The product, in detail
Four flows. One thoughtful platform.
MySentinel splits the day into the four people involved — officer at the gate, admin in the office, guardian on their phone, operator behind the scenes — and designs each screen for how that person actually works.
At the gate
One tap, and the gate is handled
Tap a badge to check a learner in or out — MySentinel works out which it is, with a one-tap correction when you need it. This is the screen the officer uses hundreds of times a morning, so it is calm, big-buttoned, and keeps working when the signal does not.
- Buttons sized to be hit reliably with a thumb, first time, on any phone.
- If the signal drops, scans keep working and send themselves the moment it returns.
- Per-school branding so officers see their own school identity.
- Three South African languages — English, Afrikaans, isiZulu.
In the office
The whole school day on one screen
Everything the office needs in one place, built for the realities of South African school administration — small teams, high stakes, and very little time.
- Check-in/out history with filtering by class, guardian, or date range.
- Import your whole roll from a spreadsheet, checked for problems before anything is saved.
- Incident notes, and proof of which guardians were reached, kept with the record.
- Exception workflows for pickup requests and guardian changes that need a second pair of eyes before they're approved.
For families
Parents hear it from the school first
Notifications go out on the events that matter — a check-in, a check-out, an emergency. Web push, branded email and WhatsApp all carry them, and WhatsApp sends from MySentinel's own business account, so there is no Meta account for the school to open and no message bill to pay. SMS stays optional, arranged per school for the rare case where nothing else reached a family. Guardians get school-managed updates in a consistent voice and language.
- Each guardian chooses how they hear about each child — app alert, email, WhatsApp, and SMS where a school adds it.
- Branded, per-school templates respect the school's tone of voice.
- Proof of delivery, so the office can show a guardian really was reached.
Behind the scenes
Someone is watching, so you do not have to
Behind every school is a support team. MySentinel gives them their own screens — how every school is doing, a full record of who did what, and anything that needs attention — so a problem can be found and fixed without anyone going near your school's data.
- A live view of how every school is running.
- A searchable record of every action, filtered by who took it.
- Any check-in that failed to send is listed on its own, with one-tap retry — nothing is silently lost.
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