So, after we signed-up a large Melbourne school last month, with a population of around ~1500 students, we started chatting about why they selected EnrolHQ. The school was open about the fact that we were in bake-off with several other solutions...and trust me, these guys did they due diligence. The …Read more

Published: 13 Jul 2021

Here's a list of goodies we released recently after my 67 upgrades post which you can read here. I apologise in advance if any of these have been mentioned in my earlier post. I have tried to include only new updates in this one but some of the old dev …Read more

Published: 23 Jun 2021

We welcome the following schools to our community:Monte Sant' Angelo Mercy College, North Sydney, NSWAn independent Catholic school for girls in Years 7-12.St Andrew's Anglican College, Sunshine Coast, QLD. Independent Prep - Year 12 Anglican SchoolJohn Wollaston Anglican Community School, Camillo, WAPre-Kindergarten to Year 12 co-educational Anglican School.John Colet School, …Read more

Published: 22 Jun 2021

We have some good news to share in this post. After years of stagnancy on the API front, we get some movement on the API front by our two very popular Australian school management systems. Christmas in May everyone!Edumate, a popular Australian school management system (mainly NSW), just released a …Read more

Published: 19 May 2021

I don’t normally write these sales posts, as they normally lack soul, but I have to tell you a story and write one today.Eddy and I were sitting in our local the other night and talking about EnrolHQ, where it’s currently, what it’s good at, what could be improved and …Read more

Published: 07 May 2021

Below is a list of some of the notable features and a couple of bug fixes we implemented over the last few months. I hope that most of these will make sense to our users, since as you guys know, our product goes deeeep! :)You'll also get some insights into …Read more

Published: 06 May 2021

Open Days for 2021 are now in full swing and will continue for the next couple of months. They are a great way to showcase your school and require a bit of planning to make the most out of the day. The main question is 'how do you manage your …Read more

Published: 23 Feb 2021

Can you believe it’s nearly the end of Term 4? What a year we’ve all experienced. I’m not sure about you but I’m really looking forward to the Christmas break where we can turn off our screens for a few weeks (well kinda) and spend some time at the beach …Read more

Published: 11 Jan 2021

Allow parents to book a private tour time based on staff availabilityCustomise the Offer of Place fee before you Make an Offer - not everyone pays the standard fee.Allow Parent 2 to digitally sign a form, even if they are living somewhere else at the time - perfect for those …Read more

Published: 01 Aug 2020

G'day all. As promised, I'd post system updates more often because we now have the bandwidth to work on all those little things that make your life easier. Here's a few for the start of this week!Registration (Family Group) Limit at School EventsGiven the fast changing nature of social distancing …Read more

Published: 21 Jul 2020

Before I get into my regular “new feature sales spiel”, let me indulge in a short introduction. A few of EnrolHQ’s larger schools had come to me at the beginning of 2020 and (independently of each other) told me they needed extra forms to complement the enrolment application form itself. …Read more

Published: 16 Jul 2020

Sorry for the radio silence. It’s been heads down all the way through Term 2 at EnrolHQ as I’ve been busy helping the team with lots of new schools going live.Every school who signs up with EnrolHQ gets 6 hours of 1-on-1 Zoom meetings. This is to provide in-depth training …Read more

Published: 30 Jun 2020

It’s been an interesting start to Term 2. I’ve been helping schools set up Live Streaming Tours, Virtual Tours, Zoom 1-1 Interview bookings – anything we can do to keep our clients stay connected with their prospective parents.Some really exciting features have been rolled out in May. If you’ve got …Read more

Published: 15 May 2020

The school holidays are coming to a close and we’re excited to be heading into Term 2.We see a lot of enrolment stats at EnrolHQ and have noticed that enrolments enquiries and expressions of interest are considerably down across all schools. However, you should not worry as everyone's in the …Read more

Published: 24 Apr 2020

Hope all is well and that you had a break over the Easter long weekend (albeit in iso with your kids 24/7 like I was). Lots of Lego, Disney+, iPads and scootering around the block to stay sane...Yesterday I was supporting a few of our schools with generalised advice on …Read more

Published: 15 Apr 2020

Wow, what a crazy Term 1 that was! Hopefully by now you’re in your Easter Break or having a professional development week before Easter to give you some time to re-group. What’s become obvious in recent days is that social distancing is here to stay for at least 3 to …Read more

Published: 06 Apr 2020

No fluff - just features. Here are 41 updates we rolled out over the past month to help our Registrars' all across Australia.Added a Trigger so that when docs are uploaded by parent, we can send a Staff Notification though our Automated emails tool.On Enquiries CRM view, we have made …Read more

Published: 13 Mar 2020

With Parent Information Events coming up in just a few weeks, here's our process and recommendations to maximise your enrolment return.Compile / Export the current list of students in 'Expression of Interest (EOI)' status from your SIS and provide the file to us so we can import the students into …Read more

Published: 29 Jan 2020

Hope you've enjoyed your Summer break! I've always worked on the premise that the 'daily grind' of the year starts around the third week of January. You know, when peak hour traffic starts building up and Term 1 is just around the corner. We totally understand that for many schools, …Read more

Published: 21 Jan 2020

November is a crazy busy time for everyone. Our office is preparing for software deployments over the holiday break. So many things to do, so little time!Specific to EnrolHQ, during the last month, we onboarded a few schools from around Sydney, the South Coast of NSW and even Perth! Go …Read more

Published: 15 Nov 2019

Why do we keep improving EnrolHQ all the time? It's because sometimes, you release a new feature and a School Registrar sees it inside their EnrolHQ staff dashboard and writes you the following email:Hi Eddy,Wow, we have a new print version of the Application for Enrolment which is looking great. …Read more

Published: 25 Oct 2019

What better use of the quiet school holiday period than to pump out another new feature ready for the busy term ahead. We’ve now released an ‘Electronic Signature’ feature that comes standard with EnrolHQ so parents can electronically sign Enrolment Applications and Acceptance of Enrolment Offers! For schools who are …Read more

Published: 11 Oct 2019

School marketing teams always want to know: ‘How did you hear about our school?’. This question receives more scrutiny and fine-tuning by schools than any other field in all of EnrolHQs huge library of form fields. That’s because you want to know if the school bus wraps, the displays in …Read more

Published: 19 Sep 2019

We have schools with all sorts of varied backgrounds as EnrolHQ clients; schools from different faiths, differing socio-economic backgrounds, large and small schools, Primary vs Secondary (or both), the list goes on.As we’ve built the system we’ve learned that each school is peculiar in its own little way and no …Read more

Published: 05 Sep 2019

Woohoo! Better late than never. My regular monthly system update is a couple of days late because we were at the EducatePlus NSW Conference earlier this week. It was our first time as sponsors and we had an absolute blast! We had a great time seeing all of our current …Read more

Published: 04 Sep 2019

It’s been a while coming but our amazing team of developers have used August to release a fully automated follow-up email system on EnrolHQ. This complements our automated events email system already in production. So far, school admissions teams have been able to use EnrolHQ's powerful CRM filters to search …Read more

Published: 02 Sep 2019

It's most likely a combination of wrangling with spreadsheets and email marketing tools (Campaign Monitor, Mailchimp etc.), or hijacking the school management system to fit in future families. And what do you do with the data if they never enrol? Although this laborious method might work for the school admissions …Read more

Published: 13 Aug 2019

At EnrolHQ we’re always busy figuring out new ways to help schools admissions teams succeed.Here’s some of the features we rolled out in July.Full School Interviews Workflow, read more here.Parents Registration Page for School ExposPhoto and Video Publishing Consent Withdrawal for families in the Parent Dashboard (more on this next …Read more

Published: 03 Aug 2019

Can't believe it's August already! The Independent Schools Expos for the North Shore and the Hills area are just around the corner. The EnrolHQ team thought we’d roll-out a new feature just-in-time to help schools on EnrolHQ seamlessly collect those future family leads while you’re out there working the booth.I …Read more

Published: 02 Aug 2019

Welcome to Term 3! We’ve had a relatively quiet couple of weeks at the EnrolHQ office because of the NSW school holidays. Sometimes, quiet time is good though as it’s given our team the space to knuckle down and release a huge new feature - a fully featured Future Student …Read more

Published: 22 Jul 2019

What do you do when you have enrolment applications on paper but want to move online?We find that most schools already have a number of applications for enrolment that have arrived through the post. These come from parents who have enquired earlier and filled out a paper form. A lot …Read more

Published: 08 Jul 2019

At EnrolHQ, we're not the 'online enrolment form company'. We're about building the best tools for helping school leadership teams to:Increase the amount of applications they receiveReduce the time from application to offer acceptance and,Increasing the % rate of offer acceptancesTo ultimately make sure your schools student pipeline is full, …Read more

Published: 08 Jul 2019

It’s been another exciting month at EnrolHQ. Happy "Last Day of Term" for those of you in NSW who actually get time off during term breaks. I hope your desk doesn’t currently look like the one above with a pile of paper applications sitting on top - it’s a real …Read more

Published: 28 Jun 2019

“How do I know what automated emails the family has received from the system so I don’t double up on the same communications?” - another top question we receive from Enrolment Registrars.You know, the goal for EnrolHQ is to completely replace the future students module in your Student Management System. …Read more

Published: 22 Jun 2019

“‘How do I know which families to follow up with?” - this is one of the most common questions I always get asked by registrars. Especially when you’re up to 80% of your enrolment offer accepted target and you need to chase that last 20% one family at a time. …Read more

Published: 05 Jun 2019

May is traditionally a big month for us as it's when our Managing Director, Mark Barrett and the team speak at our School Marketing Masterclass at Darling Harbour. It's always great to see all of you in the room soaking up the trends for 2019, taking concrete advice for how …Read more

Published: 27 May 2019

One of the challenges we’ve had is that parents have forgotten whose (was it “dad’s” or “mum’s”?) email address they’ve used to fill in an enrolment form or expression of interest for their child.However, “mum” would fill in their spouses (“dad”) details as “Parent 1” leading to the father being …Read more

Published: 14 May 2019

This new feature focuses on School Tours and Open Days. We know that a big part of School Marketing and an Enrolment Registrars job is to make sure these events run as smoothly as possible and give the best impression for your school.While I know you make every endeavour to …Read more

Published: 09 May 2019

We look after the finance team this month by giving them their own exportable detailed transaction report. We know reconciling can be the absolute pits when you don't have all the information at hand. The devs at EnrolHQ hit this report out of the park! See what else they have …Read more

Published: 29 Apr 2019

Did you know you are able to set the calendar years and grade/year of entry that parents can select at the beginning of filling an enrolment form or an expression-of-interest form.The big win from this feature is to stop parents from submitting enrolment forms for years that are already full …Read more

Published: 17 Apr 2019

We call March the start of 'duck season'. If you are going to get some leads and applications, most of them will happen between March - June. These 3 months are when we typically see the most enrolment action happen for the year. It's the time to really use the …Read more

Published: 25 Mar 2019