Schools, coaching institutes, preschools, higher-ed — admissions to alumni on one stack. Hindi parent comms · CBSE/ICSE/state boards · DPDP-2027 ready.
Vernacular WA template fires 9 AM on due-date with UPI deeplink. Median tenant lifts on-time fee collection from 62% to 87% in one cycle.
Every Lead carries parentPhone + studentName + grade + board. Counselling, attendance, report cards route to parent — never lost in WhatsApp groups.
Minor-data consent · 25% RTE quota tracker · POCSO-flagged staff access. Beats the 13 May 2027 DPDP deadline (₹250 Cr penalty ceiling).
Generic CRMs treat education like B2B SaaS — one contact, one deal. Indian education is two stakeholders (parent + student), board-specific (CBSE/ICSE/state), fee-installment-driven, and minor-data regulated. Wendesk's overlay knows this.
Excel sheets · WhatsApp screenshots · phone-call follow-ups. Fee admin loses 18 hrs/week chasing unpaid installments. Wendesk's auto-reminder cycle (T-3 · T-0 · T+3 in Hindi/EN with UPI link) lifts on-time collection from 62% to 87%.
Class teachers run 4-5 personal WhatsApp groups · principal can't audit · POCSO-risky · messages buried. Wendesk routes every parent message through tenant-owned WA Business — searchable, audit-logged, POCSO-compliant.
March-June peak: 200+ enquiries/day across IndiaMART · Justdial · website · walk-in · WhatsApp. Generic CRMs miss 30-40%. Wendesk's omnichannel inbox + auto-counselling-slot booking captures every enquiry — zero manual triage.
By the time attendance drops below 60% the student is already gone. Wendesk's drop-out predictor (attendance × fee-default × marks-trend) flags at-risk students 40-60 days early — counsellor intervenes before withdrawal.
Email opens 12% · printouts lose · parents miss deadlines. Wendesk pushes daily homework + monthly report card to parent WhatsApp — read-receipts logged. Open rate 94% on median tenant.
Most education CRMs only see admissions. Wendesk surfaces the cohort each student is in right now, the criteria that define the boundary, and the trend vs the previous 90-day window. Drives every counselling drip, fee-reminder cycle, retention nudge, and alumni-fundraiser campaign.
6 custom objects ship out of the box for Education. Add more — Exam · Scholarship · Alumni Donor · Hostel Room · Library Book · Transport Route — in the admin, no code.
Name · grade · board · parentPhone · WA opt-in · DPDP minor-consent · fee plan · scholarship
Grade · section · board · class-teacher · capacity · medium (offline / online / hybrid)
Name · subjects · classes-handled · POCSO-cleared · qualifications · payroll-ref
Student · cycle (monthly/semester/one-time) · amount · due-date · installments · scholarship %
Class · subject · due-date · attached-files · submission-status by student · auto-grade
Student · class · date · status (P/A/L) · marked-by-teacher · parent-notification fired
Minor-data consent · parental authority · DSR-ready · 13 May 2027 deadline beaten
25% quota tracker · audit-ready exports · admission-stage gates
Staff-access logs · cleared-teacher gate · parent-comms audit trail
Higher-ed filings · approval-letter vault · NAAC data-points captured
Education ships with six pre-built WhatsApp flows — admission enquiry · counselling reminder · fee-defaulter cycle · daily homework digest · attendance alert · monthly report card. Every flow is dual-recipient (parent + student) and vernacular.
Auto-reminder fires 3 days before due, on due-date, and 3 days after. Vernacular template + UPI deeplink + late-fee transparency. Lifts on-time collection from 62% to 87%.
Web form · IndiaMART · Justdial · walk-in all land in one inbox. Auto-WA reply with 3 counselling slot options · Calendly-style picker. Captures enquiry within 90 seconds, busy season or not.
Class teacher posts homework once; system pushes to every parent's WA at 4 PM. Monthly report card with marks-trend chart fires 1st of every month. 94% open rate.
Auto-WA to parent if student absent at first-period mark. Counsellor pinged if attendance < 60% over 30 days OR fee + marks combo flags drop-out risk 40-60 days early.
<b>EN + HI from launch.</b> All parent-facing flows ship in EN + HI. Marathi · Tamil · Telugu · Bengali · Gujarati on Pro tier — critical for tier-2/3 schools where parents prefer regional language.
Industry baselines from V1 codebase tenants (mostly K-12 day-schools, JEE/NEET coaching institutes, preschool chains). Your numbers may vary; these are the median.
T-3 · T-0 · T+3 vernacular WA reminder cycle with UPI deeplink. Reduces fee admin load 18 hrs/week.
from 62% baselineHomework · attendance · report card delivered to parent WA. Read receipts logged.
from 12% (email)Attendance × fee-default × marks-trend predictor surfaces at-risk students before withdrawal.
from after-the-factAuto-attendance + auto-homework-blast + auto-parent-update removes manual paperwork.
from Excel + WA groupsOnce you grant scoped access at mcp.wendesk.com, your agent can interact with your tenant data — gated by the same 3-part permission matcher as the dashboard.
// Claude marking attendance from a class photo POST https://mcp.wendesk.com/mcp Authorization: Bearer eyJ... { "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "tools/call", "params": { "name": "industry.education.attendance.markByPhoto", "arguments": { "classId": "cls_7B", "date": "2026-04-09", "period": 1, "photoUrl": "s3://wd-att/sun-7b-09apr-p1.jpg", "markedBy": "teacher_84219" } } } // 200 OK — face-match · 32/35 P · parent WA fired for absentees { "present": 32, "absent": 3, "absentStudentIds": ["stu_4421", "stu_4488", "stu_4502"], "parentNotified": true, "audit": "via=mcp · client=claude-desktop · pocso-cleared-teacher" }
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