School management software · India
Kindred is a modern school management software built for premium private schools across India, one calm app for principals, teachers, parents, drivers and the school office. Everything you'd expect from a school ERP, plus a parent app your families will actually open every day.
Book a 15-min demo →Most Indian schools stitch together 4-6 tools: one for attendance, another for fees, WhatsApp groups for parent communication, a bus tracker vendor, a homework diary, and a spreadsheet for staff timesheets. Kindred consolidates all of it.
Live school-wide roll-up: student attendance %, staff attendance, fees collected vs billed, bus km driven, fuel variance flags. One page every morning.
Teachers open the app on the school laptop, Kindred verifies they're inside the school's GPS geofence and records arrival time automatically. No timesheets.
Parents pay in-app via Razorpay. Kindred syncs every payment to the fee structure automatically, tracks overdue students by days, and gives leadership a live defaulters list.
Live bus GPS every 10 seconds. Nightly km aggregator sums fuel expected vs entered. Flags variance greater than 15% so no one skims the tank.
Teachers mark once, parents see instantly. Push notification on every material event. Trend graphs over the year.
Private, threaded, delivered on push. Replaces WhatsApp groups that leak numbers and create after-hours pressure on teachers.
The Indian school ERP market has been static for a decade. Kindred was built in Bengaluru by people who watched a child's school struggle with the incumbents. The right-hand column describes what is common across paid school ERPs in India. It is not a claim about any particular product. Where the category genuinely varies, it says so, because "check this yourself" is more use to you than a tick.
| Capability | Kindred | Typical school ERP |
|---|---|---|
| Cost to the school | Free | Per-student annual licence |
| Setup / onboarding fee | None | Commonly charged |
| Features held back behind paid tiers or add-on modules | None, one version, all of it | Common |
| Cost as your enrolment grows | Unchanged | Rises with every student |
| Smallest unit you can start with | One class | Usually a campus-wide contract |
| Annual renewal negotiation | None | Every year |
| Parent app | The primary product | Usually a portal beside the admin system |
| Teacher attendance verified by GPS geofence | ✓ | Rare, register or biometric |
| Student attendance recorded per period | ✓ | Often once daily |
| Live bus GPS tracking | Every 15 seconds | Common, refresh rate varies |
| Bus fuel accountability per route | ✓ | Rare |
| Teacher phone numbers kept private in messaging | ✓ | Varies, worth checking |
| English, Hindi and Kannada, set per user | ✓ | Varies, worth checking |
| Data hosted in India | ✓ | Varies, ask which country |
| Data never sold, shared or used to train models | ✓ | Varies, ask for it in writing |
Switching from something specific? The comparison pages set out the questions worth asking any vendor before you renew, including us.
Kindred fits private schools and colleges across India: pre-primary, primary and secondary, across the Karnataka State board, ICSE, CBSE, IB and IGCSE. Because there is no licence fee and no per-student charge, it works as well for a 200-student school as for a 5,000-student campus: the cost is the same either way, which is nothing.
Kindred is built in Bengaluru and Shivamogga, and is in guided pilots with schools across Karnataka. Local pages: Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Shimoga, Udupi & Manipal.
Kindred is school management software built parent-app-first. The conventional school ERP is designed around the school office, with a parent portal added afterwards, which is why so many parent logins go unused and the class WhatsApp group survives anyway. Kindred inverts that order: the parent app is the primary product, and every ERP function (student information system, fees, attendance, staff) sits behind a calm principal dashboard. It is also free, no licence fee and no per-student charge.
Kindred is currently in pilot phase with premium private schools in Bangalore. Reach out via Book a demo and we'll share exact references.
Yes. All data resides in India. Kindred never sells or shares school data. Row-level security enforces that no user, not even the platform operator, can read another school's data.
Kindred integrates directly with Razorpay. The admin defines fee structures once per term. Parents pay in-app via UPI, cards or netbanking. Kindred auto-reconciles every payment against the correct student. Leadership sees a live overdue aging report.
Nothing. Kindred is free for schools, colleges and parents: no licence fee, no per-student charge, no setup fee and no paid tier. There is no quote to wait for and no contract to sign. See the pricing page for exactly what that commits us to.
Yes. Kindred runs as an installable web app on any modern browser, and as native iOS and Android apps.
15 minutes. No decks. We'll walk your principal through the exact dashboard they'd use.
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