Trusted by 250+ schools across Kenya

Best School Management System built for Kenyan schools.

Kenya's most comprehensive school management system — designed to automate Attendance, Fee collection, Academic records, Exams, and Parent communication from a single, secure, Platform. Whether you run a primary school, junior school, high school, or college, Tiptons Analytics keeps your institution running smoothly and professionally.

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★★★★★ 4.9/5
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Tiptons Analytics dashboard
Fees Reconciled
Automatically, in real time
Parent SMS Sent
Attendance & fee alerts

Trusted by leading schools across Kenya

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Tiptons Analytics compared to world-class school management systems
Global standards, Kenyan roots

Comparable to the World's Best School Management System

Tiptons Analytics, rated as the best school management system in Kenya, has earned a reputation for excellence based on positive feedback from students, teachers, and administrators. It is built to the same standard as leading school management systems used in Europe, North America and Asia — but designed specifically for the realities of Kenyan schools, curricula and payment methods.

Finance

School fees collection in Kenya, explained

How Tiptons Analytics handles the realities of collecting fees from Kenyan parents — multiple payment channels, partial payments, reconciliation, receipts, and reporting.

Payment channels Kenyan schools actually use

Most Kenyan schools collect fees through some combination of M-Pesa, bank transfer, banker's cheque, and cash at the school office. Tiptons Analytics supports all of them — each payment is attributed to the right learner and the right fee category (tuition, boarding, transport, lunch, uniform, activity) without manual reconciliation against a bank statement.

Payment channels used by Kenyan schools
M-Pesa Paybill, Till and STK Push integration

M-Pesa Paybill, Till, and STK Push

The fastest channel is M-Pesa. Schools can use their existing Safaricom Paybill or Buy Goods (Till) number, or generate STK Push prompts directly from the parent portal so the parent gets the M-Pesa popup on their phone instead of typing the school's business number manually.

Tiptons Analytics connects to the Safaricom Daraja API (v3.0) and listens for payment confirmations in real time. When a parent pays, the C2B callback hits Tiptons Analytics, the learner's account is identified by the account-reference field (typically the admission number), and the balance is updated within seconds. Parent receives an SMS receipt; the accountant sees the transaction in the dashboard.

Bank deposits, cash, and partial payments

Bank payments are entered by the accountant (with the bank slip reference) and matched to the learner. Cash payments at the school office go through the same module — the system generates an official receipt with the school stamp, signed-off by the accountant. Partial payments are tracked automatically; the learner's outstanding balance carries forward to the next term without manual journal entries.

Bank deposits, cash payments and partial payments
Reconciliation, reports and audit trail

Reconciliation, reports, and audit trail

At any point, the accountant can generate a daily collections report, a per-class outstanding-balance report, or a per-fee-category aging report (30/60/90 days overdue). Every payment has an immutable audit trail showing who entered it, when, from which channel, and against which fee item — useful for both internal control and external audits.

Fee reminders by SMS

Bulk fee reminders go out via SMS to parents of learners with outstanding balances — segmented by class, by amount overdue, or one-by-one. Schools can schedule reminders to fire on a specific day of the term (e.g. two weeks before mid-term break) or trigger them manually. The reminder includes the learner's name, outstanding amount, Paybill / Till number, and account reference.

Bulk fee reminders by SMS to parents
Tiptons Analytics

The smarter way to manage your school

Tiptons Analytics is an all-in-one school management system designed to help schools manage their daily tasks with ease. From student records, attendance, academics and fees to communication and reporting, everything your school needs is brought together in one simple platform.

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Why Tiptons Analytics

The best school management software in Kenya

Tiptons Analytics is an all-in-one online school management platform designed to streamline administration, improve learning outcomes and simplify fee payments — while keeping every stakeholder in the loop.

Academics

Manage classes, timetables, exams, grading and report cards for every level.

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Finance & Fees

Collect fees via M-Pesa, generate statements and reconcile payments automatically.

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Biometric Attendance

Track student and staff attendance automatically with biometric check-in.

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Payroll & Parent SMS

Run staff payroll and keep parents informed with instant SMS alerts.

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Tiptons Analytics

Simplify the way your school operates

Tiptons Analytics brings your school's essential operations together in one powerful platform. Manage students, academics, attendance, fees, communication and reports with less paperwork and greater efficiency.

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Take your school's management to the next level with a simple, reliable and modern solution.

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Kenyan school administrators using Tiptons Analytics
Built Since 2012
For Kenyan schools
Built for every level, every curriculum

Multi-campus. Multi-curriculum. One platform.

You can now perform administrative tasks and manage your primary or junior school, high school or college seamlessly with the best school management system in Kenya.

  • Multi-campus, any education level — works for primary school, high school and college.
  • Multi-curriculum support — CBC (Competency Based Curriculum), 8-4-4, ACE and IGCSE.
  • Full transparency for administrators, teachers and parents alike.
More About Us
150+
Schools across Kenya
2012
Serving schools since
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Curricula supported
3
Levels: Primary, Secondary & TVET
Getting started

Up and running in four simple steps

A guided rollout so your staff, teachers and parents are ready from day one.

01

Setup

We configure your school profile, classes, curriculum and fee structures.

02

Migrate

Student, staff and finance records are imported securely from your existing system.

03

Train

Administrators and teachers get hands-on training and a step-by-step user guide.

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Go Live

Start collecting fees, marking attendance and messaging parents from day one.

What schools say

Trusted by head teachers and bursars across Kenya

★★★★★

Tiptons Analytics cut our fee reconciliation time from days to minutes once we switched fee collection to M-Pesa. Parents can finally see their balances instantly.

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School Bursar
Secondary School, Nairobi
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Biometric attendance and parent SMS alerts have made accountability so much easier. Our teachers spend less time on registers and more time teaching.

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Head Teacher
Primary School, Kiambu
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Switching between CBC and 8-4-4 reporting used to be a headache. Tiptons Analytics handles both curricula in one system without extra work for staff.

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School Principal
TVET College, Mombasa

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