CircleUp vs feKara

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.

feKara is school management and ERP software covering admissions, attendance, examinations, result cards, and school administration. Its modules also include online classes, finance, student management, timetables, transport, and library functions. Configurable profiles for administrators, teachers, students, and parents provide a way to share information. Listed tools include student reporting, grade books, user roles and rights, imports, exports, and examination management. Schools can use SMS integration, create Zoom meetings from the online-classes module, and enable Google single sign-on. The web-based service is hosted on cloud servers and can be accessed from phones, laptops, or computers; mobile and tablet versions are also described. The maker says school data is backed up daily, and customers can make their own backups. Support is offered by email, ticket, WhatsApp, and phone, including help importing existing records. A free plan lists limits of 50 students and five teachers. Paid plans start at $8.30/mo (annual).