School Stream vs SchoolPost

School Stream is a school communication app for connecting schools with families. Schools can send targeted notices, reminders and newsletters, and create digital forms for permission slips, excursions and absences, including digital signatures. Its messaging supports unlimited conversations between school and home, with private messages to families and groups. Schools can publish event details such as permission notes, times and maps, and sync online calendars. Payments can be collected through School Stream Forms, with processing handled by Stripe. On-demand translation supports over 100 languages. Schools can see who has read notices and when, and manage parent accounts and groups. School Stream runs on Android, iOS and the web. Families have free access; school pricing is on request, with the school plan billed annually. The company says its servers are in AWS’s Sydney region in Australia, and that data at rest uses 256-bit AES encryption while services use at least TLS 1.2. Each school is assigned a Customer Success Manager for support and training.

SchoolPost is a communications hub for schools, parents, staff and pupils. It combines email, SMS, secure message history, and online reply and consent forms. Schools can target messages to classes, groups, individual students, parents or staff. Staff can monitor replies and send reminders, while parents reply online, manage contact preferences, choose daily or weekly summaries and filter messages by child. A secure mailbox provides access to sensitive messages and communication history. Parents can complete forms, and schools can publish exam results online. Teachers can send SMS messages while offsite on school trips. SchoolPost integrates with existing systems and school MIS data and works with a preferred MIS/SIS provider. Firefly says setup and maintenance require very little work. The service is available on Android, iOS and web. Pricing is on request, with a demo booking offered. Firefly says student personal data is not used for marketing, and records are deleted within 30 days after customer engagement ends.