Run the school.
Not the arguments.
Telpen Edu is school management for Kenyan institutions, pre-primary to tertiary. It settles the fee disputes before they reach your office, chases stalled work up your own chain of seniority, and puts every shilling and every chalk box on a ledger the whole school can see.
Money, without the Friday confrontation
Fees are where trust breaks first: balances disputed at the office window, arrears carried by memory, receipts in exercise books.
A parent at the gate disputing a balance nobody can reconstruct
Every learner has a term-by-term statement — opening balance, charges, payments, credit — and the parent sees the same one you do.
Term-end arrears lost, double-counted, or 'negotiated'
Close the term in one click: arrears carry forward as brought-forward charges, overpayment becomes credit, and the action is logged.
Anyone with keys to the office can touch fees
Money is role-assigned. Only the accounts desk — the Bursar role you grant — can create fees, record payments or close a term.
The app that chases stalled work for you
The costliest problems are the silent ones: a register unmarked for weeks, a class that never got a timetable, marking that never happens. You find out at audit time — or from a shouting parent.
A class with learners but no timetable, invisible until exams
Telpen Edu notices and tells the grade facilitator; if nothing happens it walks up your chain — HoD, deputy, you — until someone acts.
Attendance not taken, lessons unrecorded, submissions unmarked
Fifteen built-in watchdogs chase attendance, lesson records, marking, fee promises, overdue library books, empty duty slots and more — with reminder timings you control.
Everything lands on the head teacher, always
Escalation follows your seniority: the responsible person first, seniors only when it stalls. You see only what survived your chain.
CBE records that write themselves
Competency-based education multiplied the paperwork: strands, sub-strands, rubrics, evidence — per learner, per learning area.
Strand coverage tracked on paper, reconstructed for inspectors
The KICD-rationalised catalog auto-fills per grade; facilitators tick sub-strands as covered and you read live coverage per class.
Assessment analysis in midnight spreadsheets
Marks post once and read on the KNEC 8-point scale — EE to BE per grade and stream, no ranking, nothing to build by hand.
Typed papers sat, collected, marked, lost
Timed assessments run themselves: upload the paper, it opens on time, closes on time, marks itself and publishes the analysis.
Trust you can show, not promise
Chalk, reams and lunch flour walk away quietly. So does goodwill, when parents only hear from school at report time.
Stores issued from memory; stock 'finishes' early every term
Only your storekeeper moves stock, and every issue and top-up is a ledger line — who, when, how many, which LPO — visible to the whole school.
Parents informed by expensive SMS, or not at all
Messages, announcements, events and fee reminders are in-app and free — and an ignored parent message escalates like any other stalled duty.
One school, three systems: nursery, primary, college
Pre-primary to tertiary in one app. A college sees Years, Semesters and Units; a primary school sees Grades and Terms. The app never mixes them.
Built for how schools here actually work
- Parents and staff sign in with the phone number the school already holds — no email, no SMS codes, no per-message costs.
- Works as an app on Android and in any browser; list pages load in about a second on a phone connection.
- A new school starts the same day: institution type picked at creation, sample data in every section to learn on, and bulk enlisting when you bring many schools at once.
- Every school's data is its own. Staff roles — accounts desk, stores desk, duty master — are yours to assign and revoke.
Pricing with no arrears of its own
We price the way we think schools should be run: plainly, and with nothing carried forward behind your back.
Your school
KES 10,000 / term per school
- First month free — the whole school, every module.
- Per semester for colleges; the calendar follows your level.
- Every role included: admin, facilitators, staff, learners.
Parents
KES 10 / month, only when used
- Free for the school's whole first term.
- Charged only for a month the parent actually signs in.
- An unused month costs nothing — and never becomes arrears.
- Facilitators and staff never pay a subscription — only parent accounts do, even when a staff member is also a parent.
See it with your own school's shape
Tell us whether you run a pre-primary, a primary, a secondary, a college — or all of them. We enlist your school with sample data in every section, so you judge it full, not empty.
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