School management system for Kisumu schools
Enaton runs fees, academics, exams, parents and staff for schools in Kisumu, from as low as KES 4,060 a month. It is set up per school, which matters here because a city academy and a rural day school under the same board are not the same business.
- Kisumu city
- Ahero
- Maseno
- Muhoroni
- Kombewa
What is different about running a school in Kisumu
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.
Plenty of boards here run one of each. What they usually end up with is two systems, or one system bent to fit the bigger school and worked around at the smaller one, and a set of figures at board level that nobody fully trusts because they were combined by hand.
The useful arrangement is one organisation, each school configured on its own fee structures and its own curriculum, and a group view that adds up without an export.
How Kisumu parents actually pay
M-Pesa dominates, with bank payments more common at the city schools. The pattern that causes trouble is the mixed one, where a family pays part by M-Pesa to the school till and part by a bank deposit at a branch in town, and the two never meet in the same ledger.
They meet here. Every rail posts to the same balance against the same learner, so what a parent sees on their phone and what the bursar sees on the screen are one figure rather than two figures that need arguing about.
Fee structures differ sharply between city and rural schools in this county. Each school keeps its own rather than inheriting a group default.
What Kisumu schools lean on hardest
What Enaton costs a school in Kisumu
From as low as KES 4,060 a month for your school, with every module switched on. However many learners you bring in, the system handles them. Running several schools? Talk to Enaton for a group quote. Pricing does not change by county.
Setup, importing what you keep in Excel and training are done with you by our own team. See what is included, or what moving from spreadsheets involves.
Elsewhere in the Nyanza region
Enaton covers all 47 counties at the same price. See every county, or talk to us about your own school.
Questions from Kisumu schools
Can one organisation run schools with completely different fee structures?
Yes. Each school has its own fee structures, vote heads, terms and curriculum, and none of it is inherited from a group default. Directors still see every school separately and the whole organisation as one set of figures.
What happens if a parent pays partly by M-Pesa and partly at a bank branch?
Both land against the same learner balance, usually within a minute of the payment. The parent sees one balance on their phone and the bursar sees the same figure, so a split payment does not become a dispute at the office.
Does a parent with children at two of our schools need two accounts?
No. One parent account covers every child they have, across every school in your organisation, with each child’s balance, receipts, grades and attendance in the same place.
How is a second school priced?
Talk to Enaton for a group quote. Call or WhatsApp 0722 455 037.
Run your Kisumu school on one system
Fees, academics, transport, parents and staff in one place, from as low as KES 4,060 a month.