RESIDENTIAL ยท 24+ SCHOOLS

Hostels, mess, and parent visits โ€” handled.

The platform Indian boarding schools run on. Dorm allocation, mess plans, parent visit booking, weekend leave, infirmary, and pocket money โ€” one calm system.

24/7 ops support Dorm CCTV integration Parent visit portal 7K boarders
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Boarding schools
7K
Boarders served
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Operations support
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Parent rating
Residential, End-to-End

Every hostel workflow on a single screen.

Wardens, matrons, mess managers, infirmary nurses, and parents โ€” each with the right view, the right alerts, and zero radio chatter.

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Hostel + Dorm Allocation

Smart room allocation by class, house, friendship preferences, and medical needs. Bed-level inventory with audit trail.

  • Room maps + bed plans
  • Mid-term swaps
  • House-wise occupancy report
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Mess Plans & Dietary

Manage menus, dietary restrictions, allergies, and Jain/Veg/Non-veg routing. Daily wastage and headcount tracking.

  • Allergy-aware portions
  • Bulk procurement plan
  • Wastage analytics
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Parent Visit Booking

Parents book Sunday and PTM visits in-app โ€” slot capacity, gate pass, and ID verification done automatically.

  • Visit slot calendar
  • QR-based gate pass
  • Photo logbook at gate
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Weekend Leave

Leave requests routed warden โ†’ housemaster โ†’ parent โ†’ principal โ€” with OTP-based handover at the gate.

  • Multi-step approval
  • OTP gate handover
  • Late-return alerts
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Health & Infirmary

Sick-bay log, medication schedule, allergy register, and an instant parent SMS for any infirmary visit.

  • Medication schedule
  • Vaccination register
  • Auto-parent notification
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Pocket Money & Canteen

Pre-loaded RFID/biometric wallet for canteen, tuck shop, and laundry. Parents top up; child spends responsibly.

  • RFID/biometric wallet
  • Spend caps + categories
  • Live transaction feed to parents
Operations & Trust

Run a tighter campus, and a calmer one.

What makes a great boarding school great is the small stuff handled reliably. AskCampus handles all of it.

Centralised dorm CCTV & access

Plug your existing CCTV and access-control hardware into one operations console. Every entry/exit logged against the boarder's profile.

  • Dorm CCTV integration (Hikvision, CP Plus, Axis)
  • RFID / biometric / face-ID access
  • After-hours alerts to housemaster
  • 30-day audit-grade event log
Operations ยท Mount Litera Boarding, Dehradun
Active boarders on campus412 / 418
Off-campus (signed-out)6
Last gate event2 min ago
After-hours alerts (24h)0

Indian boarding compliance

From CBSE residential affiliation norms to state child-protection guidelines, your compliance binder maintains itself.

  • Warden:boarder ratio monitoring
  • POCSO incident register
  • Fire & evacuation drill scheduling
  • Annual medical check-up tracker
Compliance ยท Indus Valley Residential
Warden:boarder ratio1:18 โœ“
Annual medicals done96%
POCSO drills (Q1)2 / 2
Fire drill last held11 days ago

Parent peace of mind

Parents see what they need: meals eaten, medicine taken, weekend plans, and visit slots โ€” all on one parent app, with gentle weekly digests.

  • Daily mess + infirmary digest
  • Weekend & exeat planning
  • House points & co-curricular updates
  • 1-tap warden chat
Parent ยท Aarav, Class 9, Heritage Boarding
Meals last 24h3 / 3 โœ“
Pocket money balanceโ‚น820
Next visit slotSun 10:30
House points (week)+24
From the Hills

What boarding heads tell us.

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"Our wardens used to spend three hours a night writing log books. Now they spend that time with the children. Parents call half as often."

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Col. P. Thapa (Retd.)
Headmaster ยท Mount Litera Academy, Dehradun
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"The parent visit portal solved a 30-year problem. Sunday gates used to be chaos. Now we know who is coming, when, for whom โ€” gate pass on their phone."

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Nirmala Mehta
Principal ยท Indus Valley Residential School, Pune
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"Pocket-money wallet replaced cash on campus. Tuck shop and canteen now reconcile in 5 minutes. Parents see every rupee. Trust, restored."

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Anand Rao
Bursar ยท Heritage Boarding, Bengaluru
FAQ

Questions boarding heads ask us.

Will it integrate with our existing CCTV and access hardware?+
Yes โ€” we have certified integrations with Hikvision, CP Plus, Dahua, Axis, and Honeywell, plus open RTSP support for any IP camera. Access control works with Matrix, ESSL, ZKTeco, and Suprema.
How does the pocket-money wallet work?+
Each boarder gets an RFID or biometric-linked wallet. Parents top up via UPI; spend caps and category limits (canteen, laundry, tuck) are configurable. Transactions stream live to the parent app. Used widely in 80+ residential schools.
What if a boarder is sick โ€” how do we notify parents?+
The infirmary nurse logs the visit on the app. Parents receive an instant SMS + WhatsApp + push, then a doctor's note (if any) within an hour. Medication schedules show as ticks/crosses against each scheduled dose.
Can multiple wardens manage the same dorm?+
Yes. AskCampus has shift-based warden access โ€” day warden, night warden, weekend warden โ€” each with their own access window and audit log. Handover notes pass cleanly between shifts.
Do you support traditional Indian houses (Ashoka, Tagore, etc.)?+
Yes. Our house module supports unlimited houses with house points, captains, prefects, inter-house competitions, and house-wise dashboards. Most boarding schools rebuild their full house structure on AskCampus in 2 weeks.
A DAY IN THE BOARDING HOUSE

How a residential school runs on AskCampus.

From the 6am wake-up bell to lights-out at 10pm, every movement, meal, medication, and parent call is logged automatically โ€” so your house parents can spend their time mentoring, not maintaining registers.

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Morning roll & meal

RFID at the dining hall captures breakfast attendance and which child took which dietary plate. House parents see overnight infirmary entries, today's PT schedule, and which boys missed wake-up โ€” all from one tablet on the duty desk.

  • RFID at dining + dorms
  • Diet-plate logs
  • Overnight infirmary view
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Academics & activity

Through the school day attendance flows from class to prep to games. Coaches log injuries, music and theatre teachers log practice hours, and the boarding houseparent gets a 4pm summary of who needs a pep talk before evening prep.

  • Class + games + music attendance
  • Coach injury logs
  • 4pm houseparent digest
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Evening prep & calls

Scheduled parent video-call slots, prep-room attendance, weekly tuition assignments and infirmary visits all pass through one timeline. Parents in Mumbai or Dubai see their child's day on a single WhatsApp digest at 8pm IST.

  • Parent call slots
  • Prep-room attendance
  • Daily WhatsApp digest
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Lights-out & log

Houseparents close the day with a 4-tap dorm sign-off โ€” bed count, lights-out time, any incident notes, and a handover to the night warden. Tomorrow's leave applications, doctor visits and special diets are auto-scheduled before they sleep.

  • Dorm bed count
  • Night warden handover
  • Auto next-day plan
OUT OF THE BOX

Six modules every residential school actually needs.

Designed with house masters at Mayo, Welham, Doon, Lawrence and Sanskriti โ€” not retro-fitted from a day-school product.

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Dorm & Room Allotment

Bed-level allotment with house, dorm, room, and bed numbers. Auto-balance new admissions across houses, lock incompatible roommates, and run mid-term re-allotments without losing the audit trail.

  • Bed-level master
  • Roommate compatibility flag
  • Mid-term re-allotment
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Mess & Nutrition

Weekly menu planning with calorie targets, allergy and religious-diet flags, mess attendance via RFID, food-cost-per-student analytics, and parent visibility into every meal โ€” including weekend tuck-shop credits.

  • Allergy + Jain/Halal flags
  • Cost-per-plate analytics
  • Tuck-shop wallet
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Infirmary & Medical

Full electronic medical record per child โ€” vaccinations, allergies, GP and specialist visits, prescribed medications, controlled-medicine register, and 24/7 nurse-on-duty escalation to the medical officer.

  • EMR per boarder
  • Controlled-med register
  • Auto MO escalation
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Parent Call & Leave

Slot-based parent video calls, exeats and weekend leaves with chaperone approvals, return-by-time tracking with auto SMS escalations, and a vacation calendar synced to school holidays.

  • Slot-based video calls
  • Chaperone approval workflow
  • Return-by-time alerts
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Sports & Co-Curricular

Track house points, sports team rosters, music and theatre practice hours, NCC parade attendance, MUN and debate trophies, and a year-end house-cup leaderboard parents and alumni love.

  • House-cup live leaderboard
  • NCC parade tracker
  • Trophy & medal vault
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Security & CCTV

RFID gate logs, visitor pre-approvals, CCTV integration with Hikvision and CP Plus, dorm corridor live feeds for the duty officer, and a tamper-proof movement log auditable by the principal at any time.

  • Hikvision/CP Plus feed
  • Visitor pre-approval
  • Tamper-proof log
INTEGRATIONS & ECOSYSTEM

Connects to the systems boarding schools rely on.

Out-of-the-box integrations for hardware, comms, finance and food โ€” no custom dev cycles, no integrator fees.

Hikvision CCTV
Dorm + perimeter feeds
CP Plus DVR
Recording archive search
HID RFID
Gate, dorm & mess swipes
WhatsApp Business
Parent digests & calls
Razorpay
Boarding fee + tuck-shop
Tally Prime
Mess & ops accounting
NutritionCalc API
Meal calorie / macro audit
CBSE Pariksha Sangam
Boarder LOC & results
OUTCOMES

What residential schools see in 12 months.

Average results across 86 boarding and residential schools after a year on AskCampus, against their previous register-and-Excel baseline.

100%
Audit-ready movement log
Every gate, dorm, mess and call entry timestamped โ€” recently passed a CBSE residential audit at zero remarks.
68%
Faster parent updates
8pm WhatsApp digest replaces Sunday phone calls โ€” overseas parents now hear from their child every day.
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Avg mess wastage saved/yr
RFID-based plate counts cut over-cooking by 22% across a 600-boarder kitchen at Welham.
2 hrs
Per houseparent per day
Saved on registers, leave forms, mess attendance, infirmary slips, and the Sunday parent-update marathon.

Run your boarding school like the great institution it is.

Used by 24+ Indian residential schools โ€” from Dehradun foothills to Coorg estates โ€” to give parents calm and wardens their evenings back.

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