From a teacher’s phone to messages with receipts
Representative scenario — illustrativeA 1,100-student school runs parent communication from personal WhatsApp groups a few teachers happen to admin, plus the odd bulk SMS bought from a reseller when exam dates change.
When a parent insists “nobody told us about the PTM”, there is no proof either way — the group message scrolled past, or that number was never in the group. Fee reminders go to a copy-pasted list that is always a session out of date, so new admissions are missed and left students are still pinged. And the SMS sender-ID keeps getting rejected because nobody registered the templates.
Their previous ERP bolted on an “SMS” button that fired at everyone in the database with no audience filter and no delivery report. It ignored India’s DLT template rules, so half the sends silently failed and the school had no idea which parents actually got the message. Six months in, staff quietly went back to their own phones — at least there they could see the two ticks.
ez.school runs SMS, email and WhatsApp as governed campaigns. Audiences are drawn live from the records — a section, a bus route, a fee-due list — so nobody is missed or misaddressed, messages send only from registered DLT-compliant templates, and every send logs its delivery status per recipient. Automated flows like absentee alerts fire without anyone remembering, and the audit answers every “who sent this?”
| By hand | Ordinary ERP | ez.school | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who gets it | Whoever’s in the group | Everyone in the database | Live audience — section, route, due-list |
| Proof of delivery | Two grey ticks, maybe | Fired and forgotten | Per-recipient delivery status |
| Compliance | Rejected sender-IDs | DLT rules ignored | Registered, policy-checked templates |
| Who may send | Any teacher’s phone | One shared blast button | Permissioned, fully audited |
- Per parentDelivery logged
- DLT-readyTemplate compliance
- AutoAbsentee alerts fire
- Sent
- Delivered−3%
- Opened−24%
- Read−9%
- Actioned−62%
WhatsApp is read 3× more than SMS — moving fee reminders there lifted replies 22%.
Delivered-versus-read by channel — the school can finally show a doubting parent exactly when the message reached them.