homeroom.software · the whole platform
Every school program, on one consented student record.
Most schools run a different vendor for records, for photography, for the yearbook, for special education, for communications, for the website, and for fundraising — seven logins, seven rosters, seven exports, and a child’s data copied across all of them. Homeroom is one platform: every program reads a single consented record, so the data is keyed once, walled by the database, and turned on module by module. It’s modular — start with the free records core and add what you need.
The student-records / SIS core is free with any purchase. No contract, no minimum order, no overprint.
The free spine: student records / SIS
The system of record that every other module reads — enrollment, scheduling, attendance, gradebook, transcripts, report cards, and behavior. It’s free with any purchase, and it’s why nothing on this page needs a second roster.
Student records / SIS
Enrollment, scheduling, attendance, gradebook, transcripts, report cards, and behavior — the system of record every other module reads. Free with any purchase.
Free coreThe programs that ride the record
Each turns on independently and reads the same consented record. Pick the ones your school needs today; add the rest when you’re ready.
Pholio — school photography
Picture day on our own private system: photos and face data never sent to an outside AI or photo company, roster-lookup “find my child” instead of a face match, consent-gated sales, and a parent storefront the studio and school keep the revenue on.
ShippedYearbook & newsroom
A desktop-class book builder plus newspaper, lit-mag, and public online editions on one roster — with a real assignment-to-EIC-approval newsroom and a teach-as-you-build curriculum.
ShippedSpecial education
IEP, 504, and MTSS on the same record — eligibility, goals, services, progress, and the block-by-default consent and FERPA walls that the rest of the platform enforces.
ShippedCommunications
Family and parent engagement — message threads, notifications, and per-family preferences, addressed off the one record so a message reaches the right guardian and no one else.
ShippedSchool & district websites
Accessible, fast school and district sites — plus the public online editions for student publications — WCAG by architecture, no separate CMS to license.
ShippedFundraising
Campaigns with a goal and donor wall, any-amount donations, and peer-to-peer drives — 100% of the gift to the school. We monetize the relationship, not the donation.
ShippedSports & activities
Team and activity registration, rosters, and schedules on the record — with team photos and composites flowing straight from Pholio.
ShippedPTA / PTO
The parent organization runs on the same record — membership, volunteer scheduling, and dues — without a third-party signup tool that re-keys the roster.
ShippedDiplomas
Print diplomas from the transcript of record, plus verifiable-digital credentials a graduate (or an employer) can check against a tamper-evident signature.
Early accessGraduation & recognition
Commencement programs, senior tributes, honors, and recognition products — the highest-margin non-book line — composed off the same record and roster.
ShippedLibrary / media center
The media center on the record — catalog, circulation, and holds tied to the same student identity, so a checkout knows exactly who the student is.
ShippedClubs & competitions
Clubs, organizations, and co-curricular competitions — membership, events, and results — on the one record, feeding the yearbook’s coverage automatically.
ShippedFind, claim, and convert
The surfaces that bring a school onto the platform and let it switch on its own timeline — without a broken link or an RFP scramble.
The directory + microsites
A national school directory and per-school microsites — the SEO front door that turns a search into a claimed school account, with the microsite generated from the record.
ShippedThe swappable vendor sales-page
An “order here” sales-page a school can point at its current provider today and flip to its own Homeroom store the moment it switches — no broken link in between.
ShippedWhy one record changes the math
A flat list of modules is a suite. One consented record underneath them is a category of one — here is what only this architecture buys you.
Consent as a database constraint
Consent isn’t a checkbox an app might skip — it’s a Postgres constraint and trigger under every lane, so the platform structurally cannot emit a non-consented byte: not a sale, not a publish, not a directory entry. Consent as foundation →
Private-cloud AI, never sent to an outside company
Every AI assist — captioning, layout, grouping — runs inside our own private cloud. No child’s record, image, or prose is shipped to a third-party cloud model, even one on a signed DPA. The locality wall is in code. The security posture →
Exact-penny money, audited
Books, portraits, ads, fundraising, and dues all settle on one integer-cents-exact ledger with a SHA-256 tamper-evident audit and a real school revenue leg — one reconciliation, not seven. How pricing works →
Accessibility by architecture
WCAG conformance is built into the editor, the editions, the websites, and the PDF output — a default, not an upgrade — so the procurement accessibility gate is met natively. See how →
Public, private, charter — one record
The same record spans every school type and every arm — district, charter, independent — so a student’s history follows them across the program, not across an export job.
No vendor lock-in
Your data is exportable, your print is printer-neutral, and a finished publication leaves as a print-ready PDF. You stay because it’s good — never because a contract or a proprietary format traps you.
We’re honest about what’s shipped
The records / SIS core, Pholio’s private-system pipeline and consent gate, the yearbook and newsroom, special education, communications, websites, the ad and fundraising lanes, sports, PTA/PTO, library, and clubs are live today. The parent-portrait storefront and the four-way split, verifiable-digital diplomas, the school-leg payout wiring, and private-cloud AI assists are in early access or building now — on rails you can already run. We’ll tell you exactly where each module is, and we never sell a roadmap as if it shipped.