Bringing the smilesback to education.
A teacher did not take the job to fill in registers. Shippra is a research initiative studying how institutions actually work, and rebuilding that work so the day belongs to teaching again.
What we
found
We began by watchingwhere the day goes.
Before writing a line of software we sat in offices and staff rooms and watched — the front desk, the record room, the examination cell, the reading room. These patterns turned up in nearly every institution.
A dozen tools that never speak
Library here. Fees there. Exams in a spreadsheet. Each holds a piece of the same student. None can see the rest.
Paperwork, not paper
Nothing against paper — a child should draw on it. The cost is one name copied by hand into eleven registers.
The day goes into re-keying
Records copied between books. Reminders chased by phone. Fees reconciled by hand. None of it is teaching.
Systems that fail on the day they matter
A server to patch, back up and pray over. Results day is the one morning it cannot fail.
Nobody trusts the numbers
Ask three offices how many students are enrolled. You get three answers. Every report starts as an argument.
It stops when the network does
The line dips and the software stops. A dropped signal should never mean no attendance and no receipt.
The Shippra
initiative
It began with a question nobody could answer:how many students are actually enrolled?
Ask three offices in the same institution and you get three numbers. The register says one thing, the fee ledger another, the examination list a third. Nobody is careless — the information simply lives in different books, in different rooms, kept by different people who are all doing their best.
That gap is not a discipline problem, and no amount of diligence closes it. An institution that cannot remember reliably cannot teach reliably — and it cannot do research at all, because research begins with being able to find what you already hold.So Shippra became an initiative rather than a product line — research into how education actually works, and a commitment that fixing it should never cost an institution a server room, a consultant, or its independence.
One record, not twelve copies
A student exists once, and every office reads the same row.
The institution owns its data
Your database, your domain, your name on it — and yours to take away.
Nothing may depend on a perfect line
A dropped connection is not a reason to stop marking attendance.
Light on the planet, and the budget
Nothing to buy, nothing to cool, nothing printed that nobody reads.
Grown green
Less to carry. More to keep.
Less paperwork
Less energy
More trees standing
Lighter school bags
More afternoons outdoors
No cabinets to fill
We are not at war with paper. Let a child cover a page in colour, and print the certificate a family will frame. What we retire is the duplicate register, the notice posted to four hundred homes, and the cabinet nobody has opened in nine years — along with the server room kept cold to hold it all.
A school day should travel light too. When the textbook, the diary and the notice can live in one small place, the bag on a child’s shoulders gets lighter — and the afternoon has room left for the ground under the trees.
What we
learned
Most of the workwas never the work
The hours were going into copying a record out of one book and into another. So we put everything on a single core, where a student admitted once is known to fees, library and examinations from that moment on. Nobody is trained to type a name twice; they simply never have to.
Enrol once — every app knows the student
Enrolment
Admit a student in admissions and fees, library and exams all recognise them from that moment.
Change it once, it changes everywhere
Records
Change an address, a batch or a fee status in one place and every other app reflects it — no nightly export, no reconciliation spreadsheet, no drift between systems.
One key to every desk
Access
Staff move between the circulation desk, the gradebook and the fee counter on a single account, with roles deciding what each person can see and do.
Taking
part
How an institutioncomes on board
Start with what hurts most
One app or the whole suite. Begin with the desk that has the longest queue.
We make it yours
Your own database, your own domain, your own name on the door — set up for you, with nothing to buy and nothing to host.
The busywork stops being work
Your team works in one place, and the copying, chasing and reconciling happens in the background.
What we
have built
Limitless apps,one connected core
Library Management / Learning Management / Institutes Management / Examination & Assessment / Admissions & Enrolment CRM / Fees, Billing & Accounting / HR & Payroll / Fleet & Routes / Hostel & Residence / Placements & Careers / Alumni & Advancement / Accreditation & Compliance / Records & Certificates / Inventory & Procurement / Research & Grants / Health & Wellbeing / eOffice: Files, Notings & Approvals / Board, Committee & Meetings / Internal Quality Assurance Cell
Each app is a piece of the same research, released as it becomes ready. Take one or the whole programme — and take it at the pace your budget allows, because the rest keeps working the moment you add it.
See all products
Library Management — LibMS
One catalogue for the shelf and the screen, and a desk that keeps up with the queue.
Learning Management — LMS
Teach, set work and grade in one place — and the mark reaches the record on its own.
Institutes Management — IMS
The daily record of the institution — attendance, timetables, reports and the family window.
Examination & Assessment — Exams
The examination season as one sealed record — papers, seating, valuation and the result.
Admissions & Enrolment CRM — Admissions
Every enquiry in one pipeline — answered while the family is still deciding.
Fees, Billing & Accounting — Finance
Fees defined once, collected without a queue, and a ledger that agrees with the bank.
HR & Payroll — People
Everyone who works here — records, attendance, leave and payslips — in one place.
Fleet & Routes — Transport
Routes planned from where riders live, and every bus visible to the desk and the family.
Hostel & Residence — Hostel
Rooms, mess and the night roll — the residential half of the institution, on the same record.
Placements & Careers — Placements
The placement season as a record — recruiters, drives, candidates and the offer.
Alumni & Advancement — Alumni
The register that keeps going after graduation — people, chapters, events and giving.
Accreditation & Compliance — Compliance
Accreditation and statutory returns assembled from the record the institution already keeps.
Records & Certificates — Records
Transcripts, certificates and verifications issued from the record — and provable afterwards.
Inventory & Procurement — Stores
Stores, assets and purchasing — from the indent a department raises to the item on the shelf.
Research & Grants — Research
Projects, funding, scholars and output — the research record a university can actually produce.
Health & Wellbeing — Care
The infirmary, counselling and welfare record — held carefully, and seen only by those who should.
eOffice: Files, Notings & Approvals — eOffice
Files, notings, correspondence and approvals — the office that moves without the trolley.
Board, Committee & Meetings — Meetings
Agendas, papers, minutes and the actions that follow — governance kept as a record.
Internal Quality Assurance Cell — IQAC
The quality cell as it actually works — its members, its sittings, its feedback, its audits and the year's report.
Our
commitments
The principles that protectinstitutional memory
Everything we build is held to the same few promises. They are not features — they are the terms on which an institution can trust us with its memory.
Admitted once, known at every desk
Admit a student once and the library desk, the examination cell and the fee counter all know them from that moment. Nobody types the name a second time.
The record is yours, and only yours
Your institution’s memory lives in its own database, under your own domain and name. Take all of it out whenever you like — it belongs to you, not to us.
Less paperwork, not less paper
Paper stays for what paper is good at — drawing, craft, the report card a family frames. What goes is the copying: the same name written into register after register.
It keeps working when the line dips
The circulation desk, the gate and the classroom register carry on without a connection, and quietly catch up the moment it returns.
The proof lives with the institutions working with us.Read the case studies.
Solutions
Who we arebuilding this with
Schools, colleges, universities, libraries and training centres each remember differently — a school is not a small university, and a research collection is not a large library. Find the shape of your institution below; the software follows it.
Schools
From the morning register to the leaving certificate
Colleges
One student record, from the application to the transcript
Universities
A university that can find what it already holds
Libraries
A collection is only as useful as what can be found in it
Coaching & Test-prep
Every test a student sits, kept and comparable
Skilling & Vocational
A certificate is a claim — keep the evidence with it
Boarding & Residential
A school and a boarding house, keeping one record of the same child
Why this matters
Education software shouldn’t cost the earth — in effort, in paper, or in power.We built Shippra so a whole institution can run with nothing to host, and leave the lightest footprint doing it.
Grown green
Always ready
Yours to keep
Before you go
Questions, answered.
Can we start with just one app?
Yes. Begin with one desk — the library is a natural first door, because it is the one collection everybody already agrees matters — and add the rest when you are ready. Every app writes into the same record, so nothing entered now has to be entered again later.
Is our data isolated from other institutions?
Completely. Every institution is provisioned its own database. Your records never sit in a shared table beside anyone else’s, and you can take the whole of it out whenever you like. It is your institution’s memory, not ours.
Can we use our own domain and branding?
Yes. Every app runs on your own domain, under your own name and colours. A parent, a student or a visiting scholar should see your institution, not a supplier.
Where do our apps actually run?
Your apps run on a worldwide network of small data centres rather than on a machine in a room on your campus. Nothing to host, patch or back up, the same response wherever the campus is, and the work carries on when the line dips — the register still takes attendance, the desk still issues a receipt. No server sitting idle overnight either.
Does Shippra work with our existing systems?
Yes. If your teachers already work in a learning platform, or the office keeps its own student system, Shippra stays in step with it — rosters stay matched, grades flow back, and nobody types a name twice. That includes typing it into us. (For the technically minded: roster and SIS sync, LTI 1.3, gradebook passback.)
How is it adopted?
Tell us which desk in your institution has the longest queue or thickest paper trail, and we will put together a guided campus demo around it.
Get started
Start with the deskthat hurts most
Tell us how your institution keeps its records today, and we’ll show you what the same work looks like when it only has to be done once.
- A guided demo on your own data
- The apps mapped to how you run
- No obligation, no sales pressure
Prefer email? hello@shippra.cloud