What a Jigsaw School App does
One annual fee, unlimited messages, and your school’s own app on every parent’s phone. Here is everything that comes with it.
Reach every family
Getting a message to a parent — and knowing it landed.
Inform
Tell every family, as often as you need to.
Inform parents, carers, governors and staff with no worry of per-message costs and no restriction on the number of characters per message.
Notify
It arrives on the phone, not in a book bag.
Send a push notification with every post, so parents never miss a thing. Every post is also added to a ‘latest items’ list inside the app, so anyone with notifications turned off still finds it.
Link
One tap to anywhere else you need them.
Hyperlinks in posts are recognised automatically, and you can build menus inside the app that go straight to the pages you choose — your website, your payment system, your booking form.
Attach
Newsletters, menus and forms, attached to the post.
Attach PDFs and documents to any post. Parents open them straight from the app, and they stay there afterwards — so nobody has to ring the office for last month’s newsletter.
Survey
Ask parents a question. Get an answer.
Run a survey inside the app and watch the replies come in. No paper slips, no chasing, and the results are counted for you.
Filter
Only the things that apply to their child.
Tag your posts so parents and carers can filter out the information they don’t need, and see the things that actually concern them.
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Read in the language they speak at home.
Posts translated automatically, so families who speak English as an additional language read them in their own — with no extra work for your office.
Save time and money
What it replaces: text messages, print, phone calls, and typing the same thing twice.
Save
Stop paying by the message.
Schools can save as much as £1,200 a year compared with sending text messages and printing letters. One annual fee, unlimited posts, unlimited recipients.
Streamline
Fewer places to type the same thing.
Save time and streamline your processes by integrating your calendars and your website, and by scheduling your posts in advance.
Schedule
Write it now. Send it when it matters.
Set a post to go out at a time you choose — the night before a trip, the morning of parents’ evening, or the whole term ahead in one sitting.
Refer
Tell another school, and you both save.
Refer another school to us and we’ll give them a 28-day free trial. If they subscribe, you both get 20% off.
Make it yours
It is your school’s app. We build it, brand it and help you launch it.
Brand
Parents download your app, not ours.
Brand your app with your school’s name, colours, logo and photographs.
Customise
Build the menu your school actually needs.
Create as many sections as you like. Choose the icon, the colour and the type of menu for each one, and arrange them however suits you.
Promote
Everything you need to launch it.
We supply website link graphics, QR codes, parent user guides, posters and an external PVC banner — so parents know the app exists from the first day.
Stay in control
Permissions, protected areas, a full change log and read rates.
Secure
Some things aren’t for everyone.
Password-protect the whole app, or just the parts meant for particular groups — governors, SMT, the PTA.
Collaborate
More than one person can run it.
Set up any number of administrators and give each one their own permissions, so the office, the head and your year leads can all post without sharing a login.
Audit
A record of who changed what.
Your dashboard logs every change made in the app, along with the date, the time and the administrator who made it.
Analyse
See how many opened it.
Analyse survey results, the number of active users, and how many people have read each post.
Try it for 28 days, free
Tell us about your school and we’ll build your app. Nothing to pay, no card, no obligation.
Start a free 28-day trial