Education ERP

A school management system typically handles SIS-style operations: admissions, attendance, grades, fees. An education ERP is broader — it adds HR, payroll, finance, procurement, library, hostel, and transport on the same database. Most institutions outgrow a pure SMS by 1,500-2,000 students and consolidate onto an education ERP. OpenEduCat covers both — start small with openeducat_core and add modules as you grow.

The Community Edition is LGPLv3 open-source. You can download, deploy, modify, and run it without paying us a cent. The Enterprise Edition adds hosted SLA support, premium modules (advanced analytics, multi-tenant group ops, premium connectors), and starts at $19 per user per month. According to NACUBO's 2023 administrative cost benchmarks, a 5,000-student college spends $1.5M-$3M per year on administrative software — Community Edition runs that for hosting cost alone (~$3,000/year).

A typical 1,000-student K-12 school goes live in 6-10 weeks: 2 weeks for data migration (student, parent, fee history), 2 weeks for fee structure and academic configuration, 1 week training, 3 weeks parallel run, cutover at term boundary. A 10,000-student multi-campus university typically takes 4-8 months including custom workflow configuration and regulator reporting templates. Implementation partners are available in 30+ countries.

Yes. OpenEduCat supports LTI 1.3 (the IMS Global standard for LMS integration), SCIM (user provisioning), and OneRoster (roster sync). Course rosters flow from openeducat_core to Moodle/Canvas/Blackboard; grades flow back. Single sign-on via SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, or OpenID Connect. Many institutions keep Moodle/Canvas for course delivery and use OpenEduCat for the SIS and ERP layer.

Yes. FERPA-aligned access controls (role-based, audit-logged, disclosure-tracked), GDPR-aligned consent management and data-subject rights workflows, DPDPA (India), POPIA (South Africa), LGPD (Brazil), PIPL (China) compliance configurations available. Self-host deployments give institutions full control over data residency — required for many EU public institutions and Indian state universities. SOC 2 Type II certified hosting available on the Enterprise tier.

The group-tenant architecture lets a central organization run a master instance with per-campus sub-instances. Each campus operates independently day-to-day (admissions, fees, academics) but rolls up to group-level dashboards (consolidated finance, group-wide student transfers, unified faculty pool, group HR policy). Used by chains operating 5-50 campuses across multiple countries with mixed currency and regulator regimes.

openeducat_ai_assistant adds natural-language reporting (ask "how many Grade 9 students have attendance below 80%?" in English/Spanish/Hindi/Arabic), predictive at-risk-student flagging based on attendance, grades, fees, and engagement signals, and an AI-assisted admissions screening workflow. Built on top of the existing student record — no separate data warehouse, no separate licenses for BI.

Yes. The same Community Edition codebase runs a 200-student rural primary school in Tanzania and a 28,000-student multi-campus university in the Philippines. Database is PostgreSQL — proven to 100K+ student deployments. Hosting needs scale from a $30/month VPS (small school) to a clustered deployment behind a load balancer (large university). The openeducat_higher_education submodule layers research, accreditation, and grant-management features on top for HEIs.