MySentinel pricing for schools
Simple pricing, per learner.
MySentinel is priced per active learner per month — one rate, the same for every school — and quoted per school. Every school gets the full platform; there is no cut-down tier. Tell us your learner count and we'll send a quote covering the monthly rate and the once-off joining fee, which includes each learner's badge and your first paid month.
Per learner
Quoted per school
Every school pays the same per-learner rate, whatever the size of its roll, and the full feature set is included at every size. Joining once-off covers each learner's badge and your first paid month. We give you the figures directly; there is no public rate card to reverse-engineer.
Billing handled by your operator, not in-app. Your rate is quoted, invoiced, and collected by the platform operator outside the app — there are no prices, invoices, or payment screens anywhere inside MySentinel. Your monthly invoice is based on the highest daily count of active learners in the month, and VAT is not currently charged.
Get a quote for your schoolWhat's included at every school size
- NFC badge scan: check in / check out at the gate
- Real-time admin dashboard + automatic daily attendance
- Guardian notifications — web push, email, and WhatsApp
- WhatsApp alerts on MySentinel's own business account — no Meta account, no message fees, nothing for the school to set up
- Emergency broadcast, lockdown and drill safety mode
- Visitor register with per-school intake fields and one-tap sign-out
- Pickup delegation, sick notes, and early-pickup requests
- Movement audit trails on every action
- POPIA compliance console: SAR, erasure cool-off, retention
- Tokenized parent portal — no guardian login required
Messaging costs
Every message channel is in the price
App push, branded email, WhatsApp and SMS are all included in the per-learner rate. Every routine arrival and departure message costs your school nothing extra, whichever of those a family actually reads — and there is no messaging provider for your school to arrange, on any channel.
WhatsApp runs on MySentinel's own WhatsApp business account. Your school does not open an account with Meta, does not submit message templates for approval, and never sees a message bill — we carry that cost inside the fee. Your admin switches WhatsApp on for the school, and each guardian confirms their number once before we send to it.
SMS is the deliberate last resort — the channel we hold for the rare family that no other channel can carry a message to. It is inside the fee like everything else: no SMS account for the school to open, no per-message bill, and nobody nudged onto a cheaper channel because of what it costs.
A school that runs gate alerts through a WhatsApp Business account of its own carries that bill itself — often tens of thousands of rand a year, on top of the account, the template approvals and the number to look after. Here that sits inside the per-learner rate: one figure, one invoice, and nothing for the school to administer.
Talk numbers
Want a quote for your learner count?
Request a demo and tell us how many active learners you have — we'll send a per-school quote. Your operator handles billing outside the app; we just help you size it.
Prefer to talk?
Ask us anything.
Email us and we'll walk you through how per-learner pricing works and what your school would pay.