brightwheel vs. Slate for Admissions

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
brightwheel
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Brightwheel is a platform for early education that combines SaaS, Payments, and a consumer-like daily experience, from the company of the same name headquartered in San Francisco. With brightwheel, teachers have tools for assessment, communication, and photo sharing; administrators can manage their business with enrollment, reporting, and online bill pay; parents get a real-time view of their child’s day that helps them participate in the learning + continue it at home.N/A
Slate for Admissions
Score 8.5 out of 10
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Slate is a platform for admissions and enrollment management, student success, and alumni/advancement, from Technolutions in New Haven. Designed and developed exclusively for higher education, Slate by Technolutions supports the student and donor lifecycle, and provides a unified interface to CRM, outreach and communications, travel management, online applications, online reading, student success and retention, and alumni and donor engagement.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
brightwheelSlate for Admissions
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Submittable
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
PowerSchool SIS
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Score 7.2 out of 10
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Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 7.2 out of 10

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User Ratings
brightwheelSlate for Admissions
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
9.9
(9 ratings)
Usability
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7.2
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
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9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
brightwheelSlate for Admissions
Likelihood to Recommend
brightwheel
Any preschool can benefit from brightwheel, no matter the size. Brightwheel is also excellent for billing, which is especially helpful for schools that do not have other databases and billing systems. Because our school is a PS-12, it is a little cumbersome to have brightwheel along with another management system that we use school-wide. It would be nice to have a separate price point that does not include the things that another database system does for schools that are required to use what the older grades also use.
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Technolutions
I would recommend Slate, by Technolutions for any higher education institution, big or small. Though there is a higher cost associated with Slate than most other options, it's well worth the price. The level of detail that you're able to gather, maintain, and query on within your student data is far beyond anything I've experienced with other systems. These insights help you pinpoint areas for action and improvement so that you can pivot when necessary, helping you reach your enrollment goals quicker and more efficiently.
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Pros
brightwheel
  • Recording data for students.
  • Connecting to parents with photos, videos, and messages.
  • Signing in and out electronically and saving paper daily.
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Technolutions
  • Managing contacts.
  • Smart communications (drip email campaigns).
  • Real-time data management.
  • End-to-end control of product (or instance of).
  • Allows for easy to implement segmentation via smart rules and queries (data sets).
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Cons
brightwheel
  • Offering a price point that does not include billing.
  • Allowing more freedom of uploading own documents.
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Technolutions
  • Being able to have students register at an event without needing a wifi network
  • Easier way to update records for individuals who move to a different organization
  • Being able to start an application first without needing to immediately set up a user name and password.
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Usability
brightwheel
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Technolutions
It's incredibly usable and easy to figure out. It's modern and does exactly what we need for it to do
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Support Rating
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Technolutions
While I do wish they had actual representatives that we able to come to you for trainings for implementation and new users, I understand that a big draw is the money that is saved by instead investing in knowledgebase, which is it's online tutorials for different functions of Slate.
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Alternatives Considered
brightwheel
Brightwheel does much more for the preschool level than FACTS does. The creators of this app know early childhood. The company also provides helpful webinars that are unrelated to their software, such as staff retention or ways to market. They understand the business of early childhood and exist to make the lives of providers easier.
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Technolutions
We had been on Recruitment Plus- it has been sunsetted, so we were forced to move. I also looked at Fire Engine Red. Slate seemed far and away the most robust CRM/Admissions solution.
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Return on Investment
brightwheel
  • Value add for parents
  • Saves paper
  • Benefits for teachers who fully utilize
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Technolutions
  • We aren't really a business, per se, but a nonprofit university. However, Slate[, by Technolutions] does allow us to easily sort applications into categories for different departments to review. And it provides a clear trail of who is looking at various documents when--and how long it takes to process them.
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