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Pricing · Updated 2026

One price. Every module.
No surprises.

Sycamore is $4 per student per month with every module included. Published openly, predictable as your school grows, and flexible on how transaction fees flow to families. Read the whole page or jump to the math.
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$4
Per student per month, all modules
4.8★
Parent app rating (with TuitionEP)
40+
Countries served
4–8
Weeks to go live
Sycamore School Plan

Every module. One price. 18-month minimum term.

The same plan covers your SIS, your tuition, your parent app, and everything in between. No module gating, no $4.99 family subscription, no separate Family App store charge. Volume tier discounts available at scale.

  • All modules included (eight Sycamore products, one license)
  • 18-month minimum contract; longer terms lock in your rate
  • US-based onboarding and support, included
  • Sycamore Academy on-demand training, included
  • Volume tier discounts available at scale
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$4
per student / per month
All modules included
What's included

Eight Sycamore modules, one platform, one $4 per student per month price.

Each module operates from a single record of the student, the family, and the financial account. Adding capability does not mean adding a contract. Every tile below is part of the base price; none are upsells.

Student Information System

The single record of every student, family, and financial account, available to every staff member who needs it.

Attendance

Real-time attendance with push notifications to parents the moment a student is marked tardy or absent.

Gradebook

Grades, assignments, and behavior notes, all tied to the same student record. Teachers post once, families see updates instantly.

Admissions & Enrollment

Inquiries through enrollment in one continuous funnel, with no separate Application or Enrollment modules to license.

Tuition

Schedules, balances, and automated billing in the school plan. Includes Vertical Insure Tuition Refund Protection (2025) at no separate license fee.

Payments

Cards at 3.9% and ACH at 1.8% capped at $5 on the banking portion. The school decides whether to absorb the fee, split it, or use direct pay.

Sycamore Parent App

One login for cafeteria, tuition, grades, attendance, and comms. Native iOS + Android. No family subscription.

Communications

School-wide and class-level messaging with two-way threads by student and by class, plus read receipts and delivery confirmation.
Transaction fees

Banking-grade rates, on flexible terms.

Card and ACH fees are published below. The flexibility is in who pays: Sycamore lets the school absorb the fee, split it, or use direct pay so parents cover it on every transaction type. Most competitors hardcode a "convenience fee" to parents by default.

Published rates

Credit / debit cards
3.9%
Standard processing
ACH (bank transfer)
1.8%
Capped at $5 on the banking portion
Sycamore fee on banking
1%
Always uncapped
Returned payment
Pass-through
Bank fees only

Who pays the fee? You choose.

Sycamore lets the school decide per transaction type. Most schools default to one model and adjust seasonally during re-enrollment.

School absorbs

Families never see the fee. School books processing as an operating expense.

Direct pay

Family pays the fee at checkout. Common on credit card payments.

Split

Share the fee between school and family. Cards often land near 1.95%.

Configured per payment method in Sycamore. Change at any time without contract amendment.
Pricing examples

What Sycamore costs at common school sizes.

The math is straight: students × $4 per month. Annual figures below assume 12 months. Volume tier discounts at scale are not reflected; for schools above 500 students, your actual quote is typically lower than the example shown.
50 students
$200/mo
$2,400 / year
Small school plan. Same modules, same support, same Academy.
250 students
$1,000/mo
$12,000 / year
Mid-size private school sweet spot.
500 students
$2,000/mo
$24,000 / year
Volume tier eligible. Actual quote typically lower than the headline.
1,000 students
$4,000/mo
$48,000 / year
Volume tier discount applies. Contact your AE for the exact quote.

Larger or multi-campus school? Get a custom quote for district and network pricing.

 
Add-ons and extras

A short list, on purpose.

Most things schools think of as add-ons are already in the $4 per student per month price. The handful below are the exceptions.

Onboarding

$2,500 minimum. Covers your dedicated migration lead, data validation against your source of truth, role-based staff training, and parent communications. No add-on after go-live.
$2,500 minimum

Tuition Refund Protection

Delivered through Vertical Insure (partnership announced 2025). Coverage and family-facing pricing configured per school during onboarding. Built into the platform; no separate license fee to Sycamore.
Included module

Donations + AI donor intelligence

Native donations module from the TuitionEP acquisition. AI donor intelligence rolling out 2026. Campaigns, donor profiles, and giving analytics inside the same platform.
Included module

Sycamore Academy

On-demand training library for staff and families. 1,700+ lessons, 100+ courses, four audiences. Used during onboarding and after go-live, included in every plan.
Included

US-based support

Phone, chat, and ticket from a US-based team with decade-long average tenure. Average first-assign 18 minutes. Average call wait 32 seconds. Included.
Included

Multi-currency & international

Multi-currency tuition and multi-language UI for schools outside the US. Country-aware reporting, configurable grading scales, calendars, and term structures. Included for the 40+ countries Sycamore serves.
Included
Why this pricing model

Three reasons Sycamore prices the way it does.

Most K-12 platforms hide the number. We do the opposite, on purpose. Three reasons:
01

You can see the price before you talk to us.

The number is on this page. A business manager can take $4 per student per month to the head of school or the board today, without waiting on a quote, and it's the same rate that goes in the contract.
02

Predictable as the school grows.

$4 × students × 12 months is the line item, every year. No surprise renewal increases, no shorter-term penalty, no module-by-module quote round when the school adopts a new feature. Volume tier discounts apply automatically at scale.
03

No module gating.

Sycamore won't quote you for SIS today and bill you for Tuition tomorrow. Every module is in the base price, including donations, parent app, communications, and Tuition Refund Protection. The school decides what to turn on; the price doesn't move.
Side-by-side

See how Sycamore stacks up.

Direct, sourced comparisons against the six K-12 platforms administrators most often weigh against Sycamore. Scorecards, comparison tables, switching playbooks, and pricing math, all in one place.
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FACTS
Veracross
Blackbaud K-12
Alma
Gradelink
SchoolCues
Frequently asked questions

The pricing questions schools ask most.

Sycamore School is $4 per student per month with every module included: SIS, gradebook, attendance, admissions, tuition, payments, parent app, and communications. Volume tier discounts are available at scale.

All modules are included: student information system, gradebook, attendance, admissions and enrollment, tuition and payment plans, parent mobile app, two-way communications, and school-wide announcements. There is no module gating and no separate Family App subscription.

Credit cards are 3.9 percent. ACH is 1.8 percent capped at $5 per transaction on the banking portion. Sycamore's own banking fee is 1 percent (always uncapped). The school chooses whether to absorb the fee, split it, or use direct pay so parents cover it on every transaction type.

The minimum onboarding investment is $2,500. That covers a dedicated migration lead, data validation against your source of truth, role-based staff training through Sycamore Academy, and parent communications. After go-live the recurring cost is the published $4 per student per month plan.

Yes. Sycamore offers volume tier discounts at scale. Ask our team for the tier rates at your enrollment. Tier rates are not published because they are scoped to school size and contract length.

Sycamore contracts start at an 18-month minimum. Longer terms are available and lock in your per-student rate for the length of the term, protecting the school from any future price changes. This gives schools multi-year budget predictability without the multi-year auto-renewal lock-in used by some enterprise K-12 platforms (Blackbaud K-12 is 3-year auto-renew standard, for reference). Ask our team for locked-in rate specifics.

Tuition Refund Protection is delivered through the Vertical Insure partnership (announced 2025) and is built into the platform. Coverage and family-facing pricing are configured per school during onboarding.

Sycamore is rolling out a native donations module with AI donor intelligence in 2026 from the TuitionEP acquisition. It is included in the base $4 per student per month price; there is no separate donations license fee.

No. Sycamore Academy on-demand training for staff and families is included in every school plan. There is no additional Academy license fee or per-seat training cost.

Sycamore publishes pricing at $4 per student per month with every module included. Most competitors quote per school and bill module by module. See sycamoreleaf.com/compare for side-by-side comparisons with FACTS, Veracross, Blackbaud, Alma, Gradelink, and SchoolCues.

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© 2026 Sycamore Leaf Solutions. Pricing current as of 2026.

Sycamore School pricing is $4 per student per month with all modules included. Transaction fees (3.9% cards, 1.8% ACH capped at $5 on the banking portion, Sycamore 1% always uncapped on banking) are configurable per school: absorb, split, or use direct pay. Volume tier discounts apply at scale; tier rates are scoped to school size and contract length and are not published. Onboarding minimum is $2,500 and includes a dedicated migration lead, data validation, training through Sycamore Academy, and parent communications. Side-by-side comparisons with FACTS, Veracross, Blackbaud K-12, Alma, Gradelink, and SchoolCues are at sycamoreleaf.com/compare.

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