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[aretelearningtrust]

Hi

 

I'm just reaching out to see if any other schools/Trusts are using Every?

 

Our Trust has recently gone "all in" and would like to use Every for HR and Estates. We're hoping to store policies, the Trust's single central record, track compliance, do performance management, and make full use of the product.

 

Unfortunately, syncing is not as slick as we might have hoped. It can use Wonde, but seems limited to creating one time new staff records, that (other than attendance) never sync back and forth between Every and Bromcom. We've had to explain to our HR team that they will need to change staff names in Bromcom and Every if someone gets married. They've also been directed by Every Support to set up "dummy" staff in Bromcom, to keep our cover team happy, and to let schools complete the school census. Yet the system only syncs staff from Bromcom once an hour, so there's a lot of waiting around for new Bromcom staff to appear before other details can be entered! Best not to think about staff leavers or the need to set up permissions for all users manually, as there doesn't seem to be an option to set defaults and no one is ever removed but by hand!

 

Is anyone using Every in anger on a large scale, and do you have any suggestions about how to best work around the tools clunkiness? I can see the appeal of Every, but it seems as though for all the time the system promises to save, it comes at a cost. If anyone would be willing to share their hints and ideas, our HR Manager would love to be able to make contact with others who are making better use of the system.

 

Thanks,

 

James

[Dos_Box]

I'm going to move this to the MIS forum as it is more school management than educational software.
@aretelearningtrust I hope you get the answers you're looking for.

[BromcomOT]

On 16/04/2025 at 15:06, aretelearningtrust said:

Hi

 

I'm just reaching out to see if any other schools/Trusts are using Every?

 

Our Trust has recently gone "all in" and would like to use Every for HR and Estates. We're hoping to store policies, the Trust's single central record, track compliance, do performance management, and make full use of the product.

 

Unfortunately, syncing is not as slick as we might have hoped. It can use Wonde, but seems limited to creating one time new staff records, that (other than attendance) never sync back and forth between Every and Bromcom. We've had to explain to our HR team that they will need to change staff names in Bromcom and Every if someone gets married. They've also been directed by Every Support to set up "dummy" staff in Bromcom, to keep our cover team happy, and to let schools complete the school census. Yet the system only syncs staff from Bromcom once an hour, so there's a lot of waiting around for new Bromcom staff to appear before other details can be entered! Best not to think about staff leavers or the need to set up permissions for all users manually, as there doesn't seem to be an option to set defaults and no one is ever removed but by hand!

 

Is anyone using Every in anger on a large scale, and do you have any suggestions about how to best work around the tools clunkiness? I can see the appeal of Every, but it seems as though for all the time the system promises to save, it comes at a cost. If anyone would be willing to share their hints and ideas, our HR Manager would love to be able to make contact with others who are making better use of the system.

 

Thanks,

 

James

Hi James, sorry to hear you're having these issues. Sounds like you have everything set up on the Bromcom side of things but if there is anything you want to double check in Bromcom just let me know and I can put you in touch with someone in the team who can help look at this. Thanks

[TheHyperTechie]

Just merged with a MAT that uses/wants to use Every for everything, assets, tickets, HR, training. I have been using it over the last couple of months... the headaches!

 

I must admit, I haven't used any similar software before so therefore, can't compare it to anything else - I don't overly like using it though, not a fan of the UI and it can be an extreme mission to navigate to particular area and remember for the next time. Normally I would just reach out to support so they could tell me.

 

We don't currently have it syncing with anything, but we are moving our schools to Bromcom - so this will probably be a project for the near future.

[sefton]

I've inherited this for a MAT and one of the purposes is to do IT asset management, but all that is recorded is one school from a few years ago. The only method I can see for importing assets is through a spreadsheet. Is anybody using this to manage their assets and how are they adding them to Every?

[TheHyperTechie]

On 20/09/2025 at 08:46, sefton said:

I've inherited this for a MAT and one of the purposes is to do IT asset management, but all that is recorded is one school from a few years ago. The only method I can see for importing assets is through a spreadsheet. Is anybody using this to manage their assets and how are they adding them to Every?

Unfortunately, the only way I have found is via manual CSV upload. Luckily, we had a previous system in place so I was able to just download from there, then upload to Every.