School management system for Trans Nzoia schools
Enaton runs fees, academics, parents and staff for schools in Trans Nzoia, from as low as KES 4,060 a month. In Kenya’s maize basket, families have two kinds of income at once, and a fee plan that ignores that fails for both.
- Kitale
- Kiminini
- Endebess
- Saboti
- Cherangany
What is different about running a school in Trans Nzoia
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.
Neither one alone matches a school fee structure. A term fee is too large for the monthly trickle and too small to be worth waiting for the annual lump, so families end up paying badly against both, and schools end up chasing families who are not actually poor, just badly timed.
What works here is a standing arrangement: a modest regular amount through the year that the milk cheque can carry, and a larger step after the crop is sold. Schools have always known this. What they have not had is a way to hold hundreds of those arrangements without losing track of them.
Arrangements a school can actually hold
Enaton records a family’s arrangement with its dates and amounts and tracks it against the live balance. The office sees who is keeping to their plan and who has genuinely broken it, which is a much shorter list than everybody who owes money.
That distinction is the whole point. Chasing the short list works. Chasing everyone teaches families that the messages do not mean anything.
Kitale schools that also run a farm keep those expenses in the same books as fees, so the year end picture is one set of accounts rather than two.
What Trans Nzoia schools lean on hardest
What Enaton costs a school in Trans Nzoia
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 Rift Valley region
Enaton covers all 47 counties at the same price. See every county, or talk to us about your own school.
Questions from Trans Nzoia schools
Can a school set up different payment plans for different families?
Yes. A plan is recorded per family with dates and amounts and tracked against the live fee balance. Some families pay monthly, some pay a large amount after harvest, and both can run in the same school at the same time without a separate spreadsheet.
How does the office know who has broken a payment plan?
Enaton compares the plan against what has actually been paid, so the office sees only the families who have genuinely missed a commitment rather than everyone with a balance. That is usually a much shorter list and it is the one worth acting on.
Can school farm income and expenses sit in the same books as fees?
Yes. Income sources and expense categories run through the same double entry general ledger as fees, so the cash book, trial balance and profit and loss cover the whole school rather than the fee side only.
Does Enaton work with the fee structure we already use?
Yes. Fee structures, vote heads, instalments, extra charges and waivers are configured to how your school already bills, during setup. We do not ask a school to change how it charges in order to use the system.
Run your Trans Nzoia school on one system
Fees, academics, transport, parents and staff in one place, from as low as KES 4,060 a month.