--- title: Alma SIS Reviews meta_title: 'Alma SIS Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 63 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Alma SIS works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 63 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Student Information Systems (SIS) url: https://www.g2.com/categories/student-information-systems-sis --- # Alma SIS Reviews **Vendor:** Alma **Category:** [K-12 Student Information Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/k-12-student-information-systems) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 63 ## About Alma SIS Alma is the connected education platform serving independent schools, charter schools, school networks, districts, state education agencies, and other K–12 education organizations across the United States and around the world. Designed specifically for education, Alma combines an intuitive, future-ready student information system with tools and expertise spanning teaching and learning, enrollment, communications, payments, analytics, artificial intelligence, data management, interoperability, state reporting, and more. For schools and districts, Alma provides a secure, flexible, and configurable platform that simplifies daily operations while connecting the people and information that keep learning communities moving forward. Educators, administrators, students, and families gain a shared source of timely, accurate information without the complexity and friction associated with disconnected systems. Alma helps education organizations: • Manage student records, attendance, grades, schedules, transcripts, and report cards • Support standards-based and traditional grading • Streamline admissions, enrollment, registration, and re-enrollment • Strengthen communication and engagement with students and families • Simplify tuition, fees, payments, and other financial workflows • Improve state reporting, compliance, and data accuracy • Turn education data into timely, actionable insights • Automate complex data processing and analysis • Configure workflows, permissions, reporting, and experiences around organizational needs • Connect essential information across classrooms, schools, districts, and state agencies Alma’s modern architecture and configurable tools adapt to education organizations of different sizes, structures, and instructional models. Independent and charter schools gain an intuitive system that supports the needs of the entire learning community. Districts and school networks can establish greater consistency and visibility across schools while preserving the flexibility individual communities need. State education agencies benefit from deep expertise in statewide data collection, validation, management, interoperability, analytics, reporting, and information governance. Trusted education data is central to everything Alma does. By combining modern technology with decades of domain expertise, Alma helps organizations improve the quality, reliability, and accessibility of the information behind operational, instructional, and regulatory decisions. Built-in security and role-based access help ensure sensitive information remains available to the right people, in the right place, and at the right time. Alma is also known for responsive, knowledgeable customer support. From implementation and data migration to training and ongoing guidance, Alma’s team works alongside customers to help them configure the platform, solve challenges, and get lasting value from their technology. Alma supports education organizations across 44 states and 61 countries, with data that impacts more than six million students. At Alma, we believe educators should spend less time navigating systems and administrative complexity and more time focused on what matters most: teaching, learning, and student success. www.getalma.com ## Alma SIS Reviews ### 1. Very disappointing **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 28, 2018 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** It is easy to message my classes. There is very little else to recommend about this product. It has been incredibly frustrating trying to implement this. **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** Many functions that I consider basic for an SIS had to be specifically requested by our corporation and developed by ALMA post implementation. When we started with the system, there was no mechanism for a final exam, I could not drill down to see my homeroom students' current academic progress in their classes, and it took over a semester to generate a transcript that the state would accept. ALMA still cannot provide class rankings. Entering grades is cumbersome. All reports are pdf with little customization possible. All teachers in a building can see and access every report that is run in the building, raising confidentiality issues. **Recommendations to others considering Alma SIS:** ALMA is not a fully developed product. They are responding to our needs, but it is a slow and reactive process, not proactive. The product was not ready to deploy. **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** This system has created far more problems than it has solved. **Official Response from Douglass Mabry:** > Wow. We are so sorry your experience with Alma hasn't been the same as the rest of our users. This seems to be isolated to just your high school, so rest assured we are diligently investigating. We know change can be hard, which is why we have the best customer service team in the industry. Perhaps your school could benefit from a little more training? Your account manager will reach out with more information about the solutions we offer for what you and some others at your school seem to be having issues with. Please don't hesitate to reach out with questions in the meantime! We work with every size of school and district, and with most of our employees coming to Alma directly from careers in education, we have created the industry's most intuitive, and easy-to-use system available. We look forward to making it work as well for you as it does with the rest of our customers!! Please let us know what we can do to improve your experience? ### 2. Very cumbersome and little help to improve options. **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** Having the ability to write notes on each student. **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** 1) You cannot print out a year long individual attendance report. 2) It is not user friendly when trying to see which absences are excused, unexcused or suspension. They need to all be color coded differently. Otherwise you have to click on each individual date to see what the attendance was marked as. Each absence should be a different color so you can easily see and count the absences efficiently just by viewing the calendar. 3) There is not tardy report that gives you the amount of time the student was tardy. Again, I have to click on each individual day to get the time they arrived. There is a report with student's name, date they were tardy and the number of tardies they have, but as I need a report with the time the came into school as well. 4) When gathering demographics, I have to flip from two pages (the bio and contact pages) instead of all of the information being on one page. Very time consuming when you are making a report. **Recommendations to others considering Alma SIS:** I don't have recommendations. **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** None at this time. **Official Response from Douglass Mabry:** > Thanks for the feedback. You may benefit from some further training. It appears you may not be using Alma's full potential. We offer unlimited support through the Alma app to all users - and your issues can easily be addressed. Thanks! What can we do to help you have a similar experience as our other customers? ### 3. Great Resource **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2018 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** Easy access to parent contact information. Fast attendance taking. **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** I am pleased with every aspect of Alma 😀 **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping in touch with parents of my students. Entering report card scores and comments, and taking attendance. ### 4. Easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** Alma is intuitive and easy to use. It has all the features I look for without over complicating the format. **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** Occasionally Alma crashes and is down for a few hours. This is an inconvenience at times. **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** The useable and predictable format make Alma easy for a new teacher to use immediately. ### 5. It's functional **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2018 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** It keeps track of things better than if I were to compile things by hand. **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** It's a bit obnoxious to navigate. Features, like the ability to email all students, disappear. Constant pop-up messages from the tech crew. Y'all - make an app for the phone that just lets me do attendance. **Recommendations to others considering Alma SIS:** If it's the best option, go with it. **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Really, we use it to take attendance, and that's about it. A bit for grades. ### 6. Excellent data input, user friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** It is super user friendly. Easy to maneuver while using which create a high efficiency while dealing with many issues. **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** When dealing with entering all my information manually which is time consuming only at the beginning of using the program. It would’ve been easier to downlaod everything automatically all at once. **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** To navigate through students information in a timely fashion. ### 7. Not bad **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jasmine M. | Sales Consultant, Cosmetics, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** The ease of use is nice and the ability to customize. **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** The cost is not that great and the amount of people that know about this to be able to reach them. **Recommendations to others considering Alma SIS:** You can try it but don't waste too much time with it. **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** I no longer use it I didn't like it thought it wasn't worth the time. ### 8. attendance **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Heidi B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** I don't have a feature I like best. It's fine for writing report cards and narratives. **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** The fact that Alma accepts tardies and absences but can not keep track of the tardies entered for the report card makes no sense to me. It seems that this would be an easy fix to an annoying problem. **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** writing report cards. **Official Response from Douglass Mabry:** > Thanks for the feedback Heidi. It appears you may not be using Alma's full potential. We offer unlimited support through the Alma app to all users - and your issue can easily be addressed. Thanks! ### 9. Needing a bit more **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** M. Janel B. | Founding Deputy Executive Director; Director of Curriculum & Instruction, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** Colorful interface Can easily search stiudents **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** Inability to print reports one by one. No VISUAL individual schedule options Does not link with google classroom in standards mode Not as malleable as I’d like it to be **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Competency’ based progress reporting in a high school setting **Official Response from Douglass Mabry:** > We offer unlimited support to ALL customers of Alma. Perhaps you could benefit from some more training, as your issues are easily addressed, Janel. Would you like your account manager to reach out? UPDATE: Janel, just checking in. We don't see any interaction from you with Alma's customer support team. What can we do to improve your experience? ### 10. Always updating to help users **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2018 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** The site always seems to be making changes to help users navigate better and find what they need. **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** Some items are not located in the places oh would expect and take longer than necessary to find. **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Student information system, offers to sync with other programs. ### 11. The program is OK **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 27, 2018 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** Communication to students. Record keeping. **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** No way to collect assignments submitted for grading **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** organization ### 12. Alma review! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2018 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** Alma is focused on aiding students to be and do their absolute best **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** No dislikes. It’s a great software that allows me to keep all important information organized and easily accessible. **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** Like I stated previously, organized and easily accessible information. ### 13. Complete package for School Data **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2017 **What do you like best about Alma SIS?** What I like best is that there is one interface, one place that everyone at the school can go to do what they need, find out what they need, or input what they need, from all aspects - administration, teachers, office staff, students, and parents. Everyone has access only the information they need, appreciate the different levels of access. **What do you dislike about Alma SIS?** What I dislike the most is the reports. There are myriad of reports you can select, you can even create your own for the data you want to capture, but they all come out on an excel page, which really isn't that impressive. I also dislike that there is no direction on how to use this tool, no how-to's or FAQs. **Recommendations to others considering Alma SIS:** Alma is very reachable, you can make suggestions, ask for direction. The only thing I wish for is training so that you can learn all the capabilities and how to access everything from the beginning versus by trial and error, but that may not be Alma's fault - that could have been something local. **What problems is Alma SIS solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have resolved our school data problems - in the past we had attendance information in one place, parent/contact information on another data file, nurse/emergency information elsewhere, grades and transcripts on another, to name just a few - now all this data and evolving information is on one platform. ## Alma SIS Discussions - [How would I print off one student's grades and assignments per subject?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/13767-how-would-i-print-off-one-student-s-grades-and-assignments-per-subject) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [We spend a lot of time on hold with our current SIS vendor. How is Alma's customers service?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/customer-service-63d5d7c3-42f8-4290-bc1d-4016113a20bc) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Admissions and Enrollment](https://www.g2.com/discussions/admissions-and-enrollment) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How can I get a closer look at Alma?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/demo-requests) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Where is Alma currently deployed?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/global-reach-38ed453a-f291-4602-86cc-97876b8744d4) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Alma SIS pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/alma-sis/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-09+10%3A01%3A28+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ca12f33e-27bc-44c3-b40c-608a6389fe56&secure%5Btoken%5D=e5edae0d106c17dc228f6ade82835015a14e0afb82e52c18bf0517c30ef00fff&format=llm_user) ## Alma SIS Features **Platform Content** - File Sharing - White-Labeling - Gradebook **Agentic AI - Student Information Systems (SIS)** - Cross-system Integration **Platform Additional Functionality** - Cloud - Mobility - Messaging **Platform Data** - Visualization - Activity Dashboard - Analytics - Registration - Atttendance **Agentic AI - K-12 Student Information Systems** - Cross-system Integration - Third-Party Integrations **Additional Functionality** - Employee Management - Generative AI - Alerts/Notifications - Content Management - Client Portal - Contact Management - Reporting & Statistics - Scheduling - Billing & Invoicing - Calendar Management - Reminders - AI Copilot - Admissions Management - Forms Management - Student Management - Access Controls/Permissions - Student Portal - Email Management - Payroll Management - Enrollments/Onboarding - API - Records Management - Electronic Payments - Course Authoring - Curriculum Management - Assignment Management - Transportation Management - Customizable Reports - Document Storage - Registration Management - Customizable Forms - Assessment Management - Online Calendar - Search/Filter - Self Service Portal - Event Calendar - Progress Reports - Progress Tracking - Student Information/Records - Document Management - Class Scheduling - Summary Reports - Real-Time Notifications - Online Payments - Faculty/Staff Management - Employee Portal - Real-Time Data - Attendance Management - Parent/Student Portal - Task Management - Learning Management - Attendance Tracking - Financial Management - Data Import/Export - Report Cards - Fee Collection - Performance Metrics - For Higher Education - Mobile App - Role-Based Permissions ## Top Alma SIS Alternatives - [PowerSchool SIS](https://www.g2.com/products/powerschool-sis/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (722 reviews) - [Gradelink](https://www.g2.com/products/gradelink/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (225 reviews) - [Infinite Campus](https://www.g2.com/products/infinite-campus/reviews) - 3.7/5.0 (200 reviews)