Scale
Active enrolled students
Student volume sets the platform baseline. Larger enrolments sit in progressively better volume bands, so the marginal rate reduces as the institution grows.
Commercial model
SquareCampus is licensed annually as one institutional platform. The licence is calculated through student-volume bands and scoped according to the operational depth, governance requirements and deployment profile the institution actually needs.
No hidden module wall. No compulsory rip-and-replace. Scope, ownership and success measures agreed before deployment.
Commercial doctrine
Students price platform scale. The plan prices operational and governance depth.
Two separate dimensions, decided separately. Scale is a fact about the institution; depth is a decision about how much command it wants over daily operations.
How the licence is composed
The annual platform licence is not a module count. It is the sum of institutional scale, the depth of operational command selected, the complexity of the institution and how the platform is delivered.
The equation
Annual platform licence
One annual institutional licence, composed of four inputs that are each discussed openly during scoping. Nothing is bundled into an unstated blended rate.
Active enrolled students
Student volume sets the platform baseline. Larger enrolments sit in progressively better volume bands, so the marginal rate reduces as the institution grows.
Starter, Pro or Enterprise
The plan reflects how much operational and governance control the institution needs — from connected core operations through to trust-level command.
Campuses, workflows, roles and governance
Multiple campuses, deeper approval chains and wider role structures change the shape of the rollout and the shape of the commercial.
Migration, deployment, integrations and support
Data migration, deployment profile, integrations and the support model are scoped explicitly rather than folded into an unstated blended rate.
Plan architecture
Each plan represents progressively deeper control over how the institution runs: connected core operations, then visibility and accountability, then trust-level governance across campuses.
Core school operations on one connected institutional backbone.
The problem it solves
Records, attendance, fees and results live in separate tools, so every question needs a person to reconcile an answer by hand.
Best suited for
Deployment posture
Managed SquareCampus Cloud, with standard onboarding and support.
Capability themes
Operational command for institutions that need deeper visibility and accountability.
The problem it solves
The core runs, but leadership still cannot see what is slipping, who owns it, or whether an exception was ever closed.
Best suited for
Deployment posture
Managed SquareCampus Cloud, with priority implementation and support options.
Capability themes
Pro adds optional single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID for the institution's own tenant, subject to technical onboarding. Staff sign in with their existing institutional accounts under the institution's own MFA, Conditional Access and user-assignment policies, and SquareCampus continues to govern authorisation.
Single sign-on is an option the institution chooses, not a requirement. SquareCampus-managed credentials remain available in every plan, and an institution is not asked to change its directory to use SquareCampus.
Institutional governance, cross-campus command and advanced controls for larger or more complex institutions.
The problem it solves
Central policy and local accountability pull against each other, identity and audit requirements outgrow ordinary controls, and no single view reconciles what every campus is actually doing.
Best suited for
Deployment posture
Managed cloud, private-cloud or on-premises eligibility, with enterprise implementation governance and tailored support structures.
Capability themes
Enterprise is differentiated by identity governance rather than by having SSO. Identity requirements across several campuses or directories, directory-group to role mappings, SSO enforcement policy, joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle controls, identity migration and identity audit controls are scoped as Enterprise requirements during technical discovery.
Enterprise is not Pro with more modules. It is selected when governance, identity, audit or cross-campus requirements sit above what ordinary controls provide. Identity governance requirements are established during technical discovery and set out in the proposal.
| Dimension | 01Starter | 02Pro | 03Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operational scope | Connected core operations | Core operations plus workflow governance | Cross-campus operations under central policy |
| Leadership visibility | Standard operational dashboards | Owner command views and richer analytics | Trust-level command and advanced analytics |
| Accountability model | Role-based access and audit history | Exception routing, workflow SLAs, deeper auditability | Approval and governance chains, advanced policy controls |
| Institutional structure | Single campus | Single or growing campus operations | Trust and campus hierarchy |
| Sign-in and identity | SquareCampus-managed credentials, role-based access | Credentials plus optional Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on | Identity governance: multi-directory, group-to-role mappings, enforcement policy, lifecycle (scoped) |
| Integrations | Standard configuration | API and standard integration readiness | Enterprise integrations, custom integrations |
| Mobile apps | Parent and staff apps included | Parent and staff apps included | Parent and staff apps included; white-label scoped separately |
| AEGIS intelligence | Not included | Eligibility or controlled access | Governed access within an agreed allowance |
| Chosen because | The core needs to work as one system | Leadership needs visibility and accountability | Governance, identity or audit requirements — at any enrolment |
| Deployment | Managed SquareCampus Cloud | Managed SquareCampus Cloud | Managed, private-cloud or on-premises eligibility |
| Implementation and support | Standard onboarding and support | Priority implementation and support options | Enterprise implementation governance, tailored SLA structures |
Capability themes are indicative. Final inclusions, limits and service levels are set by the proposal and the signed order form.
Enterprise is selected by governance requirement, not merely by enrolment. A standalone school may require institution-managed identity, advanced approvals, executive visibility, stricter auditability or governed intelligence even without operating a large campus network.
Most institutions are well served by Starter or Pro. Enterprise exists for institutions whose governance, identity or audit requirements genuinely sit above them — not as a safer version of the same product.
Reasons a single-campus school lands on Enterprise
Enterprise capabilities are institutional controls rather than open-ended service commitments. Governed AEGIS access, messaging, storage and third-party usage run within agreed allowances or on a metered basis, and implementation, migration and custom engineering are scoped as their own lines. Allowances and fair-use terms are set in the proposal and the order form.
What Enterprise adds
An ordinary ERP grows by adding modules. Enterprise grows by adding institutional governance: the structure, command, identity, audit and deployment controls a trust or a complex institution actually has to run on.
| Dimension | Ordinary ERP modules | SquareCampus Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Institutional structure | Several schools run as separate instances or branches | Trust, school and campus modelled as one hierarchy: policy set once, executed locally, deviations recorded as exceptions |
| Command | Consolidated reports prepared from each branch | Cross-campus command views built on the same records the campuses run on |
| Governance | Approval steps inside individual modules | Approval and governance chains with configurable exception ownership across workflows and campuses |
| Identity | User accounts per instance | Identity governance: multi-directory requirements, group-to-role mappings, SSO enforcement policy and lifecycle controls, scoped during discovery |
| Auditability | Change logs per module | Advanced policy and audit controls, advanced audit exports and data portability |
| Intelligence | Reports and dashboards | Governed AEGIS access within an agreed allowance: permission-scoped, source-grounded, audited |
| Deployment and integration | Vendor cloud, standard connectors | Managed cloud, private-cloud or on-premises eligibility, enterprise integrations and implementation governance |
Identity options
The identity provider establishes who a person is. SquareCampus decides what that person may do: institution membership, campus scope, roles, workflow privileges, record access and operational permissions are governed inside SquareCampus and are never derived from an email address or domain alone.
| Dimension | Starter | Pro | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| SquareCampus-managed credentials with role-based access | Included | Included | Included |
| Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on for the institution's own tenant | Not included | Optional, subject to technical onboarding | Optional, subject to technical onboarding |
| Sign-in mode chosen by the institution (credentials, both, or enforced SSO) | Credentials | Institution's choice | Institution's choice, with enforcement policy scoped |
| Multi-campus and multi-directory identity governance | Not included | Not included | Scoped as an Enterprise requirement |
| Directory-group to role mappings, lifecycle controls, identity audit | Not included | Not included | Scoped as an Enterprise requirement |
| Authorisation: membership, campus scope, roles, records, workflows | Governed in SquareCampus | Governed in SquareCampus | Governed in SquareCampus |
Fit
SquareCampus is priced for institutions that want operational governance, workflow ownership, exception management, institutional visibility, accountability and auditability. To an institution that needs only the cheapest attendance, fees and report-card product it will look expensive, and that is a correct reading rather than a misunderstanding.
Best suited to
SquareCampus may not be the right fit if
Volume-based pricing
Student volume sets platform scale, and larger volumes use the shared platform foundation more efficiently. The commercial model reflects those economies rather than imposing a flat rate for every institution.
The institution benefits from its own scale
SquareCampus maintains one shared platform baseline — capacity, security, observability, workflow infrastructure and the operations behind them. That baseline does not multiply with every additional student.
Larger institutions therefore receive the benefit of platform economies of scale. The marginal rate reduces as enrolment grows, while the selected plan reflects the workflow, analytics, governance and deployment depth required. An institution is not charged the entry rate indefinitely for growing.
Platform foundation
Shared capacity, security and operations.
Greater utilisation
Larger enrolments use that foundation more fully.
Lower marginal rate
The benefit returns to the institution.
Marginal rate per student
Enrolment →
Shared platform foundation — constant across every band
Pricing uses progressive, volume-based student bands. The chart shows the direction of the marginal rate as enrolment grows — the bands themselves are set out in your proposal.
What shapes the proposal
A proposal is only useful if it reflects the institution as it actually operates. These are the dimensions mapped before commercial terms are issued.
The billable enrolment basis for the term.
Single campus, group, or trust hierarchy.
Which operational areas move onto the platform.
How much history moves, and in what state.
Accounting, identity, payments and existing institutional systems.
Managed cloud, private cloud, or on-premises.
Response expectations and escalation structure.
Approval chains, policy controls and audit expectations.
Whether governed intelligence is in scope, and at what depth.
Messaging volume and document retention.
Exact commercial terms are issued after a short institutional discovery.
Begin discoveryIncluded versus separately scoped
The licence covers the platform capability represented by the plan, the standard SquareCampus parent and staff mobile apps, and the standard onboarding and support that belong to that plan. Complex legacy migration and data cleaning, bespoke integrations, custom engineering, premium implementation, private-cloud or on-premises deployment, exceptional SLA or support requirements and metered third-party usage are scoped and quoted as their own lines rather than folded into the licence.
Each of these is quoted as a distinct line in the proposal. Metered third-party usage — messaging, payment gateways, storage — is passed through rather than marked into the licence.
The SquareCampus parent and staff mobile apps are included in every plan at no additional charge. White-labelled Android and iOS apps, published under the institution's own branding and store listings, carry a single charge that covers the entire agreed term, whether that is one year or many. Founding Institutional Partners receive the white-labelled apps without the standard white-label charge.
Founding-partner pilot
A pilot is a measured operational exercise, not a trial account. It runs on a written baseline and closes against an agreed metric. For the two Founding Institutional Partner positions it runs inside that programme.
Convert, extend or stop — decided on evidence.
One campus or one workflow bundle, implemented with founder-level involvement, and closed against the baseline written down at the start.
Procurement questions
Answers here describe how the model works. The signed order form governs the specific terms for your institution.
The licensing model is published on the pricing page; figures are issued in a written proposal after institutional discovery. One annual institutional licence, calculated through progressive student-volume bands and shaped by the plan selected (Starter, Pro or Enterprise), the institution's complexity and its deployment profile. A single published figure would be wrong for most institutions in both directions, so the proposal is written against the institution's actual enrolment, plan, complexity and deployment profile.
The licence covers the platform capability represented by the plan, the standard SquareCampus parent and staff mobile apps, and the standard onboarding and support that belong to that plan. Complex legacy migration and data cleaning, bespoke integrations, custom engineering, premium implementation, private-cloud or on-premises deployment, exceptional SLA or support requirements and metered third-party usage are scoped and quoted as their own lines rather than folded into the licence. Every separately scoped line appears in the proposal before signature.
Billable enrolment is agreed in the order form using active enrolled records. Growth may be reconciled through an agreed true-up mechanism, while reductions are normally considered at renewal. The signed order form governs in every case.
Billable enrolment is agreed in the order form using active enrolled students. The marginal per-student rate reduces as enrolment grows through successive volume bands; growth is reconciled through an agreed true-up mechanism, and reductions are normally considered at renewal.
Enterprise is selected by governance requirement, not by enrolment or module count. It adds the trust-school-campus hierarchy with policy set once and executed locally, cross-campus command views built on the records campuses run on, approval and governance chains with configurable exception ownership, identity governance requirements scoped during discovery, advanced policy and audit controls with audit exports and data portability, governed AEGIS access within an agreed allowance, and managed, private-cloud or on-premises deployment eligibility with enterprise implementation governance.
Usually not. SquareCampus is priced for institutions that want operational governance, workflow ownership, exception management, institutional visibility, accountability and auditability. To an institution that needs only the cheapest attendance, fees and report-card product it will look expensive, and that is a correct reading rather than a misunderstanding. Starter is the right conversation only when the institution wants those functions connected on one governed record with owners against exceptions.
Yes. A pilot is deliberately scoped to one campus or one workflow bundle, so the existing ERP keeps running and stays authoritative alongside it. Replacing anything is a later decision the institution takes once the evidence exists, never a precondition of starting.
Legacy data migration and historical data cleaning are scoped separately from the annual licence, because the effort depends entirely on how much history moves and what condition it is in. The scope and its commercial treatment are agreed in the proposal.
Private-cloud and on-premises deployment are available under Enterprise, subject to scoping. Deployment profile is one of the inputs to the proposal, and the resulting responsibilities are set out before implementation begins.
No. The SquareCampus parent and staff mobile apps are included in every plan at no additional charge. White-labelled Android and iOS apps, published under the institution's own branding and store listings, carry a single charge that covers the entire agreed term, whether that is one year or many. Founding Institutional Partners receive the white-labelled apps without the standard white-label charge.
Yes. Every plan includes SquareCampus-managed credentials with role-based access. Privileged roles are designed to carry additional sign-in verification, applied according to the institution's policy. Single sign-on is an option, not a requirement.
Yes. Pro adds optional single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID for the institution's own tenant, subject to technical onboarding. Staff sign in with their existing institutional accounts under the institution's own MFA, Conditional Access and user-assignment policies, and SquareCampus continues to govern authorisation. The institution chooses the sign-in mode: SquareCampus-managed credentials only; SquareCampus credentials alongside institutional single sign-on; Institution-enforced single sign-on, where the institution's policy requires it and the configuration supports it.
No. Standard Microsoft Entra ID sign-in is used to authenticate identity. Access to email, files, Teams, SharePoint or other Microsoft Graph data is not required for sign-in.
No. Single sign-on authenticates users. Automated provisioning, deprovisioning and joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle controls are identity governance requirements scoped under Enterprise rather than part of SSO.
Enterprise is differentiated by identity governance rather than by having SSO. Identity requirements across several campuses or directories, directory-group to role mappings, SSO enforcement policy, joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle controls, identity migration and identity audit controls are scoped as Enterprise requirements during technical discovery. The identity provider establishes who a person is. SquareCampus decides what that person may do: institution membership, campus scope, roles, workflow privileges, record access and operational permissions are governed inside SquareCampus and are never derived from an email address or domain alone.
Quoted commercial figures are exclusive of applicable taxes unless the proposal states otherwise. Applicable Indian taxes are shown on the order form and invoices.
AEGIS availability depends on the plan, and governed usage is part of the scoping conversation. Ordinary institutional use is covered by the plan; unusually high usage is treated as a separately scoped, metered dimension so it never distorts the base licence.
Yes. Enterprise is built for trust and campus hierarchies, and a single trust-level agreement can cover multiple campuses with central policy and local accountability. Campus coverage is defined in the order form.
There are exactly two Founding Institutional Partner positions, ever: one school or eligible school institution, and one university. Once both positions are allocated, the programme closes permanently. A Founding Institutional Partner is not an ordinary customer. The position involves a strategic capital commitment under a separately executed agreement, material participation in product validation, and structured roadmap input.
Next step
Bring your campus structure, student volume, the workflows in scope, the migration you are carrying and the governance your board expects. We map them, then issue a written proposal against that reality.
SquareCampus is priced for institutions that want operational governance, workflow ownership, exception management, institutional visibility, accountability and auditability. To an institution that needs only the cheapest attendance, fees and report-card product it will look expensive, and that is a correct reading rather than a misunderstanding.