MAESTRO SIS vs Populi: Which is a better fit?

The entire team is awesome and always attentive and responsive to delivering the highest quality customer service. They treat me like family.

The time-out feature and lack of autosave has been an issue. I lost an hour of entering data for report card purposes because the system timed out, and the information did not save.

With the number of customizations and LTI connections, we will have a more user-friendly and robust SIS than before. Maestro was responsive and helpful in addressing our unique needs.

Additionally, the email formatting is horrible. You cannot create emails using paragraph structure.

We have a long term relationship and if it did not work for our clients, we would have moved on. Great people and a great product.

Karen K

Owner

Can't withstand the heavy traffic at peak enrollment times. Spinning and wait time unacceptable during peak enrollments with multiple users.

Our schools were very impressed with the new workflow and we have really appreciated the extra data available with our new system.

Also, Populi's customer service is very impressive - very responsive and professional. They understand very well and resolve your issue very effectively.

Even though, I had some trouble with pulling data previously with customer support we had overcome most of the obstacles.

The cost of Populi is also a great asset because we are a small online non profit institution and having a reasonably priced product really helps us with our small budget.

It does not support competency based learning, and the features in the mobile app are very limited.

Very satisfied and have experienced a great deal of positive and helpful customer support. Really, no walks through a string of phones tree choices to get to someone who can help.

So I had to enter age, gender, address, email etc manually for the each student in the system to be able to have an accurate data. No help offered for an error caused by their own management system.

Paul P

Church Planter

I think populi did a great job making their interface super easy to access and basic. It was easy to distinguish where the main pages were located.

Once your grade book has been set up, I find that making adjustments at times to be difficult.