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A Single Source of Truth
for Your School

For nearly 40 years, TASS has helped Australian independent K–12 schools bring their operations together in one platform. Today, over 400 schools use TASS for finance, payroll, administration, and community engagement. Learn how TASS can help streamline your school's operations and empower your community.

How the Migration Works

We begin with your school’s current systems and move through each stage in a planned sequence: governance, discovery, configuration, migration, training and go-live. Your team approves each stage before the next begins. During discovery, we confirm your timeline based on your data, the systems being replaced and your school calendar.
Planning and Governance

A dedicated Project Facilitator is assigned, the plan and milestones are agreed, and your school nominates its Project Manager.

Setup and Configuration

TASS is installed and configured to your design, and guided sessions map every field from your outgoing system across to it.

Data Migration

Your data is profiled for quality before mapping begins. A full trial migration is loaded for your team to review and approve. Then the old system is quarantined, the final migration runs, and the results are reconciled and signed off.

Training and Readiness

Role based training for administration, finance, and teaching staff, with payroll proven through a parallel run before it goes live.

Go Live and Review

On site support from day one, advanced training once staff are working live, then a formal project closure with your team.

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More than Just a School Management System

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100% web-based
with a range of deployment options.

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Nearly 40 years
of experience in software development.

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Industry-focused
on the needs of independent schools.

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Core Operations
 with a single source of
truth.

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ISO 27001:2022 
certified by SAI Global and audited externally.

One Record for Easy Reconciliation

TASS includes the general ledger, parent accounts, fee schedules, accounts payable, purchasing, fixed assets, and payroll. Finance and student administration share the same records, so a fee raised against a student appears in the ledger without an overnight transfer between systems.

Your school holds one vendor contract covering student administration, finance, payroll, the portals, and the Orbit apps. Licence renewals and integration costs reduce as each superseded system is retired.

School Finance Made Easy

School finance has been part of TASS for nearly 40 years. Parent accounts, fee schedules, the general ledger, purchasing, fixed assets, and payroll run inside the platform, and your finance team keeps approval and control over each process.

One Platform to Support

TASS is web based and hosted in Australia on AWS Sydney. The platform holds ISO 27001:2022 certification, audited externally against the current version of the standard, and keeps a complete audit trail.

API access is available for the integrations your school builds. Schools that maintain their own infrastructure can run TASS on premises, with the school responsible for servers, backups, and update cycles.

One Place to Complete a Task

Enrolments, attendance, timetabling, medical records, academic reporting, learning support, and pastoral care share one student record. Medical, custody, and risk alerts appear on the screens where staff need them. Parents update their own contact details, submit absences, and book parent teacher interviews through Parent Orbit. Those updates reach the student record without office staff retyping them. Role based training runs before go live and covers the tasks your team performs daily. Customer Care answers questions from the first week onwards.

Teaching Continues While the Change Happens

Academic reporting stays on your existing system until a reporting cycle has finished, so teachers are not asked to learn a new markbook part way through a semester. Assessment, reporting, and pastoral care move between cycles. Once the student record is in TASS, TrackOne Studio brings academic results, attendance, behaviour, and wellbeing data into one view. Heads of curriculum and wellbeing leads can read a class trend without collating it from separate exports.

A Say in Where the Platform Goes

TASS development is customer-driven. Schools raise requirements through the customer forum, and the product team publishes the direction it is working towards. Schools that engage with that process influence it.

API access supports the integrations your school builds. Orbit covers mobile for staff, parents, and students.

What the Board Sees During the Change

Each phase produces documentation the board can read: the data mapping record, the hosting and certification detail, and the schedule for switching off each system. Vendor contracts reduce as that schedule completes.

TASS Orbit connects teachers, administrators, and parents around student outcomes once the portals are live. Schools in your state that have completed this change can speak with you about how it went.

400+ Independent Schools Australia
40Years Built for Australian Schools
319,756 Students managed on TASS

How the Change Runs

Note: This is an indicative phasing. The dates depend on the condition of your data, the systems you run today, and your academic calendar.
For the Business Manager
One System Means Your Data Stays Consistent Across the School
TASS includes the general ledger, parent accounts, fee schedules, accounts payable, purchasing, fixed assets, and payroll. Finance and student administration share the same records, so a fee raised against a student appears in the ledger without manual workarounds between systems. Your school holds one platform covering student administration, finance, payroll, the portals, and the Orbit apps. Licence renewals and integration costs reduce as unnecessary systems are retired.
For IT
A Single Vendor Relationship for Your IT Team
No integration dependencies to maintain across separate SIS and finance vendors. When something goes wrong, there is one call to make and one team accountable for the fix.
For the School Leaders
Your Leadership Team Works From the Same Data
Every part of the school, admin, finance, students, staff, parents, and community, operates from the same data. No conflicting reports from disconnected systems.

Our Migration Approach

We help schools move to TASS at a pace that suits them. Existing tools can stay in place while the core system transitions, and they are only retired once the replacement is proven in your school. This gradual approach reduces risk and supports a smoother changeover.

  • Keep the tools your staff already use well, at first
  • Move student records, finance, and payroll onto one spine
  • Retire systems as each replacement proves out
  • Contracts, licences, and integration surface reduce over time

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Common Questions About Switching

How long does a migration take? TASS consolidates onto one platform over dates decided during discovery based on the condition of your data, the number of systems involved, and your academic calendar.
Do we have to switch everything at once?

No, TASS operates alongside your current systems throughout the change. Each system is switched off on a date your school agrees.

How much of the work falls on our staff?

TASS Professional Services runs discovery, data mapping, configuration, and role based training. Your staff make the decisions about how your school works, and answer questions about your existing data. The implementation team handles the migration itself.

What happens to our historical data? Data mapping happens in the first phase, before anything moves. You receive a written record of what comes across, what is archived, and in what format.
Will we see the data before we commit to it? Yes. TASS runs a trial migration first, the school reviews it, and a Trial Data Migration Review document records acceptance before anything proceeds.
Where does our data live? TASS Cloud is hosted on Amazon Web Services in the Sydney region, so data stays onshore and TASS manages the infrastructure, backups and patching. Schools that prefer to host on their own infrastructure can run TASS on-premises, retaining full control of the environment and responsibility for servers and backups.
What happens if we find something wrong after go-live?

User Acceptance Testing guidelines are provided to help your school's staff verify critical records before go-live. Post go-live support then falls under the standard helpdesk SLA.

Can we speak to a school that has done this? Yes absolutely, let us know and we can arrange a conversation with a school.

What to Look for When Evaluating School Management Platforms

Criteria
What TASS Offers
Which parts of school operations run in TASS?
All your core operations like student administration, finance, payroll, and HR run from a single source of truth - TASS.
Where is our data hosted, and under which certification?
Your data is hosted in Australia under ISO 27001:2022, audited externally.
Is API access included in the licence or charged separately?
API access is included in your TASS licence.
Does TASS include government reporting?
TASS has built-in functionality for government reporting, such as Payday Super, Census, and Student Attendance STATS collection.
Who sets the product roadmap, and is the direction published?
Customer-driven, with published direction and a customer forum that schools contribute to.
How long has the vendor worked with Australian independent schools?
Nearly 40 years, across more than 400 schools.
From Schools Who Have Made the Switch

What School Leaders Say About Choosing TASS

Read our Customer Stories to see the practical results other schools have achieved.

"TASS functionality allows for the removal of several other products and provides a single location for our staff, students and parents to easily locate information quickly and efficiently."

Matthew GausdenDirector of ICT, St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace

"Our partnership with TASS has been a huge catalyst for digital innovation within our school. Their willingness to work with us and provide support as we transition from largely paper-based workflows has been amazing."

Lyndon CalwayICT Services Manager, Chairo Christian School

"This stability has allowed our team to place trust in the system and redirect our focus to other priorities. Whenever support has been needed, the TASS team have been just an email away."

Brett HobbsICT Manager, Mackay Christian College
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Increase Efficiency with 
Workflow Automation

In the modern online era, where quick access to information and streamlined services are ‘the norm’, people expect things instantly. Tedious paper-based processes feel even more unbearable by comparison.

TASS’s comprehensive set of workflows allows you to digitise and streamline tasks, minimise room for error, and connect people to processes. Read our blog to learn how workflows can increase efficiencies in schools.

Improve Data Integrity with One Central Database

Schools have vast amounts of information they need to receive, process,  and store, which can often get lost in transit between departments and systems, causing blockages when information needs to be shared. 

TASS's single source of truth for all Student, Finance, Payroll, and Teaching and Learning data helps remove silos, minimise double handling, and empowers employees with the data to make smarter, more informed decisions. 

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Freedom and Flexibility in Deployment

Whether you are off campus and need to access medical details on the fly or are working from home because the kids are sick, TASS allows you to access data whenever and wherever you need it.

The complete web-based solution provides not only device diversity but also the freedom to choose how the software is deployed.

Whether hosted in the 'Cloud' or on-premises, TASS gives your school the freedom to work in a way that suits your school.

Integrate for Success with Secure APIs

With school technology stacks becoming increasingly complex, the ability to integrate systems without compromising security and data integrity is paramount. 

With our new API program, TASS becomes the single hub from which other systems can securely connect and integrate – taking the guesswork out of syncing solutions, keeping your school’s data integrity in check,  and your information safe. Read our blog to see how our API program can help your school connect with other systems and let your IT team to do more!

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Industry Leaders in the Australian Community

Serving over 400 schools across Australia, TASS forms part of a large international family of vertical market software companies in the education sector.

TASS and its sister companies leverage each other's experience and industry knowledge to ensure that we are all at the forefront of customer success, best practice, and innovation within a constantly evolving Edtech environment.

Ready to See How TASS Can Transform Your School?

Talk with our team about your current system, your challenges, and what you need from a new platform. We offer honest guidance to help you decide if TASS is right for your school, whether you are switching systems, building a business case or looking to speak with a similar school.