# Enaton, full reference

This is the long form companion to https://enatontech.com/llms.txt. It exists so that an
assistant can answer a specific question about Enaton accurately from one
fetch, rather than inferring it.

Enaton is a school management system built in Kenya for schools running CBC,
8-4-4 and Cambridge. It covers fees, M-Pesa and bank payments, academics,
attendance, transport, communication, the parent portal, payroll, procurement,
stores, library, approvals and KEMIS readiness, on one platform where every
module reads the same learner balance.

## Pricing, stated once

From as low as KES 4,060 a month for a
school, which is KES 48,720 a year.

It is NEVER priced per learner, so a school growing from 400 learners to 1,000
pays the same. A group running several schools is quoted, and is told where it
lands before committing.

EVERY module is included from the first day. There is no tier where finance,
payroll or stores is held back to sell as an upgrade later. There is no setup
fee. Migration, configuration, training and support are included, along with
unlimited learners and unlimited staff and parent accounts.

The two things charged separately are SMS credits, which are passed through at
cost and topped up by M-Pesa, and vehicle tracking hardware, only if a school
wants live bus tracking and its buses carry no tracker.

## Scale, with the arithmetic

Every figure is the floor of its real range, so each is defensible rather than
impressive. The working is published at https://enatontech.com/how-we-count.

- Schools: 100+
- Learners: 30,000+
- Parents and guardians: 50,000+
- Fees billed and tracked each year: KES 1.8 billion+

"Billed and tracked" is deliberately not "collected". Collection is the gap
Enaton exists to close.

Enaton publishes no customer rating and names no school it serves. Both are
choices, not omissions: a school's finances are its own business.

## Payment channels

M-Pesa, Equity Bank, KCB Bank, NBK, Family Bank, Co-operative Bank, I&M Bank are connected today. Any other bank is
built on request. Fees are paid into the school's own accounts. Enaton records
and reconciles them and does not hold school money.

## Curricula

CBC, 8-4-4 and Cambridge (IGCSE and A level). Each is configured on its own
terms rather than one approximated into another, and two or three can run in
the same school at once.

## KEMIS

KEMIS replaced NEMIS in January 2026. Enaton keeps learner and staff records in
the shape KEMIS expects, so returns are prepared from data the school already
maintains rather than assembled under deadline.

# Modules, all 21

## Fee management
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-fee-management-system-kenya
Curriculum area: Finance

Enaton manages school fees from the structure to the receipt. Build fee structures by class and term, bill a whole stream at once, take M-Pesa and bank payments that record themselves, issue receipts parents can verify, track arrears and close the term without a spreadsheet.

The problem schools describe: A bursar in a 600 learner school handles somewhere between two and four hundred payments a term, arriving through M-Pesa, two or three bank accounts, cash at the window and the occasional cheque. Every one of them has to find the right learner, the right term and the right votehead. Most of that matching happens by eye, off a bank statement, days after the money actually arrived.

How Enaton handles it: One balance holds the truth. A learner’s total is what is outstanding this term, plus anything unpaid from earlier terms in the same financial year, plus whatever was carried forward when they joined. Every screen that shows a balance works it out the same way, so the figure on the bursar’s report, on the report card and on the parent’s phone cannot disagree with each other.

## M-Pesa and bank payments
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/mpesa-school-fee-payment-system
Curriculum area: Finance

Parents pay school fees by M-Pesa or straight from their bank, and Enaton records the payment against the right learner and the right votehead by itself. The balance updates, a receipt goes out, and the bursar gets one list to check instead of one per bank.

The problem schools describe: Money almost never actually disappears. What goes missing is the link between a payment and a learner. A parent pays to the school paybill using their own name, or a grandparent pays, or the reference is the mother’s phone number and the child is registered under the father. The cash is in the account. Nobody knows whose it is.

How Enaton handles it: Payments land in the school’s own accounts, and Enaton matches each one to a learner and a votehead as it arrives. Where a payment genuinely cannot be identified, it is held clearly as unallocated rather than quietly guessed at, and the office can assign it in a few seconds once the family gets in touch.

## Collections and compliance
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-fee-collection-system-kenya
Curriculum area: Finance

Enaton chases school fee arrears without anybody sitting down to do it. Rules you set score every learner, reminders quote what the family owes at the moment the message sends, and when a parent pays enough, clearance comes back on its own.

The problem schools describe: Every school knows what it is owed. Very few have anyone whose actual job is to go and get it. So collection happens in bursts, usually a fortnight before exams, usually by a member of staff who stops doing their real work to send messages one at a time.

How Enaton handles it: You describe your rules once. Who counts as behind, by how much, at what point in the term, and what happens then. Enaton applies those rules to every learner continuously, so the picture is current rather than assembled the night before a meeting.

## Enaton Pay
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/enaton-pay-school-payment-wallet
Curriculum area: Finance

Every payment through Enaton produces a receipt straight away. The parent keeps it, the school holds a complete register of every receipt issued, and anyone can confirm a receipt is genuine from a public link without needing an account.

The problem schools describe: Paper receipt books go missing, get rained on, and are trivially easy to fake. A parent who has lost theirs has no way to prove they paid, and a school with a duplicate book has no quick way to prove they did not.

How Enaton handles it: A receipt is issued the moment a payment is recorded, whether it came through M-Pesa, a bank, cash at the window or a cheque. The parent has it without asking. The school has a register of every receipt ever issued, searchable, exportable, and complete.

## Accounting
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-accounting-software-kenya
Curriculum area: Finance

Enaton keeps proper double entry accounts behind the fees, rather than exporting to something else and hoping it reconciles. Chart of accounts, vote head accounting, cash book, trial balance and profit and loss, all drawing on the same figures the bursar already works with.

The problem schools describe: Most school systems handle fees and then hand the accounting to something else, usually a spreadsheet or an off the shelf accounts package. The handover is where the trouble starts. Fees say one thing, the accounts say another, and closing the year becomes an exercise in explaining the gap rather than reporting the position.

How Enaton handles it: The accounting is not a separate system fed by an export. A fee receipted at the window and an expense paid from petty cash both post into the same set of books, so the trial balance is built from the actual transactions rather than reassembled afterwards.

Note: this is configured with the school during setup and rollout rather than switched on from a menu.

## Expenses and petty cash
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-expense-management-system
Curriculum area: Finance

Enaton tracks what a school spends, not just what it collects. Expense categories, petty cash floats with every item recorded, transfers between accounts, receipts attached where they belong, and sources of income beyond fees.

The problem schools describe: Almost every school we meet can tell you what it billed. Far fewer can tell you what it spent, at the same level of detail, in the same week. Petty cash in particular tends to live in a hardback book, reconciled monthly if somebody remembers, and it is where small losses hide for years.

How Enaton handles it: Spending is recorded against categories the school defines, and against the same accounts and vote heads the fees use. That means the question of whether transport covers its own costs has an actual answer, because the income and the diesel are in the same place.

Note: this is configured with the school during setup and rollout rather than switched on from a menu.

## CBC
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/cbc-school-management-system
Curriculum area: Academics

Enaton runs CBC the way CBC is actually structured: learning areas, strands, sub strands and objectives, with competency based grading rather than a percentage wearing a new label. Teachers record assessment once and the report cards come out the other side.

The problem schools describe: CBC asks a school to record something genuinely different. Not one mark per subject per term, but progress against objectives inside sub strands inside strands inside learning areas, judged as a level of competency rather than a score out of a hundred.

How Enaton handles it: The structure is modelled properly, so a learning area holds strands, a strand holds sub strands, and assessment attaches to the objectives underneath. Because the record is that granular, a report card can say something specific rather than issuing a single vague level for a whole subject.

## 8-4-4
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/844-school-management-system
Curriculum area: Academics

Enaton runs 8-4-4 properly: subjects and their papers, marks entered once, grading and points applied by the rules your school sets, and mid term, end term, mocks and merged exams handled without rebuilding a spreadsheet each time.

The problem schools describe: In most schools the last two weeks of term are an administrative emergency. Marks arrive from teachers on paper, in books, sometimes over WhatsApp. Somebody types them into a master spreadsheet. Formulas break. One teacher is late. Report cards get printed the night before closing day and at least a few of them are wrong.

How Enaton handles it: Teachers enter marks once, for the subjects and classes they actually teach. Papers combine into subject scores by the weighting the school has configured, grades and points come from the school’s own grading scale, and the ranking, the merit list and the report card follow from there without anyone assembling them.

## Cambridge
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/cambridge-school-management-system-kenya
Curriculum area: Academics

Enaton manages Cambridge and IGCSE schools in Kenya: year groups, subject options, the grading structures Cambridge actually uses, and reports in a format parents of international learners expect. It runs alongside CBC in the same school without a second system.

The problem schools describe: A Kenyan school running Cambridge alongside CBC usually ends up with two half solutions. The main system handles the local curriculum, and the Cambridge section is run on spreadsheets by whoever understands it, because the system cannot represent year groups, subject options or the grading properly.

How Enaton handles it: Cambridge is set up on its own terms. Year groups rather than Kenyan class labels, subjects chosen per learner rather than fixed per class, and grading structures that match how Cambridge reports rather than being mapped onto a local scale.

## Exams and report cards
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-report-card-system
Curriculum area: Academics

Enaton turns marks into reports without an end of term scramble. Create the exam, teachers enter marks once, and report cards, transcripts, merit lists and performance analysis follow from the same records for CBC, 8-4-4 and Cambridge.

The problem schools describe: Producing reports is the single most stressful administrative task in a school year, and it lands in the same fortnight as exams, closing day preparation and fee collection. Marks arrive in different formats, one teacher is always late, and the spreadsheet that combines everything is understood by one person.

How Enaton handles it: Marks are entered against the right learner in the right class from the beginning, by the teacher who marked the script. Everything downstream, grades, positions, merit lists, the report card itself, is worked out from those records rather than assembled separately.

## Transport
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-transport-management-system
Curriculum area: Operations

Enaton runs school transport end to end. Set up routes, stops and zones, assign learners per term, watch buses live on a map, record who boarded at which stop, and let transport billing reach finance without anyone retyping it.

The problem schools describe: In most schools the transport office is a person with a phone. A parent rings to ask where the bus is. The office rings the driver. The driver answers or does not. This repeats every morning and every evening, and it is nobody’s actual job.

How Enaton handles it: Routes, stops and zones are set up once. Learners are assigned to a route for a term, and that assignment is what drives both the trip and the billing, so the two cannot drift apart. When a learner leaves a route, the charge stops because it is the same record.

## Attendance
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-attendance-system-kenya
Curriculum area: Operations

Enaton records attendance in a way that survives a real school day. Teachers mark in seconds, registers that were never marked surface before the day ends, senior staff review the cases that need attention, and parents can see their child was present.

The problem schools describe: Most schools take attendance. Far fewer do anything with it. Registers are marked in a book, the book sits in the classroom, and nobody finds out that a learner has missed eleven days until somebody notices they are failing.

How Enaton handles it: Marking is fast enough that teachers actually do it, from a phone if that is what they have. What matters more is what happens next: unmarked registers are visible the same day, not at the end of the month, so somebody can chase them while it still means something.

## Procurement
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-procurement-system
Curriculum area: Operations

Enaton runs school purchasing from the request to the payment. A department raises a requisition, it is approved by the people you decided should approve it, a purchase order goes to the supplier, goods are received into stores, and a payment voucher closes it out against the accounts.

The problem schools describe: Most school buying happens by conversation. A department needs something, tells the bursar, and money moves. There may be a requisition book. There is often a quote. Whether the goods actually arrived, and whether they matched what was ordered, is frequently nobody’s specific responsibility.

How Enaton handles it: Each step produces a record, and each record is linked to the one before it. A payment voucher can be traced back to the goods received, which can be traced back to the purchase order, which traces back to the approved requisition and the person who raised it.

Note: this is configured with the school during setup and rollout rather than switched on from a menu.

## Stores and inventory
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-store-inventory-management-system
Curriculum area: Operations

Enaton tracks what the school owns and what it uses. Items received into stores, issued out to departments, held across rooms and sections, with closing stock you can actually rely on at the end of a term.

The problem schools describe: Ask most schools what is in the store and the honest answer is that somebody has a rough idea. Stock is counted at the end of the year, if then, and the count rarely matches the book. Items are issued on a verbal request. Donations arrive and are never recorded at all.

How Enaton handles it: Stock comes in through purchasing or as a donation, and both are recorded. Issuing to a department is a record against a person, not a conversation. The closing stock figure is therefore built from actual movements rather than from a count somebody did in a hurry.

Note: this is configured with the school during setup and rollout rather than switched on from a menu.

## Library
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-library-management-system
Curriculum area: Operations

Enaton manages the school library: catalogue the collection, issue and return books, know who currently has what, and report on stock and losses without counting the shelves.

The problem schools describe: A school library represents a real investment and is usually managed with a hardback ledger and goodwill. Books go out, some come back, and the difference is discovered years later when somebody finally does a count.

How Enaton handles it: The collection is catalogued properly, with the detail a librarian actually needs rather than just a title. Issuing and returning are recorded against the learner or staff member, so at any point you can see who has what and what is overdue.

Note: this is configured with the school during setup and rollout rather than switched on from a menu.

## Parent portal
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/parent-portal-for-schools-kenya
Curriculum area: People

One account for a parent, covering every one of their children, even when those children are at different schools in the group. Fee balance and receipts, payment by M-Pesa, results, attendance, the diary and the school bus, on the phone they already own.

The problem schools describe: A school office spends a substantial part of every day answering four questions: what do I owe, did you receive my payment, how did my child do, and where is the bus. None of these need a member of staff. All of them get one because the parent has no other way to find out.

How Enaton handles it: The parent signs in once with their phone number and sees all of their children. If they have a child in the primary school and another in the secondary school of the same group, both are in one place with one balance to understand.

## Communication
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-sms-communication-system-kenya
Curriculum area: People

Enaton sends messages from inside the system that already knows who owes what, who is in which class and whose child was absent. That means a message can be accurate and specific instead of a blast to everyone, and you can see what was actually delivered.

The problem schools describe: A standalone bulk SMS service can send a message to a list. That is all it can do. It does not know what a family owes, which class a learner is in, or whether that parent paid this morning. So somebody exports a list, edits it, uploads it, and sends a message that was accurate when the export ran.

How Enaton handles it: Messages are sent from the place that holds the information, so a fee reminder carries the balance as it stands at that moment, and an absence message names the day. No export, no upload, no stale list.

## Payroll
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-payroll-system-kenya
Curriculum area: People

Enaton runs school payroll against the same accounts as everything else. Staff records, allowances and deductions, salary formulas, pay periods and advances, so the largest cost the school carries is not managed in a separate spreadsheet.

The problem schools describe: Staff salaries are usually the largest single line in a school budget, and in most schools they are calculated in a spreadsheet maintained by one person. That spreadsheet contains allowances, deductions, advances taken mid month, and a set of formulas that only its author fully understands.

How Enaton handles it: Payroll works from the staff records the school already maintains, so a new teacher is not entered twice. Allowances and deductions are defined once and applied by formula rather than by hand, and advances taken during a month are carried through rather than remembered.

Note: this is configured with the school during setup and rollout rather than switched on from a menu.

## Multi school
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/multi-school-management-system
Curriculum area: People

Enaton runs a group of schools from one place. Each school keeps its own operations, staff and reporting, while the organisation gets a view across all of them, and the price does not change with the number of schools.

The problem schools describe: A group with three campuses usually ends up with three separate systems, or three separate copies of the same system, and a director who gets three reports on different days in different formats and adds them up personally.

How Enaton handles it: Each school runs its own operation with its own classes, fee structures, staff and reporting, because a group of schools is not one big school. What sits above them is a view across all of them, on the same day, in the same format.

## Approvals
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/school-approval-workflow-system
Curriculum area: Control

Enaton makes sure nothing consequential happens in your school without the sign off you decided it needs. Fee structures, waivers, purchases and payments each follow the approval chain you set, and every decision is recorded against a person in a way nobody can quietly change later.

The problem schools describe: Almost every school management system will store the fact that a waiver was granted. Very few will stop it being granted by somebody who should not have granted it, or make sure the director saw it first, or tell you three weeks later who approved it and when.

How Enaton handles it: You describe your own chain. What needs approving, how many levels, who sits at each one, and what happens if somebody does not respond. Enaton then applies it consistently, every time, whether or not the people involved remember.

## KEMIS
URL: https://enatontech.com/features/kemis-integration-for-schools-kenya
Curriculum area: Control

Enaton keeps learner and staff records in the shape KEMIS expects. Returns are prepared from the data your school already maintains day to day, rather than assembled from scratch in a rush every time the ministry asks.

The problem schools describe: KEMIS replaced NEMIS and every Kenyan school now has to deal with it. In practice, for most schools, a return means one person collecting information from several places under time pressure: a registry book, a spreadsheet, a class list that is a term out of date, and whoever remembers which learners actually left.

How Enaton handles it: The registry holds what a return actually needs, as part of ordinary daily use rather than as an extra exercise. A learner is enrolled with their full details and their guardians. When they leave, transfer or complete, that is recorded properly rather than by removing them from a list.


# Counties, all 47

Enaton serves schools across Kenya at the same price everywhere. Each county
page describes what is genuinely different about running a school there.

### Nairobi
- Nairobi (https://enatontech.com/schools/nairobi): Three curricula under one board, the highest fee values in the country, and a school run through city traffic. Locally: Nairobi holds the widest curriculum spread in the country, and it is common for one group to run more than one. A CBC primary in Kasarani, an 8-4-4 secondary in Embakasi and an IGCSE stream in Westlands means three grading structures, three fee structures and three sets of reports, with one board wanting one set of figures on one page.

### Central
- Kiambu (https://enatontech.com/schools/kiambu): The densest private school market outside Nairobi, and dairy co-operative parents who are paid by the month. Locally: Kiambu has absorbed Nairobi. Ruiru, Kikuyu, Thika and Juja filled with housing estates and private academies filled in behind them, which means a parent choosing a school here is genuinely choosing, often between four or five within a short drive.
- Kirinyaga (https://enatontech.com/schools/kirinyaga): Mwea rice pays twice a year in a lump after milling, which fits a three term fee calendar badly. Locally: The Mwea irrigation scheme dominates the lower half of the county. Rice is harvested and milled on a cycle, and payment to the farmer follows the milling rather than the harvest, which is later still.
- Murang'a (https://enatontech.com/schools/murang-a): Boarding is the tradition here, which leaves parents with no daily contact and no way to ask a small question. Locally: Murang'a has a long boarding tradition and a lot of its secondary learners live at school. That arrangement works, but it removes the thing day school parents take for granted, which is small, frequent, ordinary contact.
- Nyandarua (https://enatontech.com/schools/nyandarua): A steady monthly milk cheque next to a lumpy potato harvest, and long cold journeys between schools. Locally: Nyandarua is high, cold and spread out. Homesteads sit far apart, schools sit far apart, and a learner’s journey is a real consideration rather than a detail, which pushes families towards boarding earlier than they would elsewhere.
- Nyeri (https://enatontech.com/schools/nyeri): Boarding schools with a national intake, and the admissions load that arrives with it. Locally: Nyeri carries an unusual concentration of schools with a reputation that reaches beyond the county, and reputation brings a national intake. A Form One class here can arrive from a dozen counties, each learner with records held somewhere else and a family the school has never met.

### Coast
- Kilifi (https://enatontech.com/schools/kilifi): International schools on the coast strip and large rural day schools inland, sometimes under the same board. Locally: Kilifi is long, and it changes as you move away from the water. The coast strip around Malindi, Watamu and Mtwapa carries international and high fee private schools serving resident foreign families and the tourism economy. Move inland and you are among large public day schools where the fee per learner is a small fraction of that.
- Kwale (https://enatontech.com/schools/kwale): Retention is the real problem here, so knowing which learner is slipping matters more than knowing who owes. Locally: Kwale sits next to one of the busiest tourism strips in the country and, a short distance inland, among some of the lowest household incomes on the coast. Both are in the same county and often in the same catchment.
- Lamu (https://enatontech.com/schools/lamu): An archipelago, so a learner travels by boat and a parent may be on another island entirely. Locally: Lamu is islands and mainland, and movement between them is by water. That single fact reshapes everything a school does. A parent cannot simply come in. A staff member cannot simply pop to the bank. A learner’s journey depends on a boat and on the weather.
- Mombasa (https://enatontech.com/schools/mombasa): Household income rises and falls with the tourist season and the port, so the fee year has a shape. Locally: Mombasa is Kenya’s second city and it runs on two industries that both have a calendar. Tourism has a high season and a low season, and the port has its own rhythm of contract and casual work. A large share of parents are paid accordingly.
- Taita Taveta (https://enatontech.com/schools/taita-taveta): Hills, plains and a border town, with school journeys that cross long empty stretches between them. Locally: The county is three places at once. The Taita hills around Wundanyi, the dry plains through Voi and Maungu, and Taveta out on the Tanzanian border, with substantial empty distance between them.
- Tana River (https://enatontech.com/schools/tana-river): Flooding interrupts the term, and irrigation farmers and pastoralists share the same catchment. Locally: The river defines the county and periodically disrupts it. Flooding closes roads, displaces households and interrupts schooling, and it does so on no useful schedule. A school here plans around interruption in a way most Kenyan schools do not have to.

### Eastern
- Embu (https://enatontech.com/schools/embu): Co-operative payments arrive on a known cycle, so a well timed instalment beats a demand letter. Locally: Embu’s upper slopes run on tea and coffee delivered through co-operatives and factories, which means a large share of households are paid by an institution on a schedule rather than by a customer on a whim. That is unusual and it is useful.
- Isiolo (https://enatontech.com/schools/isiolo): A transit county with a mobile catchment, so learners arrive and leave part way through a term. Locally: Isiolo sits where the highlands meet the north, and it functions as a junction. Livestock markets, transport routes and a mixed population moving through mean the school roll is less settled than in most counties.
- Kitui (https://enatontech.com/schools/kitui): The person paying the fees is frequently a relative in Nairobi, not the parent who dropped the learner off. Locally: Kitui is semi arid and a great many of its households are supported in part by somebody working elsewhere, most often Nairobi. School fees are one of the main things that money is sent home for.
- Machakos (https://enatontech.com/schools/machakos): Academies growing fast on the Nairobi edge, where per learner pricing punishes you for succeeding. Locally: The northern edge of Machakos has grown into Nairobi. Athi River, Mlolongo and Syokimau filled with housing, and private academies followed the housing, serving families who work in the city and live here.
- Makueni (https://enatontech.com/schools/makueni): A good fruit season lets a household clear a whole year at once, if the school can hold the credit properly. Locally: Makueni is semi arid and its fruit growing, mangoes above all, is one of the few household incomes here that arrives as a meaningful lump rather than a trickle. A good year and a poor year are very far apart.
- Marsabit (https://enatontech.com/schools/marsabit): Enormous distances and mobile households, so the phone is the only realistic link between school and parent. Locally: Marsabit is one of the largest counties in Kenya and one of the least densely populated. The distance between a school and the homestead it serves can be measured in hours, and many households move with livestock rather than staying at a fixed address.
- Meru (https://enatontech.com/schools/meru): A cash heavy local economy, which makes the money taken at the office window the thing that needs controlling. Locally: Meru trades in cash more than most counties. The miraa economy around Maua and Nkubu turns over daily and settles in notes, and a good deal of the farming and market trade around it works the same way.
- Tharaka Nithi (https://enatontech.com/schools/tharaka-nithi): Wet slopes and dry lowlands in one county, so two schools under one board can face opposite problems. Locally: The county climbs from the dry Tharaka lowlands up to the wet slopes around Chuka and Chogoria, and the two halves have little in common economically. Reliable rain and cash crops on one side, semi arid farming and much thinner household income on the other.

### North Eastern
- Garissa (https://enatontech.com/schools/garissa): A regional hub serving families spread across a very wide radius, on a calendar the school sets itself. Locally: Garissa town is the administrative and commercial centre for a very large area, and its schools draw from far beyond the town itself. A family may be several hours away, which makes the office counter a poor way to run a relationship with a parent.
- Mandera (https://enatontech.com/schools/mandera): Staff turnover is the real risk, so the school must keep working when the person who knew everything leaves. Locally: Mandera sits at the corner where Kenya meets Ethiopia and Somalia, and it is among the hardest places in the country to keep staff. Teachers and administrators posted here turn over faster than almost anywhere else.
- Wajir (https://enatontech.com/schools/wajir): Learners leave with the herd and come back, and a school needs the returning one to pick up where they stopped. Locally: Household survival in much of Wajir depends on livestock, and livestock depends on moving. Children go with the family, sometimes for weeks and sometimes for a season, and then they come back.

### Nyanza
- Homa Bay (https://enatontech.com/schools/homa-bay): Lake income is daily and volatile, so a family can be behind one week and clear the next. Locally: A great deal of the county earns from the lake, and lake income is genuinely daily and genuinely volatile. A good week and a bad week can be a large multiple apart, decided by weather, by the catch and by the price at the beach.
- Kisii (https://enatontech.com/schools/kisii): Families invest heavily in extras, so trips, tuition, exams and uniforms are a real second ledger. Locally: Kisii is densely populated with small landholdings and a strong tradition of putting money into education. Families here will pay for extra tuition, trips, exam fees, uniforms and activities on top of the standard fee, often willingly.
- Kisumu (https://enatontech.com/schools/kisumu): A city academy and a rural day school half an hour apart, on completely different fee structures. Locally: Kisumu is western Kenya’s commercial centre, and the county holds both ends of the market within half an hour of each other. A private academy in the city charging city fees, and a day school out towards Ahero or Kombewa where the fee is a fraction of that and the collection problem is completely different.
- Migori (https://enatontech.com/schools/migori): Fee income arrives unevenly, which makes controlling what the school spends the more urgent half of the job. Locally: Migori runs on several unrelated economies at once. Cane around Awendo, artisanal gold in the south west, tobacco, and the border trade at Isebania. They pay on entirely different rhythms and none of them is a salary.
- Nyamira (https://enatontech.com/schools/nyamira): Smaller schools that still need proper accounts, without a finance department to run them. Locally: Nyamira is small, hilly and densely settled, and a lot of its schools are modest in size. Tea through the co-operatives underpins many households, and the schools serving them are frequently run by two or three people wearing several hats each.
- Siaya (https://enatontech.com/schools/siaya): A large share of learners are supported by a guardian or a sponsor rather than by one parent at home. Locally: A significant number of learners in Siaya are looked after by a grandparent, an aunt, an elder sibling or a sponsor rather than by two parents in one household. That is a normal family shape here, not an exception, and it is one that school administration is usually poor at describing.

### Rift Valley
- Baringo (https://enatontech.com/schools/baringo): Books and equipment are among the few things a school here owns outright, and replacing them is expensive. Locally: Baringo runs from the highlands around Kabarnet down to hot lowlands towards Chemolingot, and supply lines to the lower half are long. What a school owns, it holds on to, because replacing it is neither quick nor cheap.
- Bomet (https://enatontech.com/schools/bomet): The tea bonus lands by mid October, and that one date is worth more than a term of reminders. Locally: Bomet is tea country, in the West of Rift. For a large share of families here the household year has one date on it that matters more than any other: the annual bonus, which KTDA pays by the middle of October alongside the September green leaf payment.
- Elgeyo Marakwet (https://enatontech.com/schools/elgeyo-marakwet): Escarpment roads down to the Kerio Valley, where the school run is a real safety question. Locally: The county falls from the highlands around Iten down the escarpment into the Kerio Valley, and the road between the two is the defining fact of daily life for the schools that span it.
- Kajiado (https://enatontech.com/schools/kajiado): A commuter belt academy and a Loitokitok boarding school under one board, sharing almost nothing. Locally: Kajiado runs from the edge of Nairobi to the Tanzanian border. In the north, Kitengela, Ongata Rongai and Isinya are commuter belt towns where private academies have grown quickly alongside the housing, and where the parents work in Nairobi and want the same standard they would get there.
- Kericho (https://enatontech.com/schools/kericho): Estate families move, so learners transfer mid year and the record has to travel with them. Locally: Kericho’s tea is grown at two scales, by smallholders delivering to factories and by large estates employing a resident workforce, several of which run schools of their own.
- Laikipia (https://enatontech.com/schools/laikipia): Many schools here answer to a trust or a funder, and a funder asks harder questions than a parent. Locally: Laikipia has an unusual concentration of schools founded and supported by trusts, missions, conservancies and private benefactors, sitting alongside ordinary public and private schools across a very spread out county.
- Nakuru (https://enatontech.com/schools/nakuru): Employers here pay fees for staff children, which means the school invoices a company as well as a parent. Locally: Nakuru carries a large formal workforce for a county outside the two big cities. The flower farms around Naivasha, the processing and manufacturing around Nakuru city, and the estates in between employ people at a scale that changes what a school’s catchment looks like.
- Nandi (https://enatontech.com/schools/nandi): A large share of parents are on a monthly estate payslip, so fees can be matched to a pay date that never moves. Locally: Nandi’s tea estates employ a resident workforce, and estate employment means something a Kenyan school rarely gets to rely on: a payslip that arrives on the same date every month, whatever the weather did.
- Narok (https://enatontech.com/schools/narok): Commercial wheat farmers and pastoralist households in one classroom, on entirely different terms. Locally: Narok holds large scale mechanised wheat and barley farming, a major tourism economy around the Mara, and a substantial pastoralist population, and it is entirely normal for children from all three to sit in the same class.
- Samburu (https://enatontech.com/schools/samburu): Salaried conservancy and lodge families sit alongside livestock households in the same catchment. Locally: Conservancies, lodges and the tourism economy around them have created a band of formal, salaried employment in a county where most households still depend on livestock. Both groups send children to the same schools.
- Trans Nzoia (https://enatontech.com/schools/trans-nzoia): A monthly dairy trickle and one annual harvest lump, which no single fee deadline fits. Locally: Trans Nzoia is the maize basket, large scale and small scale, with dairy alongside it. That combination gives a farming household two very different income streams: a modest monthly trickle from milk, and a large lump once a year when the crop is sold.
- Turkana (https://enatontech.com/schools/turkana): Learners often arrive with no paperwork, so the school builds the record from nothing. Locally: Turkana is vast, remote and one of the hardest places in Kenya to run any institution. It is also a county where a substantial number of learners begin school without the paperwork a system elsewhere would take for granted.
- Uasin Gishu (https://enatontech.com/schools/uasin-gishu): Eldoret boarding rolls, which means a kitchen, a store and a supply chain as well as a classroom. Locally: Eldoret is one of the country’s education centres. Boarding secondary schools here draw learners from well beyond the county, and a boarding roll means the school is also running a kitchen, a store, a dormitory block and a supply chain, every day, for people who live on site.
- West Pokot (https://enatontech.com/schools/west-pokot): Schools here employ and pay a lot of their own staff, which makes payroll the biggest number they manage. Locally: Formal employment is scarce across much of West Pokot, which makes a school one of the larger employers in its own area, and means a substantial part of its teaching and support staff are engaged and paid by the school itself rather than posted to it.

### Western
- Bungoma (https://enatontech.com/schools/bungoma): Several children from one household in the same school, and cane money that arrives long after the crop is cut. Locally: Households here are often large, and it is normal for a school to be carrying three or four children from the same family at the same time, sometimes across different classes and different fee structures.
- Busia (https://enatontech.com/schools/busia): Border trade income, so fees arrive in small amounts several times a week rather than once. Locally: Busia and Malaba are the two main road crossings into Uganda, and the economy around them runs on trade. That means household income is daily rather than monthly, and it means a school office deals with families whose money is real but never sits still for long.
- Kakamega (https://enatontech.com/schools/kakamega): Large day school rolls, with fees arriving in thousands of small instalments rather than one payment a term. Locally: Kakamega is one of the most populous counties in Kenya and one of the most densely schooled. Rolls are large, day schools dominate, and a single stream can carry more learners than an entire small private academy in another county.
- Vihiga (https://enatontech.com/schools/vihiga): One of the densest catchments in Kenya, which turns exams and reporting into the real administrative load. Locally: Vihiga is small and extremely densely populated, with landholdings too modest for farming to carry a household. What that produces is schools with very full rolls drawn from a short distance away, often running several streams per class on a compound that was built for fewer.

# Common questions

**Does Enaton handle CBC, 8-4-4 and Cambridge in the same school?**
Yes, and each is set up properly rather than approximated. CBC runs on learning areas, strands, sub strands and objectives with competency grading. 8-4-4 runs on subjects and papers with points. Cambridge runs IGCSE and A level with its own grading structures. A school running two or three at once is normal for us.

**How do M-Pesa fee payments reach the right learner?**
A parent pays to the school’s own M-Pesa or bank account and Enaton records it against the right learner and the right vote head, usually within a minute. M-Pesa, Equity Bank, KCB Bank, NBK, Family Bank, Co-operative Bank and I&M Bank are all connected today, and any other bank is built on request. The parent gets a receipt they can keep, and anyone can check that receipt is genuine from a public link without needing an account.

**What does Enaton cost?**
From as low as KES 4,060 a month for your school, with every module switched on from the first day. It is never priced per learner, so growing from 400 learners to 900 costs you nothing extra, and there is no setup fee. Groups running several schools are quoted.

**Is Enaton ready for KEMIS?**
Yes. Learner and staff records are kept in the shape KEMIS expects, so returns are prepared from data the school already maintains day to day rather than assembled from scratch each time.

**We are on Excel. How long does moving take?**
We bring across learners, parents and guardians, staff, classes and streams, fee balances, past payments and academic results. How long depends on how tidy the existing records are, which we tell you after looking rather than before. Training and go live support are part of setup, not an extra line on the invoice.

**Can Enaton manage several schools under one organisation?**
Yes. A group runs every branch from one place, with its own dashboards per school and across all of them, and staff who work across sites carry the right access at each one. The price does not change with the number of schools.

**Who owns the school’s data?**
The school does. Your records are kept separately from every other school on the platform, access is controlled by role down to individual screens, and you can export your data whenever you ask for it.

**What happens when something goes wrong?**
You reach a person inside the system itself rather than an email queue, and we can see the same screen you are describing. We also push collections, audit your own records with you, and retrain staff as they change. Support is part of the subscription.

# Contact

Phone: +254722455037
Alternative: +254768692323
Email: contact@enatontech.com
Accounts and billing: enatoninvestments@gmail.com
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