For parents and guardians

Know your child reached school, the moment they walk in.

GatePass tells you when your child arrives at school and when they leave. It shows their fees and trips, and brings the school’s news to your phone. It is free for parents. Your child’s school pays for it.

You can use GatePass when your child’s school uses it. If yours does not yet, see the end of this page.

A parent's GatePass: Amina is at school, arrived at 7:12am
What you get

Everything about your own child, in one place.

No phoning the office to ask whether they got in, and no letter that never left the school bag.

Amina is at school: arrived 7:12am, still at school now

Arrived, and still at school

A message the moment they walk in, with the time. Later, another when they leave.

Two children's fees still to pay, with the amount and due date for each

What is left to pay

Each child’s fees balance and due date, when the school shares fees in the app.

A school trip: set off 7:35am, every stop with the time, and the next one

Every stop of a trip

When the bus sets off, each stop on the way, and when they are back.

An invitation to a parents' meeting, answered with I will come or I cannot

Invitations

Parents’ meetings and visiting days. Say yes in one tap and the gate expects you.

Your privacy

You see your children. Nobody else’s.

You can see

Your own children: when they arrived, whether they are still at school, when they left, their fees, their trips and news from the school.

You cannot see

Any other family’s child or balance, or anything about the school’s staff. And no other parent can see anything about yours.

You cannot reply

News from the school comes one way. To reach the school, phone or visit as you always have.

Signing in

It takes about a minute.

There are no forms. Your children are already on the school’s list. The app knows you by the phone number the school has for you.

1

Download GatePass and choose “I’m a parent or guardian”.

2

Enter the phone number you gave your child’s school.

3

Type the 6-digit code we send to that number.

4

Choose a 5-number PIN. Next time, you sign in with your number and PIN.

5

Your children appear.

Your child is not showing? The school may have a different number for you. Ask the office to check it.

A code from the school

Some schools give parents a printed code. Type it on the “Add your child” screen and your child is added.

Forgot your PIN

Tap “Forgot PIN?” on the sign-in screen. We send a code to your phone, and you choose a new PIN.

Lock the app

Open GatePass with the fingerprint or face that unlocks your phone.

Changed your phone number

Ask the school office to update it. Your number is what links you to your child.

Leaving GatePass? Signing out keeps your children linked for next time. Delete my account

If your school does not use GatePass

Tell your head teacher about it.

Schools decide this, not parents. Any school can use GatePass free for its whole first term.