Send school messages. Get parent replies. All by SMS.
SyncPoint Notify is the school communication platform for South Africa. Import learners straight from SA-SAMS, message the right families by grade, class or child — and handle their replies in one shared staff inbox.
- Free to start
- No setup fees
- Your data stays private
Built for the way schools actually communicate
Everything your office needs to reach families quickly, accurately, and safely — all included in every plan.
Send to exactly who needs it
Compose once and reach the whole school, a grade, a class, selected learners or one family.
Parents reply by normal SMS
Families answer straight from their handset — no app to install and no mobile data needed.
A shared staff inbox
Every reply lands in one place your team works from, with read, assigned and resolved status.
Organized by student
Each student keeps their guardians together. Message primary contacts or everyone at once.
Reusable templates
Save your common notices — late buses, fees, events — and reuse them instantly.
Personalized messages
Drop in each child's name, grade or class so every parent gets a message that fits.
Built for many schools
Every school is fully separate and private. Your data always stays yours.
Safe by design
Role-based access and approvals keep sending in exactly the right hands.
Powerful where it counts, simple to use
Scheduled & recurring sends
Queue messages ahead of time or set them to repeat — daily fee reminders, weekly newsletters, and more.
Delivery receipts
See exactly which messages were delivered, right down to the individual parent.
History & exports
Every send is logged and searchable, with CSV exports for your records.
CSV contact import
Bring learners and guardians in from a spreadsheet in one non-destructive step.
Replies matched to families
Incoming replies are matched back to the correct school and family where we can, and anything uncertain is held safely for review.
Reply straight back by SMS
Answer a family one-to-one from the inbox, with the learner's details already in front of you.
Automatic opt-out handling
Unsubscribes are respected instantly across every future send — no manual list-keeping.
Import straight from SA-SAMS
Already keep your learners in SA-SAMS? Export the file and upload it — SyncPoint Notify reads the columns for you, so you're not retyping a single contact. Plain CSV and Excel work too.
- Auto-detects learner name, grade, class, admission number & guardian cell
- Sensitive fields (ID numbers, medical, addresses, results) are never imported
- Non-destructive — existing learners are updated, nothing is deleted
- Export contacts & message history back out to CSV anytime
Three steps to your first message
Get started
Sign up and your school workspace is ready in moments.
Add students & guardians
Organize children by grade and class with their parent contacts.
Send, then handle the replies
Pick your audience and send. Parent replies come back into your shared inbox.
One price per learner band
Plans are R299/month for up to 100 learners, R499/month for 101–1,000 learners, R799/month for 1,001–1,500 learners, with custom pricing for more than 1,500 learners — plus R0.35 per billable SMS part.
Every feature is included on every plan — you're never charged more for features. SMS is usage-based and billed separately at R0.35 per part.
ECD
Crèches, daycares & preschools
+ R0.35 per billable SMS part
For crèches, daycares, preschools, aftercare centres and home-based ECD programmes.
School
Primary & secondary schools
+ R0.35 per billable SMS part
For primary schools, secondary schools and larger education centres.
Large
High-volume schools
+ R0.35 per billable SMS part
For larger schools communicating with many families.
Your plan is based on your active learner count and adjusts when your organisation moves into a different learner band.
Enterprise
More than 1,500 learnersCustom pricingFor very large schools and multi-campus groups. We'll tailor a plan around your size.
Every plan includes all features and unlimited staff.
Each school communicates in its own secure space
SyncPoint Notify is multi-tenant by design. Every school gets its own isolated workspace, so staff, students, guardians, and messages never mix between schools.
Data isolation
Students, guardians, message history, and templates are scoped to one school. Cross-tenant reads, edits, or exports are blocked at every layer.
Shared platform, separate tenants
Schools share the same reliable infrastructure while their data stays logically and technically separated behind role-based access controls.
Parents only see their school
Guardians receive messages only from the school that added them. There is no cross-school directory, contact list, or message feed.
Use it like a native app
Install SyncPoint Notify on your desktop, Android phone, or iPhone for instant access — no app store, no download queue, no waiting.
Faster access
Launch straight from your home screen or taskbar — no hunting for a browser tab.
Offline-ready
Once installed, the app loads instantly and keeps working when connectivity dips.
No app-store delays
Skip the review queue. Updates reach every device the moment we ship them.
Desktop
Windows & MacPin it to your taskbar or dock and send without opening the browser first.
Android
Chrome & EdgeAdd it to your home screen for one-tap messaging on the go.
iPhone & iPad
SafariUse 'Add to Home Screen' for a full-screen, app-like experience.
Two message modes, no guesswork
Keep it short and pay for exactly one SMS per parent, or use up to 6 joined parts when a notice genuinely needs the room. Either way you see the parts and the full quote before you confirm.
Standard message
A short notice that always leaves as exactly one billable SMS part, so the cost per parent is fixed and predictable.
Always exactly one billable SMS part — R0.35 per recipient.
Long message
More room when a notice genuinely will not fit in one part. Long messages are normally joined and displayed as one message on the recipient's phone, while each underlying SMS part is billed separately.
Billed per part — up to 6 parts, R0.35 each.
Questions, answered
Search for what you need — from SA-SAMS imports to how parents receive messages.
SyncPoint Notify costs R299 per month for ECD (up to 100 learners), R499 per month for School (101–1,000 learners) and R799 per month for Large (1,001–1,500 learners). Organisations with more than 1,500 learners are priced individually on Enterprise. Every feature is included on every paid plan, and text messages are billed separately at R0.35 per billable SMS part.
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