---
description: Review of Pearspark Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand.
image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png
title: Pearspark | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ
---

Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [School Administration Software](/directory/4685/school-management/software) > [Pearspark](/software/561086/Pearspark)

# Pearspark

Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/561086/Pearspark

> Who Pearspark is for: the founder, head of school, or administrator of a small private school — roughly 10 to 200 students — who is currently running the school on some mix of spreadsheets, a form builder, a payment link, and a group chat. Micro schools, classical and faith-based schools, Montessori schools, hybrid academies, and homeschool co-ops are the schools we build for every day. If that's you, most school management systems were designed for districts a hundred times your size, priced for their budgets, and sold through their procurement process. Pearspark was designed for yours.

What you're probably trying to solve. Most schools come to us with some version of the same three problems. First, the person doing administration is also teaching, fundraising, and answering parent texts — so anything that takes hours (report cards, attendance records, invoicing) has to shrink to minutes. Second, parents expect the polish of a big-school app: push notifications, grades on their phone, online payment. Third, tuition collection is leaky — invoices go out late or not at all, and nobody enjoys chasing families for money.

How Pearspark solves them. One subscription covers the whole school: student records, attendance, a spreadsheet-style gradebook that flows straight into report cards and transcripts with GPA, standards-based grading if that's how you teach, admissions with an application form you embed on your own website, class scheduling, lesson planning, health and medication records, a barcode lending library, volunteer scheduling, and tuition billing with autopay through your own Stripe account — your money never passes through ours. Families install the parent portal on their phones like a native app, no app store needed, and get push notifications for grades, messages, invoices, and same-day absence alerts.

What makes it different. Three things buyers tell us stand out. The parent app is included, not an add-on — "no mobile app" is the most common complaint about legacy systems in this category. The billing is genuinely flexible: monthly, weekly, fortnightly, quarterly, or semester plans, family autopay, proration, sliding-scale financial aid, and reporting built for ESA and scholarship programs. And the lesson planner is built for schools where learning doesn't only happen on campus: publish a week and each family sees a day-by-day home checklist — a natural fit for hybrid schools and co-ops.

What it costs. Pricing is published on pearspark.com, not hidden behind a demo call: $50 per month includes your first 20 students, then volume bands from $2.50 down to $1.00 per student as you grow. No setup fee, no contract, no per-user charges — staff and family accounts are unlimited. A 30-day free trial lets you prove it on your own data first (card required; nothing is charged until day 31).

What support looks like. Setup is self-serve and most schools do it without help: CSV importers bring in your roster, past transcripts, and even assignment-level gradebooks, with a dry-run preview before anything is written and a 24-hour undo after. A library of more than 100 short how-to videos covers every workflow in about a minute each, and printable quick-start guides walk each role — admin, teacher, parent — through their first week. Email support answers real questions from real humans.

Who it's not for. If you're a district, a school of 600+, or you need SIS integrations with state reporting pipelines out of the box, you'll outgrow us today — look at the enterprise platforms. But if you're a small school that wants one honest system, priced in the open, that your teachers and parents will actually enjoy using, start the trial and judge it on your own data.
> 
> Verdict: Rated \*\*\*\* by 0 users. Top-rated for **Overall Quality**.

-----

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Pearspark

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$50.00
- **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free Trial)
- **Target Audience**: 2–10, 11–50
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: English, French, German, Spanish
- **Available Countries**: United States

## Features

- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Admissions Management
- Assignment Management
- Attendance Management
- Attendance Tracking
- Calendar Management
- Class Scheduling
- Curriculum Management
- Customisable Forms
- Data Import/Export
- Electronic Payments
- Enrollments/Onboarding
- Facility Management
- Faculty/Staff Management
- Gradebook
- Independent/Private
- K-12
- Learning Management
- Library Management

## Integrations (1 total)

- Stripe

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base

## Category

- [School Administration Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4685/school-management/software)

## Links

- [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/561086/Pearspark)

## This page is available in the following languages

| Locale | URL |
| en | <https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/561086-Pearspark/> |
| en-AU | <https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/561086/Pearspark> |
| en-GB | <https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/561086/Pearspark> |
| en-IE | <https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/561086/Pearspark> |
| en-NZ | <https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/561086/Pearspark> |

-----

## Structured Data

<script type="application/ld+json">
  {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"name":null,"address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":null,"addressRegion":null,"postalCode":null,"streetAddress":null},"description":"Software Advice helps businesses in New Zealand find the best software. Compare software options and learn more from our research and user reviews.","email":"info@softwareadvice.co.nz","url":"https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/","logo":"https://dm-localsites-assets-prod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/logo-white-d2cfd05bdd863947d19a4d1b9567dde8.svg","@id":"https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/#organization","@type":"Organization","parentOrganization":"G2.com, Inc.","sameAs":[]},{"name":"Pearspark","description":"Who Pearspark is for: the founder, head of school, or administrator of a small private school — roughly 10 to 200 students — who is currently running the school on some mix of spreadsheets, a form builder, a payment link, and a group chat. Micro schools, classical and faith-based schools, Montessori schools, hybrid academies, and homeschool co-ops are the schools we build for every day. If that's you, most school management systems were designed for districts a hundred times your size, priced for their budgets, and sold through their procurement process. Pearspark was designed for yours.\n\nWhat you're probably trying to solve. Most schools come to us with some version of the same three problems. First, the person doing administration is also teaching, fundraising, and answering parent texts — so anything that takes hours (report cards, attendance records, invoicing) has to shrink to minutes. Second, parents expect the polish of a big-school app: push notifications, grades on their phone, online payment. Third, tuition collection is leaky — invoices go out late or not at all, and nobody enjoys chasing families for money.\n\nHow Pearspark solves them. One subscription covers the whole school: student records, attendance, a spreadsheet-style gradebook that flows straight into report cards and transcripts with GPA, standards-based grading if that's how you teach, admissions with an application form you embed on your own website, class scheduling, lesson planning, health and medication records, a barcode lending library, volunteer scheduling, and tuition billing with autopay through your own Stripe account — your money never passes through ours. Families install the parent portal on their phones like a native app, no app store needed, and get push notifications for grades, messages, invoices, and same-day absence alerts.\n\nWhat makes it different. Three things buyers tell us stand out. The parent app is included, not an add-on — \"no mobile app\" is the most common complaint about legacy systems in this category. The billing is genuinely flexible: monthly, weekly, fortnightly, quarterly, or semester plans, family autopay, proration, sliding-scale financial aid, and reporting built for ESA and scholarship programs. And the lesson planner is built for schools where learning doesn't only happen on campus: publish a week and each family sees a day-by-day home checklist — a natural fit for hybrid schools and co-ops.\n\nWhat it costs. Pricing is published on pearspark.com, not hidden behind a demo call: $50 per month includes your first 20 students, then volume bands from $2.50 down to $1.00 per student as you grow. No setup fee, no contract, no per-user charges — staff and family accounts are unlimited. A 30-day free trial lets you prove it on your own data first (card required; nothing is charged until day 31).\n\nWhat support looks like. Setup is self-serve and most schools do it without help: CSV importers bring in your roster, past transcripts, and even assignment-level gradebooks, with a dry-run preview before anything is written and a 24-hour undo after. A library of more than 100 short how-to videos covers every workflow in about a minute each, and printable quick-start guides walk each role — admin, teacher, parent — through their first week. Email support answers real questions from real humans.\n\nWho it's not for. If you're a district, a school of 600+, or you need SIS integrations with state reporting pipelines out of the box, you'll outgrow us today — look at the enterprise platforms. But if you're a small school that wants one honest system, priced in the open, that your teachers and parents will actually enjoy using, start the trial and judge it on your own data.","image":"https://gdm-catalog-fmapi-prod.imgix.net/ProductScreenshot/74e8d82a-2ec0-4f95-ac6e-5157c7b04c78.png","url":"https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/561086/Pearspark","@id":"https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/561086/Pearspark#software","@type":"SoftwareApplication","publisher":{"@id":"https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/#organization"},"applicationCategory":"BusinessApplication","offers":{"price":"50","@type":"Offer","priceCurrency":"USD"},"operatingSystem":"Cloud, Android, Platform ios, Platform ipad"},{"@id":"https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/561086/Pearspark#breadcrumblist","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"name":"Home","position":1,"item":"/","@type":"ListItem"},{"name":"School Administration Software","position":2,"item":"/directory/4685/school-management/software","@type":"ListItem"},{"name":"Pearspark","position":3,"item":"/software/561086/Pearspark","@type":"ListItem"}]}]}
</script>