One student record. Every department. No per-student fees.

Unity is an all-in-one education ERP for schools, colleges and multi-campus university groups — admissions, online fee collection, academics, HR, payroll and compliance on a single unified record. Whether you run one school of three hundred or a university across four campuses, every teacher, accountant and admissions desk writes to the same record. Nothing to reconcile. No charge for enrolling more children.

10

Live Institutions

10K+

Students Managed

UDISE+, NEP & CBSE

Compliance built into daily operation

All operations on a single institutional dashboard

Designed, built and maintained by Hybrowlabs — an official Frappe partner delivering ERPNext since 2016.
Track 1,842 total student enrollments, monitor 94.2% daily attendance, check ₹2.4Cr term fees collected, and observe live fee collection trends from one unified screen.

Institutional Dashboard
Institutional Dashboard Overview

Unity institutional dashboard — every metric writes back to one student record (illustrative UI).

The problem — your school runs on software that piled up, not software you chose

Disconnected systems create critical data seams

  • Most institutions don’t run on one system. They run on a stack that accumulated: a fee portal bought in a hurry three years ago, a learning platform added during the pandemic and never fully adopted, Tally because the accountant knows Tally, and attendance in a spreadsheet because nothing else fit.
  • Every one of those tools is a seam. And every seam is where a student’s data quietly goes wrong — entered twice, reconciled by hand, or lost between two systems that were never meant to talk. In an institution, incomplete data is worse than no system at all, because it looks authoritative and isn’t.
  • Unity replaces the pile with one platform. Admissions to alumni, fee collection to financial reporting — one record the whole staff can actually use.
Core Thesis
Core Thesis: The Pile vs One Record

A student is entered once and exists once. Unity replaces the pile with one platform.

Why an education ERP behaves differently — and why most fail

We’d been implementing ERPNext since 2016 across manufacturing, healthcare and trading, and education kept behaving differently. In a factory, the ERP lives with a defined set of users — planners, stores, accounts. A school has no such boundary. The people generating the data are teachers between two classes, admissions staff answering a parent on WhatsApp, and an accountant during the one week a term when most fees arrive. If any one of those groups can’t use the system, the record is incomplete.

That single insight shaped everything. We didn’t build a fee module and wire it to an LMS. We built one record, and let every part of the institution write to it.

The Unity difference — four decisions that make it work

One data model, not five integrations

Admissions, academics, fees, HR, payroll and accounting sit on one database from day one. A student is entered once and exists once. There’s nothing to reconcile because we didn’t leave separate systems to reconcile.

An interface that reaches the gate

Unity is a progressive web app, not a desktop console with a mobile afterthought. A teacher marks attendance on a phone; a parent checks fees on any device. No app store, no installation. This was the difference between adoption and abandonment.

No per-student charges

Most school management software is priced per student — it charges you more for doing the one thing your institution exists to do. Unity is priced as your own ERP. Enrolling more children never becomes a billing event.

No vendor lock-in

Unity is built on ERPNext and the Frappe framework, both open source. The system is yours and the data is yours. If you ever want to move it elsewhere, you can. We’d rather earn the renewal.

What’s inside Unity — every operation on one dashboard

Track total enrollment, daily attendance, real-time fee collection and student performance trends from one unified screen. Below is exactly what comes from the open-source foundation and what our engineers built on top of it.

Unity Module Matrix
No.ModuleWhat it doesBuilt
01Student information system & academicsAdmission to alumni on one digital record — admission workflows, attendance, examinations, curriculum and timetable planning, and performance analytics.Frappe EducationConfigured and extended by Hybrowlabs
02Automated online fee collection & managementOnline fee collection across multiple payment gateways, fee structures by programme and term, instant receipts, defaulter tracking, and reconciliation straight into the ledger.Built by HybrowlabsGateway integration and fee automation on ERPNext accounting
03Learning management (LMS)Online classes, digital assignments, assessments and per-student progress tracking.Frappe LearningImplemented by Hybrowlabs
04HR & payroll for teaching and non-teaching staffThe complete employee lifecycle — onboarding, attendance, leave and payroll — for the whole institution.Frappe HRConfigured for institutional staffing by Hybrowlabs
05Finance & accountingGeneral ledger, receivables and payables, automated bank reconciliation, and institutional financial reporting.ERPNextWith chart of accounts and reporting built by Hybrowlabs
06WhatsApp-integrated admissions CRMEnquiries caught where parents actually are and carried into the admission workflow — no handover between tools, no lead lost in an inbox.Built by HybrowlabsWhatsApp integration layer on Frappe CRM
07Progressive web appWorks on any phone or device with no installation. The decision that made staff adoption possible.Built by Hybrowlabs
08Timetabling & schedulingElectives, teacher loads and room utilisation — including faculty shared across campuses.Built by HybrowlabsScheduling logic for multi-campus institutions
09Multi-campus architectureCentralised control, cross-campus analytics and resource sharing for institutional groups.Built by HybrowlabsMulti-tenant structure on the Frappe framework
10Compliance workflowsNEP guidelines, UDISE+ reporting and CBSE norms built into daily operation rather than bolted on in March.Built by HybrowlabsMaintained as the rules change
The foundation is open source. What we built on top is what makes it an education ERP, not a business ERP with a student table.

Who Unity is built for

What happens to this software in three years? - Every institution that has been burnt by school software asks this, and it is the right question. Unity is not a side project and it is not a reseller badge. We designed it, we built it, we continue to build it, and we support the institutions running on it.

K-12 schools

Admissions to alumni, online fee collection, timetables, attendance, HR and payroll — connected. Unity replaces the fee portal, the learning platform, Tally and the spreadsheets with one system the whole staff can use, from the front gate to the accounts desk. (K-12 school ERP software India · CBSE school management software · online fee collection.)

Colleges, universities & multi-campus groups

CGPA, promotions, academic compliance and cross-campus control on one platform. Built for multiple curricula, faculty shared across locations, and centralised reporting for institutional groups. (Multi-campus university management system · CGPA & promotions · centralised reporting.)

Proof from the Ground

Unity stands on ERPNext and the Frappe framework, both open source. The table below says plainly what came from that foundation and what our engineers built on top of it. A student is entered once and exists once. There is no reconciliation between systems, because we did not leave separate systems to reconcile.

“Unbelievably smooth journey. From watchmen to management, everyone uses Frappe.”

Nikhil Karkare

Co-founder, Unity

Questions institutions ask

Find answers to common questions about Unity.

No. Unity is your own ERP with no per-student charges — the single biggest cost difference from typical school management software.

A product. What you buy is a ready education ERP, plus the implementation and long-term support of the team that wrote it.

The foundation is ERPNext and the Frappe framework — open source, used by thousands of organisations worldwide. Everything that makes it an education ERP rather than a business ERP with a student table was built by us.

Yes. School operations and university academics — including CGPA, promotions and compliance — run on the same platform.

Yes. We’ve done it repeatedly, in education and other sectors, without interrupting an academic session.

Yes. Compliance is built into daily workflows rather than treated as an annual export, so the data is correct where it’s created.

Yes. Unity is a progressive web app — teachers, parents and staff use it on any phone or device, with no app to install.

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Bring admissions, academics, fee management, HR, payroll, and accounting onto a single record with zero per-student charges.