Switching from FACTS (RenWeb)
FACTS is built to run a diocese. Homebook is built to run your school.
FACTS runs 15,000 schools, and if you are a diocesan office standardizing forty campuses, it is probably the right tool. If you run one school — whether that is 40 students or 400 — you are paying, and your families are paying, for machinery built to manage systems of schools, not yours.
“It gives our staff one place for all our records, and it gives parents access to everything they need — charges and balances, grades, attendance, calendars, and a direct line to each child’s teacher.”
| FACTS | Homebook | |
|---|---|---|
| School price | Quote-only — you book a call to hear a number | Published on this site. $59–$149/mo flat |
| What families pay | ≈$20–55/family payment-plan fee, ~2.95% card surcharge, ~$35 per aid application, app fee | $0 — families never pay a platform fee |
| Built for | Dioceses and networks — 300+ features, real training burden | One school, any size — running the same day you get your data |
| Attendance | Daily vs class attendance: pick one, or reconcile both by hand | Teachers take class registers; the daily record derives itself |
| Family experience | A 3.1-star mobile app families pay for | A fast web portal, English/Español, nothing to install |
| Support | Ticket queue; reviews report weeks-long waits | Text the founder. Same-day fixes are the norm, not the exception |
| Trying it | Sales demo, scheduled | Live demo logins on our homepage. Right now, no call |
FACTS figures from public reviews (Capterra, G2, App Store) and fee schedules published in FACTS schools’ own family handbooks, gathered August 2026.
What would your families pay FACTS this year?
FACTS — paid by your families
≈ $2,750/yr
~$45/family payment-plan fee + ~$5 app fee. Card payments add ~2.95% on top. Aid applications: ~$35 each.
Homebook — paid by your families
$0
The school pays one flat monthly price. Families never pay a platform fee to owe you money.
Estimate, using the middle of fee ranges published in real FACTS schools’ family handbooks. Your quote may differ — that’s rather the point: ours is on the pricing section of this site.
We move your data for you
Roster, guardians, grades, historical transcripts — we migrated our most recent school over a single weekend, and teachers took attendance in Homebook on Tuesday morning. You send exports; we do the rest, and you approve everything before launch.