Still chasing fees on WhatsApp at 11pm?

BFS-SMS is the complete school management solution built specifically for Nigerian Private Nursery, Primary, and Secondary Schools. From one cloud dashboard you handle student records, fee collection in Naira, attendance, examinations, term-end report cards, parent communication via SMS and a branded mobile app, transport, hostel and library. School owners get full visibility, teachers save hours of admin work every week, and parents get instant fee receipts and results on their phones.

Yes — comprehensive, step-by-step training for every staff role is included at no extra cost. We train your headteacher, bursar, class teachers, and reception team separately, so each person learns exactly the workflows they use day-to-day. Training runs over secure video calls (or in-person in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt where the school requests it) and we record every session so new hires can onboard themselves later without us re-running the same workshop.

BFS-SMS pricing is per student per term, in Naira — so a small Nursery and a large Secondary School each pay only for the students they actually have. There are no setup fees, no per-module surcharges, and the branded mobile app, staff training, and data migration from Excel or paper are included in every plan. Get your exact pricing on WhatsApp — we'll send you a quote sized to your enrolment within one business day.

No special equipment. Any internet-enabled device runs BFS-SMS — Windows or Mac laptops, Android or iPhone, tablets, even older smartphones. The full school management solution lives in the cloud, so there's nothing to install on each computer and no server room to maintain. Teachers can take attendance from their phone in the classroom; parents check fees and results from their own phone at home; you can run the school from your office laptop or a tablet on the way to assembly.

Yes. The parent portal is intentionally designed for first-time-app users — large buttons, plain English, mobile-first, no jargon. Parents log in once with their phone number and see exactly two things on the home screen: their child's outstanding fees (with a Pay button) and the latest report card or attendance update. Anything more complicated is one tap away, not on the home screen. Most parents need zero training; the few who do can call your school's reception or watch the 60-second walkthrough video we ship with every account.

Yes — fee tracking is fully automatic. The moment a parent pays (cash at the bursar's desk, transfer, Paystack, Flutterwave, or any other channel you've configured), the ledger updates, the receipt is generated, and the parent receives an SMS and email confirmation. Defaulters surface on your dashboard the day a fee is due, not at term-end. Reminders fire automatically on the schedule you set (e.g. 7 days before due, day of, 3 days late). You never have to chase a parent on WhatsApp at 11pm again.

You get continuous support across every channel Nigerian schools actually use — WhatsApp business chat (priority), direct phone calls during school hours, email, and a private support channel for your school admin. Most queries are answered within minutes during the school day. Critical issues (something blocking fee collection or report-card printing) jump the queue and reach an engineer directly. We don't outsource support — every reply comes from our team in Nigeria who understand 1st/2nd/3rd Term, NERDC, WAEC and the way Nigerian schools actually run.

Two steps. (1) Request a free demo or pricing quote — we'll show you the full school management solution running with sample data and answer your specific questions about your school. (2) Claim your free term: we migrate your current student list, fee structure, and class lists for you (from Excel, paper, or another system), train your staff, and go live within 7 days. After the free term, only continue if BFS-SMS is genuinely making your school run better — your data stays yours either way.

BFS-SMS pricing is per student per term, in Naira — so you only pay for the students you're actually serving. A 60-pupil Nursery pays dramatically less than a 600-pupil Secondary, with no surcharge per module. Every plan already includes the branded parent mobile app, staff training, data migration from Excel or paper, ongoing support, and software updates. There is no setup fee. Request a personalised quote and we'll send your school's exact termly figure within one business day.

Yes, BFS-SMS is a cloud-based school management solution — your school's data is hosted in secure data centres and accessed from any device with a browser. When your internet is unreliable, the parent app keeps working from cache for read-only views (fee balances, latest report card), and your staff can record attendance and fee payments on their phone in offline mode; entries sync automatically the moment connectivity returns. Most Nigerian schools we work with use a single 4G/5G router as their backup — that's more than enough.

Your data is yours — always. We don't sell, mine, or share it with any third party. Every school is fully isolated from every other school on BFS-SMS — a teacher at School A cannot see a single record from School B, even by accident. Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS) and backed up daily. If you ever decide to leave BFS-SMS, we export your full student, fee, and academic history into a clean spreadsheet for you within 48 hours — no exit fees, no hostage clauses.

Yes — BFS-SMS is multi-branch by design. A single school owner can run two, three, or twenty branches under one account, with each branch keeping its own student list, fee structure, staff and reports, while you (as proprietor) get a consolidated dashboard showing every branch side-by-side. Pricing across multiple branches is volume-friendly, and migrations are sequenced so all your branches go live without you having to repeat training. Many of our Nigerian school groups run an entire chain of Nursery, Primary and Secondary branches on a single BFS-SMS account.

Yes. BFS-SMS supports the full Nigerian examination cycle — Continuous Assessment (CA-1, CA-2), 1st / 2nd / 3rd Term Examinations, mock examinations, Common Entrance, BECE, and SS3 results aligned with WAEC and NECO grading scales. You can enter raw scores, choose your grading scheme (WAEC, NECO, NERDC, or your own custom scale), and generate Nigerian-format report cards including class position, term comments, and affective + psychomotor domain ratings. Students sitting external examinations also have their data exportable in the formats those examination bodies require.

Typically under 7 days from sign-up to going live. Day 1: we collect your current data (Excel sheets, paper registers, photos of registers — whatever you have). Days 2–3: our migration team imports it. Days 4–5: we train your bursar, headteacher, class teachers and reception. Day 6: we run a soft launch with one class. Day 7: full school go-live. The first term is free, so even the migration and training happen at zero cost to you. Most schools onboard mid-term without disrupting teaching.