> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://educontroldoc.pixelspectivetech.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What EduControl is

> A school management system for Ghanaian basic schools — fees, billing, attendance, marks and report cards in one place.

EduControl runs the administrative work of a Ghanaian basic school: admitting pupils, setting the fee grid, billing a term, taking money at the desk, marking registers, entering marks, and printing terminal report cards.

It covers Creche through JHS 3, and it is built around how a Ghanaian school term actually runs — one current term at a time, fees set per class per term, and a report card that is frozen the moment the head teacher publishes it.

## What it handles

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Fees and billing" icon="calculator" href="/docs/fees/fee-items">
    One fee grid per class per term. Preview a whole term's billing before you issue a single invoice.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Payments" icon="wallet-cards" href="/docs/payments/recording-a-payment">
    Cash, MoMo, bank transfer and cheque at the desk, allocated to the fee lines they were meant for.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Feeding" icon="cooking-pot" href="/docs/fees/feeding-rates">
    A separate meal ledger with its own rates, plans and daily register — kept out of tuition.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Attendance" icon="clipboard-check" href="/docs/during-the-term/attendance">
    A register a class teacher can mark in well under a minute, and that keeps working if the signal drops once the class list has loaded.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Marks and reports" icon="graduation-cap" href="/docs/marks-and-reports/assessments-and-marks">
    Continuous assessment and exams, GES-style grading, and printable terminal report cards.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Oversight" icon="shield-check" href="/docs/reference/audit-log">
    Every financial and academic change recorded, with who did it and when.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Two ideas worth knowing before you start

Almost every question a new school asks comes back to one of these.

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Exactly one term is current at a time">
    Billing, attendance and marks all default to the current term. Setting a new term as current is the single action that moves the whole school forward — see [Academic year and terms](/docs/before-the-term/academic-year-and-terms).
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="An issued invoice never changes">
    Once a bill is issued, its total is fixed. To reduce what a family owes you issue a credit note; to give money back you issue a refund. Both are recorded as separate, auditable events rather than edits — see [Corrections, credit notes and refunds](/docs/payments/corrections).
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Where to start

If your school is new to EduControl, work through the guides in order — they follow the shape of a term, from setting the school up to closing it out.

<Card title="How a term works" icon="calendar-check-2" href="/docs/getting-started/how-a-term-works">
  The whole cycle on one page, so you can see what comes before what.
</Card>

<Note>
  Some features described elsewhere are not yet available: parents cannot sign in (the portal is the pupil's), online MoMo checkout is not open, and EduControl does not send SMS or email. Fee reminders are still made by the office.
</Note>