We do not publish a cloud rate card either — but you can start without one
It would be dishonest to make "they quote, we publish" the argument, because we quote too: strength, boards, campuses and migration volume genuinely move the number. The difference is what you can do while you wait. Our desktop edition is free, uncapped and permanent, so a school can install it this week, run admissions, receipts, attendance and report cards on it for a whole session, and only start the pricing conversation when it actually wants the parent app and online payments. With a subscription-only product there is nothing to use until a figure has been agreed.
What happens on the day you leave is a product decision
Edunext’s published Terms provide for the current year’s data, in a spreadsheet, on termination. We have no view on why that choice was made — but a school’s fee ledgers, marks and admission records go back further than one year, and a spreadsheet is not a system. Our position is the opposite and deliberately so: export everything at any time, and on the day you leave you keep running the free desktop edition on your own computer with your records still in it. We would rather earn the renewal than hold the archive.
The charge that lands after the signature
Their Terms are straightforward that a one-time implementation and training charge sits on top of the subscription. That is disclosure, not a hidden fee, and we want to be precise about the difference — we found no documented complaint about undisclosed charges anywhere. What is missing is the number: nothing published says what the charge is, or whether a 3,000-student school pays the same as a 300-student one. Our quote carries onboarding and migration as a stated figure alongside the subscription, because a cost you cannot size is a cost you cannot compare.