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For schools switching mid-year

Switch mid-year. The importers do the heavy lifting.

Attendance, gradebook, tuition, records, and a parent app families install the same week. $50 a month covers your first 20 students, with no sales call and no implementation fee. A typical self-serve switch takes a weekend, and nothing already recorded is lost.
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From where you are now to a running school

The whole move, a typical weekend, start to finish. Every step is also on video, one minute each, in the how-to library.

  1. Saturday morning

    Build the school

    Your first sign-in asks how the school runs, then builds it in one step: the year with its terms and days off, you as a teacher, your subjects, classes and a tuition plan, and your roster, pasted in on the same pass. That takes about twenty minutes, and you can undo it for a day if you want to start again.

  2. The rest of Saturday

    Bring the rest of your data in

    Transcripts, assignment-level gradebooks, health records and the library catalog, from CSV. Every import has a dry-run preview, so nothing is written until you've checked the rows. This is the part that takes a Saturday, and it is your own file you are reading.

  3. Sunday

    Set up the money

    The build made your first tuition plan. Sunday is the rest: plans per family, sibling discounts, invoices, and online payments through your own Stripe account. Send invoices before your first Monday on Pearspark; it is much easier than chasing checks after.

  4. The week before you switch

    Invite everyone

    Staff get roles and permissions. Families sign themselves up from the email on the student record, install the app and turn on notifications. Nothing to hand out, nothing to explain twice.

Ready for day one

Six things working before your first day on Pearspark, and where each is covered.

Running a particular kind of school? Start from the page that matches yours:

Get the opening checklist

A few quick questions, then family paperwork, money, records and the first week, fitted to your kind of school and your state. Free, by email, whether or not you use Pearspark.

Question 1 of 7

What kind of school is it?

Mid-year switch questions

We already started the year. Is it too late to switch?
No. Mid-year switches are normal, and this page is the plan for one. Import what you have, including assignment-level grades, and attendance, billing and the parent portal pick up from today. Nothing already recorded is lost.
How long does the switch take?
A typical self-serve switch takes a weekend. Data entry is the slow part, and the importers remove it: rosters, guardians, transcripts and gradebooks come in from CSV with a dry-run preview. Configuration takes about twenty minutes: your first sign-in asks how the school runs, then builds the year, its terms, your classes and a tuition plan in one step. Stuck? Email support@pearspark.com and a person will help, free.
What does it cost?
$50 a month covers your first 20 students, then per-student pricing from $2.50, in volume bands down to $1.00. A 30-student school pays about $75 a month, with every feature included, unlimited staff and family accounts, published pricing and no sales call.
Do parents need training?
No. Parents sign themselves up from the email on the student record, and the portal walks them through installing the app and turning on notifications. There's also a library of 60-second how-to videos for every role.

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A typical self-serve switch takes a weekend, and nothing already recorded is lost.

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