Your school website could be saving you thousands every year, here's how!

Don't think of your school website as just a brochure. It can be used to reduce costs and increase income too.

Student holidays and trips take a lot of admin time, paperwork and money to organize. So why not build into your school website an ecommerce system and the functionality to promote and take payments for student holidays and trips? This will give you the ability to add trips and holidays to the school calendar, create a specific trip / holiday page, allow parents to download the required paperwork as PDF documents (to print themselves) and take payment for a trip / holiday online.

By capturing student details, managing spaces available and taking payment, parents will be able to pay for everything online through your ecommerce system. Not only will this save you many hours in admin, this great functionality will bring your school website in the 21st Century and make it a market leader.

It doesn't end there. You could inform the parents and students of the trips and holidays using your school website homepage, school email, or school e-newsletters. All of these could link directly to the correct website holiday page which you have created. With all that functionality on your website, imagine the work you have just saved yourself.

All you will need to do is add a trip to your school website once, and your website will take care of informing parents of trip availability and how to make payments. Everything will then be presented to you in tidy printable reports for your school records.

Perfect.

Written by: Jez Sherwin – Head of creative at Assertis   |   Jon Richardson – Web designer