Why we're building this
Walk into most schools and you'll find the same quiet contradiction: smart boards in the classrooms, and a back office still running on paper registers, receipt books and a heroic spreadsheet named FINAL_v7. It isn't for lack of trying. School ERP software has been around for decades. It's usually expensive, full of modules nobody asked for, and sold through demos and procurement cycles that a small school doesn't have the time or money for.
Premeena is our attempt at something better. It's a free, web-based system for the things a school does every day: enroll students, take attendance, build timetables, run assessments and report cards, collect fees, pay staff, and keep parents in the loop. The platform overview shows the full picture, and pricing explains our free model honestly.
What the platform covers today
The platform is organized around the real jobs of a school office, each covered in depth on its own page:
- Admissions & enrollment: applications, required documents, guardians, CSV import and ID cards.
- Attendance: marking by section, late arrivals, gate passes, and staff attendance that feeds payroll.
- Timetables: a weekly grid that warns you before a teacher is booked in two rooms at once.
- Assessments & report cards: your own grading scale, and report cards printed for a whole class at once.
- Fees & invoicing: invoices, payments and balances that parents can check themselves.
- HR & payroll, messaging, homework, library, documents, announcements: the smaller jobs, all working off the same student and staff records.
How we build
Security first, because it's not our data. Each school's workspace is isolated in a multi-tenant architecture. Access is controlled by position-based permissions, passwords are stored only as salted hashes, traffic is HTTPS end to end, and every create, update, and delete lands in a complete audit trail.
With schools, not just for them. What we build next comes from problems schools report to us. That is why the platform ships with a built-in feedback and bug-reporting system with two-way communication. When something's wrong, you tell us inside the product, and you can watch the fix land.
Boring where it counts. School administration rewards predictability. We'd rather ship a fee ledger your accountant trusts than a dashboard that demos well and reconciles badly.
The company
Premeena is the software company behind the platform; you can find the corporate side at www.premeena.com. The school platform you're reading about lives here at sma.premeena.com, with its public help center and practical guides for the people who run schools.
Talk to us
Questions, unusual requirements, or a school that wants to move off spreadsheets this term:
- Email: support@premeena.com
- Phone: +91 88104 08488