Hindi or another regional language alongside English?+
Yes — bilingual school websites are something we ship regularly, and not as a Google Translate widget. Hindi and English at page level (separate URLs like /hi/admission and /en/admission), form-level translations so a parent who reads only Hindi can fill out the admission form in Hindi, language-aware notification messages so the SMS and email arrive in the parent's preferred language, and bilingual document templates for admit letters and fee receipts. We have shipped Hindi-first school sites in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, English-first sites with Hindi switcher for affiliated CBSE schools, Marathi-Hindi-English for Maharashtra, and Tamil-English for Tamil Nadu. Translation is human-led for the static content (programme descriptions, vision-mission, founder bio) and AI-assisted with editor review for high-volume content (notices, news). For boarding schools with international parent bases, we have added Arabic, French, and Bengali variants on top of the Hindi-English base.
Do you build the photo gallery, event management, and notice board features?+
Yes — these are not afterthoughts; they are some of the most-visited pages on a school website. The photo gallery supports album-organised uploads with bulk-upload and drag-reorder, optional watermarking, parent-only filters for privacy-sensitive events, and Lighthouse-friendly lazy loading so a 500-photo annual-day album does not crash on a 3G phone. Event management runs on a calendar with category filters (academic, sports, cultural, parent-teacher meetings), RSVP capture, automated reminders 48 hours before, and Google Calendar export. The notice board has scheduled publishing (write Tuesday's notice on Sunday, it goes live Tuesday at 9 AM), category filters (urgent, academic, holiday, fee), SMS and WhatsApp broadcast on publish, and read-receipts in the parent portal. All three modules have a single-screen admin dashboard so a school office staff member without technical training can run the daily operations after a one-hour handover.
How do you handle SEO for school searches like "best CBSE school in [city]"?+
School SEO is local-intent search dominated by Google Business Profile, schema markup, and content built for parent-decision queries. We start with a properly configured Google Business Profile for each campus — correct school category (Primary school, Secondary school, College), affiliation tags, photos at 14-day cadence, and a workflow for collecting and responding to parent reviews on Google. On-page SEO uses EducationalOrganization, School, and CollegeOrUniversity schema with proper affiliation, board, and accreditation properties so Google understands which board you follow and which classes you offer. Content targets parent-decision queries at every stage of the funnel — "fees of [school name]", "[school name] vs [competitor]", "best CBSE school in [city]", "ICSE schools in [city] with bus facility", "boarding schools in [region]", "admission process for class 11 [city]". We do not chase pure brand-volume keywords; we chase the long-tail intent searches that actually convert into enquiry-form fills.
