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Run your school with operational excellence.

A single command centre built for leaders who refuse to settle. Peace of mind, efficiency, control, and the freedom to lead — the standard, not the exception.

250+Institutions
10×Less paperwork
22 hrsReclaimed weekly
95%Fee recovery rate
250+Institutions
10×Less paperwork
22 hrsReclaimed weekly
95%Fee recovery rate
Plugs into your stack

Accounting, payments, boards — one-click integrations.

Tally
Zoho Books
SAP
UPI
DigiLocker
CBSE
IB
Cambridge
Prologue

You didn't start a school to chase spreadsheets.

The calls at 9pm about a fee query. The Monday morning panic when a bus runs late. The quarterly stress of payroll compliance. The slow erosion of your weekends to admin work that should have been invisible.

You built an institution. Somewhere along the way, the institution started running you. Inforida was built to return your school, and your calendar, back to you.

  • Late-night fee reconciliation
  • Parent escalations you only hear about after
  • Transport worries travelling home with you
  • Audit prep that swallows entire weekends
Chapter I · The Promise

Four freedoms, engineered for the people who lead schools.

Not features. Four quiet shifts in how your institution runs, and how you experience leading it.

01

Peace ofMind

Sleep through the night knowing your school is running itself. Live alerts surface the five things that need your attention, and hide the 500 that do not.

  • Proactive risk alerts for fee defaults, low attendance, bus delays
  • End-to-end encryption; SOC-grade data governance
  • AI never trained on student data. Ever.
Escalations auto-resolved84%
02

EffortlessEfficiency

Payroll in three minutes. Fee reconciliation while you sleep. The work that used to own your weekend now runs itself in the background.

  • One-click payroll with statutory reports for IB, CBSE, Cambridge
  • Auto-generated invoices, reminders, and bank reconciliation
  • Timetables, transport routes, inventory — all automated
Admin hours returned per week22 hrs
03

AbsoluteControl

One command centre. Every campus, every department, every metric — from admissions funnel to bus GPS — visible in a single elegant dashboard.

  • Real-time dashboards built for principals, not analysts
  • Role-based access: delegate without losing oversight
  • Multi-campus rollups with one-click drill-down
Single source of truth1 screen
04

Freedomto Lead

Stop managing the machinery. Start shaping the institution. Get the mental space to think about curriculum, culture, and the next decade — not tomorrow's firefight.

  • Weekends reclaimed. Not a metric we track, but the one that matters.
  • Focus on growth: admissions, brand, partnerships
  • Lead the school your community deserves
Principals who report better sleep93%
The owner's command centre

Every campus, every metric, one screen

A 2-minute tour of the Inforida dashboard from a real principal's Monday morning.

Chapter II · A Day In The Life

Same Monday. Quieter phone.

Walk through a principal's Monday — before Inforida, and with it — and see where the firefights used to live.

TimeWithout InforidaWith Inforida
6:30 AMChasing fee-collection reports from 4 accountants Last-night reconciliation ready on one dashboard Auto
9:00 AM"How many students came today?" (wait 2 hrs) Live attendance rollup across every campus Live
11:00 AMPhone call chaos: "Where is bus 14?" GPS map; bus 14 at stop 3, on time Live
1:30 PMPayroll approvals across three files One-click approval; statutory reports auto-generated 3 min
4:00 PM"Who has access to salary data?" Single Permission Center audit — who saw what, when Audit
8:00 PMReviewing 47 parent WhatsApps from the day Auto-digest: 3 flagged, 44 handled Quiet
Chapter III · The Numbers

The week, measured. The office, quieter.

Before-and-after numbers from 120 school owners, measured across their first two terms on Inforida.

BeforeWith Inforida
Fee recovery rate
74 %
95 %
Owner hours / week on ops
34 hrs
12 hrs
Payroll cycle time
480 min
3 min
Time to audit access
45 hrs
0.5 hrs

Eight tools.
One command centre.

Every part of running a school — finance, people, transport, academics, admissions — with the heavy lifting on autopilot.

Dashboard

The command centre.

Every campus, every metric — one elegant screen.

A single dashboard built for principals, not analysts. Fees, attendance, academics, transport, admissions — the five signals that need you today, surfaced without the noise.

  • Owner-first dashboards, not analyst dumps
  • Live alerts for what truly needs you
  • Drill down from group to child in two clicks
  • Multi-campus rollups with one-click filters
Owner's command-centre dashboard showing multi-campus rollups
Finance

Fee recovery on autopilot.

From 74% to 95% in a term — while you sleep.

Automated reminders, digital receipts, concession workflows, and reconciliation across every bank account. Your collections team becomes 3× leaner and your recovery rate lifts by 21 points.

  • UPI, card, net-banking auto-reconciliation
  • Auto-generated GST invoices + receipts
  • Concession, scholarship, discount workflows
  • Owner-grade recovery dashboards
Fee recovery dashboard showing 95% collection rate
Payroll

Payroll in three minutes.

With PF, ESI, TDS — and statutory reports for IB, CBSE, Cambridge.

Run payroll for hundreds of staff across campuses in under three minutes. Statutory filings are generated and reconciled without touching a spreadsheet.

  • Automatic PF, ESI, TDS calculation
  • IB, CBSE, Cambridge compliance built-in
  • Bank file exports, ready to send
  • Audit-ready with every cycle
Payroll cycle screen — 3-minute run time
Governance

Single Permission Center.

One console. Every access decision, auditable.

Decide what every human can see — by person, by report, even by column. Scope by campus, grade, subject. Temporary windows with auto-expiry. Full audit trail of every action and every view.

  • Person-level + report-level permissions
  • Column-by-column masking of sensitive fields
  • Temporary access windows auto-expire
  • Full audit trail of who saw what, when
Single Permission Center with granular access controls
Transport

Live transport + safety.

GPS, gate scans, driver behaviour, all in one map.

Every bus on the map, live. Gate scans confirm arrival and departure. Driver behaviour alerts (over-speeding, harsh braking) roll into your safety scorecard automatically.

  • Live GPS with ETA per parent
  • Gate scans confirm entry + exit
  • Driver behaviour + safety scorecard
  • Route optimiser — fewer buses, same coverage
Live transport dashboard with GPS and safety scorecard
Admissions

Admissions funnel.

From enquiry to enrolled — with zero spreadsheets.

Capture every enquiry, auto-score leads, and run the funnel from application to enrolment on one screen. Bird AI can auto-call and follow up in five languages so nothing slips.

  • Website + phone + walk-in lead capture
  • AI lead scoring + routing
  • Bird AI voice follow-ups in 5+ languages
  • Conversion dashboard by source + campaign
Admissions funnel with lead scoring
Academics

Academic operations.

Timetables, report cards, exam cycles — one engine.

Auto-generate conflict-free timetables. Digital report cards with one-click publish. Exam cycles that roll from scheduling to OMR to results without intervention.

  • Auto timetable generator
  • Digital report cards, parent-ready
  • Exam cycle end-to-end
  • Academic KPIs surfaced per class
Academic operations dashboard with exam cycle
Board-ready

Board reports on tap.

Every quarterly review, one click away.

Turn a quarterly board prep from a two-week scramble into a one-click export. KPIs, commentary, benchmarks — formatted for your board deck, every time.

  • One-click KPI pack export
  • Auto-generated commentary
  • Benchmark vs industry
  • Board-formatted PDF + editable slides
Board-ready report export with KPIs and benchmarks
Chapter IV · Peace + Control

The two shifts every owner has wished for.

The school runs itself, even on weekends.
Peace-of-mind layer

The school runs itself, even on weekends.

Live alerts surface the five things that truly need you — fee defaults, low attendance, bus delays — and hide the 500 that don't. Your phone gets quiet. The school gets quieter.

  • Proactive risk alerts, your thresholds
  • Escalations auto-resolved 84% of the time
  • End-to-end encryption, SOC-grade governance
Every campus, every metric — one screen.
Control layer

Every campus, every metric — one screen.

A command centre built for owners, not analysts. Drill from a district rollup down to a single student's fee ledger in two clicks. The room becomes quieter.

  • Multi-campus rollups with one-click drill-down
  • Role-based views — delegate without losing oversight
  • Built-in benchmarks vs industry medians
Chapter V · The Control Room

One console for every permission you grant.

The Inforida Single Permission Center gives owners one place to decide who sees what. Granular by person. Granular by report. Simple to use.

Decide what every human can see
Person-level

Decide what every human can see

Give a new admissions officer access to the enquiry funnel, not salaries. Let a principal see every campus, while a section head sees only their wing. All from one console.

  • Roles for teachers, admins, finance, transport
  • Scope by campus, grade, section, or subject
  • Temporary access windows with auto-expiry
Decide what every report reveals
Report-level

Decide what every report reveals

Share the attendance heatmap with coordinators without exposing contact details. Publish fee recovery to the board, hide collection notes. Granular, elegant, safe.

  • Hide or show any column on any report
  • Mask sensitive fields by role
  • One-click review of who saw what, when
Onboarding

Four steps to take control

From day one to the day you stop worrying about day-to-day — here is exactly how ownership feels lighter.

  1. Set the foundation

    Bring every campus, department, and record into one place. Our team migrates your data and sets up accounts, so you go live without lifting a finger.

  2. See everything at a glance

    One command centre for fees, attendance, academics, transport, and admissions. The five signals that matter today, surfaced without the noise.

  3. Delegate with confidence

    The Single Permission Center lets you hand out access by person and by report. Everyone sees only what they should, and you keep the oversight.

  4. Lead the next decade

    Trade firefights for strategy. With the machinery running itself, you get back the hours and the headspace to build the school your community deserves.

Loved by owners + principals

Real institutions. Real evenings back.

"Our fee recovery went from 74% to 95% in one term. The CFO stopped asking for weekly spreadsheets — it's all live."
+21 ptsRecovery rate
Mr. Arun VermaSchool Owner, Greenwood Group (3 campuses)
"The Permission Center alone was worth the switch. I can delegate without being scared — full audit trail on every click."
0Audit gaps
Dr. Kavita MenonPrincipal, Ryan International, Chennai
"Payroll used to take 2 days across our three campuses. It runs in three minutes now, and the statutory reports write themselves."
3 minPayroll cycle
Mr. Rakesh GuptaOwner · CFO, Sunrise Valley Schools
Side-by-side

What changes when the machinery runs itself?

FeatureSpreadsheets + staffGeneric school ERPInforida for Owners
Features
Multi-campus rollup in one dashboard Partial
Single Permission Center with audit trail
Auto fee reconciliation + recovery workflows Partial
3-minute payroll with statutory reports
Live transport + safety scorecard Partial
Admissions funnel with AI voice follow-up
Onboarding + migration done by us
Setup time OngoingQuarters7 days
Governance by design

Your institution's data is yours.

DPDP-compliantIndian data residency, audit-ready
SOC-grade governanceEvery action logged + auditable
Zero-trust permissionsGranular, column-by-column
AI never trained on your studentsYour institution's data is yours
The rest of the Inforida suite

Everything your institution runs on

Epilogue

Step back from the machinery.
Step up as a leader.

Join hundreds of international schools who replaced chaos with clarity, and got their evenings back.

Join the owners community

No credit card. No pressure. A 30-minute conversation with a real human who has onboarded 200+ principals.