CircleUp vs Schylva

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.

Schylva is school management software operated by Remonthub for administrators, teachers, parents and students. It brings together student information, attendance, fees, academic work, communication, transport and analytics. Academic tools include class and teacher timetables, homework, study materials, exams, configurable grading scales and published results. The web application has desktop, tablet and mobile views; native iOS and Android apps are still in development and are not available to download. Schylva focuses first on schools in India, including CBSE, ICSE, Indian State Board, IB and Cambridge contexts, with suitability confirmed school by school. Fee payments can be configured through Razorpay or another gateway, with provider transaction charges payable separately. Launch communications use in-app and push notifications, not WhatsApp or non-login SMS. Standard onboarding, initial setup and migration, and staff training are included within the school’s written scope. Pricing is school-specific by quote; an introductory offer is available to approved schools in India under stated activation and academic-year terms.