CircleUp vs Classe365

CircleUp is a member-management platform for homeschool co-ops and community groups, combining class registration, event scheduling, online payments, and communication. Its calendar provides day, week, and month views, with RSVPs, attendance tracking, recurring events, and automated reminders. Class tools cover registration with capacity limits, waitlists, enrollment, attendance, and gradebooks. A searchable directory supports family profiles and custom fields; families control whether their details appear in the opt-in directory. Members also get a feed for announcements, photos, and updates, plus group and class chat. Other tools include volunteer signups and hour tracking, documents and forms, a group store, reporting, roles, and permissions. CircleUp is available on web and iOS. The free plan supports up to 10 families. Starter costs $23 a month, billed at $276/year, and supports up to 50 families. Online payments use Stripe, with its standard fee of 2.9% + 30¢ plus a 0.5% CircleUp platform fee; cash and check payments have no CircleUp fee.

Classe365 is a cloud-based education management platform covering students from admissions through graduation and alumni engagement. Its modules include enrolment CRM, student information, learning management, fees and invoicing, finance and accounting, e-commerce, fundraising, degree audit, and alumni. Listed capabilities also include attendance tracking, a gradebook, a parent portal, fee management, and admissions and enrollment. The service runs on the web, with native iOS and Android apps for student portal access; its REST API v2 provides programmatic access to institutional data such as students, classes, sessions, and departments. Integration guides cover Google Workspace, Google Classroom, Microsoft 365, QuickBooks Online, Mailchimp, Zoom, Zapier, and other services. Core Modules for 1–100 students costs $100 a month, billed monthly. The 15-day trial includes all modules and requires no credit card. Pricing is based on student numbers. Classe365 was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in St Ives, New South Wales, Australia.