CoreCampus Financial Aid vs OpenEduCat

CoreCampus Financial Aid is a cloud service that manages aid packaging, disbursement, loans, compliance reporting, and student communication through a connected student information system. It handles federal, state, institutional, and private aid. Teams can prepare award packages and letters, originate loans, track disbursements, reconcile them, and follow Master Promissory Note, entrance-counseling, and exit-counseling status. Document collection and reminders support missing information. Compliance workflows include SAP, 1098-T, IPEDS, FISAP, 90/10, enrollment reporting, and National Student Clearinghouse reporting. The service supports LDAP and SAML, unlimited user groups, and access restrictions by module, screen, or field. Open API connections and integrations cover billing, LMS, finance, email, reporting, document management, CRM, and other higher-education tools. Delivery is through the cloud with upgrades, updates, and security patches handled without customer IT involvement. Pricing is on request, based on average annual full-time equivalent students, with an all-inclusive monthly fee.

OpenEduCat is a modular education platform for institutions, available through cloud hosting or on-premise deployment. Institutions can select modules and add more as needed, with no per-student fees. Its systems connect student information with admissions, fees, library, hostel, and other institutional functions; the SIS supports real-time collaboration around student data. Community Edition supports standards and sign-on options including SCORM, xAPI, LTI 1.3, SAML, Shibboleth, OAuth2, Azure AD, and Google Workspace. The platform also lists assessments, certificates, API access, and Android and iOS apps. Its Free Edition has no learner cap or time limit, although capacity depends on hardware. The Free Edition uses the LGPL-3.0 license, with source code public on GitHub; institutions own their data and can self-host without student limits or license call-home. Self-hosting can use Linux, Python 3.10+, and PostgreSQL 14+. A 15-day trial is offered without a credit card. The listed Core plan is $489 a year, and the site lists a No Refund Policy.