Fast and simple text messaging
for schools
Reach more parents quickly, at minimal cost.
Send important messages by text
SchoolText allows schools to send, receive and record important messages by text (SMS). It’s a simple, fast and safe system that lets you send bulk messages from anywhere. Whether it’s a classroom or the entire school, SchoolText lets you reach a lot of parents, fast!
Powerful features, simple design
Text messages are the best way to grab attention. With up to 60% of people turning off notifications on apps, or not bothering to download them, SchoolText gives you confidence your messages will be read, pronto.
Fast
Quickly send and receive texts regarding important matters.
Simple
Custom-designed for schools, you can send and receive messages in just a few taps of the keyboard.
Secure
Only basic parent contact details captured, encrypted and stored on secure servers.
Auditable
Keeps a record of all texts exchanged between school and parents.
Accessible
Available anywhere, any time through your web browser.
Active
Notifies of any messages received from parents that have not been read.
Selective
Assigns a unique phone number to each school, ensuring only messages from parents are delivered to the school – no annoying advertising.
Flexible
Choose one or multiple users to send or receive messages.
Green
Helps reduce the consumption of paper, ink and other contaminants.
Priority messages now just a text away
SchoolText helps prioritise messages to parents, ensuring the most critical messages aren’t missed.
- Notify of emergency situations
- Advise of class changes or cancellations
- Inform of student absences from class
- Promote special events eg. fetes, sports days
- Notify of upcoming or overdue fees
- Send appointment reminders
- Advise of imminent exams, assignments, reports
Multiple advantages for schools and parents
For schools
- Ensures most parents receive urgent messages
- Increases delivery speed of important messages
- Helps prioritise urgency of communications
- Simplifies communications - no app downloads
- Reduces costs of communication
- Provides access from any location
- Improves school image, increasing competitiveness
- Improves the timeliness of any payments due
For parents
- Provides instant advice of emergency situations
- Guarantees receipt of academic information
- Instantly advises of child illness
- Helps reduce truancy
- Improves monitoring and control of student behaviour
- Offers a simple alternative communication medium