Simple pricing. Built for African schools.
Transparent tiers illustrated in Ghana cedis. Final commercials are confirmed with Sales before contracting — pilots stay free for 30 days without a card.
STARTER
GHS 500/month
Up to 500 students
- Student Information System (SIS)
- Fee management & Paystack collections
- Daily attendance tracking
- Academic calendar & timetables
- Parent & guardian portal access
- Email support (business hours)
GROWTH
GHS 1,200/month
Up to 2,000 students
- Everything in Starter
- HR & Ghana-compliant payroll (SSNIT, PAYE)
- Library management (MARC JSONB)
- Communication hub — SMS via Hubtel
- Examinations & moderation workflows
- AI lesson plan generation (GES-aligned)
- Phone + email support
PRO
GHS 2,500/month
Up to 10,000 students
- Everything in Growth
- Hostel & boarding management
- Transport with live GPS tracking
- Health & clinic management
- Discipline & co-curricular tracking
- Advanced AI (EWS, timetable optimisation)
- Priority support & dedicated success manager
ENTERPRISE
Custom pricing
Unlimited students · Multi-campus
- All Pro features across unlimited campuses
- Trust-level governance & consolidated reporting
- Custom integrations & open API access
- On-premise deployment (by agreement)
- SLA-backed response targets
- 24/7 dedicated support team
Frequently asked questions
Pilot schools receive a stewarded configuration scoped to the modules most relevant to your rollout phase. Your onboarding engineer works with you to enable the right areas before go-live.
Growth and Pro include consolidated reporting across campuses within one tenant. Enterprise adds trust-level governance, cross-school benchmarking, and fully custom commercial terms for large school groups.
Parents can pay through Paystack-powered flows in Ghana Cedis — covering card payments and Mobile Money (MTN, Vodafone, AirtelTigo). Finance teams receive pesewa-accurate ledger lines and full reconciliation tooling.
Yes. Onboarding includes guarded CSV imports with row-level validation — duplicate learners, guardian contacts, and outstanding balances are all reviewed before your data goes live.
All production tenants run on Supabase-backed infrastructure with TLS 1.3 in transit and AES-256 encryption at rest. Each school gets a fully isolated database schema. Enterprise clients can discuss data residency and on-premise options with our security team.
Starter includes email support during business hours. Growth adds phone support. Pro includes priority queues and a named success manager. Enterprise includes SLA-backed response time targets and a 24/7 escalation path.
Ardent SMS provides Ghana payroll exports, statutory reporting packs, and a documented REST API. Enterprise customers can schedule custom integrations through a technical review process.
All rollouts include train-the-trainer sessions, guardian communication templates, and role-specific onboarding guides. Growth and higher tiers include optional onsite visits scoped in your proposal.
If you proceed, your subscription continues on monthly or annual terms with no data migration needed. If not, tenant data deletion follows our DPA Act 843-aligned wind-down checklist.
Your school retains full editorial responsibility for all instructional content. AI outputs are clearly marked drafts with immutable audit logs. Sensitive student data is redacted before any provider call.
There is no separate setup fee for Starter or Growth. Pro and Enterprise include a structured onboarding engagement — the cost is discussed as part of your commercial proposal.
Every school has a dedicated database schema with Row-Level Security policies enforced at the database layer. No shared tables, no cross-tenant queries — your data is structurally isolated, not just access-controlled.
Free 30-day trial
Put Ardent SMS in front of your bursar, registrar, and IT leads with a stewarded pilot. No credit card required to start the conversation.
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Join Ghanaian schools already running on Ardent SMS. Our onboarding team handles the heavy lifting — from data import to staff training.
