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Veracross is a fully integrated school information management system that connects administrators, teachers, students, and parents. Veracross improves your school's operational efficiency so that more time and energy can be devoted to student learning. By providing quick and easy web access to all pertinent school information, Veracross brings people together in an efficient and productive way.
Provider
Veracross
Located In
United States
Foundation
1978
Open API
Yes
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
Training
Webinars, Documentation, Live Online, Videos
Support
Phone Support, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Email/Help Desk, Chat
Veracross is designed to meet the unique needs of Private and Independent K-12 schools around the world.
Content Source: Veracross
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Veracross Reviews
Pros
I am a true fan of Veracross, I've worked with a lot of accounting software in my 4 decades of work. And I found Veracross so user friendly.
Veracross is a great product. I would recommend it to others in the nonprofit education arena.
Veracross has a clean look that is easy to navigate and combine many features.
They also excel at understanding the needs of schools and how best to integrate data across departments and divisions.
Cons
Limited customization, very fews things are automated (workaround mostly needed).
This is confusing because if you are running reports under the Development module but your search field you selected is Adminission, then the result may be different.
I suspect a non-accountant designed this part of the software and is why the flow of information is so poorly executed.
Accounting Software User - Absolutely horrible and completely inflexible software.
"Veracross has a clean look that is easy to navigate and combine many features. "
Pros: I like that everything is in one learning management system. Budgets, class lists, discipline forms, and the school calendar are all in one spot. I can easily email groups of parents with one click. I can see what my past report card comments have been and track student attendance. In the past we have used several learning management systems for all of the previously listed items and it was a lot to learn at once. This makes everything much smoother.
Cons: I have multiple sections of the same course. I am unable to email them all at the same time, which is something I wish I could do. If I want to email all 4th grade parents it requires me sending several emails through veracross. Our previous learning management system let me check off which classes I wanted to email and I could send a bulk email to all of my courses. This is a small inconvenience in an otherwise great software.
"Veracross - great for independent schools"
Overall: I would highly recommend Veracross, it is a great accounting software. The accounts payable system is pretty easy to use as well. The FA module works great too. And I've received great response help from the online help ticket system. Sometimes you need to wait a bit, but typically the help is very fast.
Pros: I am a true fan of Veracross, I've worked with a lot of accounting software in my 4 decades of work. And I found Veracross so user friendly.
Cons: When we installed Veracross it was during COVID and I felt that the training was unreasonable timetable. It would great, if that was the only thing that you had to do was to train on this software, but we were working through COVID, the PPLoan and everything else. Then after the training, the trainers moved on if you had a question you had to reach out via email and wait for someone to respond.
"Veracross Review"
Pros: - Easy to use - Support various functions of school (Admission, Classes, Accounting, Billing...) - Many add-on modules available - Mobile-friendly - Tech Support
Cons: - Limited customization, very fews things are automated (workaround mostly needed) - Two-factor costs extra
"Veracross Review - Nurse Perspective"
Overall: Wonderful!
Pros: Makes finding student/parent information simple and efficient; As a nurse, I often find myself needing to get in contact with a parent fast; Veracross makes it simple to find parents and relatives contact information; I can also copy and paste emails from lists that help me send out mass emails to specific grades;
Cons: I wish the staff address was in the same tab as the phone number;
"Not very intuitive, but functional once you learn how to use it!"
Overall: When I first started using Veracross, I really did not like it. I thought it was one of the most difficult platforms I had ever used. My previous CRM was Netsuite, and this was like a night and day comparison in regards to userfriendlyness. However, after using Veracross for about a year, I can honestly say it has grown on me and learning how to do things on this software that was not possible or much more difficult on Netsuite, has somewhat changed my mind. This is my first experience at a school, so I'm not sure whether there are other software systems that are easier and better than Veracross - but so far I have really grown to like this one and their support team has made using and learning how to do things on the software very easy.
Pros: I really like the Query feature. It's very usefull for generating reports based on specific criteria. As a school, we often need to pull a list of students based on certain things and this feature makes it easy to do so. I also love their Support team. I always get almost immediate answers to my support tickets. They provide screenshots and make it very easy to understand how to do something. I love the upload feature. Uploading Journals or even Student Charges make it much easier to do than doing it manually - very time saving.
Cons: There is not a lot of room for error in this software, but that can be a good thing also. It is not as easy to edit transactions once something is posted... so you need to go through a few hoops in order to reverse and fix. It's extra work, but it forces you to really think before you post something, and is better for auditing purposes. I think fixing the way a payment is applied should be easier. Parents can often pay the wrong invoice by accident. Once a payment is applied, it's a bit difficult to reapply that payment to another invoice.
