Blog about our online enrolments platform and our monthly releases

Back to School Summer Update

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

Enrolment reporting gets some serious love!

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

Dashboard Updates, More Reports and Fancy New PDF Forms

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

EnrolHQ Now Has Electronic Signatures for Extra Peace of Mind

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

New Business Insights on your EnrolHQ Dashboard

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

New Feature - Custom Questionnaire as Part of Enrolment Form

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

New Features Released in August '19

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

Automate Your Enrolment Follow-Up Emails

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

Why Every School Needs a Parent Portal for Future Students

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

New Features Released in July '19

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

New Feature - iPad Optimised ‘Register Your Interest’ Forms Now Available

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

New Feature - A Comprehensive Future Student Interview System

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

Providing Business Intelligence for Online Enrolments

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

Case Study - How to securely migrate from Paper Applications to Online Enrolments on EnrolHQ

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

New Features Released in June '19

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

Communications Log

“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

New Filters To Help Registrars Chase Up Open Offers of Enrolment

“‘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

New Features Released in May ‘19

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

Always Know Who Your Primary Point Of Contact Is With a Family

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

View Your Attendee List (Per Event) and Export It to Excel

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

New Features Released in April ‘19

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

How to use the Grade - Year Settings Page to restrict enrolments

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

March 2019 Updates

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

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Manea Senior College began using Enrol HQ in August 2022 to assist us to manage of growing numbers of enrolments.

Enrol HQ has provided us with a simple and accessible solution to help manage the complex task of enrolment.

We have been very happy with the level of support and responsiveness of the Enrol HQ team, who worked with us along the entire journey from inception to a fully functioning enrolment process which has made life easier and allowed us to reduce our workload significantly.

As a State school, we found the functionality and adaptability of Enrol HQ to be its best feature, allowing us to tailor it to our processes and guidelines.

Our parents and students have engaged with the system well and problem solving is easy, ensuring that they get a professional experience with the College from the start to the end.

I high recommend the team at Enrol HQ.

Grant Walton - Manea Senior College

Since the very beginning of using EnrolHQ, I've found the system to be incredibly user-friendly. The support provided is outstanding, and the team consistently implements updates to enhance the processes even further.

Our admissions department has seamlessly transitioned to a paperless approach. Parents are enthusiastically embracing the system's straightforwardness for both uploading documents and completing customized forms for their child's application.

The system is particularly invaluable for interview procedures, as every step, from interview assignment and booking to inputting interview notes, occurs online. The Communication section is notably impressive, providing visibility into email read receipts and maintaining an email archive. There's also a dedicated section for noting and gathering information on incoming students and families. Assigning tasks to colleagues ensures meticulous organization, keeping all team members informed about the application progress. Coordinating and scheduling college events is effortless for both parent users and our admissions staff.

Our admissions department wholeheartedly endorses EnrolHQ for effectively tracking the enrolment journey of our students.

Carolyn Sharp - Santa Maria College

We use EnrolHQ in our school and I don't know what we would do without it. It is a fantastic system for managing enrolments and helps us keep track of where students are, wherever they are in the enrolment process.

We also use the system to communicate with families in an ongoing sense (and keep a record of this communication), and the integrations provided by EnrolHQ as part of our school's website has meant the use of this system in provides families with a seamless interaction with us online.

I have been particularly impressed with the commitment of the EnrolHQ team to our experience using the system. They are quick to provide support and direction and are extremely responsive in the way they continue to iterate the way their product works in response to how we the users are working with it.

I couldn't recommend this system more to interested schools.

Jill McLachlan - Blue Gum Community School

Using the Enrol HQ platform has revolutionised SEDA College’s student enrolment process from the enquiry stage through to the student graduating.

It has streamlined and increased the professionalism of our communication processes to both future and current students with the ability to create easy to use custom forms and email templates. Paper forms are a thing of the past!

With student having their own profile, it is easy to track what they have and haven’t completed and create a record for each interaction and communication.

We have also found it very useful when managing our information session event data and booking in student interviews.

Most importantly, Enrol HQ has a fantastic support team in place who go above and beyond to provide the best possible customer experience and ensure your school is getting the most out of their platform. With a clear continual improvement approach, I would highly recommend to any school out there to use Enrol HQ to take their enrolment experience to the next level!

Derek Taylor - Seda College

We started using EnrolHQ in 2018 and would recommend you check them out. Our enrolment process has been totally streamlined.

Kylie Gray - Mount St. Benedict College

EnrolHQ has transformed our enrolments process. Its streamlined approach has made managing relationships with prospective students and their families incredibly efficient, allowing us to move away from paper-based enrolments entirely.

The software's user-friendly interface simplifies complex tasks, making it easy for our staff and parents to navigate.

We highly recommend EnrolHQ to anyone seeking an effective solution for enrolment management – it has truly improved our operations for the better.

Niki Jenkins - Sacred Heart College

Blue Gum Community School is a small school, with a small admin team. This means we need to utilize our software resources to it’s maximum capability.

Enrol HQ easily adapts to our enrolments needs for playgroup, preschool, primary school though to high school students.

Enrol HQ has quickly become an indispensable program for our school. It provides us with the ability to run essential analytical reports, securely track and record student details, and of course, seamlessly steps parents through a thorough enrolment process.

Enrol HQ’s ability to be customised, is one of its most valuable features. This allows us to generate tailored data, providing comprehensive detail about our school community.

A shout out to the Enrol HQ team for developing this powerful program and for the support they provide for their product.

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