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Houses, mess, leave, and guardian visibility

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.

Residential school dormitory and common area

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

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.

Residential school dormitory and common area

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 principal in 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.

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.

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.

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.

Students walking together on a school campus

See Boarding & residential in a live walkthrough

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

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