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Introducing "Checkpoint" By Boardingware

It’s no secret that boarding schools are facing increasing pressure to keep track of their students whereabouts, especially when students are leaving school grounds for things like “weekend exeats” or “overnight leave”.But recently, ther...

How To Convince Your School Board To Use Boarding Management Software

So you’re feeling pretty good…Why?Because you FINALLY found a boarding management tool that’s going to transform your life.(Hint: It’s Boardingware)Now all you have to do is… Convince your IT department, finance manager and the rest of y...

Features vs Functionality: How to accurately compare software systems (Free Template)

If you’re in the market for boarding management software, it’s important that you don’t just dive into the first one you see or commit to a software product just because it boasts your checklist of features.When it comes to school softwa...

The Cost of Waiting: 7 Reasons To Implement Boarding Management Software Right Now

When it comes to boarding management, the majority of boarding schools around the world are still using pen and paper, spreadsheets, google docs, email or some clunky legacy software.And most of them have been using the same tools and pr...

Boardingware + Magnus Health = Safer dorms for your boarding school

We’re excited to announce that Boardingware has partnered with Magnus Health, which is an electronic Student Medical Record Solution used by more than 550 schools world wide. Magnus Health and Boardingware are hard at work on the integra...

13 Useful Tips To Help You Make The Most Out Of Your Next School Conference

School conferences are great opportunities for you to expand your knowledge, keep up with industry trends and advance your boarding school career. But they’re also an overwhelming flood of speakers, sessions, conversations, and social ev...

NZBSA conference: Come visit us in our own backyard

The NZBSA conference is coming up soon and this year it's right in our own backyard - Auckland. We're looking forward to the annual event and hope to see many of you there.The conference is set to run from the 30th May till the 2nd of J...

Boardingware Vs. Your School Management System - Stop comparing apples and oranges

In the past 6 months we have begun working with the most widely used school management system's in the independent school industry. These include notable names such as Blackbaud, iSAMS, Veracross, Engage and many more school data managem...

The top myths in the 'On-Cloud Vs. On-Premise' debate

Boardingware has been fortunate to help many schools make their first move into the cloud by using our software for boarding schools, however, from time to time we’ll get a school that will ask about installing our product on-premise.For...

How long did you take to figure that out?

You know when you buy something new, especially if it’s a technology product - you get all excited and you show it off to your friends? Then all of the questions follow, like, “where’d you get that from?”, “How much did that set you back...

Let your students sign themselves out from your houses or dorms

You Decide: Allow your students to sign out from their own devices with Boardingware.As ex-boarders ourselves, we've been dying to make something that the students will really love and today we think we've finally done one...When 3.30pm...

8 Signs you've reached the limit of spreadsheets in boarding

Excel and Google sheets are very powerful tools, however because they aren’t specific to boarding they do have their limitations. This means there will come a time when your needs surpass what a spreadsheet can handle and it’s time for y...

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