Save time & money, Improve parental communications & streamline finances.
Payments
Fast, simple & secure!
Managing the schools finances through the Schnappy admin manager gives you full and instant control. Payments has been designed to make life much easier for the school administrators by streamlining the entire process and giving the school the ability to manage everything in one place.
We make collecting money for everything and anything fast, simple and secure, whilst enabling the school to identify incoming and overdue payments at a glance. School administrators can also send bespoke ad-hoc requests for payment to any individual, which will appear in the payments section of that recipients app.
There is no need for a parent to set up an account or transfer funds via online banking, our secure payment system accepts all major debit and credit cards and processes payments straight into the schools account without the need for third party merchant systems like PayPal or WisePay.
Reporting
Detailed information instantly
Schnappy collates data and statistics including absences, payments, parents evenings, events, school trips and clubs. Through the dashboard you can view, email or print them as a PDF document for your records.
Messaging
Instant, unlimited & free of charge!
The school administrators are able to instantly send direct messages to individual parents, teachers or any recipients they wish. They can also easily create groups for clubs, trips, classrooms, year groups, events etc and the recipients receive a push notification directly to their phone or tablet.
For recipients who do not have the app installed, email addresses and even mobile phone numbers (used to create SMS messages*) can be added directly to the recipient list enabling the school to reach everyone they need by sending just one message!
Unlike SMS, push notifications are completely unlimited and free of charge.
Sending messages out to groups is really useful in a number of different ways. For example, if a club is cancelled the school can let the parents know instantly by sending a notification to that group without having to look up numbers and contact everyone individually. Another scenario might be the transport returning from a school trip has been delayed and the school office is closed, the staff on the trip can login to the app and send updates and messages out to the trip group to keep everyone informed. They can even share their location to show where they are on the map.
* additional cost involved with SMS
Consent Forms
Paperless communication
When an event is added, the school administrator can select whether consent is required for a child to attend. Parents are then requested to give their consent when selecting that event through the app. Once consent is given the button is disabled to prevent the parent from reversing their decision, instead they are required to contact the school directly.
The school administrators are able to view a summary of all parents who have or are yet to provide consent.
That’s it! no more fiddling around with scraps of paper or having to chase children and parents for consent forms.
Clubs & Activities
Steamlining the entire process!
The management of breakfast and after-school clubs is very time consuming and complex for the administration team. Usually there are various criteria when allocating places for clubs and the management of payments after the bookings have been made prolongs the process.
In the Schnappy admin manager, the administrator creates a club, adds a description, the timings, the cost (if any) and sets the number of available places. Once the club is published to the app, parents are then able to view the club and register their child’s interest in a place.
The administrators are able to view all club applications in a table and see at a glance who has signed up for each club with a timestamp so they then can manually approve or deny them based on their criteria. The parent will be notified of the decision via a direct message, and if they have been succesful they will be directed to the payments area if applicable.
Also showing in the table are the children who have requested to attend a club but were not allocated a place. This information enables the school to accurately assess the popularity of each club and to make any adjustments or changes as they wish. It also means if an extra space becomes available, they are able to forward the allocation to the next child on the list.
Parents Evening Manager
Multiple classes, multiple dates in minutes!
Just select the class, the dates, the length of time for each appointment slot, adding breaks where applicable. Once this is completed, a table is created and the parents with children in those classes will receive a push notification informing them of the parents evening and asking them to reserve a slot within the app.
The administrators can see in real time the parents name against the time slot they have reserved. They are also able to add parents unable to book via the app to any available appointment slots.
The parents that have reserved the appointment through the app will automatically have an entry added to their device calendar as a helpful reminder.
Have a question?
If you have any questions about Schnappy and would like to make an enquiry, our friendly team will be happy to help!
Privacy Policy
for students, parents & school staff for payments, clubs, messaging & reporting.
Who we are
In this policy, the references to ‘we’ and ‘us’ are to Schnappy ltd.
What information we collect and how
The information we collect via this website or from you or your child’s school may include:- Any personal contact details you type in or submit, such as name, address, email address, telephone number.
- Your preferences and contact choices.
- Messages sent to or from the school, until the school chooses to delete them.
- Consent & purchase data where relevant.
What we do with your information
- To comply with legal requirements.
- The personal information given, messages sent and received, payments made, consent given, and attendance data will be shared with your own school management only. users can change their contact details in our records at any time using either their app or by contacting the school as appropriate.
- Transaction information relating to payments that you make whilst using our payments service may be stored by our payments processing service providers.
- We will not use your email address or phone number to send you information on other products and services.
- You Have The Right To Obtain A Copy Of The Personal Information That We Hold About You. If You Believe That Any Information Held Is Incorrect Or Incomplete, You Should Contact Us. Any Information That Is Found To Be Incorrect Or Incomplete Will Be Amended Promptly.
- You Also Have The Right To "Be Forgotten", This Means You Can Ask For The Information That We Hold About You To Be Deleted From Our Records After 30 Days.
