Budget Conscious

Improved communication is always a good idea. In these times of ever-tightening budgets, it's essential to get the best return from your communications investment. In general, that means finding ways to save money or generate or reallocate funds.

SchoolMessenger offers several unique advantages for budget-conscious districts.

Our cost reduction options enable non-time-sensitive calls to be made via existing telecom infrastructure. Most of those options allow emergency calls to use the full speed and power of our CommSuite hosted solution.
Deeper integration with SIS, POS, HR data sources means better automation and more staff time savings.
Attendance calls can reduce absenteeism, and increase attendance-based payments.
Displacing district-wide mailings can drastically reduce paper, copying, and mailing costs.
Fully automated food service balance reminder calls can dramatically reduce or eliminate negative balances

With the right set of features and functionality, and guidance on sending well-crafted targeted messages, SchoolMessenger not only saves money, but can also find revenue or hidden cost savings. To the districts involved, this is not just a theoretical benefit, but results that made a difference.

"In one sense, you get what you pay for. So if cost is your only objective, well, okay, but the SchoolMessenger system is flawless. I mean we have had no problems with it. The set up was easy. It just runs. People can run autodialer systems out of their garage. But how reliable is it and how easy is it to use. We've rolled this out to our principals, and they just use it, so it's got to be easy."

Derry Lyons
Director, Information Technology Services
South Kitsap School District, WA