Enquiry to signed contract · UK independent schools

From first enquiry to signed contract, effortlessly.

Enquiries captured, visits booked, assessments organised, offers signed with deposits paid. No couriers, no chasing calls, no paperwork mountain.

Or grade your admissions journey free, in seconds
The offer · Registrar view Live
Offer sentSent
Contract signed digitallySigned
Deposit paid via Stripe£2,500 · Stripe
Registration filedAutomatic

09:00 · Offer sent Personalised offer letter to the Pemberton family - scholarship applied.

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The problem

Your families expect five-star. Your systems make them wait.

Enquiries in a shared inbox, assessment days in a spreadsheet, offers in a mail merge and deposits chased by hand. Nothing joins up, so every reply is slower than the family expected - and every delay is a family the school across the county is also courting.

The patchwork

Six disconnected hand-offs

Disconnected
Shared inbox
Assessment spreadsheet
Offer mail merge
Postal contracts
Deposits chased by hand
An MIS that talks to none of them

One pipeline

One connected family record

Connected

Admissions+: enquiries, assessments, offers and signed contracts in one record.

Enquiry
Assessment
Offer
Contract
Emma AIChasing, drafting and answering across every stage
A day in the life of an offer

The posted contract takes three weeks. The digital one takes a day.

By post

Day 1 · Contract printed and posted
Day 6 · One parent signs, the other is travelling
Day 12 · Deposit chased by phone
Day 21 · Signed - if it wasn’t lost

On Admissions+

09:00 · Personalised offer letter sent
12:40 · Both parents sign digitally - one from the office, one from the airport
12:44 · Deposit paid via Stripe, bill payer captured
12:45 · Copy filed and sent to the family Done in a day
Free admissions audit · 12 seconds · no sign-up

How many students are you losing to the school down the road?

Ask Emma. She cross-references ApplicaaOne, the DfE, Ofsted and ISI, and comes back with the number nobody else can tell you: how many of your catchment students applied somewhere else.

Audit complete

Brighton College

BN2 0AL·Outstanding·Arbor
Your admissions score
A
Excellent
Based on cross-applications, application accessibility, online reputation, ApplicaaOne visibility and academic profile
Cross-applicationsA
Application accessibilityB
Online reputationA
ApplicaaOne visibilityA
Academic profileA

Key Findings

The most important issues affecting your admissions competitiveness, ranked by impact.

Where Your Students Are Applying

Students at your school who also applied to or enrolled at other sixth forms on ApplicaaOne.

Popular Courses

Subjects that students at this school applied for and enrolled into at competitor sixth forms.

Application Accessibility

How easy it is for a student to find and complete an application on your website.

Online Reputation

What parents and students see when they search for your school online.

Performance, Results & Post-18 Destinations

Ofsted inspection grades, A-level outcomes and where students go after sixth form.

The toolkit

Everything the journey runs on.

The Registrar’s pipeline, one record underneath every family. Pick a tool to look inside - then scroll on to see the whole journey.

Enquiries & leads

Every enquiry becomes a tracked family

One record per family from first touch, watched for cooling interest.

One record per family from first touch
Dynamic and static lists, built on your criteria
Lead scoring to rank the warmest families
At-risk flags and stale-enquiry lists
Enquiry-source reporting
Ask Emma: "Flag any enquiries that are going cold."
Integration

The ultimate partner for your MIS.

Full technical integration with iSAMS, SIMS, Arbor and Bromcom - pupil, contact and fee-payer records written straight across, boarder status included. No re-keying, no duplicates, no CSV shuffle at the end of the round.

iSAMS
ESS SIMS
Arbor
Bromcom

Can’t see yours? Talk to us anyway. More integrations are in progress, including SchoolBase, and we build against new systems when customers need them.

The journey

Enquiry to signed contract.

Follow one family through, and see both sides at once: what they experience, and what your Registrar never has to do again.

01Be found

Every enquiry captured, whatever the source

Branded landing pages per entry point, enquiry forms on your website and prospectus requests all land in one place - no shared inbox, no lost name.

Emma routes every enquiry to the right entry point and flags anything unanswered.

The family sees

Finds the right page for 11+ entry
Requests a prospectus in under a minute
Gets a reply the same day, not next week

Your team never

Copies names out of a shared inbox
Wonders which enquiries were answered
Guesses which campaign worked
Optional add-on Awarding fee assistance? Add Bursary+ Means-tested applications, your criteria and a confidential awards round that sits alongside the same journey. See Bursary+
Coming autumn 2026

Boarding school? The International Recruitment & Enrolment Suite is coming.

An agent database and agent portal, visa tracking, contracts and commission - beside day and boarding enrolment reporting with future projections.

Agent database Agent portal Visa tracking Contracts & commission Day & boarding enrolment reporting Future projections
Agent pipeline - unlocked in the beta
House occupancy - unlocked in the beta
Register interest in the beta

Books a call with Maria Fernandez, Head of Independent Schools · Read the announcement

Between the entry points

Occasional places, filled properly.

Between 4+, 7+, 11+, 13+ and 16+, families arrive out of cycle - a relocation, a change of school, a sibling place. Each enquiry gets the same registration, assessment, offer and contract as a main-round candidate, without a separate process for the Registrar to remember.

Enquiries captured all year

Out-of-cycle enquiries land in the same pipeline with their source recorded.

Registration to contract

Registration fee, assessment, offer, contract and deposit - the full sequence for one family.

Straight into iSAMS

A single mid-year joiner transfers across with boarder status, nothing re-keyed.

Meet Emma

The Registrar’s assistant, on your terms.

Emma sets up your assessment days, chases the families going quiet, updates your forms and answers parent questions day and night. For fee-paying families, the guardrails are part of the premium experience. Meet her properly.

51% of all support chats resolved end to end, no human needed Applicaa platform data
Say this to Emma

Set up interview days on 3-4 March, 15-minute slots

Sessions created, slots generated, matching applicants invited. Non-bookers get a chase.
On your terms
  • Shows you every change and waits for your OK before anything happens
  • Never edits student records, never writes to your MIS
  • Never touches payments or admissions decisions
  • Your data is never used to train AI models
  • Runs entirely in the EU on AWS Bedrock, with Anthropic as the model provider

New Emma for families

The 9pm question gets a 9pm answer.

A chat widget for your website and applicant portal. Emma answers from knowledge you control and cites her source on every answer. If she doesn't know, she says so and offers your team.

Grounded answers with citations - she never invents one
Live hand-off to your team when staff are available, a ticket when not
Interested families become enquiries in your pipeline, automatically
Questions she couldn't answer become one-click knowledge fixes

Wykeham House School · Ask us anything

Online

Can we still register for 7+ assessment day in March?

Yes - registration for the March assessment day closes on 14 February. You can register now, book a private tour beforehand, and the registration fee is payable online. Source: 7+ admissions page

Would you like us to keep you posted about tour dates and deadlines?

Yes, take my details No thanks

New enquiry created in your pipeline: 7+ entry, Sept 2027

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Results

Registrars who cleared the desk.

Colfe's School

“Admissions+ has transformed the way we manage admissions. It's saved us significant time, reduced manual data entry and given families a seamless, professional experience from start to finish. The ability to generate reports instantly has been a game-changer for us.”

Colfe's School

Co-ed day school · Ages 3-18

850,000+

Applications processed

Processed across 2,583 schools and colleges using Applicaa.

330,000+

Offers made

Tracked from enquiry to acceptance in Admissions+.

50 days

Saved per school, on average

Admin time saved per school this year.

What schools ask Emma to do Set up assessment days for 60 applicants in one sitting. Nobody left unallocated. Illustrative examples
Optional add-on

An effortless process for awarding bursaries.

Bursary+ is an end-to-end system built for independent schools: parents apply online with evidence attached, Bursary+ calculates eligibility against your criteria, and outcomes go out through the same communication tools - all on the same family record.

How it works

01Parents complete the application

Share a link to your online Bursary+ form with prospective parents.

02Instant notifications

Staff are notified of submitted applications that are ready to be reviewed.

03Assessment and eligibility

Income and evidence are assessed, and Bursary+ calculates eligibility against the criteria you set.

04Outcome emails

Tell parents the outcome using the same integrated communication tools.

Flexible calculator

The Bursary+ algorithm is set to your school’s chosen parameters, so every case is assessed the same way.

Separated families

Parents can submit their information confidentially and independently of each other.

Hassle-free renewals

Filter and flag applications due for renewal, notify parents automatically, and let them edit pre-populated data from last year.

Budget and reporting

A live dashboard with customisable charts, remaining bursarial budget always in view, and bulk PDF exports.

Security & compliance Documents uploaded by parents are stored securely, every action is logged and time-stamped, and the system is GDPR compliant with ISO certification, 2FA and SSL encryption.

Ready to clear the Registrar’s desk?

Book a meeting and we will walk the journey from enquiry to signed contract.