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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Today I have an exciting announcement to make. We just updated our in-app notifications and released a new notification manager for staff!At Boardingware we have been collecting client feedback for our notification system for a while no...
Paper is everywhere in boarding but is it really the best way to be managing your boarding processes in 2017?If you take a closer look, you’ll find that paper is static, ever-growing, storage heavy, difficult to update and ultimately holdin
Recently we worked with a school that was setting up for their first year in boarding and they were in the process of creating their school rules and procedures. Naturally they asked us for advice on a range of subjects, but the area of ...
Boardingware isn’t something that schools purchase purely for economic benefits, however the ‘money people’ at each school demand to see this outlined… I mean, I guess that is their job.Unfortunately, this can often mean that the boarding s
When processing off-campus leave requests, one of the most important details you need to know is how your students will be getting from A to B.If they’re departing by car, you might need to know the name of the person driving and the car's
