Merit vs Reward System

Merit is a web-based PBIS platform from Eduverse, Ltd. for K–12 students, teachers, staff, administrators, and districts. It combines recognition, office referrals, and student jobs in one system. Staff can award behavior-specific points to individual students or whole classes, with recognition categories set by school, grade level, or PBIS tier. Students browse school or classroom stores and request items; staff approve requests before points are used. Staff can post classroom or school responsibilities for students to apply for or assign directly. Administrators review and resolve office discipline referrals in Merit. District reporting shows recognition and referral trends by building, grade, teacher, or behavior, with daily, weekly, or monthly email schedules. Staff access Merit through a modern browser on a laptop, desktop, or tablet. Merit says data is hosted in the United States, encrypted in transit with TLS and at rest with AES-256, and stored on SOC 2 Type II infrastructure with automated daily backups. Pricing is on request.

Reward System is an online, points-based behaviour tracking and rewards system for schools. Teachers can award points to students and classes and set their own rewards. Staff can record good news, bad news, sanctions, reports, comments and other events, refer news to other teachers, and add follow-up information. The system monitors classes, forms and houses and tracks improvement week by week. The maker says parents can view reports and receive automatic updates daily, weekly or termly. The free For Teachers plan includes behaviour tracking, analysis and referrals. For Schools costs £480 a year per school and includes parent access, whole-school and department analysis, homework and report tracking, MIS integration and 9-5 support. The product page says data is encrypted in transit with SSL and stored in the European Economic Area; the privacy policy specifies secure servers in the United Kingdom. The maker says the school owns identifiable student information and that it will not sell that information.