NewOffline-ready desktop app for every campus

The operating system for modern African schools.

Admissions, fees, report cards, staff and guardian messaging, unified in one calm platform built for how schools in Ghana actually run. Online or off.

Instant MoMo & card settlementGES & Cambridge gradingWorks through Wi-Fi drops
Scolara desktop app showing the school dashboard: total students, teachers, fees collected and today's attendance

Fees collected this term

GHS 35,625

61.2% of GHS 58,241 billed

One calm system. Every office in the school.

97%

Average daily attendance

NYMBFM+

42,000+

Learner records managed by Scolara schools

Guardians, always in the loop.

SMS reaches every parent's phone, smartphone or not. Scolara sends the message the moment something happens, so the school office doesn't have to.

  • Absence and late-arrival alerts
  • Instant fee receipts
  • Report card links each term
Explore features

Bring your whole school in, in a day.

Fill four Excel templates and Scolara creates every pupil, guardian, teacher and staff account, linking siblings to the same parent.

Plan your onboarding
  • students.xlsx
  • guardians.xlsx
  • teachers.xlsx
  • staff.xlsx
Integrations

Works with the tools your school already uses.

Fees arrive by MoMo and card, alerts go out by SMS, and your old records come in from Excel.

See how it connects→
Paystack
PaystackCards & bank
MTN MoMo
MTN MoMoMobile money
Telecel Cash
Telecel CashMobile money
Arkesel SMS
Arkesel SMSGuardian alerts
WhatsApp
WhatsAppSupport hotline
Excel
ExcelBulk import
Our solution

One platform for every office in the school.

Fees and Mobile Money, reconciled for you.

Parents pay by MTN MoMo, Telecel Cash or card through Paystack. Every payment posts to the pupil's ledger and a receipt goes out by SMS, with nothing to reconcile by hand.

Recent paymentsAuto-reconciled
  • Ama BoatengJHS 2 Alpha · MTN MoMoGHS 1,450.00
  • Kwaku OseiPrimary 6 · Telecel CashGHS 920.00
  • Esi MensahSHS 1 Science · Visa cardGHS 2,300.00
37%Wk 1
56%Wk 2
68%Wk 3
91%Wk 4
62%Wk 5
74%Wk 6
  • Live fee dashboardsSee collections the moment they land.
  • Faster decisionsKnow who owes what before the PTA meeting.

Report cards in minutes.

Teachers enter raw marks. Scolara applies SBA weightings, stanine grades and positions, then prints every report with the head's remarks.

  • GES SBA and Cambridge grading
  • Positions and stanine 1–9
  • QR-verified PDF reports
JHS 3 · Term 1 reportPosition 2 of 48
  • Core Mathematics881
  • Integrated Science921
  • English Language762
  • Social Studies841

Attendance that tells guardians.

Take the morning register in under a minute. When a pupil is absent or late, the guardian hears about it before break time.

How registers work

Today 08:14

Sunshine State School: Kofi Asante (JHS 2) was marked absent this morning. Reply or call the office on 030 000 0000.
He has a fever, he'll be back Thursday. Thank you.

Delivered

Staff HRM and payroll

Appraisals, leave and monthly payroll with SSNIT and GRA PAYE deductions.

Data protection and audit

Granular roles and a tamper-evident log of every fee, grade and certificate.

Desktop and cloud, in sync

The desktop app keeps working offline and syncs to the cloud when the internet returns.

Pricing

Flexible plans for every school.

Starter Academy

Essential SIS and terminal reporting for growing private schools.

GHS1,450

per term (3 terms/yr)

Up to 300 Pupils
  • Up to 300 active student records
  • Unlimited teacher and staff logins
  • GES continuous assessment (SBA) engine
  • 1-Click terminal PDF report card generation
  • Basic fee billing & cashier receipt ledger

Standard Campus

Most Popular

Full-spectrum digital campus with MoMo collections, SMS & Desktop app.

GHS2,850

per term (3 terms/yr)

Up to 1,200 Pupils
  • Up to 1,200 active student records
  • Everything in Starter Academy, plus:
  • Direct MTN MoMo, Telecel Cash & Card integration
  • Automated parent SMS payment receipts & alerts
  • Scolara Desktop native client (offline-ready)

Enterprise Network

Multi-Campus

Custom-tailored deployment for educational groups & boarding academies.

Custom

tailored institutional contract

Unlimited Pupils & Branches
  • Unlimited students across multiple campuses
  • Central headquarters consolidation dashboard
  • Custom domain (e.g. portal.yourschool.edu.gh)
  • Dedicated cloud database instance or on-premise option
  • Biometric turnstile & RFID gate attendance sync
Onboarding

Simple setup. Live in 48 hours.

Most schools move over between terms. We do the heavy lifting, so your first week on Scolara feels like any other week, only calmer.

  1. 01

    Discovery call

    Thirty minutes on WhatsApp or Zoom about your curriculum, your fee structure and how your bursary runs today.

    Scolara walkthroughThursday · 10:00 – 10:30 GMT Join
  2. 02

    Your branded sandbox

    We set up a demo school with your crest, your classes and your grading scale, so staff try Scolara on something familiar.

    Ridgeview International Academyridgeview.scolara.appSandbox
  3. 03

    Import from Excel

    Fill four templates: pupils, guardians, teachers and staff. Siblings share one guardian automatically, and any row that can't be imported is reported back by name, never guessed.

    students.xlsx412 pupils imported
    guardians.xlsxRow 14: class “JHS 4” not found
  4. 04

    Training and go-live

    We train your heads, bursars and teachers, then switch on MoMo collections and guardian SMS for the new term.

    Term 1 is live100%

From the staff room.

NY
5.0
“Before Scolara, report card week was chaos, with teachers compiling hand-written marks. Now continuous assessment, stanine grades and PDF report cards are ready in minutes.”
Nana Yaw Oppong

Headmaster, Sunshine State School, Accra

See the whole school at a glance.

Scolara teacher dashboard with class attendance, notice board, upcoming events and calendar

A teacher's day: classes, attendance and the staff calendar.

Questions

Everything you need to know.

Still unsure? Our deployment team will walk you through it.

Scolara integrates directly with Paystack and local Mobile Money gateways (MTN MoMo, Telecel Cash, AT Money). When parents pay online or via USSD, their payment is verified instantly and automatically credited to the student's personal fee ledger. An SMS receipt is dispatched to the guardian within seconds, eliminating paper teller slips and reconciliation delays.

Yes. Scolara features a flexible academic grading engine that supports standard Ghana Education Service (GES) stanine 1–9 grading, BECE/WASSCE scale computation, Continuous Assessment (SBA) weightings, as well as percentage and GPA/letter grade models for international Cambridge or IB schools.

Absolutely. The native Scolara Desktop application for Windows and macOS is engineered with local SQLite resilience. Teachers can take roll-call registers, record marks, and view timetables offline. Once an internet connection is established, changes sync seamlessly to the central cloud at app.nkwabyte.com.

Most schools transition within 48 to 72 hours. Our dedicated onboarding engineering team assists your administration in importing existing records from Excel, CSV, or legacy software, with comprehensive staff training included.

All student, financial, and personnel records are stored in high-security, tenant-isolated PostgreSQL databases featuring encryption at rest and in transit. Scolara strictly complies with the Ghana Data Protection Act 2012 (Act 843) and international privacy standards.

Turn a busy term into a calm one.

  • Live in 48 hours
  • Free Excel migration
  • No data lock-in