Product overview
One platform for the whole student-media program.
Most schools stitch together a yearbook bundler, a separate newspaper tool, a website host, and a picture-day vendor — four logins, four rosters, four invoices. Homeroom is one platform: every publication, the newsroom that produces them, the online edition that publishes them, the money lanes that fund them, and a picture-day pipeline that keeps every child’s face inside the school’s walls.
No contract. No minimum order. No overprint — print-on-demand means zero leftover-inventory risk.
A desktop-class book builder
The editor is the daily driver — built to win on the work an adviser actually does, not a feature checklist. Everything in this section is live today.
Real editing, real history
Undo/redo, version history, layers, masking, and auto-layout — with full keyboard parity, so a power user never has to reach for the mouse. Shipped
Your brand, locked
Uploadable, Google, and public-domain fonts plus custom palettes and themes, with adviser-set limits and brand-locking so a 30-student staff can’t break the book’s look. Shipped
Print that can’t silently fail
Fail-closed preflight with guaranteed font embedding — a missing font fails the job rather than silently substituting and shipping a wrong book. Portraits, directory pages, and ID-card composites flow from the same roster. Shipped
Every publication, one newsroom
Homeroom is the only multi-publication scholastic platform: the yearbook, the newspaper, and the literary magazine share one roster and one identity — produced through a real newsroom workflow the incumbents fragment across separate tools.
Yearbook, newspaper, lit-mag
Three publication types in one tool, each with its own page model and deadlines, all drawing on the shared roster and media library. Shipped
An assignment-to-approval workflow
A real newsroom state machine: pitch → assign → draft → edit → section-editor review → EIC approval → publish. The same discipline a college paper runs on, sized for a high-school staff. Shipped
Public online editions
A student publication gets a public, fast, no-tracker online edition — the reader-facing twin of the print book, for stories that can’t wait for a printer. See a live edition. Shipped
Teach as you build
A standards-honest curriculum lives inside the software, so an adviser teaches design, journalism, and ethics on the real work — not in a separate binder. Shipped
The lanes that fund the program
A program runs on money, not just pages. Homeroom builds the revenue lanes in — and is honest about which front door is still in early access.
Ads & recognition
Senior tributes & business ads
A full ad-sales engine: recognition ads, booster strips, business ads, proofs and approvals, and an order ledger — the highest-margin non-book line. Shipped
Fundraising
100% to the school
Any-amount-per-book, a donate-a-book SKU, and campaigns with a goal and donor wall. Homeroom takes zero of the gift. Shipped
Picture day
Portrait revenue, kept
The no-egress capture pipeline and the consent gate are live; the parent-facing storefront and the four-way studio/photographer/school/platform split are building now. Pipeline & gate shipped Storefront in early access
The privacy moat, built into the pipeline
The thing no bundler can copy without re-architecting their cloud: every child’s face stays inside the school’s walls. “Find my child” is a roster lookup, not a face match; no biometric template is ever created; the portrait never leaves the school’s VPC; and a photo is sellable only when consent says so. It is also a database-enforced single-school FERPA wall — an adviser at one school can never see another school’s students, proven against real Postgres.
We’re honest about what’s shipped
The book builder, the multi-publication newsroom, public online editions, the ad-sales engine, the 100%-to-school fundraising lane, the no-egress picture-day pipeline, the consent gate, the FERPA wall, and the teach-as-you-build curriculum are live today. The parent-portrait storefront, the four-way split, and buy-now-pay-later are in early access — building now on rails you can already run. We never sell a roadmap as if it shipped.