Enrole vs openSIS

Enrole handles registration, payments, communications, and reporting for continuing education and workforce development programs. Its branded course catalog supports self-service enrollment and online payments, including promo codes and group rates. Staff can organize categories, sections, schedules, capacity limits, and waitlists, while students can access certificates, track CEUs and clock hours, and review unofficial transcripts and grades. Instructors can view rosters, record attendance, submit grades, issue CEUs, and manage course materials. Integrations include real-time connections and roster synchronization for Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, and D2L Brightspace, plus built-in Ellucian Student integration for Banner and Colleague. PeopleSoft and other systems can connect through Informer's API. Enrollment, payment, and student-record data can feed dashboards, reporting, and AI-powered analysis through Informer BI & Analytics. The web product is intended for continuing education, workforce development, contract training, community programs, professional development, and lifelong learning. Pricing is on request; managed-services plans range from free to $14,400 a year.

openSIS is a student information system for school operations, including student and staff records, enrollment, attendance, scheduling, grades and reporting. Its listed tools also cover health information, admissions, billing, discipline, lesson plans and analytics. The maker describes it for K–12, higher education, vocational and career technical schools, and virtual education. Schools can install and manage the free, open-source Community Edition themselves or choose SaaS plans. The SaaS Mobile Connect app provides access to attendance, grades, assignments, schedules, billing and school communication on iOS and Android. Listed integrations include Moodle, Canvas LMS, Microsoft Teams, Google Classroom, Stripe, PayPal, QuickBooks, Office 365, Azure Active Directory and Google Workspace. Core Startup costs $4 per staff member per month, billed annually, and is limited to 5 staff, 50 students and 100 parents at one school. Essential costs $8 per staff member per month, billed annually, and includes unlimited students, parents and schools. Advanced costs $12 per staff member per month, billed annually, and includes API access with full documentation. A 15-day trial is available.