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School Desk

Your whole school office on one computer.

An offline Windows app that runs a school office on one PC: admissions, fees and receipts, exams and report cards, certificates, staff and backups, with every record encrypted.

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School Desk: your whole school office on one computer, with the dashboard, a report card and a certificate
from sign-in to dashboard, on a 1,500-student school
0.45 s
to save a payment and its receipt
42 ms
offline: no internet, no cloud, no tracking
100%
report card designs, including CBSE term-wise
11

Product demo

The challenge

Many schools still run the office on paper registers, fee diaries and spreadsheets, often on a single PC with an unreliable internet connection. Cloud software is not always an option, and student and fee records must stay private.

Our solution

School Desk keeps the entire school office on the school's own PC. It needs no internet, sends no data anywhere and encrypts everything it stores. Admissions, fee collection, report cards and certificates take a few clicks, and every printed document looks professional.

What it does

Admissions and students

  • A complete admission form with APAAR ID and PEN; Aadhaar numbers are never stored.
  • Automatic admission numbers; the class's fees are added the moment a student is admitted.
  • Fill the form from a photo of the old school's Transfer Certificate.
  • Admission enquiries with follow-up dates that turn into a ready-filled form.

Fees and receipts

  • Collect fees in three steps: find the student, tick the dues, choose the payment method.
  • Cash, UPI, cheque and bank transfer, with the reference required; part payments settle the oldest dues first.
  • Receipts on A4, A5 and 58 mm or 80 mm thermal printers, showing the balance after payment.
  • Dues with ageing, defaulters, day book, collection by method and reminders.

Exams, report cards and certificates

  • Eleven report card designs, including CBSE term-wise and pre-primary; a whole section prints as one document.
  • Transfer, bonafide, character, fee and merit certificates in six designs.
  • Every issued document carries a QR code and a check code, so a printed copy can be verified.
  • ID cards in three designs, and admit cards.

The daily office

  • A home dashboard with today's collection, dues, overdue amount, enquiry follow-ups and birthdays.
  • Attendance, an academic calendar and a timetable that never puts a teacher in two classes at once.
  • Staff, salary and leave; expenses and profit and loss; notices, marketing posters and WhatsApp messages to parents.

Import, export and printing

  • Import from Excel, CSV and scanned pages; export in government layouts.
  • Print or save as PDF, in colour or black and white.

Security and backups

  • An encrypted database with a 256-bit key; the school owns its data and there is no back door.
  • Auto-lock, a growing wait after wrong passwords, and a printed Recovery Key.
  • Every change is recorded, and money ledgers can only be added to, never edited.
  • Encrypted daily backups (the newest 30 kept), with a reminder to keep a copy on a pen drive.

A closer look

School Desk home dashboard with today's collection, dues and follow-ups
Home: today's collection, dues and follow-ups at a glance.
Collect fees screen with dues ticked and UPI selected
Fee collection in three steps, with the receipt printed instantly.
Printed documents from School Desk: a certificate, a report card, a fee receipt and ID cards
Professional printouts: certificates, report cards, receipts and ID cards.
Student list with search and filters
Every student, with fast search and filters.
Report card settings with theme choice
Report cards for a whole section, in eleven designs.
Class timetable editor
A timetable that never double-books a teacher.

Under the hood

  • .NET 10
  • C#
  • WPF
  • Entity Framework Core
  • SQLite with SQLCipher encryption
  • WebView2 printing
  • Inno Setup
  • Offline by design: no server, no cloud and no telemetry. Installed and renewed from a USB pen drive.
  • Money is stored in paise as whole numbers, so ₹1,234.50 is always exactly ₹1,234.50.
  • Every change writes an audit record in the same step.
  • Measured on a 1,500-student school: student search in 37 ms, the daily collection report in 12 ms.
  • A strict build: warnings as errors, security analysers, architecture tests and a vulnerable-package check on every change.

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