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School Mobile App Development Services in Ahmedabad

Raqbash provides school mobile app development services in Ahmedabad for GSEB and CBSE schools: parents get absence alerts, homework, fee receipts and the live bus location in Gujarati or English, teachers mark attendance in under a minute, and the principal sees the whole school from one panel.

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Years in business (since 2016)
10+
Clients across India
100+
Less admin work, School Management Platform case study
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School app at a glance

Platforms
Parent and teacher apps for iOS and Android, a principal panel, and an optional bus attendant app
Typical cost
₹7–20 lakh, depending on scope
Typical timeline
8–12 weeks (Single school) to 12–18 weeks (School group)
Compliance & security
DPDP Act 2023 parental consent, class-level access, Indian hosting
Tech stack
Flutter, Laravel or Node.js, PostgreSQL, school ERP APIs, Google Maps Platform, Razorpay
Location
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Serving clients across India and worldwide.

Overview

School App Development Company in Ahmedabad

A school app is a pair of connected mobile apps, one for parents and one for teachers, that replaces the paper diary, printed circulars and the fee counter with alerts, homework, payments and bus tracking.

Most schools in Ahmedabad run three channels badly: a diary that never comes home, a class group chat that buries the circular, and an office phone that rings all morning. Teachers have five minutes between periods, and many parents read Gujarati first. The app must beat those habits or be abandoned by Diwali.

The app ecosystem

The School App Ecosystem We Build

Three core parts and an optional fourth, all reading one student record.

  • Parent app

    For parents and guardians, often of siblings.

    • Get absence and late-arrival alerts
    • See homework and the class diary
    • Pay fees and download receipts
    • Track the school bus live
    • Book a PTM slot

  • Teacher app

    For class teachers and subject teachers.

    • Mark attendance by tapping absentees
    • Post homework with a photo
    • Enter unit test marks
    • Message a parent or class

  • Principal & office panel

    For the principal and office.

    • Publish circulars and holiday lists
    • Track fee collection by class
    • Set PTM dates and slot lengths
    • Generate report cards

  • Bus attendant view

    Optional, one per route.

    • Share location during trips
    • Mark children boarded or dropped
    • Report a delay
    • See the stop list

Key features

Key Features of a School App

These six features replace the calls, slips and queues in a school office.

  1. Attendance with absence alerts

    Teachers tap only absentees; their parents know before first period ends.

  2. Homework and the class diary

    A board photo or worksheet PDF, posted by subject with a due date.

  3. Fees in instalments, with receipts

    Term or monthly instalments, transport fees separate, UPI payment and an instant receipt.

  4. Live school bus tracking

    The attendant's phone shares the route; parents get a ping two stops early.

  5. Circulars and PTM slot booking

    Circulars in the parent's language with read receipts, and PTM slots booked in the app.

  6. Report cards parents can open

    Marks entered through the term become a report card with remarks, saved as PDF.

How it works

How a Parent Uses Your School App

A parent's school day touches the app five times, with no call to the office.

  1. Step 1

    Morning bus alert

    A ping before pickup, then boarding confirmed.

  2. Step 2

    Attendance confirmed

    Present, late or absent, known by 8:30 am.

  3. Step 3

    Homework at dinner

    Today's diary by subject, with worksheets attached.

  4. Step 4

    Fee due, fee paid

    A reminder, UPI in two taps, receipt saved.

  5. Step 5

    PTM and report card

    Book a slot and read the report first.

Security & compliance

Security & Privacy for School Apps

School apps hold children's names, locations and marks, so access follows class and consent comes from the parent.

  • Parental consent at onboarding

    The parent gives consent, recorded with a timestamp; the school's adviser confirms any exemptions.

  • Class-level access

    Teachers see only their own classes, and parents see only their own children.

  • Bus location only during trips

    Shared from the attendant's phone in route hours and kept briefly.
  • No student photos in push notifications
  • Hosting in an Indian cloud region
  • Audit log of every mark change
  • OTP login on the registered mobile

Cost & timeline

School App Development Cost

A parent and teacher app for one school typically costs ₹7–9 lakh. A school group with bus tracking, ERP sync and several campuses usually costs ₹12–20 lakh.

  • Most common starting point

    Single school

    ₹7–9 lakh

    8–12 weeks

    One school replacing the diary, circulars and fee counter.

    • Parent and teacher apps
    • Attendance, homework and circulars
    • Online fees with receipts
    • Principal panel

  • School group

    ₹12–20 lakh

    12–18 weeks

    Groups with buses, an ERP and more than one campus.

    • Everything in Single school
    • Live bus tracking and attendant app
    • School ERP integration
    • Campus-wise reports

What moves the cost of a school app

  • Your ERP

    With an ERP, the app reads from it; without one, we build the student master too.

  • Bus fleet

    Each route adds stops, attendants and alert rules to test.

  • Fee rules

    Sibling discounts, concessions and transport fees add billing logic.

  • Languages

    Gujarati and Hindi versions of every screen and notification.

Indicative ranges from Raqbash projects in Ahmedabad, excluding store fees, cloud usage and support. Not a quote. See Mobile app development cost in Ahmedabad for how the bands are built.

Technologies & integrations

School App Technologies & Integrations

A school app is only as current as its records. These are the usual connections.

Mobile

  • Flutter
  • React Native

Backend & cloud

  • Laravel
  • Node.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • AWS Mumbai region

School integrations

  • School ERP APIs
  • Google Maps Platform
  • Razorpay
  • Cashfree
  • Firebase Cloud Messaging
  • SMS gateway

Why Raqbash

Why Schools Choose Raqbash

Schools choose us because we have shipped a school platform with a parent app.

  • A school platform behind us

    Our school management platform work joined admissions, attendance, fees and a Flutter parent app.

  • Built for Gujarati-medium parents

    Gujarati screens and alerts from sprint one.

  • Fast for teachers

    Attendance for 40 students in under a minute.

  • Launch timed to the year

    Live before the June reopening, when parents install.

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How we deliver

How we build and launch your school app

School apps follow our standard six steps, with teachers trying the attendance screen during discovery and a launch planned before the June reopening.

  1. Step 01

    Discover & Scope

    Written scope, screen list and fixed estimate

  2. Step 02

    UX & Clickable Prototype

    Clickable prototype you can test on a phone

  3. Step 03

    Agile Build (2-week sprints)

    A working build to install every sprint

  4. Step 04

    QA, Security & Real-Device Testing

    Test report across real Android and iOS devices

  5. Step 05

    App Store & Play Store Launch

    Live store listings under your developer accounts

  6. Step 06

    Support, Analytics & Growth

    Monthly crash, usage and release report

FAQ

School Mobile App Development Services in Ahmedabad: FAQs

Practical answers for teams planning a school app.

Can the school app work with our existing ERP?

Yes, in most cases. If your ERP exposes an API, the app reads students, classes, fees and marks from it, so the office never enters data twice. If it only exports spreadsheets, we schedule a nightly sync. If you have no ERP, we build a light student and fee master into the principal panel.

Will parents get an alert when their child is absent?

Yes. When the teacher submits attendance, parents of absent or late students get a push notification within a minute, with SMS as a backup for parents who have not installed the app. Parents can reply with a reason, which reaches the class teacher directly and saves the office a round of calls.

How does bus tracking work without GPS devices on every bus?

The attendant's phone becomes the tracker. The attendant app shares location only while a trip is running and marks each child as boarded or dropped. Parents see the bus on a map and get an alert two stops before theirs. If your buses already carry GPS units with an API, we can read those instead.

Can parents pay fees in instalments through the app?

Yes. You set the instalment plan per class: termly, quarterly or monthly, with transport and activity fees as separate heads. Parents pay by UPI, card or net banking through Razorpay or Cashfree, receipts are generated at once, and accounts see collections and defaulters by class without reconciling bank statements by hand.

Can the app be in Gujarati for our Gujarati-medium parents?

Yes. Every screen, circular and notification can be in Gujarati, English or Hindi, and each parent picks a language once. Teachers can write circulars in Gujarati directly or in English with a reviewed translation. We test layouts in all three, because Gujarati text runs longer and can break buttons designed in English.

How much does a school app cost and how long does it take?

Typically ₹7–9 lakh over 8–12 weeks for one school's parent and teacher apps with attendance, homework, circulars and online fees. A school group adding live bus tracking, ERP integration and campus-wise reports usually costs ₹12–20 lakh over 12–18 weeks. We start in the winter term so the app is ready before June.

How do you handle consent for students' personal data?

The parent, not the student, accepts the privacy notice and gives consent in the app, and we keep a timestamped record. India's DPDP Act requires verifiable parental consent for anyone under 18, with some exemptions for educational institutions. Your school decides which apply with its adviser, and we build the consent and deletion flows to match.

Start your school app project with Raqbash

Tell us your board, student count, bus routes and the ERP you use today. We will send a written scope and a fixed quote for school mobile app development services in Ahmedabad.

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