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| Module / Feature | Starter | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Management | |||
| Student SIS & Master List | |||
| Admission CRM & Lead Tracking | |||
| Fees & Online Payments | |||
| Staff & Payroll Management | |||
| Academic & Docs | |||
| Clash-Free Timetable Pro | |||
| Report Card & Result Engine | Basic | Advanced | Custom |
| LMS & Online Classes | |||
| Govt Reporting & UDISE | |||
| Platform & Support | |||
| Native Android App | White-Label | ||
| Dedicated Account Manager | |||
| Support Response Time | 24 Hours | 4 Hours | Instant |
The ₹2,000 Starter and ₹5,000 Professional prices shown above aren't just software licenses—they include hosting on AWS infrastructure, continuous backups, security patching, and every future feature update at no extra cost. Compare that to legacy desktop software, where the license was a one-time cost but server hardware, annual maintenance contracts, and paid "version upgrades" kept arriving as separate invoices for years afterward. When you see "All Core Modules" listed against Starter in the plan card above, that means SIS, admissions, fees, and homework are already active from day one—not sold back to you individually as paid add-ons once you're locked in.
Ellifo's Starter and Professional tiers are flat monthly rates up to a student cap (300 and 700 respectively), not a per-student fee that quietly grows every admission season. That matters for budgeting: a school that grows from 650 to 690 students mid-year pays exactly the same Professional-tier invoice, whereas per-student pricing models can turn a good enrollment year into an unplanned cost increase. It also means a finance officer can forecast the year's software spend in April and not have to revisit that number after every admissions cycle, which is precisely the predictability that per-student billing structurally cannot offer.
A fair cost comparison has to include what legacy systems hide: the IT staffer's salary to keep a server running, the cost of a laptop or server failure during exam week, the SMS gateway you had to buy separately because the old software couldn't send parent notifications, and the data-entry hours spent re-typing the same student record into three disconnected tools. Every one of those costs is already absorbed into the subscription described in the feature comparison table above. Add up a typical legacy stack—desktop license, annual AMC, a separate SMS gateway subscription, and periodic data-recovery costs after a hard-drive failure—and the "cheaper" one-time license routinely ends up costing more over three years than a predictable Ellifo subscription.
The clearest ROI usually shows up in two places: front-office hours reclaimed from manual fee reconciliation and UDISE-style government reporting, and reduced fee leakage once online payments and automated late-fee rules replace manual collection registers. Institutions moving from the Starter to Professional tier typically do so not because they outgrew the student cap, but because the payback from unlimited modules and 24/7 support outweighs the ₹3,000 monthly difference within the first term. Even a modest reduction in unpaid or delayed fees, or a handful of admin hours saved each week during report card season, is usually enough on its own to justify the subscription cost several times over.
No hidden setup fee on Starter or Professional. Data migration and staff training are included in the monthly subscription. Enterprise deployments with complex multi-campus migrations may include a one-time implementation scope.
We'll notify you before you cross the cap and recommend the next tier. There's no forced upgrade or service interruption—you choose when to move to Professional or Enterprise.
Yes, upgrades and downgrades take effect from the next billing cycle. Your data and configuration carry over automatically since every tier runs on the same underlying platform.
Enterprise pricing depends on campus count, total enrollment, and whether you need white-labeled apps or a dedicated account manager. Talk to Sales for a quote tailored to your group's structure.
Yes. Institutions that pay annually instead of monthly receive a reduced effective rate on both Starter and Professional plans. Ask your account manager for the current annual pricing.
We accept UPI, net banking, and card payments for monthly or annual billing, plus purchase-order and invoice-based billing for Enterprise clients with formal procurement processes.
