Is All School Software one product for every school type, or a different product each?
One product. The umbrella is real: the same platform, the same roster, and the same directory run underneath a preschool and a district. What changes between school types is which pieces are switched on — a preschool skips the scheduling engine and a district skips the keepsake memory book — not which software you bought. You are never migrating between products as a school grows.
We are a tiny preschool. Is this too much platform for us?
No, because you only take the pieces that fit. For an early-childhood program that is a simple roster, a family directory, daily communication, and a keepsake memory book. The course-request engine, transcripts, and the newsroom stay off — they are not on your screen and they are not on your bill. The point of the umbrella is breadth you can ignore, not weight you have to carry.
We are a K-12 district. Can every campus run on it?
Yes — that is the far end of the range the platform is built for. Each campus keeps its own front, its own brand, and its own staff, while a central office gets a shared directory, roll-ups it can see, and records that follow a student when they transfer between schools in the district. It is one roof over many front doors, not one homogenized site.
Can we take only some pieces and skip the rest?
Yes, and that is the design. The platform is modular: you turn on records, the directory, publications, picture day, ad sales, or family communication as you need them, and leave the rest off. A tight budget buys breadth it can grow into instead of a single tool it will outgrow — and you are not paying for a scheduling engine a preschool will never open.
What does it cost to start?
The records tier is free to start — roster, the directory, and the daily office settle no money. There is no procurement, no install, and no purchase order to import a roster and begin. Where a fee-bearing piece exists later, turning it on is a separate, opt-in decision; nothing here charges a card today.
How does funding work -- ad sales, fundraisers, and the picture-day store?
The platform gives a school the tools to run ad sales for a publication and to run fundraisers, and the school keeps control of the proceeds — the platform never skims a fundraiser. The picture-day store, where families buy prints, is in early access and is not yet taking live payments; it is a description of how the store will work, not a live checkout on this page. When money moves for real, we will say so plainly and label it.
Is All School Software a school, a district, or a nonprofit?
No. All School Software is a for-profit software company — a vendor whose product is this platform for schools. It is not a school, not a district, and not a nonprofit. Many of the schools it serves are public or nonprofit; the software that serves them is a for-profit product. We are precise about the difference: this site sells software, not donations.
How is student and family data handled?
Records and family contacts stay in our own private system and are never sold to or shared with outside companies, advertisers, or third parties. Data involving minor students is consent-gated — a family opts in before any disclosure — and minor student data is never made public. A district campus sees its own students; a support session scoped to one school reads only that school. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.
Is facial recognition on by default?
No. Facial recognition is off by default — it is opt-in, never a default, and a family can turn it back off. And a photo is never sold. We do not tell a family that a photo stays sealed on their device, because that would not be an honest claim about a hosted system; we say the true thing instead — photos live in our own private system, are never sold, and face matching runs only where a parent has asked for it.
What is live today, and what is early access?
Live today: records, the staff-and-family directory, ID cards, publications, ad sales, and fundraising tools. Early access: the picture-day store where families buy prints, and texted family alerts. We label each piece where it stands rather than let an early-access feature read as finished, and no school is running a live program on allschool.software yet.
How do we get started?
By a conversation, not a signup. No school is running a live program on allschool.software yet, so a conversation shows the current state honestly: which pieces turn on for your kind of school, what is live versus early access, and how records, the directory, publications, and funding behave. There is no pricing commitment and no signup. Email [email protected].