Rise Accounting is a powerful accounting software for SMEs - be it for products and services.

The big difference between our offering and other providers is that we include all modules and updates. Plus, you as a SMEs with limited cash flow, get a great value out of our packages with an inclusive support of a qualified and experienced accountant. For more details check out package 2 and 3 under Packages.

Rise Accounting is inclusive of all modules, reports and functionality. This sets us apart from other providers. See a full detailed overview here.

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.

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.

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Over 80 Schools from Gauteng & Western Cape have signed up for Rise School Communicator.
Some of them are listed below and can be viewed when you download the app.

In June 2020, Simonstown Schoo made an informed decision to switch to a full package, Rise School Management. The decision was made so that School can have all info and data in one place and access the system even if there is a lockdown or other unforseen circumstances that prevent School's staff from accessing the school building.

In May 2020, Parow High School chose Rise School Communicator to communicate
to all the parents at once. They were previously on the sms bundle, but it was too pricey and
had a limit on characters. They are excited as now they are not limited by characters
and can create engaging & targeted communication with parents at all times.
They have emailed all their parents to ask to download the Communicator.

End of May, 2020, Florida High School chose Rise School Communicator to communicate
with all their parents to replace paper newsletters which was pricey and would often go missing often.

In June, 2020 Irene Middle School, a school based in Centurion, Gauteng Province,
came onboard onto Rise School Communicator. We had training with the staff.
They liked the app and how it simplifies communication with parents.

The following Schools use a full package, Rise School Management, an all-in-one for schools:

+ De Kuilen Primary School in Kuis River, Cape Town, Western Cape

+ South Peninsula High School in Plumstead, Cape Town, Western Cape

+ Simonstown School in Simonstown, Western Cape

+ Firgrove Primary School in Sewendestraat, Western Cape

+ Tygerberg Art Centre in Parow, Cape Town, Western Cape

+ Dennegeur Primary School in Strandfontein, Western Cape.

+ Sunderland Primary School in Factreton, Western Cape.

+ Excelsior Primary School in Bellville, Western Cape

+ Koos Sadie Primary School in Goodwood, Western Cape

+ York Road Primary School in Lansdowne, Western Cape

+ Wespoort Primary School in Mitchells Plain, Western Cape

+ Windsor High School in Rondebosch East, Western Cape

+ Westcott Primary School, Diep River, Western Cape

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our Team takes around 3 days for uploading each of the above-mentioned documents that are required for the RSM onboarding. The faster we get the required docs from you, the quicker will be the onboarding process.
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 3x 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 does a daily backup of Customers' data stored on Rise School Management servers. This ensures that your data is safe, secure and always accessible in a cloud from any device 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.