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Boarding & residential

Run day and boarding students on one roster: house assignments, mess menus, residential leave, health notes, and parent views that respect who lives on campus versus who commutes. Residential schools need more than a day-school timetable. Schoolyi links hostel rooms, mess enrollment, and boarding leave to the same student profile fees and academics already use. Wardens see house rosters; parents of boarders get dining and room context in the portal without a separate app.

Boarding school common room with residential students relaxing

Outcomes

What changes when this module is live

Practical results schools report after rolling out this area on the shared calendar and roster.

  • Boarding overview and house master data

    One student record for academics, fees, and residential life

  • Hostel rooms and student room assignments

    Families with day and boarding siblings use one parent login

  • Mess halls, menus, and meal attendance

    Leave weekends and permissions tracked with academic calendar context

  • Boarding leave requests and approvals

    Mess and house staff work from the same roster as teachers

Product truth

What to verify before rollout

Good school software copy should answer who owns the work, what the handoff produces, and which parts still depend on deployment decisions.

Validate for your rollout

Capability status

This page describes the supported workflow boundary. Confirm configuration, integrations, data, and policy requirements in a representative pilot before committing to production.

Teams in the workflow

  • House masters
  • Boarding coordinators
  • Parents of boarders

Deep dive

Decisions, handoffs, and boundaries

Use these details to turn a product page into an implementation conversation.

Why schools upgrade boarding & residential

Residential schools need more than a day-school timetable. Schoolyi links hostel rooms, mess enrollment, and boarding leave to the same student profile fees and academics already use. Wardens see house rosters; parents of boarders get dining and room context in the portal without a separate app.

Connected to the rest of your SMS

Run day and boarding students on one roster: house assignments, mess menus, residential leave, health notes, and parent views that respect who lives on campus versus who commutes. Because Boarding & residential shares roster and calendar data, teams stop reconciling exports between spreadsheets and the parent portal.

Evidence layer

Read the supporting product and implementation material before making a capability claim.

Key capabilities

Everything included in this module, from daily workflows to exports your team relies on.

  • Boarding overview and house master data
  • Hostel rooms and student room assignments
  • Mess halls, menus, and meal attendance
  • Boarding leave requests and approvals
  • Student my-hostel and my-mess portal pages
  • Parent views for room, warden, and dining
  • Unified fees for day and boarding charges

Who uses this

Role-scoped workspaces so each team sees only the tasks they own.

  • House masters
  • Boarding coordinators
  • Parents of boarders

Workflow

How teams run it week to week

A typical path from setup through daily use on Schoolyi.

  1. 01

    Boarding overview and house master data

    Part of the Boarding & residential workflow on Schoolyi, connected to roster, calendar, and role permissions.

  2. 02

    Hostel rooms and student room assignments

    Part of the Boarding & residential workflow on Schoolyi, connected to roster, calendar, and role permissions.

  3. 03

    Mess halls, menus, and meal attendance

    Part of the Boarding & residential workflow on Schoolyi, connected to roster, calendar, and role permissions.

  4. 04

    Boarding leave requests and approvals

    Part of the Boarding & residential workflow on Schoolyi, connected to roster, calendar, and role permissions.

Deep dive

Built for school operations, not generic ERP

Long-form context for evaluators comparing modules during an SMS rollout.

Boarding school common room with residential students relaxing

Why schools upgrade boarding & residential

Residential schools need more than a day-school timetable. Schoolyi links hostel rooms, mess enrollment, and boarding leave to the same student profile fees and academics already use. Wardens see house rosters; parents of boarders get dining and room context in the portal without a separate app.

School finance manager reviewing fee records and receipts in an administration office

Connected to the rest of your SMS

Run day and boarding students on one roster: house assignments, mess menus, residential leave, health notes, and parent views that respect who lives on campus versus who commutes. Because Boarding & residential shares roster and calendar data, teams stop reconciling exports between spreadsheets and the parent portal.

Questions, answered

Straightforward answers for visitors evaluating the product.

Who typically owns Boarding & residential day to day?+

House masters, Boarding coordinators, Parents of boarders run daily workflows in this module while leadership reviews dashboards and exports when needed.

Assign a workflow owner and test it with a representative staff account before the busy part of the term. Verify that approvals, coverage details, and sensitive fields remain within the intended role.

How does Boarding & residential connect to the academic calendar?+

Dates, working days, and class structure flow from the shared calendar so downstream modules do not maintain parallel date lists.

Set the academic calendar before enabling dependent workflows, then test one holiday and one working-day exception against the resulting attendance or exam view. Keep the school’s local policy as the authority for edge cases.

Can we phase this module after go-live?+

Schools often launch admissions, roster, and fees first, then add this module when the foundation data is stable.

Choose the next phase only after the team has reconciled one complete operating cycle. Record the data, role, calendar, and support dependencies before widening access.

Is training required for every role?+

Role-scoped workspaces show only the tasks each team needs. Most schools run a short coordinator session plus self-serve docs.

Assign a workflow owner and test it with a representative staff account before the busy part of the term. Verify that approvals, coverage details, and sensitive fields remain within the intended role.

Students walking together across a school campus at sunset

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We'll show how this module fits your school's workflows and which teams benefit first.

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