40+ years
of behind-the-scenes support helping educational teams thrive.
Engage
Nurture engaged communities with ease
Connect your whole school community with one flexible platform. The Engage package brings together messaging, insights, and data—helping you build strong relationships, accountability, and trust with parents, students, and staff.
20,000+ schools
trust our tailored solutions, from single-site schools to large MATs & institutions.
9 million+ users
Supporting educators, suppliers, parents, students daily.
A-rated security
Best-in-class data protection—safeguarding millions of records daily.
Flexible, simplified, and built around you
Build a solution that fits your school perfectly—with tools to help your school run well and your team work smarter, save time, and stay in control of data, insights, and performance. And soon, you’ll be able to access all ParentPay Group products with one login. No more juggling logins or switching between systems—just one simple, connected experience.
Engage package
Communicate and collaborate quickly and easily
SMS/email messaging
In app notifications
Parent and student app
Data collection
Attendance insights
Conduct insights
Assessment insights
Clubs and activities
Timetable
Reports
School calendar
Homework *H2 2026
Parents' evening booking *H2 2026
Google & Apple single sign-on *H2 2026
Class management (Class View and Seating Plans)
Schools and parents, stronger together
Strengthen home-school links with real-time updates on attendance, behaviour, and achievements. Instantly notify parents via the app and customise what they receive.
Keep everyone updated
Whether it’s sharing progress reports, supporting a PTFA fundraiser or a reminder about INSET days, make sure parents never miss an update.
Save money—and trees
Go paperless to save time, cut costs, and keep a digital trail. Instantly connect with parents for free using in-app messaging.
A complete view of each child
Keep parents informed on attendance, behaviour, homework, and clubs. Receive updates on medical needs or address changes with two-way messaging via ParentApp or School Gateway.
Stay on top of attendance
Capture unexplained absences easily by syncing with SIMS. Parents confirm instantly via in-app messaging, ensuring safeguarding compliance and logging all responses for better context.
Maximise Pupil Premium funding
Schoolcomms’ app helps parents check Pupil Premium eligibility. Schools are notified instantly, unlocking extra funding and identifying families who may not know they qualify.
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Finance
Budgeting, resource allocation, and reporting simplified
Includes:
- Suppliers and supplier payments
- Income and debtors
- Budgets and staffing including personnel links
- Chart of accounts
- Financial tasks
- Data exchange with a local authority
- Statutory reporting
- Users and permissions
- Period and year end
- Equipment / asset management and loans
- Transactional reporting and audits
- Hosting
- Support and FMS extra database (optional)
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Optimise
Tools and insights to help your school thrive
Includes:
- Attendance and unexplained absence messaging
- Assessment, performance, and exams
- Census and statutory returns
- Conduct management
- Class management (Class View and Seating Plans until March 2027)
- Reporting, data, and insights
- Timetabling, options, and cover
- Pupil and staff data
- SEND management
- Interventions
- SIMS Next Generation
- Trust centralised performance management (Group Hub until March 2027)
- Hosting and support (optional)
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Pay
Make everything from clubs to dinner money seamless
Includes:
- Menu selection
- Clubs & trips
- Wraparound care
- Shops & donations pages
- Single basket checkout
- Automatic top up
- Reporting & insights
- MIS and catering integration
- Settle to multiple accounts
- SIMS Dinner Money
- Group management application
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Secure
Education-focused data protection and cyber security
Includes:
- Complete data protection compliance platform
- Attack surface management
- Managed awareness training and phishing
- Threat intelligence updates
- DPO support service
- ICO-registered DPO contact
- Office 365 / Google security review
- Cloud endpoint security review
- Cloud data governance review
- Cloud audit log review
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