The back office that runs your school.

Not at all. Attendance, grades, GPA, transcripts, report cards, tuition with online payments, and family records work for any school — EFA or not. If your students are on the EFA, the Arkansas compliance pieces (assessment deadlines, eligibility reminders) are already built in.

Never. ClassWallet moves every EFA dollar, exactly as it does today. Private-pay tuition is separate: if you turn on Homebook Payments, parents pay in the portal and the money goes directly to your school’s own Stripe account — it never sits with us. Homebook still runs everything around the money: attendance, roster, assessments, deadlines.

Yes — optionally. Turn on Homebook Payments and families can pay their balance in the portal with one click, or split it into monthly auto-payments that stop automatically when it’s paid off. Every payment records itself in your ledger, and the money goes straight to your school’s own Stripe account — we never hold it. It costs a 1% platform fee plus Stripe’s standard card rates, only when you use it. Prefer checks and cash? The ledger works great on its own.

Homebook works beautifully in any phone browser today — parents can add it to their home screen in two taps. A free Homebook iPhone app with push notifications (new message, absence acknowledged, payment received) is on its way to the App Store now, included for every family at no extra cost. Android follows.

No problem at all. The curriculum picks are just a convenience — log any expense from any vendor you like. Homebook works the same whether you use our featured partners or your own materials.

ClassWallet is the payment system — it moves the money and tracks spending per student. What it doesn’t do is run your school: no attendance, no roster, no assessment tracking, and no single view across all your learners. That’s exactly the gap Homebook fills, right on top of ClassWallet.

Arkansas first — we’re going deep before we go wide. More EFA/ESA states are on the roadmap, and founding schools help us decide which one comes next.

For homeschool families it’s $29 per student a month — paid from your student’s EFA funds through ClassWallet, and Homebook is an ADE-approved Arkansas EFA vendor. For schools it’s flat: $59/mo for microschools and co-ops up to 100 students, $99/mo for private schools up to 150, and $149/mo above 150 — never a per-student fee. (The big systems start at $121/mo and climb fast.) Prices are before sales tax; where your state or county charges it, checkout adds it and shows the exact amount before you pay. Founding Arkansas schools lock their pricing for life, and you can cancel anytime.

You get the founder, not a ticket queue. Send us your roster, master schedule, or old gradebook export and we’ll load it into Homebook for you — white-glove setup is free for founding Arkansas schools. Feature requests go straight to the person who builds them, usually within days, not quarters.

We take a different approach than the big platforms: hold less worth stealing. Homebook never holds money — online tuition goes straight to your school’s own Stripe account and ClassWallet moves all EFA dollars — and we never collect Social Security numbers. Every school’s records are isolated at the database level — no other school can ever see yours — and everything is encrypted in transit and at rest, with records shared only through private, expiring links. Subscription billing runs through Stripe — the same processor used by Amazon and Target — so card details never touch our servers. You can export your data as CSV anytime; it’s yours.