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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Blackbaud Tuition Management

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ABlackbaud Tuition Management (formerly Smart Tuition) is a tuition management application providing student parents with online account access, online payment processing, a mobile app, and other features.N/A

    SchoolAdmin

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASchoolAdmin helps private K-12 schools recruit, enroll, and retain more students through its software and award-winning customer support team. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, SchoolAdmin boasts their software is used by 500+ of the world’s most successful schools, big and small. SchoolAdmin’s mission is to help private schools—and the people who run them—thrive. SchoolAdmin is now part of Finalsite, since the March, 2021 acquisition.N/A
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Blackbaud Tuition ManagementSchoolAdmin
    Considered Both Products
    Blackbaud
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    Finalsite
    Chose SchoolAdmin
    SchoolAdmin is focused on the school and admissions users. Blackbaud products were born for finance and fund raising. As a result, their admissions and school products are step children and not capable of the on-the-fly customization and adaptations that admissions people …
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Blackbaud Tuition ManagementSchoolAdmin
    Student and Faculty Administration
    Comparison of Student and Faculty Administration features of Blackbaud Tuition Management and SchoolAdmin
    Feature
    Blackbaud Tuition Management
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    18% above category average
    SchoolAdmin
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    Ratings
    Online Registration Management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    District Communications, such as messaging and alerting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Student Data Security10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    State and National-level Reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Blackbaud Tuition ManagementSchoolAdmin
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Blackbaud Tuition ManagementSchoolAdmin
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Blackbaud
    The way Blackbaud Tuition Management handles the charges and how accessible it is makes my job much easier. I love that parents can see the same view of their account as I have when entering/reviewing an account so that it doesn't sound foreign when I try to explain something to them.
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    Finalsite
    SchoolAdmin has been great to work with and the advantages of the product definitely outweigh the disadvantages. With the frequent turnover in admissions offices, it is nice to have a product that is simple to use, easy to train on, and easy to learn quickly. Also, customer support has been great, and we really put them through their paces and they never complain. They also use their support team to help train you - not just give you a fish, but teach you to fish so you can problem solve on your own.
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    Pros
    Blackbaud
    • Website is easy to navigate
    • Customer service is very professional and helpful
    • Multiple options for making payments and setting up accounts
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    Finalsite
    • The online application and checklist - because it is highly customizable, fairly intuitive, and quite effective for managing all the moving parts of our application process.
    • The online enrollment checklist, forms, and contract - because of the level of customization, the level of professional appearance, the ease of tracking and managing students in the enrollment process, the integration it provides to our FACTS billing and payment system.
    • The communications system - because of the possibilities for both internal and external communications are so vast, the ability to produce highly customized, personalized, and segmented emails, text messages, and/or physical letters, and the relative ease of use.
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    Cons
    Blackbaud
    • Divorced parent log in access
    • Split family contract processes
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    Finalsite
    • Not as flexible as we sometimes need the features to be.
    • Data and historical information is not terribly accurate, which means we cannot use it for reporting.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Blackbaud
    I use FACTS in my role at work, and my children's school uses Smart Tuition. I am more familiar with Smart Tuition as a parent, but it seems to be a good solution for the high school. Since we do the financial aid in-house at my school of employment, FACTS works better for us.
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    Finalsite
    Blackbaud's enrollment management product, OnBoard, was extremely clunky and did not support an online review process. The CRM was also not great. The only benefit of it was that it was a seamless experience, as Blackbaud is our academic software. The import/export from SchoolAdmin into/from Blackbaud has been no problem.
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    Return on Investment
    Blackbaud
    • Online access is key
    • Multiple payment options are great
    • Since there are so many payment options we receive funds faster
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    Finalsite
    • Customer satisfaction with our CRM is up.
    • Completion of applications is up.
    • Office use and satisfaction with the product internally is way up!
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