Best School Accounting Software for Freelancers
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What is School Accounting Software for Freelancers?
School accounting software is designed to help educational institutions manage their financial operations, including budgeting, accounting, payroll, and fee collection. These tools are tailored to meet the specific needs of schools, enabling them to track expenses, manage income from tuition, donations, and grants, and ensure compliance with government regulations. Features often include invoicing, financial reporting, tax management, and integration with other administrative systems. School accounting software helps streamline financial processes, improves transparency, and ensures that schools remain within budget while maintaining accurate financial records. Compare and read user reviews of the best School Accounting software for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Xero
Xero
Work smarter, not harder with Xero’s intuitive accounting software. You can handle your financial admin whenever it works for you and your school. Xero's cloud-based setup allows you to claim expenses, set up bank feeds, collaborate with your accountant, bookkeeper or employees — all online.">
Starting Price: $20/month -
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STARS Campus for Career Colleges
STARS Campus Solutions
STARS Campus Solutions is a web-based campus management system built to maintain operational records for colleges and schools. Secure, fast, and reliable, STARS offers a wealth of features beneficial for schools. These include CRM, mass email and texting capabilities, smart calendars, instructor grade book, point of sale system, attendance scanning, document management, and more. Maximize your school's potential with STARS. When you request a STARS online demo, our team reserves time according to your schedule. We address your particular challenges with capturing your career college's student data and working effectively with it to improve every area of campus operations. You’ll experience our team’s expertise in information management as well as effective postsecondary school operations. We built STARS to be the most reliable and most secure career college management system, and we've built outstanding career schools using it! Contact us today to learn how STARS can help you!Starting Price: $250 / mo. - up to 25 students -
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EduKool ERP
Dot Com Infoway
With the help of EduKool ERP system, you can manage all the administrative tasks of a school in an effective manner. There is something for everyone involved with the school – principles, administrators, teachers, students and parents. From routine tasks like sending fee reminders to complex tasks like timetable management and bus routes management, everything can be managed from a single dashboard, even from your mobile phone. Speed and unparalleled efficiency are the biggest benefits of using EduKool ERP system.Starting Price: $4/Student/Year -
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QuickBooks Online
Intuit
QuickBooks Online is the most popular accounting software in the world. QuickBooks Online makes accounting easy. Make tracking receipts, income, bank transactions, and more feel simple with the #1 small business accounting software. Snap photos of your receipts and link them to expenses right from your phone. Our agents are ready and available to answer all your QuickBooks questions. Use the apps you know and love to keep your business running smoothly. QuickBooks Online works on your PC, Mac, tablets, and phones. Click the link above to get a 30 day free trial and 50% off your first 3 months. More than accounting software. QuickBooks helps you track income, expenses, and stay ready for taxes. Customers find on average $3,534 in tax savings per year. Need more help? QuickBooks Live helps you stay organized and be ready for tax time. QuickBooks comes with a mobile app that help you run your business on the go—anytime, anywhere.">
Starting Price: $9/month (normally $15/month) -
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Zoho Books
Zoho
Zoho Books is the ideal web-based accounting software of choice for small business. The platform was carefully created to help manage your finances, gets you tax ready, automates business workflows, and helps you work collectively across departments. On top of generating financial reports, knowing your Sales Tax liability and getting 1099s ready will no longer be a thing to dread, knowing you can scale with the software and securely collaborate with your team are also some of the neat features included. Get accounting right for growing businesses with Zoho Books, an easy-to-use online accounting solution. Zoho Books features include invoices, expenses, sales and purchase orders, contact management, project time tracking, and inventory management. With Zoho Books, organizations can automate recurring activities like payment reminders, billing, auto charge, and payment thank you note. Users can also track inventory in real-time with Zoho Books.Starting Price: $10.00/month -
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PCR Educator
PCR Educator
PCR Educator’s web-based CRM for schools is an integrated database that connects your entire school delivering a seamless experience for students, family, and staff. Improve the first experience of your prospective applicants and students with PCR Educator K-12 School Management System, Admissions software which creates unmatched efficiencies and enables more meaningful connections. Make your school's website gleam with PCR Educator School Information Management System - Content Management System (CMS) which ties directly to the school management database software providing personalized content to all members of your community. De-clutter your website and get connected to your community with PCR Educator School Management System - Community Connect - a platform for your entire constituency including applicants, students, teachers, alumni, board members, friends, and volunteers.Starting Price: $6000 per year -
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wizGrade School App
Soft Digit
wizGrade School App (formally known as SDOSMS), is a complete school management System for Nursery, Primary & Secondary (K-12) School; Universities, Polytechnics, College of Educations, Awarding Institute e.t.c. wizGrade has free downloadable version for schools. wizGrade is an advance, complete, highly efficient, multipurpose, flexible, portable, robust, user friendly, highly secured and perfect solution for all school management and administration. wizGrade was carefully designed and developed to simplify how school manage and administer their schools activities in a more smarter and amazing way.Starting Price: wizGrade School App is now Open Source - 100% free + source code -
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Express Accounts
NCH Software
Accounting software for small business that makes bookkeeping simple and easy. Document incoming and outgoing cash flow including sales, receipts, payments and purchases. See how your business is doing with real time balances and reports. Fax or email your accountant directly. Prepare your tax returns quickly with your financial reports. Secure remote/mobile access.Starting Price: $79.99/one-time -
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ESKA Academia
ESKADENIA Software
At ESKADENIA Software, we have a deep comprehension of educational institutions’ difficulties as well as aspirations to meet today’s Hi-Tech edges as well as elevate the institutional performance into higher levels. Accordingly, we approach “Educational Institutions” with fully integrated software packages accommodating their specific needs and plans for providing superior education. Create tech-savvy image of your school, university, or training center using ESKA Academia. ESKA Academia is a state-of-the-art software suite made up of educational software systems for the management of educational institutions including: - Schools - Universities - Training Centers ESKA Academia systems help in making education an enjoyable experience and provides an easy-to-use suite of web-based systems to perform the never-ending daily routines of such institutions. -
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QuickSchools
QuickSchools.com
QuickSchools - Online Student Information System is a robust, easy-to-use SIS for schools of all sizes. Orchestra by QuickSchools is our new stand-alone Master Scheduler Builder. You don't install hardware and software, you don't manage backups, nothing like that. We manage all of that on our end. Simply connect via the Internet to your school site on QuickSchools.com. Log-in, and you're up and running. From tracking student and teacher information to managing your day-to-day operations from admissions through graduation, we got you covered. Enjoy our features such as attendance, report cards, grade books, scheduling, fee tracking, homework, and creating a master schedule using Orchestra by QuickSchools. Click on the 'SCHEDULE DEMO' button to visit the Orchestra website. Teachers find our software a joy to use, and they can't live without it once they've started. Help your school to be more organized and save valuable time for your entire faculty.Starting Price: $0.99/month/user -
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ampEducator
ampEducator
ampEducator is an e-Learning Student Information System (SIS) for public and private institutions. The cloud-based software offers a mixture of essential features, including managing options for Admissions, Accounting, and Progress Reporting. Other useful in-app tools include an all staff integrated email, which they can use to communicate with each other, prospects, students or other contacts in the system. The best feature of all is the smooth implementation process ranging from 2 to 3 days tops; after, support requests can also be placed directly from the application or submitted by emai.Starting Price: $149.00/month -
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AccountEdge
Priority Software US
AccountEdge is a powerful, easy-to-use, small-business accounting software for the Mac and Windows desktop. With AccountEdge, business owners can organize, process, and report on their financial information so they can focus on their business. Features include: accounting, integrated payroll, sales and purchases, contact management, inventory tracking, time billing, and more. Invoicing - Create and send customer invoices for products, services, or time and track payment status on open sales. Expenses - Manage your vendors, payments, and recurring transactions. Banking - Manage money in and out in as much detail as you want. With integrated bank feeds and auto-match, reconciling your accounts is a breeze. Payroll - Pay your employees and tracking their pay, accruals, and expenses is critical to your business. Inventory - Manage your items and services and track their stock by location to ensure you have enough products on hand.Starting Price: $20/month -
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TUIO
TUIO Payments
Seamlessly integrate admissions, tuition and billing, and student record systems. We are your all-in-one administrative solution. TUIO automates tasks and lets parents do the work for you. Increase collection rates, save time & money, and improve the overall experience for both you and your families with TUIO. As a self-service solution, parents can register students, make payments and access info without you. Staff are free to focus on other tasks. And, you get your funds the same day parents make an online payment! An all-in-one solution ensures data is collected and transferred in the same way. Effectively use accurate data for waitlists, payment plans, custom reporting, hiring, and more. We never store any financial information on our servers. All sensitive information is tokenized and encrypted directly with the banks to restrict any unauthorized third party access.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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Store 4 Schools
Software 4 Schools
Student Store 4 Schools is a web based point of sales system designed for schools. This easy to use interface is designed to be used by educators and even students to manage your school sales. Integrates with touch screen monitors, barcode scanners, credit card swipers, printers and automatic cash drawers. This product is designed by teachers for teachersStarting Price: $349 / Year -
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illumine
illumine Technology
illumine is an early learning and childcare software provider. With illumine, early childhood care and education centers can streamline operations, optimize costs, increase admissions, and foster strong parent partnerships - all in one place! Most-loved features: • Billing and finances: Automate invoices, enable convenient payments and simplify your financial processes. • Parent communication: Build genuine, collaborative relationships with parents. Send daily reports, updates, broadcasts, and messages, actively involving parents. • Attendance & leaves: The daily rhythm of check-ins and outs is made easy and error-free with illumine. • Enrollments & Admissions: Track new prospects, efficiently manage waitlists, and gain comprehensive insights from marketing analytics. • Learning & assessments: illumine's intuitive interface simplifies teaching and learning, allowing you to tailor lesson plans and assessments for 25+ curriculum frameworks including EYFS, Montessori and Reggio.Starting Price: $10 per user per year -
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MYOB
MYOB
MYOB Business is a comprehensive cloud-based accounting and business management software designed to streamline financial and operational processes for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It offers a wide range of features, including invoicing, expense tracking, payroll management, inventory control, and tax compliance. With real-time financial reporting and user-friendly dashboards, MYOB Business provides valuable insights to help business owners make informed decisions. The platform supports seamless integrations with banking systems, payment gateways, and other business tools, enabling automation and reducing manual tasks. MYOB Business is known for its scalability, catering to growing businesses by offering flexible pricing plans and customizable features to meet diverse industry needs.Starting Price: $11/month -
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SAF School Management Software
FlexiSAF Edusoft
Have a clear picture of your finances to lower risks quicker with our school management software. Use right and accurate data to deliver effective leadership and make better-informed decisions. Keep parents up to date on pupils’ performance, attendance, behavior and financial status in real-time. School Management Software in Nigeria primarily helps schools reduce administration resources and streamline finances to save costs. See real-time updates across school with powerful data analysis staff and students population, finances, attendance, events and meetings. Easy budgeting & budget analysis. Petty cash, ledger, expenditure and revenue reports. Have unlimited flexibility in creating your assessment formats to be used by different sections to compute indices, interpret and assign grade. Use all possible combinations of criteria like the required average, minimum grades in different subjects as well as logical combinations of subject groups.Starting Price: $300 per year -
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ClearGov
ClearGov
ClearGov is on a mission to build a community of transparent, data-driven, modern governments. ClearGov provides a full suite of turnkey, cloud-based solutions to help local municipalities drive transparency, streamline budgeting, and better engage residents. ClearGov’s award-winning platform is currently used by hundreds of communities across 26 different states. Get started by having department heads fill out fully-integrated, easy-to-use, web-based forms instead of cumbersome Excel or paper forms.Review and approve capital, personnel and operational budget requests immediately, rather than searching for them in your email. Collaborate with department heads directly within ClearGov products, keeping all conversations well documented and increasing efficiency.Use powerful visualizations to inform decision making and build your multi-year, multi-scenario capital, personnel, and operational budgets.Starting Price: $2500 per year -
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Kornukopia
Kornukopia
The Kornukopia Education Management System (LMS/SIS/LCMS) is designed by industry-leading education experts. Kornukopia works with superintendents, principals, technology administrators, teachers, students and parents to ensure the platform provides amazing functionality. Simplicity is key. While powerful functionality is a must, a cornerstone of The Kornukopia Education Management System is simple, elegant design. Kornukopia is designed to be easy to navigate on any device. Teachers can access lesson plans in one click. Students can see homework on their homepage. Kornukopia is crafted to be beautiful, simple, and easy to use. Does your school need a modern Learning Management System (LMS), Student Information System (SIS) or Learning Content Management System (LCMS)? Well, Kornukopia has it all! You can take advantage of our highly intuitive simple integrated platform or select specific modules that best fit your needs! -
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SchoolBanks.Com
CPUStudio
We offer more than just an online payment service. We focus on offering an integrative solution that makes your district more efficient and leaves your students/parents more satisfied. SchoolBanks Solutions simplify difficult processes and centralize various bookkeeping operations. Get started with our out-of-box solutions in as little as 30 minutes. Large districts in under a week. With minimal training, users will be able to experience the full benefits of our services. Turn outstanding fees into on-time payments with our mobile friendly parent/student portal. Minimize the cost of replacing reusable assets and extend your IT investments at no cost. Synchronize financial communications and transactions between schools, parents, and students into a consolidated real-time platform.Starting Price: $49.95 one-time payment -
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eLearn
eLearn
Adding students, managing grades, tracking student payments. Maintaining a school is a very complex process. eLearn offers an intuitive interface with a clean design, allowing your staff to get more work done, quicker. eLearn. A powerful, easy and affordable School Management Solution. See how the industry's most advanced learning management system can help your school. eLearn is an online system that helps schools of any size manage their students, teachers, and staff. We aim to simplify the daily tasks needed to efficiently run a school. With a platform that embraces online technology, we empower your institution to accept online payments and facilitate online student registration. With our technology, staff can instantly print a student's transcript and attendance record for any class. Substantially decrease your teachers' workload with automated tasks. Track attendance and grade assignments with the click of a button.Starting Price: $100 per month -
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PowerSchool eFinancePlus
PowerSchool
PowerSchool eFinancePlus is a K-12 finance and HR software solution designed to increase operational speed and improve financial management for school districts. The platform streamlines cross-departmental processes such as budget allocation, payments, and HR decisions with integrated workflows. Users can access real-time data and track funds through over 400 native K-12 reports and personalized dashboards. eFinancePlus supports remote operations with online automated approvals and processes. Built specifically for K-12 environments, it helps districts maintain compliance with changing regulations. The software is tailored to simplify complex administration tasks and improve district efficiency. -
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PowerSchool BusinessPlus
PowerSchool
PowerSchool BusinessPlus is a K-12 finance and HR software solution designed to simplify complex district workflows with a centralized, integrated platform. It offers real-time data through K-12-specific reports and persona dashboards to support informed decision-making. The platform automates workflows, reduces paper-based processes, and streamlines reporting and auditing. BusinessPlus allows districts to configure workflows and web forms to meet their unique needs. The solution ensures compliance by managing teacher contracts, payroll, and fund accounting according to state requirements. PowerSchool BusinessPlus provides finance, HR, purchasing, payroll, and analytics features tailored for school districts. -
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Ascendance
Senior Systems
Our Ascendance software provides a comprehensive enterprise-style database system for private and independent PK-12 schools. All the pieces work together because all the data is stored in a single, central database. You can get just the modules you need, and you can add more whenever you’re ready. With a fully integrated suite of modules, you don’t have any of the headaches that come with trying to keep multiple copies of data synchronized between applications. Along with improved data integrity, full integration also gives you real productivity benefits, since your staff doesn’t need to enter the same data more than once. And full integration means real-time updating, so you know you’ve got the latest version. Student and parent biographical data, addresses, emergency contacts, and family links are shared by all of the Ascendance modules. Applicant data from Admissions is transferred upon enrollment, making it quick and easy to set up new student records and accounts.Starting Price: $10,000 one-time payment -
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SenseQuiet School Accountant
SenseQuiet
SenseQuiet School Accountant is a complete suite to control finance-related requirements of any school or college. Fee module is integrated in-depth with the accounting module to save your valuable time. To get started, you just need to configure your shift, level (classes) & fee terms. With just a click, a monthly fee challan will be generated for all the students that can be printed as a school fee challan or bank challan later at any time. There is a provision in the software to generate single challan for more than one month (e.g. to collect June-July fees). You can also print fee receipt and payment voucher from the software. It does not only allow you to manage your fee but it has all the tools to maintain other accounts e.g. bank, cash, expenses, vendor ETC. SQ school accountant maintains fee receivable, fee income & penalty accounts automatically to bring you comprehensive financial statements e.g. balance sheet, profit & loss, trial balances ETC. -
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Tuigen
Tuigen
Tuigen is the most modern and affordable online platform to manage your tuition centre. It has intelligent modest innovative features which will aid your tuition in extra mileage with less effort. Smart Enquiry Management: - Student Enquiry Registration - Enquiry Follow-up - Enquiry Follow-up History - Next Enquiry Action - Admissions Approval Process Manage Students: - Student Registration - Student Courses & Batches Allocation - Share Homework, Worksheets or Assignment With Students - Control Student Access - One Click Student’s performance & detail report - White label login integrated with website Student's Profile: - All the information you need in one place - Student’s Invoice - Daily Remarks - Test Results - Attendance Messaging: - Integrated messaging system - Student can chat with their teacher - Guardian & Teachers can chat with each other - Admins can chat with everyoneStarting Price: £59 per month -
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MySchoolAccounting
TES Software
Ease of use and TES Training insures effective use by your staff. Integrated Student Control Center® provides single point access to all of a student's transactions. Meets general accounting standards and exceeds State Department of Education requirements. Real-time posting provides current balances and simplified processing. Simplifies, automates, and streamlines the accounting of funds. Total integration with Student Records and District Accounting Systems. Simultaneous data entry and access from multiple computers. Class/Teacher based for Elementary Schools. Customized tracking of Student Fees and Fines. Tracking and processing of Waived Fees Multiple months and years are online. Laptops can be used to create multiple receipt lines at registration. Teachers enter year end fines directly from their classrooms. Teacher purchase cards are tracked and easily processed. ACH payments are supported Fully integrated credit and debit card support Integrated budget development.Starting Price: $325 per year -
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LINQ
LINQ
We're the only trusted partner enabling administrators to improve efficiency, optimize performance, and manage compliance through our integrated suite of solutions—from student services to state nutrition. LINQ is building stronger schools, one day, department and program at a time. Increase participation and get more students to eat healthier meals everyday. Save time planning your meals with updates automatically made everywhere. Automate communication with parents and reduce your debt along the way. Entering and re-entering data is now a thing of the past. Designed for K-12, our solutions are both easy-to-use and implement. From state regulations to ADA and FDA compliance, LINQ has you covered. Get a live person ready to answer your questions on the first call. -
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Your Business Office wears multiple financial hats– managing invoices for tuition and incidentals, processing multiple forms of payment and reconciling against your general ledger. TADS Tuition & Billing Management will automate your workflow, improve accuracy and handle follow up with families on your behalf. That amounts to more time back in your day! Provide options to families that meet your needs and theirs. Offering multiple tuition payment options helps with private school affordability and a diverse student body. TADS Tuition Management gives you the control to customize terms in tuition agreements based on your school’s requirements and individual family needs. Each family agreement can be tailored by child for maximum flexibility. Improve accuracy and efficiency within your billing system. Your administrative staff thrives on working with families, even when it comes to billing and accounts.
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MySchoolAccount
MySchoolAccount
MySchoolAccount is a simple and secure way for schools to connect, transact and manage all their school payments for lunch, registrations & fees. MySchoolAccount’s Online School Payment Solution gives parents and schools the ability to manage their students’ school lunch accounts, make secure deposits, pre-order meals, pay school fees and more! We pride ourselves on agility, fitting our systems to our clients rather than fitting our clients to our systems. We work hand in hand with you to improve communication and convenience for your organization and your parent base. Our bottom line is improving what you do by taking the legwork out of it for you. Fill out the form and we'll get you some additional information posthaste! To learn more about MySchoolAccount, its features, pricing details, or to schedule a demo, fill out the demo request here and a representative will be in contact with you shortly.