We build admission-cycle-ready websites for Indian schools — pre-primary to senior secondary, CBSE / ICSE / IB / state board, single-campus or multi-branch. Enquiry to fee payment to parent communication, end-to-end. Live in 3-7 weeks for ₹45K-3.5L.
Most school websites still look like a 2010 brochure with a downloadable enquiry form, while parents do all their research on a phone in 4 minutes. Big Helpers builds admission-funnel-ready school websites — online enquiry to interview slot to fee payment, plus a parent communication layer and ERP integration — for ₹45,000 to ₹3.5 lakh, live in 3-7 weeks. NEP 2020-aware structure included.
Parents enquire on three channels. The reception register, the principal's inbox, and the head of admissions' WhatsApp all hold partial lists. Half the leads never get a structured follow-up.
Parents won't download a 12-page PDF on a phone with patchy data. They want the four things they came for — fees, board, location, admission process — in 30 seconds.
Parents transfer fees, send a screenshot to a school WhatsApp number, accountant manually reconciles. Errors, delays, and zero parent-side acknowledgement.
Important circulars go on the noticeboard. Photos of the noticeboard go on a parent WhatsApp group. The official copy is somewhere in a Drive link nobody can find.
You bought Edumarshal / Fedena / Schoolmate three years ago. Admissions captured on paper get re-keyed by reception. Same data, three places.
The site still says "primary / middle / secondary" while you've moved to the 5+3+3+4 stages and added foundational and preparatory blocks. Inspectors and informed parents both notice.
You run a single campus with 800-3,000 students and want one cleanly run admission cycle and parent channel.
You have 3-15 centres in a city or region. Each centre needs its own enquiry routing while the brand stays unified.
You handle expat parents, multi-currency fees, and a year-round rolling admission cycle. The site needs to work for both Indian families and international families.
You handle high-stakes long-distance enquiries with virtual visits, alumni networks, and structured residential information.
You run 3-12 campuses across a state or country under one brand. Each campus has its own page, its own admission lead, and its own fees — but a single brand site overall.
You're not a CBSE/ICSE school but you sell to school-going kids and parents. The flow is similar enough that this build fits.
Tell us your school size, board, campus count, and current ERP. We'll come back with a one-page sketch of what an admission-funnel-ready site looks like for you, and what it would cost. No sales pressure.
Hero answers the four parent questions immediately: board, age groups, location, and "start enquiry". Below that, the school's actual story — not the principal's message buried in a sidebar.
Routed to the right admission counsellor by class and campus. Auto-acknowledgement with next steps. Lands in a structured admissions inbox, not a generic info@.
Once the enquiry is qualified, the parent picks an interview or campus-visit slot from your real availability. Cuts 8-10 phone calls per admission down to 1-2.
Application fee, term fee, and annual fee all online. UPI, cards, netbanking, EMI. Auto-receipt with school stamp, GST treatment as applicable, and a clean reconciliation export for the accounts team.
Circulars, calendars, holiday lists, exam schedules, transport notices — all in one logged-in parent view. Push to WhatsApp where the parent has opted in. The noticeboard goes digital, with the paper one as backup.
5+3+3+4 stages, foundational stage, preparatory stage, middle stage, secondary stage — described in the language NEP and parents now use. Multilingual where helpful.
Enquiries, applications, and admitted students sync into your existing ERP via API or scheduled CSV. No double data entry. Built once, runs every cycle.
Mobile-first photo galleries, optional 360° tour, structured pages for labs, sports, transport, hostel, library. Tells the story parents actually want to see.
Step-by-step explanation, dates, fees, documents required, age criteria. Reduces the same 12 questions every admissions counsellor answers daily.
Special care for personal data of children — explicit parental consent, restricted retention, documented data-handling. Important for DPDP and just plain right.
We sit with the principal, head of admissions, accounts, and IT/ERP owner. Map the admission cycle, fee structure, ERP, and the actual parent journey today. Pull the four things parents ask within the first minute.
Draft sitemap, draft homepage wireframe, full admissions-flow diagram (enquiry → counsellor → interview → offer → fee → onboarding). The admissions team signs off before any code.
Type, colour, photography. Two homepage variants, one campus page, one admissions page. Principal and admissions head pick a direction.
You see the site every Friday. Real enquiry routing, real Razorpay sandbox, real ERP test sync. Course-correct early. Stack: WordPress + WooCommerce or Next.js, your choice.
Wire up your existing ERP (or recommend one if you don't have one). Wire up Razorpay/PayU with the right fee categories. Test full cycle with 5-10 dummy admissions.
DNS, HTTPS, sitemap, schema. Direct WhatsApp line to a senior engineer for 30 days, plus optional standby for the first admission cycle peak.
Indicative range: ₹45,000 — ₹350,000 (excl. GST). Final estimate after a free 30-min scoping call.
Pvt Ltd since 2008. CIN U72200MP2008PTC021190. We've built admission and parent-portal systems for K-12 and pre-school groups, plus integrations into the major Indian school ERPs.
Hand-over via GitHub from the first commit. No hostage-taking. Any local WordPress or Next.js developer can extend it.
Direct WhatsApp line to a senior engineer for the first 30 days, then to support. No tickets, no queues.
No surprise USD billing. Quote in INR, invoice in INR, GST treatment per education exemption rules where applicable. Real Pvt Ltd, not a freelancer.
Build calendar lines up with your enquiry season. We don't deploy a critical change in the second week of February.
Explicit parental consent, minimised retention, encrypted storage, documented access logs. Built right because the law requires it and because it's right.
Note: illustrative example — not a specific client engagement.
An example use case: a 1,800-student CBSE school in tier-2 Madhya Pradesh had a 2016 WordPress site with a downloadable PDF prospectus, no online enquiry, no online fee payment, and a parent WhatsApp group of 600 mothers that the office staff used to push notices. The school had Edumarshal but the admissions team wasn't using it because re-keying every paper enquiry took longer than the original phone call. Admission enquiries were being missed in the November-January peak.
We rebuilt the site over 6 weeks: admission-funnel-first homepage, online enquiry routed by class and campus to the right counsellor, interview slot booking with the principal's calendar, Razorpay-based application fee + first-term fee with auto-receipt, parent portal with circulars and calendars (with WhatsApp opt-in for delivery), NEP 2020-aligned academic structure, and Edumarshal sync via API for both enquiries and admitted students. NEP 2020 stages reflected in the academic page.
Qualified enquiries through the site rose meaningfully across the next admission cycle versus the previous year. Phone calls per admission dropped because parents arrived at the interview already knowing the fees, documents, and process. Application fees were 100% reconciled automatically. The principal's inbox stopped being the de-facto admissions CRM.
Yes. We integrate with the major Indian school ERPs via their APIs, or via scheduled CSV exchange where the API is limited. Enquiries from the website land as enquiry records in the ERP. Admitted students sync. The exact integration scope is locked in discovery so there are no surprises.
Yes — Razorpay or PayU handles UPI, cards, netbanking, and EMI. Education services are largely exempt from GST, but ancillary fees (like meal plans or non-academic services) may attract GST and we handle those separately on the invoice. Receipts go to the parent automatically and to your accounts team in a clean export.
The structural change is real: 5+3+3+4 with foundational, preparatory, middle, and secondary stages. We update the academic-structure page and the age-group enquiry routing accordingly. Parents searching with the new vocabulary find you; inspectors looking at your public face see a school that's keeping up.
Verifiable parental consent before collecting any personal data of a child, minimised data retention (we don't keep enquiry data forever — defaults to 24 months unless admitted), encrypted storage, role-based access in the admissions inbox, and a documented data-handling notice. We also help you draft the parent-facing privacy notice.
One unified site works much better. The brand stays consistent, parents searching for your school find one place, SEO compounds. Each campus has its own page (location, principal, fees, tour) and its own admission counsellor routing. Backed by a single CMS and a single inbox.
Ideally 8-10 weeks before peak enquiry season (so for a Nov-Jan peak, kick off in August). 6-7 weeks is doable. Below 4 weeks before the peak, we'd recommend a phased launch — the admission funnel first, then everything else after the cycle. We don't deploy a major change mid-peak.
Not directly, but we manage local photographers we trust in most major Indian cities. Or you can use your existing assets — we'll review them honestly and tell you what's strong enough and what needs replacement. The photography matters more on a school site than almost anywhere else.
No — pricing on this page is excluding GST. As a Pvt Ltd we charge 18% GST on the invoice (the GST exemption applies to education services delivered, not to website development). The full breakdown comes with the proposal.
Talk to a senior engineer in 24 hours — no juniors, no sales reps, no jargon. Just a clear scope, an honest estimate, and a build plan.