Send Free GROUPED App Alerts

Multiple alert groupings or segments instead of a single jumbled Alerts section. Messages can be sent in all languages (Japanese, Chinese​, Spanish etc). Grouped Alerts mean that your school can send an alert to ie. only Year 2 or Class 2B instead of the whole school. Your alert will stay in the section called "Year 2" or "Class 2B". This makes it easy for parents to look up if they initially missed it.

Features Overview - Packed with features!

​Each app is custom designed with your school branding. iPhone, iPad & Android plus Windows Phone & Windows Enews apps!

​The "Home" screen allows parents to see an overview (with time based icons) & quickly access alerts, newsletters, notes, calendar etc.

​Schools create “News” lists eg. year grades, classes etc. Add any custom names eg. Band, Sport etc. All support push alerts.​

​Staff can setup secure private “News” lists for all parents or specific groups / teams eg. staff, board, executive etc.

​Parents receive relevant alerts by selecting the “News” lists they care about most ie. what’s relevant to their child(ren).

"Auto Roll Forward" means parents don't miss out on app alerts or emails at the start of each year. Happens automatically each year!

​App "Sections” are not chronology displayed like “News” lists. Add your own for complete flexibility. Hundreds of icons to choose from!

​The calendar links to Google Calendar with added app features^ useful for schools & parents like “RSVP Date”, filters etc.

​Add permanent & always accessible links for your parents. Link to your website, parent payments, online canteens, policies etc.

Create digital forms / notes for parents to fill in, sign & submit ie. absentees, change of details, excursions etc. Also works with third party form solutions.

"Info Pages" allow you to promote your school by displaying mobile friendly pages with text, images, videos etc.

Add a photo gallery, videos, contact details etc or link back to your mobile friendly school website... the choice is yours.

Our 2 way feature (included with every account) let's parents reply to your messages via email or SMS for excursion bookings etc.^

​Staff can login from their mobile device via the secure (https) mobile friendly Web Admin for sending when away from the office.

See the Pricing or Sign Up pages. Or read more below...

Form Builder for electronic notes

​Create any digital form that parents can fill in and sign directly via your school app! Use for swimming carnivals, excursions, incursions, absentees, change of details etc. There is no limit to the form type you can create!

​No more printing and distributing, no more lost forms, no more messy handwriting to interpret and no more manual data entry. School staff can view entries, print out or export data to Excel. Parents love this feature because submitting permission slips is now fast and easy without the need to use paper or rely on delivery using their children.

Custom Apps

Only School Enews delivers handcrafted custom apps designed perfectly for your school. Each icon doesn't contain any Enews branding or text. View more app screenshots.

School Website

​Every message you send out via School Enews is automatically updated on your website - so you save time by not having to update your website separately AND you don't have to manually remove out of date notes. Examples: Example 1, Example 2, Example 3, Example 4, Example 5, Example 6

The website add-on is mobile friendly (adjusts based on the screen size of your device) and automatically adjusts as you make changes to your account. Works with ALL websites including Weebly, Wordpress, custom websites and NSW DEC school website service. Website add-on changes automatically if you have a custom app.

Fast & Easy Sending

Update your app, send bulk email and update your website in one easy step! No need to setup, integrate or pay for another third party bulk email system.

Auto Roll Forward

App alerts and email subscriptions automatically roll parents forward into the next year grade so they don't miss alerts and emails at the start of a new year. Parents don't have to remember to re-configure their app or email settings!

All Features

Free Push Alerts

Any content can be sent via an instant push notification to parents.

School App

A beautiful, handcrafted custom app for your school with free logo retracing.

Bulk Email

Parents can choose to receive messages on email (in addition to your app).

Grouped Alerts

Multiple alert groupings instead of a single jumbled alerts section.

Electronic Notes

Save time with electronic notes parents can fill out and sign on your app!

Calendar

Link in with your Google calendar once and events automatically sync!

Photos

Display photos of all your school based events.

Secure Groups

Create secure private lists for classes, staff or board members etc.

Form Builder

Add absentee, change of details etc forms using the built-in form builder.

Website Add-on

Your school website can automatically updates with your app updates.

Social Media

Link in with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram etc.

Links

Create a hub for all your school content and link to other online services.

Documents

Add in school documents for easy access by parents.

Online Payments

Link in with online payment providers including NSW DEC "Make a Payment".

Platform Support

Apps for all the leading platforms including iOS, Android and Windows.

Language Support

Messages can be sent in all languages (Japanese, Chinese, Spanish etc).

Language Translation

App users can change the language of your messages.

SMS and Email Reply

Staff Users can set reply options if required.

Other Benefits

School Staff Benefits

One Easy Step
Send alerts, update app, email parents and update website via one task instead of multiple!

All School Communication
Perfect for all emergencies, news, newsletters, notes, notices, reminders, calendar events etc.

PUSH News to Parents
PUSH news to your entire school, individual years, classes etc. Websites can't push news.

​Short and Long Messages
Send short messages or long messages with images or attachments.

System Reliability and Support

​Staff Support
Ongoing phone and email support.

Upgradability
Strong technical foundations.

Backups
Off-site every 24 hours. Local every 6 hours.

Privacy
Safer data with
in-house staff.

Flexibility & Speed
Each school has different content and sections.

Good software isn't only about features. School Enews prioritises reliability over new features.

More Reasons To Choose Enews?

Apart from the features mentioned above, your school should also choose us because of the following:

1. Real apps that open PDF files INSIDE the app instead of external website. Our full sized iPad app is at no additional cost. Our iPad app is not just a scaled up iPhone version instead it has two columns for easier use.
2. Industry leading grouped smart push alerts (replace SMS). School Enews stores each alert inside the correct section that it was initially sent instead of single "Alerts" section for the entire school where grades are mixed up. You could setup "Urgent Alerts" if you wanted.
3. Integrated bulk email means that you don't have to purchase a bulk email service from another company and hassle around with setup. Features like "double opt-in subscribe form" and "smart attachments" come as standard.
4. We provide app statistics... not just app downloads but how many parents have the app and are receiving push alerts.
5. Web Admin for schools uses https (SSL) for security.
6. Privacy and security is considered in everything that we develop.
7. Free upgrades... we welcome your feedback and ideas to shape the future of School Enews.

Sign up for a free trial or order School Enews today.

Pro Email System Features

Parents can receive updates sent directly to their email accounts. Features include:

1. Auto grade / year level roll forward - so parents don't have to unsubscribe and resubscribe each year
2. Parent multi-list subscribe form - allows parents to subscribe to lists that are relevant to them (eg. year grades)
3. Double opt-in subscribe form - this stops fraudulent signups using fake email addresses
4. "Smart" email attachments allows you to stop parents accessing an attachment even on a Sent email!
5. Parent auto unsubscribe - parents unsubscribe themselves (with full manual controls as a backup)
6. Auto list cleaning and bounce handling - old email addresses are cleaned/removed from your list
7. Send to thousands of email addresses - most distribution lists stop working at 100 email addresses
8. Unlimited immediate sending (automated system runs 24x7)
9. Parents subscribe themselves or you can import thousands at once from a CSV (Excel) file

​Apps are "cool" but we find email is still very popular with many parents. Sign up for a free trial or order School Enews today.

See the Pricing or Sign Up pages.