Free software for language academies, with no cut-off date.

An academy starts its year in March. If the system you trialled switches off after thirty or ninety days, the cut lands in May or June — groups built, fees loaded, three months of attendance inside. By then you aren't choosing software: you're weighing how much work you lose by leaving.

The Siimplo free plan has no date. It's capped on student count, not on time, and the account opens without entering a card. If you never pay, you're still using it next year.

A small academy, or an institute just opening with two groups, can stay there indefinitely without running a cut-down version.

Courses with their weekly schedule and teacher, students hanging off the adult who pays, the tuition grid where each month is a record with its own status, and attendance taken per class against the group list.

Also the academy's public website, with its courses and schedules, included from the free plan. And AES-256-GCM encryption of sensitive fields, on all three plans, because protecting what you've entrusted to us shouldn't be a premium feature.

Plus the till with sales and receivables, which is the minimum needed to know how the month is going without running a spreadsheet alongside.

WhatsApp reminders and notifications. Meta charges for every message sent, so they can't be given away. They're what you miss when fees fall due and forty families need telling.

Then: teacher payroll, the parent portal, reporting, team management and additional locations. They're gated because they cost money to run, not to push you into paying.

Both paid plans have their price published. No quote request needed to know what you'd be walking into if you add groups next year and outgrow the free tier.

First, whether you can export. An academy that loads students, fees and attendance across a full year is tied to that system by accumulated work, not because it was the best one trialled. If the answer about exporting is vague, the vagueness is the answer.

Second, what happens next March when you add groups and the free plan runs out: whether the next tier's price is published or has to be requested by email, and whether the students you loaded stay put or it all gets rebuilt. Here both paid plans show their amount and moving up shifts nothing.

Third, duller and the one that hurts most: whether the system understands that the person studying and the person paying are different people. Software that puts the student and the mother in one record works until the first sibling, and after that there's no fixing it without rebuilding the database.