Full-Featured. Refreshingly Simple. K-12 SIS, gradebook, tuition billing, attendance, enrollment, health office, lunch POS, car line, messaging, and 8 role-based portals — all in one platform. Setup in 30 minutes. No training needed. No long-term contracts.
Talk to any school administrator for five minutes. These same frustrations come up every time.
You're paying enterprise prices for an interface that hasn't been meaningfully updated in a decade. Your banking app is easier to use. Your parents notice. Your staff definitely notices.
When a product is confusing by design, the vendor gets to sell you training packages on top of your subscription. That's not a bug. That's their business model.
One for tuition, one for grades, one for lunch, one for attendance, one for parent communication. Five logins. Five bills. Zero integration.
Multi-year agreements with painful exit clauses. Early termination fees. Data export that requires a professional services engagement. Switching should be a choice, not a hostage negotiation.
That's by design too. The harder it is to leave, the less they have to compete for your business. We help you migrate. It's not the ordeal they want you to think it is.
If your parents are emailing the front office because they can't find their child's grades online, the software is failing at its most basic job.
Some companies build complex software because complexity sells training, support contracts, and consulting hours. We took the opposite approach — we started with tuition billing, got it right, and only added features when schools asked for them. Every module in Acadesync exists because a real school needed it. That's why the platform just makes sense — it was built one request at a time, not all at once by a committee.
Every feature below is included. Not upsold. Not bolted on. Not "available at an additional cost."
Complete student profiles, family management, medical records, demographics, and bulk import — without the enterprise price tag.
A gradebook teachers will actually enjoy using. GPA calculations, grade curving, weighted categories, progress reports — all automatic.
The foundation we've been perfecting for years. Automated invoicing, flexible payment plans, multiple processors, and AutoPay that actually works.
Daily and class-based attendance in under a minute. Behavior tracking with merits, demerits, and parent visibility so everyone stays in the loop.
A full point-of-sale system for the cafeteria. Student lookup, menu management, balance tracking — no per-transaction fees.
Your nurse deserves better than a paper log. Medication tracking, visit recording, allergy alerts, and OTC permissions — searchable in seconds.
QR code pickup, real-time kiosk displays, guest passes, and a complete audit trail. No more lost paper tags or shouting names across the parking lot.
Dedicated portals for admins, teachers, counselors, parents, students, nurses, lunch staff, and car line staff. Each one designed for what that person actually needs to do — without the fluff and confusion.
Online enrollment, re-enrollment, legally binding e-signatures, waitlist management — parents complete everything from their phone.
Run pledge-based fundraisers, collect card payments, track participation by student, and generate reports. No third-party fundraising platform needed.
Running more than one campus? Manage them all from one account. Transfer students between locations with full history intact.
FERPA-ready, WCAG 2.1 AA accessible, with two-factor authentication, PIN locks, audit trails, and encrypted data at rest and in transit.
We don't need to trash-talk the competition — the reviews speak for themselves. Here are the facts.
| Feature | Acadesync | FACTS (Nelnet) | TADS | Gradelink |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuition & Billing | ✓ Included | ✓ | ✓ | Limited |
| Student Information System | ✓ Included | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gradebook | ✓ Included | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lunch POS System | ✓ Included | Add-on | ✗ | ✗ |
| Nurse / Health Portal | ✓ Included | Add-on | ✗ | ✗ |
| Car Line Management | ✓ Included | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Student Portal | ✓ Included | ✓ | Limited | Limited |
| Online Enrollment | ✓ Included | Add-on | ✓ | Limited |
| Fundraising Tools | ✓ Included | Add-on | ✗ | ✗ |
| Multi-Campus Management | ✓ Included | ✓ | Limited | ✗ |
| Financial Aid Module | ✓ Included | Add-on | ✓ | ✗ |
| Custom School Branding | ✓ Included | Limited | Limited | ✓ |
| Add-On / Module Fees | None — all included | Per-module pricing | Per-module pricing | Per-module pricing |
| Per-Student Cost | $1/student/mo* | $40-100+/student/yr | $15-40/student/yr | $8-20/student/yr |
| Setup Time | 30 minutes | Weeks | Days-Weeks | Days |
| Training Required | Self-serve + support | Paid training | Onboarding sessions | Videos + guides |
* Pilot pricing. Competitor per-student costs estimated from publicly available pricing and school administrator reports.
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I built the first version of this platform to help my mom's school get back on track. They were drowning in spreadsheets, paying for software that nobody could figure out, and spending more time on admin work than on the kids. I figured there had to be a better way.
After looking at what was out there — the enterprise sales pitches, the multi-year contracts, the $15,000 invoices for features that should be standard — I decided to build the solution myself. I'm a problem solver. I like to simplify things, automate the tedious stuff, and get technology out of the way so people can focus on what actually matters.
That's what Acadesync is. Not another bloated system built by a company that profits from your confusion. Just a straightforward platform built by someone who saw the problem up close and wouldn't settle for what was already out there.
We're looking for schools that want to help shape what this platform becomes. In exchange, you get pricing that makes the decision easy.
No catch. We're building something new and we need schools to use it, push it, and tell us what to improve. Pilot schools get an incredible rate because your feedback is genuinely valuable to us. After two years, pricing may increase — but pilot schools will always get preferred rates.
Yes. We offer free migration assistance for pilot schools. Most systems let you export student data as CSV files, and we built our import tools to handle exactly that. We'll work with you directly to make sure nothing gets lost in the transition.
Acadesync is built for K-12 schools: private, independent, faith-based, and charter. Whether you have 50 students or 5,000, the platform scales with you. If you're using FACTS, TADS, Gradelink, or a patchwork of spreadsheets and standalone systems, you're exactly who we built this for.
The platform itself is ready in about 30 minutes — create your school, customize your branding, invite your staff. Data migration depends on how much you're bringing over, but most schools are fully operational within a week. And no, you won't need to attend a webinar series to learn how to use it.
Security isn't an afterthought here. Every school gets its own isolated database schema, all data is encrypted in transit and at rest, we support two-factor authentication, and we maintain a complete audit trail. We're built FERPA-ready from the ground up, not retrofitted.
You can cancel anytime. We don't do long-term contracts or early termination fees. We'd rather earn your business every month than trap you into staying. If you leave, we'll help you export your data too.
Tell us about your school and we'll reach out to schedule a personalized walkthrough. No sales pitch. Just an honest look at whether this works for you.
Someone from our team will be in touch within one business day.