Philippine schools and universities spend enormous administrative effort on manual enrollment, paper records, and compliance documentation. Kintone replaces all of it with custom apps built for your exact school's needs — at a fraction of enterprise SIS pricing.
The Philippines has 27+ million K-12 students and approximately 3 million higher-education students across DepEd, CHED, and TESDA-regulated institutions. The market spans public schools, private K-12 (~14,000 institutions), higher-ed universities (~2,000), technical-vocational providers (~4,000+), and a rapidly growing segment of specialized training providers (language schools, maritime training, healthcare training, IT academies). Operational systems vary wildly — SAP SLCM at the top, local SIS tools in the middle, paper and Excel at the bottom.
Full SIS (student information system) vendors — Campus Management, Anthology, Ellucian — deploy in quarters and cost millions of pesos annually. They don't fit the needs of mid-sized colleges, training academies, or specialized institutions that grow organically and need flexibility. Kintone covers the core: student records, course management, enrollment workflows, grading, attendance, parent communication — built in days, customized to your actual processes, integrated with PayMaya/GCash for fees, and DepEd/CHED-reporting-friendly.
Particularly useful for Japanese-educated institutions in the Philippines (several exist in Metro Manila and Laguna) where student records and communications need to work in both Japanese and English seamlessly. Kintone's bilingual-UI-by-default means the same record appears correctly in either language based on user preference — not a translation layer, but a native feature.