Ora for Schools and Preschools: Admissions and Parent Questions on WhatsApp, 24×7
What Ora does for a school or preschool, which jobs it takes off your office, and how much it saves: real screens, sample parent chats and a plain cost comparison.
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Admission season brings parents with the same questions: fees, timings, bus routes, curriculum. They ask after work, when your office is closed. And enrolled parents message all year about holidays and events.
This guide shows what Ora does for a school or preschool, which jobs it takes off your team, and what that saves in rupees. Every screen below is the real Ora dashboard, set up for a sample Mysuru preschool we call Little Scholars Preschool.
The problem: parents ask after hours, seats go to schools that reply
Most parent messages are the same few:
- Fees and instalments
- Timings, day care and bus routes
- Curriculum and class size
- Can we visit the school?
- Holiday and event dates
- Fee due dates
Your office staff spend hours answering instead of running the school.
What Ora does for a school
Ora is an AI assistant that answers on your WhatsApp, Instagram and website, learns from your own documents (fees, timings, bus routes, curriculum, holiday calendar), and passes real conversations to your team.
1. Answers parents and books tours
A parent asks about nursery at 10 PM. Ora shares the fees and timings and books a Saturday school tour.
2. Speaks every parent's language
Kannada, Hindi, English and more, from the same school information.
3. Looks after enrolled parents
Holidays, annual day and fee dates, answered from your calendar. Instagram questions become admission leads.
4. An admissions pipeline
Every enquiry with the child's class and joining month. Admissions move to Won with the fee.
5. Tours and interactions on a calendar
School tours and admission interactions, with reminders the day before.
6. Follow-ups that fill seats
AI sorts every enquiry: keen parents go to admissions with an alert, the rest get a friendly invite to visit.
What Ora replaces
Ora does not replace your teachers or the personal touch of your admissions team. It replaces the repetitive part of answering, tour booking and parent questions.
| Work today | Who does it now | With Ora |
|---|---|---|
| Fee and timing questions | Admissions coordinator | Ora answers 24×7 |
| Booking school tours | Coordinator | Ora books |
| Holiday and event questions | Office staff | Ora answers |
| Following up enquiries | Coordinator | Automatic |
| Tracking admissions | Register or Excel | Leads board |
| Evening enquiries | Next day | Ora |
How much it saves
Here is the monthly cost for a preschool with one branch in Mysuru, before and after.
| Without Ora | With Ora | |
|---|---|---|
| Admissions coordinator | ₹16,000 | Ora answers and books tours |
| Office staff time on parent questions | ₹10,000 | Ora answers |
| WhatsApp Business tool | ₹2,500 | Included |
| Admissions CRM | ₹2,500 | Included |
| Total a month | ₹31,000 | ₹12,493 |
That is about ₹18,500 saved every month, or roughly ₹2.2 lakh a year.
How we worked it out:
- Salaries and tool prices are typical for Mysuru and similar cities. Yours will differ, so plug in your own.
- The Ora price is WhatsApp, Instagram and website chat, bookings with reminders and automations with 3 teammates, built on prophecius.in/build, before GST.
- Meta bills WhatsApp marketing messages directly. Ora adds no markup.
Your office can focus on the parents who visit and on running the school.
What Ora does not do
To be clear about the limits:
- It does not decide admissions; your team does.
- It only knows the fees, dates and policies you teach it. Update it each term.
- It does not replace your class WhatsApp groups.
A day at Little Scholars Preschool with Ora
- 10:00 PM: Pallavi books a Saturday school tour for nursery.
- 7:50 AM: Manjunath asks about the bus in Kannada.
- 9:30 AM: Shwetha sees the night's enquiries on the board.
- 1:40 PM: Sanjana checks whether school is open on Monday.
- 4:00 PM: Karan's Instagram enquiry gets a visit booked.
Set it up in an afternoon
- Sign up at prophecius.in. You start on the Free plan, no card needed.
- Teach your bot: upload your fees, timings, bus routes, curriculum and holiday calendar as a PDF or document, or add your website.
- Connect WhatsApp and Instagram from the Channels section.
- Add your team and their working hours, so Ora books the right person.
- Turn on an automation, such as "Spot hot leads", from the ready-made list.
Questions schools ask
Can Ora answer enrolled parents and new ones differently? Yes. Teach it separate information for each, and it answers accordingly.
Does it work in regional languages? Yes. It replies in the language the parent writes in.
Is customer data safe? Each business's data is kept separate. Passwords and keys are encrypted, data is stored in India, and we never sell it or use it to train public AI models. See our trust page.
Can I use my existing WhatsApp number? Yes, through the official WhatsApp Business API. We help you connect it.
What does it cost to start? The Free plan includes 300 AI replies a month. Paid plans start at ₹4,999 a month, or build your own bundle with only what you need.
Try it free
Let Ora answer tonight's parents and fill next year's seats. Start free at prophecius.in, no card needed.
