Empower your school
with the Rise school software system
One stop system for schools
Finances + Admin + Reporting + A Communicator App
in ONE system
with the Rise school software system
One stop system for schools
Finances + Admin + Reporting + A Communicator App
in ONE system
Finance and Admin staff experience
day-to-day challenges with systems
day-to-day challenges with systems
Admin & Finance Staff face serious challenges daily in their jobs:
Not having enough time in the day
Some schools do not have a dedicated finance officer (Bursar) in place.
Admin staff are faced daily with both admission, administrative and finance tasks.
Empower your school with a one stop system. The 043-Form report is automated, simplifying all the finance related tasks.
Easy access to fees' balances, accounts & reporting in ONE PLACE.
Admin staff are faced daily with both admission, administrative and finance tasks.
Empower your school with a one stop system. The 043-Form report is automated, simplifying all the finance related tasks.
Easy access to fees' balances, accounts & reporting in ONE PLACE.
High expenses on systems. Too many systems
Upon completing her training in RSM, a Bursar Assistant from Groote Schuur High School stated:
"I really love this package and hope that we will be using it soon. It will really make things easier in the workplace.
If I had this system to work on, it would be so easy to check on everything".
"I really love this package and hope that we will be using it soon. It will really make things easier in the workplace.
If I had this system to work on, it would be so easy to check on everything".
Not having correct info for parents & SGB
"The facility you have in Rise School
Management for checking school fee
balances would be great for me as well,
as it is always a challenge, to check on fees,
when parents request balances", -
Administrator, Highlands Primary.
Management for checking school fee
balances would be great for me as well,
as it is always a challenge, to check on fees,
when parents request balances", -
Administrator, Highlands Primary.
How the Rise school system
empowers schools:
empowers schools:
Save min 15 hours each quarter with school specific reports and the automated 043-Form
Bursar & Admin Staff will save min 15 hours on not having to do WCED 043-FORM (Cashbook) in Excel or manually each term.
With RSM, your Finance or Admin staff will be able to map from the start all your Income & Expense Accounts to the 043-Form, as they work in RSM.
Print your up-to-date 043-Form directly from RSM & submit to the Education Department.
With RSM, your Finance or Admin staff will be able to map from the start all your Income & Expense Accounts to the 043-Form, as they work in RSM.
Print your up-to-date 043-Form directly from RSM & submit to the Education Department.
Increase school fees income by 10-15% with the Rise system. Accounting is integrated with Administration, Communication and your School's 043-Form
043-Form is integrated with Accounting. Income & Expense Accounts get automatically adjusted in 043-Form in RSM .
Bank Feed is live. Match your transactions to the correct account in real time.
View Chart of Accounts, Budget Planned vs. Actuals, Journal entries, General Journal.
Batch Invoice a Class or a Grade, Statements per Class or Grade.
Create a Cash Receipt or a Purchase Order.
Create a Supplier Invoice, an Invoice Payment, a Supplier Return & more.
Be in the know of your school's financial position in real time. Report to Principal, SGB
A lot of Schools have a big challenge with reporting & knowing where they stand financially at this moment of time.
With RSM, your Bursar can run the following reports at any given time:
Fee balances per grade / per class / per student
a Balance Sheet report,
Budget Plan Vs. Actual - see your School's expenditure at a glance.
General Ledger,
Income Statement.
A one stop cloud solution for schools
No more duplication and
overspend on paper
overspend on paper
Invoice and email statements to the whole school at a click
Schools often ask.
Would you like to learn how the Rise system can empower your school?
Email info@risebiz.co.za to book a call.
Email info@risebiz.co.za to book a call.
Few of our customers have previously made use of other accounting packages, prior to switching to RSM. In most cases, it is either Sage (Pastel) or Quickbooks accounting solutions.
Often Bursars & Admin Staff are not satisfied with the limited functionality & the lack of support with their existing accounting packages. They are not school-specific and do not cater to the unique challenges of Schools. Price-value ratio is another important factor for Schools when they decide to switch to RSM, the all-in-one solution.
We assist Schools with moving your historical data from your current accounting package, be it Pastel or Excel or QuickBooks.
In order to onboard your School onto RSM, we will need your recent 043-Form template, Learner Data, Opening Balances for your learners. Our Accountant will liaise with you to make sure that Rise School Management works 100% for your School.
You get 10 hours of onboarding assistance. It is included in the yearly fee!
The onboarding process is easy & simple-to-follow. Your School can easily move from your current software package & start using Rise School Management. It will save your School at least R10K per annum based on our current customers' feedback. Your School will also save thousands on the paper & min 15 hours per term on the 043-Form automation.
Often Bursars & Admin Staff are not satisfied with the limited functionality & the lack of support with their existing accounting packages. They are not school-specific and do not cater to the unique challenges of Schools. Price-value ratio is another important factor for Schools when they decide to switch to RSM, the all-in-one solution.
We assist Schools with moving your historical data from your current accounting package, be it Pastel or Excel or QuickBooks.
In order to onboard your School onto RSM, we will need your recent 043-Form template, Learner Data, Opening Balances for your learners. Our Accountant will liaise with you to make sure that Rise School Management works 100% for your School.
You get 10 hours of onboarding assistance. It is included in the yearly fee!
The onboarding process is easy & simple-to-follow. Your School can easily move from your current software package & start using Rise School Management. It will save your School at least R10K per annum based on our current customers' feedback. Your School will also save thousands on the paper & min 15 hours per term on the 043-Form automation.
Rise School Management covers:
1. A full-on accounting package for schools:
Exemptions, discounts, journals, petty cash.
Automated WCED 043-Form
Budget; budget planned vs Actual
A live Bank Feed with 4 major banks
Purchases Management
All financial reports - easy to export and customize.
For more details go to Packages
2. A Learner Data package with various filters / reports / import & export functions
3. An Invoicing package - you can invoice the whole school in minutes.
4. A Parent-School Communicator
5. A LIVE billing on the Communicator - less paper, less statements.
6. A Discipline Module on desktop & mobile
with Incidents on desktop & mobile;
a Detention Letter on desktop & mobile;
Attendance record keeping;
News creation function from mobile.
We provide ongoing support & work with Schools together in a team.
If you would like to see how the system works, please email info@risebiz.co.za
1. A full-on accounting package for schools:
Exemptions, discounts, journals, petty cash.
Automated WCED 043-Form
Budget; budget planned vs Actual
A live Bank Feed with 4 major banks
Purchases Management
All financial reports - easy to export and customize.
For more details go to Packages
2. A Learner Data package with various filters / reports / import & export functions
3. An Invoicing package - you can invoice the whole school in minutes.
4. A Parent-School Communicator
5. A LIVE billing on the Communicator - less paper, less statements.
6. A Discipline Module on desktop & mobile
with Incidents on desktop & mobile;
a Detention Letter on desktop & mobile;
Attendance record keeping;
News creation function from mobile.
We provide ongoing support & work with Schools together in a team.
If you would like to see how the system works, please email info@risebiz.co.za
Few of our customers have previously made use of other school-parent communicators. This will not be a problem. Rise School Management has a School-Parent Communicator with the automated Billing for your parents.
Once your School switches to RSM, your Bursar or Admin Staff will be able to make use of the Billing function in the Rise School Communicator.
Your School will save thousands of rand on paper.
Rise School Communicator is not just an amazing tool for your School to communicate with parents. Parents will be informed of all the paid & due fee balances on one-on-one basis.
Once you assign a transaction to the learner in the Bank Feed in RSM, it will instantly reflect on the Communicator for the parents to see.
Once your School switches to RSM, your Bursar or Admin Staff will be able to make use of the Billing function in the Rise School Communicator.
Your School will save thousands of rand on paper.
Rise School Communicator is not just an amazing tool for your School to communicate with parents. Parents will be informed of all the paid & due fee balances on one-on-one basis.
Once you assign a transaction to the learner in the Bank Feed in RSM, it will instantly reflect on the Communicator for the parents to see.
Your subscription expiration date is 12 month from the date an initial subscription fee for a previous year has been made.
Our customers range from Art Centres to previous Model-C schools to other schools of various types in various parts of Cape Town & Western Cape.
Based on our experience & interactions with schools, a lot of schools have some unique aspects in terms of their admin, financial & other day-to-day processes.
One big advantage of Rise School Management is that we can implement custom changes to our system based on your School's unique requirements & needs, should your School require it.
Based on our experience & interactions with schools, a lot of schools have some unique aspects in terms of their admin, financial & other day-to-day processes.
One big advantage of Rise School Management is that we can implement custom changes to our system based on your School's unique requirements & needs, should your School require it.
The Bank Feed (it is included in RSM at no extra charge) enables Schools to see all transactions in RSM system. Rise SA makes use of a secure, reliable & trustworthy bank aggregation service - Yodlee.
Over 1100 and 23 million user worldwide make use of this service. For more information please visit Wikipedia.
We request Schools to provide a view-only login details that your School can request at your bank. Your Bursar / Admin Clerk / Principal can also enter these details themselves in RSM. The information gets encrypted. Hence it is secure and protected.
We work with four major banks of South Africa - FNB, Standard Bank, Nedbank and ABSA.
Over 1100 and 23 million user worldwide make use of this service. For more information please visit Wikipedia.
We request Schools to provide a view-only login details that your School can request at your bank. Your Bursar / Admin Clerk / Principal can also enter these details themselves in RSM. The information gets encrypted. Hence it is secure and protected.
We work with four major banks of South Africa - FNB, Standard Bank, Nedbank and ABSA.
Being user-friendly & intuitive in terms of its layout & interface, Rise School Management will work for both non-accountants & accountants.
Upon switching to RSM, your School will also get training in person with our Team in our system as part of the RSM onboarding process.
Once you start using RSM regularly, it is a sign that you understand the system and how it works.
To illustrate it further, most Bursars & Admin Staff, who use RSM daily in their work, do not come from the bookkeeping or accounting background.
We also run a 3-day Accounting Training Course that trains Bursars & Admin staff on the accounting fundamentals.
Upon switching to RSM, your School will also get training in person with our Team in our system as part of the RSM onboarding process.
Once you start using RSM regularly, it is a sign that you understand the system and how it works.
To illustrate it further, most Bursars & Admin Staff, who use RSM daily in their work, do not come from the bookkeeping or accounting background.
We also run a 3-day Accounting Training Course that trains Bursars & Admin staff on the accounting fundamentals.
Yes, 100%. In fact, it will be a bit easier for your School to make the necessary transition.
Due to the fact that Rise School Management is in 1 interface, you will already be familiar with RSM interface & the basic layout of our solution.
Due to the fact that Rise School Management is in 1 interface, you will already be familiar with RSM interface & the basic layout of our solution.
In order to onboard your School onto RSM, we will need the following documents from your School:
1. Learner data list (.xls or CSV) - we will provide you with the an Excel template.
2. Your 043-Form (Cash Book) template with your School's Budget
3. Opening balances for your learners - An excel sheet with names, surnames & amounts
4. School details - logo, email etc for your Invoices, Statements
Once you submit the above documents, we will upload all the data onto RSM. You will then also check in RSM that all the data is correct & accurate. We will also provide your School with the required training.
We have Weekly Meetings with our Schools to assist them with all the queries & touch base on the onboarding & ongoing use of system.
1. Learner data list (.xls or CSV) - we will provide you with the an Excel template.
2. Your 043-Form (Cash Book) template with your School's Budget
3. Opening balances for your learners - An excel sheet with names, surnames & amounts
4. School details - logo, email etc for your Invoices, Statements
Once you submit the above documents, we will upload all the data onto RSM. You will then also check in RSM that all the data is correct & accurate. We will also provide your School with the required training.
We have Weekly Meetings with our Schools to assist them with all the queries & touch base on the onboarding & ongoing use of system.
It takes 2-3 weeks for your School to onboard onto RSM provided we receive onboarding documents fairly quickly.
The onboarding process should not take more than 1-3 months provided you have a Bursar or Admin officer who is in charge of switching to RSM and does all the required steps.
Rise SA is both a software developer and a system integrator. Building our solutions on the proprietary 1C:Enterprise platform with over 5 million users worldwide, we can custom develop 2x faster than currently available on the market.
Rise SA also tries to make our software as accessible & as affordable for schools as possible.
Your School will also save min R10K based on the feedback from our customers. The main rationale is that you will be able to have ALL your data on ONE system.
This is the main rationale behind switching to RSM is that you will have all your data in one place saving thousands on paper, many hours of time for your Bursar & Admin Staff.
Rise SA also tries to make our software as accessible & as affordable for schools as possible.
Your School will also save min R10K based on the feedback from our customers. The main rationale is that you will be able to have ALL your data on ONE system.
This is the main rationale behind switching to RSM is that you will have all your data in one place saving thousands on paper, many hours of time for your Bursar & Admin Staff.
Rise SA does a daily backup of Customers' data stored on the Rise School Management servers. This ensures that your data is safe, secure and always accessible in a cloud from any time.
Yes, that is an additional advantage of using Rise School Management. If you need custom development done to your school's specific requirements, get in touch with us.
Benefits for Schools
Empower your school with a one stop cloud system
- Admin integrated with Accounting and a Communicator app
- The first system to automate
the 043-Form - Increase school fees' collection by
at least 10% annualy
with the Billing on the app - Access from anywhere any time
Schools' testimonials
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Packages for schools
Packages for schools
Would you like to see Rise school management in action?
Email info@risebiz.co.za or fill in this form to book your one-on-one meeting.
Here is the link to the live recordings of the School Forums of how schools use the Rise School Management system.
School have increased worth about 10%-15%
of their school fees income for the year, with the Rise system.
Watch the interview with the Bursar by clicking on this link.
Email info@risebiz.co.za or fill in this form to book your one-on-one meeting.
Here is the link to the live recordings of the School Forums of how schools use the Rise School Management system.
School have increased worth about 10%-15%
of their school fees income for the year, with the Rise system.
Watch the interview with the Bursar by clicking on this link.
Rise School Communicator
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A school-parent Communicator
with a difference
+ A school-parent communicator
+ Available for iOS & Android
+ Additional users can be added
Up to 3 users included
Benefits for your school:
Communicate with all parents at a click
Improve your school's image
Save R20K on paper annually
Easy to download
Free for parents
Inclusive of:
A training session for school staff
Unlimited News, Resources, Events
Unlimited Channels
Support via phone, email
A one-to-one Chat function
Advertising Banners
Make income for your school.
Learn more here.
SMS Web integration
Sms to parents at a click
FREE bonus
School staff app
Private channels
Access on the go wherever you are.
A school-parent Communicator
with a difference
+ A school-parent communicator
+ Available for iOS & Android
+ Additional users can be added
Up to 3 users included
Benefits for your school:
Communicate with all parents at a click
Improve your school's image
Save R20K on paper annually
Easy to download
Free for parents
Inclusive of:
A training session for school staff
Unlimited News, Resources, Events
Unlimited Channels
Support via phone, email
A one-to-one Chat function
Advertising Banners
Make income for your school.
Learn more here.
SMS Web integration
Sms to parents at a click
FREE bonus
School staff app
Private channels
Access on the go wherever you are.
Book a meeting
Rise Finance management package for schools
Book a one-on-one meeting
Financial/Accounting package for schools
Dedicated onboarding, training and support team to empower your school and simplify your life. Quick onboarding.
Collect school fees, track income and expenses, report to SGB and Principal.
Benefits for your school
Invoice the whole school at a click
School fees balances in real time
Reduce queries from parents
Email statements at a click
Save R20K on paper annually
Schools upped fees collection by 10%
Save min 14 hours with the 043-Form
Report to the SGB and Principal at a click
Access school's current financial position
Simplify your life with
Exemptions, discounts, petty cash
Email/print cash receipts
A customizable Chart of Accounts
Budget Plan vs Actual
Advance payments
Financial reports
A/R aging
Trial balance
Balance sheet
Income statement Accrual
Income statement Cash
General Journal report
Batch invoicing
Invoice all learners per Class or Grade
Monthly, termly or annually
Supplier management
Capture supplier invoices
Supplier Returns & more
Supplier reports
Rise Administration
Learner data, reports, class lists, class stats
Financial/Accounting package for schools
Dedicated onboarding, training and support team to empower your school and simplify your life. Quick onboarding.
Collect school fees, track income and expenses, report to SGB and Principal.
Benefits for your school
Invoice the whole school at a click
School fees balances in real time
Reduce queries from parents
Email statements at a click
Save R20K on paper annually
Schools upped fees collection by 10%
Save min 14 hours with the 043-Form
Report to the SGB and Principal at a click
Access school's current financial position
Simplify your life with
Exemptions, discounts, petty cash
Email/print cash receipts
A customizable Chart of Accounts
Budget Plan vs Actual
Advance payments
Financial reports
A/R aging
Trial balance
Balance sheet
Income statement Accrual
Income statement Cash
General Journal report
Batch invoicing
Invoice all learners per Class or Grade
Monthly, termly or annually
Supplier management
Capture supplier invoices
Supplier Returns & more
Supplier reports
Rise Administration
Learner data, reports, class lists, class stats
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Rise School Management
One Stop School Management System
One Stop School Management System
Book a one-on-one meeting
Empower your school with ONE
integrated cloud system.
Work under ONE umbrella as a school team.
Reduce duplication, errors and a high cost
of multiple systems.
Simplify your life, reporting and processes
Improve your school fees collection rate.
Financial / Accounting package +
Administration management +
043-Form report +
Plus add any modules below of your choice.
Add-on modules:
+Rise Communicator app
+Rise Billing on the app
+FREE Bonus: School staff app
+Debt collector integration
+Textbooks keeping subsystem
+Marks module (email progress reports)
Rise Communicator
Details in the left block
Rise Billing on the App
Increase school fees collection
Parents see in real time school fees balances on the App.
Marks module
See in demo all functions.
School Staff App
Create News, Incidents
Input Marks from the app.
A debt collector's integration
A seamless live integration
Textbooks keeping system
Textbook issues, returns
Integrated with a barcode scanner
Here is a short video
Behaviour module:
Create incidents via the app and desktop
Parents get notified via a push notification
Demerit system / detention letter
Enrollment simplified
Google forms integration
Save time on manual import
Empower your school with ONE
integrated cloud system.
Work under ONE umbrella as a school team.
Reduce duplication, errors and a high cost
of multiple systems.
Simplify your life, reporting and processes
Improve your school fees collection rate.
Financial / Accounting package +
Administration management +
043-Form report +
Plus add any modules below of your choice.
Add-on modules:
+Rise Communicator app
+Rise Billing on the app
+FREE Bonus: School staff app
+Debt collector integration
+Textbooks keeping subsystem
+Marks module (email progress reports)
Rise Communicator
Details in the left block
Rise Billing on the App
Increase school fees collection
Parents see in real time school fees balances on the App.
Marks module
See in demo all functions.
School Staff App
Create News, Incidents
Input Marks from the app.
A debt collector's integration
A seamless live integration
Textbooks keeping system
Textbook issues, returns
Integrated with a barcode scanner
Here is a short video
Behaviour module:
Create incidents via the app and desktop
Parents get notified via a push notification
Demerit system / detention letter
Enrollment simplified
Google forms integration
Save time on manual import
Book a meeting
Contact the Rise SA team
For sales, phone Leslie 076 818 1895
or what's app 0741946905.
Email us at info@risebiz.co.za
Book a virtual meeting by clicking on this link.
Start a What's app chat with our helpful team by clicking on this link.
We are based in Southern Suburbs in Cape Town.
Follow us on social media. Be the first to know of exciting news.
For sales, phone Leslie 076 818 1895
or what's app 0741946905.
Email us at info@risebiz.co.za
Book a virtual meeting by clicking on this link.
Start a What's app chat with our helpful team by clicking on this link.
We are based in Southern Suburbs in Cape Town.
Follow us on social media. Be the first to know of exciting news.
News on Rise School Management
This is a blog on the updates, news and events on Rise School Management, a one-stop system for schools.
©Rise SA Business Solutions. All rights reserved. Rise school management is a signature brand by Rise SA Business Solutions Pty Ltd founded in 2014 in South Africa in response to a growing world demand for cloud solutions. Rise solutions are fully cloud based secure, powerful, flexible and customizable on the user side and the development front. Rise school management saves schools time and money and transforms school's finances and reporting. Contact us to learn more about his exciting game changing system that was developed together with schools towards schools' specific requirements. RSM is cloud software, a school management system that works for schools. It has accounting for schools, administration for schools, financial and admin reporting, 043-Form report, a communicator mobile app and more.
