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Veracross

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What is Veracross?

Veracross is a student information system and has several modules, including Admission, Academics, Development, etc. all sharing a single database.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Veracross has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Integrations with 3rd-Party Education Technology

    The student management system can send and receive data from other educational systems with little to no manual steps required.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Online Registration Management

    The system supports administrative setup and management of registration processes, and allows students to register for classes online.

    Category average: 8.9

  • Roster Management

    Faculty and administrators can view, edit, and update their class rosters effectively.

    Category average: 8.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Compliance Support

    The effectiveness of resources, tools, and in-platform processes for maintaining and demonstrating regulatory compliance.

    Category average: 8.9

  • Teacher and Parent Mobile Application

    Teachers and parents can use a mobile application to access their students' data and update some information remotely.

    Category average: 8.3

  • District Communications, such as messaging and alerting

    The platform supports communications district-wide and/or with between specific individuals. Examples include alerts, announcements, and direct messaging between faculty and parents.

    Category average: 8.4

Reviews

What users are saying about Veracross.
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Staff intake is a simple task for Veracross.

Sasha Dawson WeingartView profile
Human Resources Business Partner in Human Resources at Life Time Inc. (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using Veracross for three reasons, the first is our need to organize weekly distance training with professionals in the area, the second is that we had flaws in the admission processes and Veracross is decisive that all stages of this process , but the other reason to stick with Veracross is the integration with a vast number of third party mail tools like Mailchimp, Google, Microsoft and other great tools.

Pros

  • Good administration of the admission process.
  • Integration with Mailchimp.

Cons

  • Normally it has everything I need for my work, today I was able to make a video call and chat from my cell phone and this adds more positive points to Veracross.

Most Important Features

  • Administration of admissions from the beginning to the end.
  • Robust integrations with third-party tools.

Return on Investment

  • The administration has a risk that thanks to Veracross we managed to minimize possible problems.
  • The ROI is very satisfactory with Veracross, profitability is never a problem.

Other Software Used

Mailchimp

A great school information management system I've seen so far!

Sachi SubaranView profile
Administrative Support Manager in Corporate at Teachables (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work in an educational management company called "Teachables" where we offer students crash courses on lengthy syllabuses. We use local tutors and connect them with students who are in need of the service. While we were in business, a major problem we faced was having a proper information flow between all the tutors, students, parents, and company employees. We were looking at many learning management software as well and when we were at it we luckily came across Veracross, which happened to be a fully integrated school information system that connected all the students, tutors, parents, and the company administrative staff.

Pros

  • Attendance management.
  • Billing & invoicing.
  • Communication management.

Cons

  • Website integration to the software can be done.
  • A main dashboard can be implemented.
  • Social media integration can be done.

Most Important Features

  • Attendance management.
  • Billing & invoicing
  • Attendance tracking.

Return on Investment

  • Increased employee productivity.
  • Increased time saving.
  • Increased cost reduction.

Alternatives Considered

Edmodo

Other Software Used

Webex Meetings, Class for Zoom, AITalent LMS

Veracross

Incentivized
Melissa Ritchie
Director of Institutional Advancement at Brooklyn Heights Montessori School (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Student and family data is easy to keep up to date. And there is so much data that you can keep track of. It is so helpful to have all data in one place so we don’t have a human error in transfers g to another system.
  • Recording donations is very easy and you can attach backup documents very easy which is great during our yearly audit. All records are in the system and can be pulled at anytime.
  • Easy for parents to sign in to view and edit their own information as well as view student reports.

Cons

  • In the development module, it is often hard to pull reports because there are so many ways to do it. I work around that by saving reports I often pull so I don’t have to constantly rebuild reports.
  • The communications module, Composer, needs a major upgrade. It is not very user-friendly and there are not ways to edit or design modern and good-looking emails and newsletters. Not a lot of formatting options.

Most Important Features

  • Family data management
  • Communications
  • Development

Return on Investment

  • Since we put all donor records in it makes the audit process with the business office much easier.

Alternatives Considered

DonorPerfect, Raiser's Edge NXT, Raiser's Edge and Microsoft Excel

Other Software Used

Financial Edge NXT

Single database--multiple systems for independent schools

Anne Benson
Database Administrator/Systems Specialist in Information Technology at Durham Academy (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • We have our own account manager who knows our school and its configuration
  • Parent, student, and faculty portals (as well as news portals) are designed and configured by us--we can control what content goes where
  • Infinitely configurable queries, which meet all of our needs for extracting data

Cons

  • We would like to see more functionality in the learning management system
  • We would like the ability to order the admissions files for our online reviewers

Return on Investment

  • Veracross has streamlined our systems because everything is in one database
  • Eliminated the need for outside systems for smaller tasks (online giving, online admissions, etc.)

Alternatives Considered

Blackbaud Education Management Solutions

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Adobe Acrobat DC, Jamf Pro

Good tool for Classroom trainings

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Finance and Accounting (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Veracross is used for classroom training sessions management. It is a good tool to keep the record of trainers, trainees, sessions of training, etc. It helps organize trainings in a systematic manner and keep a record of everything along with the projects/assignments being delegated to trainees . It helps improve the operational efficiency of the overall trainings and learnings of the new colleagues.

Pros

  • Keeping record of Training sessions
  • Keeping record of trainers and trainees.
  • Managing class room trainings to new joiners

Cons

  • Data import feature and overall reporting

Most Important Features

  • Built-in integration with other systems
  • Ease of keeping tracks to projects/assignments

Return on Investment

  • It help increasing the overall efficiency of the classroom trainings and sessions
  • It made it easy to keep a track the overall progress

Alternatives Considered

SAP Supply Chain Management

Other Software Used

Ramp, Bill.com, Expensify