Features
What Natial Schools does today
This page lists what a school can do with Natial Schools now, what is running in a limited pilot, and what comes later, so you do not have to guess.
Records and academic setup
Keep pupils, guardians and enrolments in one place. Each pupil has an admission number that is unique within your school. Import the register you already have from an Excel or CSV file: the template asks for admission number, first name and last name, and the importer checks each row before it saves. Set up your classes, academic years, terms and subjects once, and every module uses them. Staff, parents and pupils join by invitation from the school.
Each pupil can have a printable ID card when the school has added a passport photo.
Results and academics
Teachers enter scores in a grid on the web or upload an Excel or CSV template. Every score starts as a draft. School leadership approves; the principal or an admin publishes. Parents see published results only. Each published term becomes a branded PDF report card, with an attendance summary when the school has recorded attendance.
Fees and finance
Build fee schedules, raise invoices, record payments and issue numbered receipts. A recorded payment stays pending until someone confirms it, so a balance only changes when a person has checked the payment. Payments can be rejected or reversed, and each step is recorded in the audit trail. Parents can see their child’s invoices and balance. Online payment is running in a limited pilot — see below.
Admissions
Track every applicant through enquiry, application, assessment, interview and offer, and see how many are at each stage. When an offer is accepted, enrol the pupil into your records with their admission number. If the school website is on, its enquiry form adds new enquiries to the same list.
Parent and pupil portals
Parents sign in to see their children’s published results, report cards, fee balances and history, announcements, and homework where the school uses it. A parent with children at two Natial schools sees both under one sign-in. Pupils can have their own sign-ins to see their own published results, homework and announcements. Parents find their school from the Natial Schools home page by name or school code.
School websites
Publish a public website for your school from the same record: your name, logo, colours, tagline, about text, address, phone and email, plus news, events and a photo gallery. Visitors get a link to the school’s portals, and can send an admission enquiry. Your site sits at a school address under Natial’s domain.
More
Also available, per school
A daily class attendance register. In-app announcements to staff, parents and pupils. A weekly timetable with clash checks. Homework and reading practice. A library catalogue with loans. Hostel rooms and beds. Staff records and leave requests. A TRCN and CPD log for teachers. Each is switched on per school.
Pilot
In pilot now
Online fee payment is being piloted in Paystack test mode at one school: card checkout, server-side verification, confirmation with a numbered receipt, and safe handling of failed or abandoned checkouts. It is not a general live-payment feature yet. No real money moves until live operation is approved.
Later
Comes later
These are planned and are not available today. We have not set dates.
- SMS, WhatsApp and email alerts to parents.
- A mobile app.
- Your own domain name for your school website.
- Importing scores from any spreadsheet layout, and grading beyond the current setup such as GPA.
- Payslips and payroll.
- Quizzes, CBT and learning resources.
- Entrance-exam scoring, online application payments, offer letters and a re-enrolment workflow.