Every child scanned at the gate. Every parent told the second they walk in. Every no-show flagged before first period.
Parents stop wondering. You become the school they recommend.
No card. Live within an hour.
Livingstone High School
Gate A · live128
Present
6
Late
34
Not in
Amina Nakato
S.1B · parent notified
Joel Mukasa
P.3A · parent notified
1 unaccounted · parents alerted at 9:00
GatePass is a school gate attendance and parent notification system. Students scan a QR code at the gate in under two seconds, their parent receives an instant notification, and any child not scanned by the school’s cutoff is flagged and their parent alerted. It also runs class registers, boarding roll-call and visitor pre-booking.
She leaves at 6:30 on a boda. He walks off with his friends at 6:45. And then — nothing. No message. No confirmation. Nine hours of assuming it went fine.
Most mornings it does. But no parent has ever stopped checking their phone.
The silence ends here.
She left home. Did she arrive?
A paper register catches it at break, if anyone looks.
Her parent’s phone buzzes at 7:12. And if she hadn’t arrived, it would have buzzed at 9:00 instead.
He passed the gate. Did he go to class?
An empty seat could be sick leave or skiving. The register can’t tell you which.
His gate scan proves he’s on site, so every skipped lesson is flagged by name.
Someone is at the gate asking for a child.
The guard has no list. He waves them through.
Visitors are pre-booked and badged. Anyone unexpected is stopped first.
On the parent’s phone
Your child walks through the gate and your phone tells you. That is the whole thing.
Download the app once, and the messages find you — when they arrive, when they leave, and when the boarding roll is called at night. Nothing to check. Nothing to chase. Just the small certainty, every day, that they got there.
Tuesday, 12 May
6:30
Amina arrived at school.
Amina left school.
Joel has not been scanned in today. Please contact the school office.
Boarding roll-call complete. Grace is in her dormitory.
Nothing you can put on a signpost changes how a parent feels at 7:00 in the morning. This does — every single day, to every single family.
A reason to choose you.
Every school in your area promises safety. You can prove it before the child reaches the classroom.
Fewer calls to the office.
“Did he arrive?” is the most common call your secretary takes. Parents stop asking, because they already know.
An answer when it matters.
When a parent asks where their child was on a Tuesday three weeks ago, you have a timestamped record — not a guess and not a smudged book.
Ready when the inspector comes.
Attendance, boarding roll-call and visitor logs export in a tap, in the format an inspection actually asks for.
Something real to announce.
Your next parents’ meeting has a genuine improvement in it — one that costs families nothing and that they feel the very next morning.
How it works
Each pupil taps their QR — in the app or on a printed ID. One beep, under two seconds, no queue at the bell.
A notification goes out the moment they’re in — nothing for the office to send, and nobody to phone.
Every arrival fills the board in real time — who’s in, who’s late, who’s still out — without a paper register.
Any child not scanned by your cutoff is flagged on its own, and their parent is alerted by 9:00.
A day in the life
7:40 AM · the gate
142 of 168 in and six flagged late, filling the board as they walk through — no register called, no queue at the bell.
11:15 AM · in class
A pupil who passed the gate but never turned up to class is flagged on the lesson register by name — so anyone dodging is spotted that same period.
9:10 PM · boarding
Staff confirm each dorm room by room. Once the last one’s in, a single message goes to every boarding parent.
Everything a school runs on
Not a visitor book with a school skin — every tool a school day runs on, purpose-built.
142
checked in today
Parent alerts
the second they arrive
Sub-2s gate scan
QR in app or printed
No-show alert
by 9:00, every day
Attendance
96% · permanent record
Class roster
gate-gated register
Boarding roll-call
per student, at night
Visitor pre-booking
host notified
Emergency roll-call
mark safe / missing
Late tracker
lateness flagged
Reports
no analytics paywall
One platform, role by role — each person gets exactly what their job needs, and nothing it doesn’t.
Continuous scan mode. One beep confirms each entry — that’s the whole job.
Sees who in their class has arrived, and marks the lesson register.
The whole school at a glance — here, late, absent. Manages cards, staff and reports.
School-wide view, pulled in only on the events that genuinely matter.
Runs the evening roll-call, room by room, in a couple of minutes.
A quiet notification when they arrive, when they leave, and at boarding lights-out. Nothing else — no password to remember, no dashboard to check.
Staff scan at the same gate.
Who reported to work, and when they left — a straight record of the day, kept the same way the pupils’ is.
Daily, class, boarding and term reports build themselves as the day runs — export any of them in a tap, the moment a parent, a board, or an inspector asks.
See pricingDaily attendance
Who arrived, was late, or absent — per class and school-wide.
Boarding nightly
Room-by-room presence with timestamp and staff name.
Visitor log
Every visitor, in and out, with purpose and host. Exportable.
Term summary
Full-term attendance, per pupil, ready for reports.
Late-arrival trends
Who is consistently late, and on which days of the week.
Sent-home log
Every early departure, with reason and notification status.
Our first school
“Now the gate confirms every pupil the moment they arrive, and their parent knows at once. It has made our school safer, and our parents calmer.”
Mr. Kimbugwe Hannington
Headmaster · Masajja Secondary School
One full term free. No credit card. Live within an hour of setup.