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Short, practical guides to the questions owners, principals and finance teams ask about running a school on software.

Live Demo of a School Management System: How to Get One

How to get a live demo of a school management system, what to test with your own scenarios, and how to reach EDUBase.

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Mobile Apps: Why the School App Asks to Update

Understand why school mobile apps request updates, why their appearance can change, and how admin staff can help parents and teachers.

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Complete School Management System: Modules Guide

The modules a complete school management system needs: admissions, fees, exams, attendance, HR, payroll and parent apps.

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Users & Permissions: Restricting Staff Logins

Restrict what each staff login can see or change in EDUBase with per-screen, per-action privileges, campus scope, approvals and User Logging.

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Parents App: What Parents Can See and Do

See what the EDUBase Parents App shows parents: attendance, fee challans, marks, daily diary, notices, PTM invitations and messages.

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Attendance Alerts to Parents for Absence and Lateness

Send automatic absentee SMS, WhatsApp or Parents App alerts in EDUBase from the register, Teacher App, QR, biometric or face attendance.

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Staff Records: Removing a Leaver Without Losing Pay History

How to handle a staff member who has left in EDUBase: final salary, advances, security deposit, access removal and keeping salary history.

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Mobile Apps Download Links for Parents and Teachers

Find EDUBase mobile apps download links on the EDUBase App Links screen and share them with parents and teachers by SMS or WhatsApp.

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Correcting Student Records After Admission

How to correct a student's name, father's name, class or phone number in EDUBase student records, with a full change history.

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Fee Collection: Record a Partial Payment in EDUBase

Step-by-step guide to taking a partial fee payment in EDUBase and carrying the unpaid balance forward to the next challan.

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How to Print a Blank or Filled Admission Form

Print a blank admission form for walk-in parents or a filled copy for records, using EDUBase's configurable form and school branding.

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Exam Reports: Tabulation Sheet of All Subject Marks

See which EDUBase Exam Reports show class results, subject marks, grades and positions together, and how to print or export them for the principal.

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Print a Class List with Father Name and Phone

Steps for office staff to print a class-wise student list showing father name and phone numbers from EDUBase student records, plus related reports.

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Student Reports: Class Strength, Admissions and Leavers

See student strength per class and this month's new admissions versus leavers using EDUBase student reports.

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Finance & Expenses: Correcting Posted Entries

Learn how to handle mistaken expenses and journals in EDUBase's new ledger, preserve the record and check your accounts.

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Fee Setup: From Fee Plans to Collection

Understand the school fee cycle: fee setup, challan generation, counter and bank collection, arrears, reconciliation and reporting.

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Biometric Integration for School Attendance

Explore biometric integration with EDUBase for fingerprint attendance, parent alerts, staff attendance and payroll.

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Campuses & Branches: View Combined Reports

Learn how owners view combined campus reports, switch campuses in EDUBase, and control which branches each staff member can access.

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Exams Setup: Combine Terms with Weightage

Learn how to combine term results using weightage percentages, check grading policies and review final result cards in EDUBase.

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How to Correct Past-Day Student Attendance

Learn how to correct Student Attendance for a past day, check the change log and review related reports and absence fines.

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Sessions & Academic Year: Start a New Session

Set up sessions and academic year dates, promote students, review fee plans and check attendance and exams before the new session begins.

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Teacher App: Missing Classes and Class Assignment

Check a missing class in the Teacher App, assign classes from the employee record, and review campus setup and staff access.

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Staff Attendance: Setting Shift In and Out Times

Set staff shift timings, review student attendance marks and check early departures before attendance affects payroll or fee challans.

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Family Fee Collection: One Payment, One Receipt

Family fee collection in EDUBase: link siblings under one family number, take one payment for all their challans and print one receipt.

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Face Attendance: How It Works and What You Need

How EDUBase face attendance works: an Android tablet at the gate recognises faces on-device, checks liveness and alerts parents.

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Exams & Marks Entry: Missing Students or Subjects

Why students or subjects don't appear on an EDUBase award list during marks entry, and how to check status, class, subject allocation and setup.

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Campuses & Branches: Add and Manage a Second Campus

Add a second campus or branch in EDUBase, set its classes, fees and staff access, and manage every campus from one owner login.

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Exams Setup: Creating Test Types and Exam Terms

Set up exam terms and test types in EDUBase: monthly tests, mid-term, final and custom types with weightage, grading and result cards.

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Fee Setup: Raising Fees for the New Session

How to raise fees for a class or the whole school in EDUBase Fee Setup: yearly fee increment, fee plans, bulk update and checks.

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Duplicate Fee Challans: Causes and How to Remove

Why a student gets two fee challans for one month, how to trace the cause and how to safely remove the extra unpaid challan.

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Exams & Marks Entry: Hide Marks Until Results Day

Enter exam marks in EDUBase now and keep them hidden in the Parents App until the result is announced, then release them to parents.

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Promotion & Transfer: Promote a Whole Class at Year End

Promotion & Transfer guide: how admin staff move a whole class to the next class and session in EDUBase, with leavers and fees handled.

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Payroll: Calculating and Paying Monthly Staff Salaries

How school payroll works in EDUBase: salary plans, attendance-based calculation, approvals, payslips and automatic ledger posting.

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QR Attendance for Students and Staff: Setup Guide

How QR Attendance works with student and staff ID cards in EDUBase, and the steps to print cards, install the app and start scanning.

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Student Attendance: How Teachers Mark It Daily

How teachers mark daily Student Attendance in EDUBase: class register, Teachers App, QR and devices, with instant parent alerts.

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SMS Messaging: Check Delivery and Resend to Parents

How school office staff use the SMS Report, Family SMS Report and SMS Blaster in EDUBase to see who was messaged and resend missed SMS.

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Families & Siblings: Link Students by Family Number

Link siblings under one family number in EDUBase so fee vouchers, family payments, receipts and reminders work per family.

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Result Cards: Customising Design and Branding

Customise EDUBase result cards with your logo, colour theme and signatures, and choose month-wise, term-wise or combined designs.

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Fee Collection Alerts for Parents: SMS and App

How EDUBase notifies parents by SMS, WhatsApp and app when fee challans are issued, and how paid fees show up for families.

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Exam Date Sheets: How to Create and Print Them

How principals build and print exam Date Sheets per class in EDUBase, and how they fit with subjects, roll number slips and exam halls.

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Student Records: Delete or Mark Inactive?

Should you delete a student record or mark it inactive? See what happens to dues, challans and payment history when a child leaves.

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Fee Reports: One Student's Full Fee History

See what one student was charged and paid, month by month, using EDUBase Fee Reports, Payment History and the Detail Fee Report.

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Printing School Leaving & Character Certificates

How to print school leaving and character certificates in EDUBase, with your own wording, branding and a log of every certificate issued.

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Owner App for School Fee Collection & Attendance

The EDUBase Owners App lets school owners see today's P&L, fee collection, defaulters and attendance on Android, across all campuses.

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Late Fee Fines: Applying Them Automatically

Set late fee fines that apply automatically after the due date in EDUBase, with grace periods, per-day accrual, holiday rules and preview.

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Roll Numbers and Roll Number Slips in EDUBase

How to assign roll numbers per section or school-wide in EDUBase, allocate exam halls and print roll number slips for each class.

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Fee Discounts & Concessions for Students | EDUBase

How to give sibling, staff-child and merit fee discounts and concessions in EDUBase, with approvals, change logs and audit-ready fee reports.

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How to Add Subjects and Assign Them to Classes

Add subjects and subject groups in EDUBase, attach them to classes, assign electives to students and use them in award lists and result cards.

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Fee Setup: Class-Wise Fee Plans in EDUBase

Fee setup guide for school finance teams: build class-wise fee plans in EDUBase and fix an empty fee plan list for a student.

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Student Missing From Fee Challans: Causes

Why a student is missing when you pay or print Fee Challans in EDUBase: no challan, left status, campus scope, filters or fee plan.

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Delete and Regenerate Fee Challans Made by Mistake

How to remove fee challans generated for the wrong month or by mistake in EDUBase, handle any payments taken, and generate them again.

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Fee Reports: Class-Wise and Month-Wise in EDUBase

Get class-wise and month-wise fee reports in EDUBase: which report to open, what each shows, and how to print or export to Excel.

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Student Status: Mark a Student as Left Safely

How to change Student Status to left with a leaving date in EDUBase, keeping old dues, challans and payment history reachable.

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Classes & Sections in EDUBase: Setup and Fixes

How to add Classes & Sections in EDUBase, link them to campuses, and fix a new class that does not appear in dropdowns.

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Training & Onboarding for School Management Staff

How EDUBase trains school staff: live Google Meet sessions, YouTube playlists, in-app Docs and an AI assistant in English or Roman Urdu.

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Who Can Receive Fee Payments — Cash Account Privileges in EDUBase

Control which staff member may collect fees into which cash or bank account in EDUBase, and fix "no payment receiving account is assigned to your login".

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Staff Attendance: Mark, Correct and Track Late Arrivals

How to mark, correct and lock staff attendance in EDUBase, using registers, QR, biometric, face or geo app punches, and track late arrivals.

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Branding & Printing: Fix Small or Cut-Off Reports

Why EDUBase printouts come out too small, cut off or on the wrong paper, and how to fix scale, paper size, orientation and margins.

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Parents App: How Parents Download and Sign In

How parents download the Parents App from Google Play, sign in with a one-time code, and get help when the code does not arrive.

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Adding Staff Records: New Teachers and Staff

Add a new teacher or staff member in EDUBase: create staff records, set shift and salary plan, and issue the Teacher App login.

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SMS Messaging to Parents Using Your Own SIM

Set up SMS messaging to parents from your own SIM with EDUBase's Free SMS Sending App: install, link per campus, templates and logs.

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Adding Arrears to Fee Challans in EDUBase

How previous outstanding dues reach Fee Challans in EDUBase: automatic carry-forward, first-time arrears upload and adding amounts.

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Teacher App Sign-In for Attendance and Diary

How teachers sign in to the EDUBase Teachers App with an institute code, then mark class attendance and write the daily diary.

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Diary & Homework: How Teachers Send It to Parents

How teachers write the daily diary and homework in the EDUBase Teachers App, how approval works, and how parents read it in the Parents App.

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Training & Onboarding: EDUBase Video Tutorials

Find EDUBase video tutorials by module on YouTube playlists, through the in-app AI assistant and Docs page, plus live training.

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Fee Collection: Receiving Payments and Paid Challans

How fee collection works in EDUBase: counter, family-wise and bank payments, approvals, receipts and the reports that confirm a paid challan.

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School Management System Pakistan: 2026 Checklist

A 2026 checklist for school owners choosing a school management system in Pakistan: fees, bank collection, exams, attendance, apps, data.

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Add an Extra Charge to Fee Challans

How to add an annual fund, stationery, exam or transport charge to fee challans in EDUBase — before generation, for one student, or after issue.

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How to Print Student ID Cards with QR Codes

A practical guide for school admin staff on printing student ID cards with photo, school logo and QR code in EDUBase, and using them for QR attendance.

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Exams & Marks Entry: Subject-Wise Award Lists

How teachers enter exam marks subject-wise in EDUBase: create the award list per class, subject and exam, enter marks, send marks SMS and print result cards.

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How to Generate and Print Result Cards

A step-by-step guide for principals on setting up grading, entering marks on award lists and printing branded result cards in EDUBase EMS.

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How to Print Fee Challans Class-Wise

A finance officer's guide to generating and printing fee challans class-wise in EDUBase, including compact multi-voucher-per-page and family printouts.

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Parents App OTP Not Received: How to Sign In

Why the EDUBase Parents App one-time code may not arrive, what parents can do, and how the school office can issue or look up the OTP.

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Admissions: How to Admit a New Student

A step-by-step guide for school office staff on admitting a new student and filling the admission form in EDUBase, from enquiry to fee plan and ID card.

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Generate Monthly Fee Challans for a Whole School

How school finance offices generate monthly fee challans for every class in one run, carry arrears forward, and schedule the job to repeat each month.

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Bank Fee Collection for Schools in Pakistan: How It Works

How a school collects fees through banks in Pakistan: a consumer number on every challan, real-time posting, and no manual entry at the fee counter.

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See EDUBase running on your own school's data.

A 30-minute online demo, in English or Urdu, using your fee plans and classes. No installation, no commitment.