Dusty_Jacket

Yeah, I haven’t had too many dealing with ParentPay, but the bits I have, I can’t say I feel it seems like it’s moved on much from the Capita days, it seems a big clunky siloed organisation. I can’t wait to get rid of it.

This is a very timely thread. I’ve seen SIMS nextgen, and I’m not all that impressed, less impressed with the pricing and uplift to cloud. Has Arbor’s savings made the change worthwhile?

in our school, nobody has responsibility for the website hence it's out dated, looks horrible and structurally is a dreadful mess and unmanageable. so, i put my services forward i can do a lovely site using a cms and staff can edit their bits if needed, with me providing the training. now, as it's not in my job description it will be paid separately... the figure banded about was £1500 anually. my gut feeling was that this is a bit of an insult, after tax and ni that's like £95 per month... just not worth the hassle in my eyes. are there any other schools in a similar position and what (if anything) do you get paid for web development? do you think £1500 is too low?

some norfolk schools are also using LPPlus. it's based on sharepoint. it's.....ok, but it's basically a business tool with bits bolted on for education, i think the concept of 'web parts' are difficult for non-tech people to grasp, i think the kids will be fine, but i can see huge parts of it becoming a wilderness.