For a typical 150-student LCMS school that is $600 per month for the full platform. Contracts start at an 18-month minimum, with longer terms available that lock in your rate for the length of the term. Volume tier discounts apply at scale. District and conference group purchasing is supported for LCMS districts and Circuit conferences that want aligned onboarding.
Sycamore is designed for the way Lutheran schools actually run: autonomous, principal-led, and mission-driven. LCMS districts do not mandate a platform, so the platform has to earn each school on its own merits: teacher-first design, US-based support, simplicity, native mobile apps, and communications built into the system. Sycamore covers all of that at $4 per student per month with every module included.
No. Unlike the Catholic diocesan structure, LCMS churches and schools are autonomous. District Education Executives influence and refer, but each Lutheran school makes its own platform decision. Sycamore's US-based team engages with principals and District EEs alike, often through the LEA Convocation and district conferences.
Sycamore is $4 per student per month with every module included: SIS, gradebook, attendance, admissions, tuition, payments, parent app, and communications. For a typical 150-student Lutheran school, that is $600 per month. Volume tier discounts apply at scale. Multi-school group purchasing is supported for districts and conferences.
Yes. Tuition management, payment plans, incidental billing, and Vertical Insure Tuition Refund Protection are all in the base $4 per student per month price. The school chooses whether to absorb credit card fees, pass them through, or split them, on every transaction type.
Yes. Sycamore Parent App is a native iOS and Android app that families install from the App Store or Google Play. Face ID and Touch ID work at login, so parents do not have to remember a portal URL and password every time. Combined with TuitionEP under the Sycamore umbrella, the rating is 4.8 stars across app stores.
No. Teacher-parent-student communication is built directly into Sycamore. Two-way messaging by student and by class, school-wide announcements, delivery confirmation, and read receipts, all inside the same platform teachers already use for the gradebook and attendance. No second app to install.
In the United States. Phones are answered by humans with an average tenure of ten years on the Sycamore support team. Average first-assign time is 18 minutes; average call wait is 32 seconds. 94.7 percent positive customer sentiment over the last twelve months.
Yes. Sycamore supports district and conference group purchasing, with a single point of contact for procurement, aligned onboarding schedules across schools, and shared training resources through Sycamore Academy. Contact Sycamore for district-level pricing.
Sycamore contracts start at an 18-month minimum. Longer terms are available and lock in the per-student rate for the length of the term, protecting the school from any future price changes. No multi-year auto-renewal. For LCMS district or conference group purchasing, contract terms are aligned across participating schools.
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