# Orah Reviews **Vendor:** Boardingware **Category:** [K-12 Student Information Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/k-12-student-information-systems) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 61 ## About Orah Orah: The Leading Attendance Management Platform for Independent Schools Orah is a comprehensive attendance and student location management platform designed specifically for independent schools. Trusted by over 500 schools across 20+ countries, Orah provides real-time attendance tracking, automated alerts, and powerful insights to help schools ensure student safety, engagement, and operational efficiency. At Orah, we understand the unique challenges independent schools face in managing student attendance and wellbeing. From reconciling attendance records to responding to emergencies, our platform simplifies these processes while enhancing the school’s ability to care for every student. With seamless integration into major Student Information Systems (SIS) like Blackbaud, Veracross, and TASS, Orah ensures that your attendance data is accurate, accessible, and actionable. ‍ What Makes Orah Unique? Unlike general-purpose attendance tools, Orah is designed specifically for the nuanced needs of independent schools. Orah doesn’t just track attendance—it connects attendance data to student safety, communications & engagement, and wellbeing. Always know where students are with location tracking and automated updates. Used by leading schools like Philips Exeter Academy, University School of Nashville, and Nudgee College. ## Orah Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise the **excellent customer support** from Nicholas Hillier, noting timely resolutions to their issues. (1 reviews) - Users find Orah's interface **intuitive and easy to navigate** , simplifying the process of tracking students' locations. (1 reviews) - Users praise the **excellent customer support** from Nicholas Hillier, appreciating prompt resolutions for any feature-related issues. (1 reviews) - Users value the **student safety** feature of Orah, making it easy to track students' location on campus. (1 reviews) ## Orah Reviews ### 1. Orah passes and forms review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 15, 2025 **What do you like best about Orah?** Customer support from Nicholas Hillier has been great. The instant message section of the website is also helpful. When we have had a problem using one of the features, the issues has been resolved in a timely manner. **What do you dislike about Orah?** Sometimes it can take a bit of trial and error to get event passes running the way we need but it is nothing that is not able to be overcome. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping track of students locations, particularly when they leave campus ### 2. Orah is amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lachlan B. | Teacher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 29, 2025 **What do you like best about Orah?** It is so intuitive to use. Seeing students on or off campus is a breeze. **What do you dislike about Orah?** There really isn't anything that there is to dislike about Orah. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Knowing where students are and easily being able to adjuct where they are on campus. ### 3. Easy to Understand and real time results **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ellen H. | ITS Office/DB Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Orah?** Hard to pick one. Here are my top 4: I like the visual of seeing all the students and easy to use filters. I love the real time responses for emergencies where everyone can click they are safe or not and we see instantaneously. I love the NFC checkpoints as they are easy to set up and inexpensive to distribute. I love that data feeds from Blackbaud ON system - huge efficiency. **What do you dislike about Orah?** There are some serious reliability issues with emergency roll calls and overloads of server that are being worked on. Also - staff and students here are not good at doing updates as they pride themselves in being free spirits so our data is not as good as it should be. That's an Administration problem, not a BW problem. Also - would like students and staff auto loaded from our ON SIS system. Students are but we fake the staff in as students so we can account for all in an emergency. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prior to BW, we had a lot of shared google sheets and used email blasts to see where missing students are. Now I can easily mark who is off campus for a term or home for a weekend. No more checking the Athletics checkin, Health checkin, Gone From School, etc. ### 4. Great platform that we could easily adapt to fit our needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Orah?** We wanted to be able to use this for tracking day student locations in addition to boarders, and for conducting regular COVID symptom checks. It's done all that with ease, and it works for us just as well for day students as it does for boarders. It's also simplified communication and documentation, cutting down on email and putting all the important information about a student in one place. **What do you dislike about Orah?** The biggest challenge in our first year using it has been minor technical glitches. Some staff couldn't create accounts, for example, and some couldn't access features or get notifications like they were supposed to. Most issues got resolved, but it took a little time. We didn't adopt Boardingware until about a month before school. We were able to get it up and running quickly, but these glitches did make some of our start-of-year work challenging. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** As I said above, we're able to keep good track of who is on campus and who's not, which is important in a year where we've employed a hybrid learning model. We also wanted to conduct daily symptom checks and collect that information easily, and this works well for that. Beyond that, our use of Pastoral Notes has greatly improved our communication about staff, and all our records are now in one place. ### 5. A decent platform for tracking students **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Orah?** The ease of use and ability to see where students are. **What do you dislike about Orah?** I haven't used it in a couple years, but I wanted it to be more customizable. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keep track of where students were and having them submit plans in advance. ### 6. Boardingware improves the lives of its users! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John S. | Assistant Head for School Life, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2020 **What do you like best about Orah?** From an administrator's perspective, I am confident that students are safe and accounted for on a regular basis. I can make sure all of my staff knows the status of all of my students in real time. From a dorm parent's perspective, they can easily conduct check-ins from their phone or laptop. From a student's and parent's perspective, they can easily request leaves, schedule vacation travel and sign out (and back in). **What do you dislike about Orah?** The only thing I dislike is our school information system doesn't sync with Boardingware, which is more of an issue with the other system than with Boardingware. I also don't like that the language they use for our industry (boarding schools) is thoroughly British so we find ourselves having to translate (e.g., "House" means "Dorm," etc.) **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** After sales and start up, you'll be assigned to an account manager. Do use that person for technical support and questions. Our Amanda has been responsive, knowledgeable, and delightful. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having one place where everyone knows where are students are. Some are away on weekend, some are away with this team or that, some are studying remotely and others are on medical leave. That used to be a bunch of lists that dorm parents would have to consult. Now it's all in one place. More than one teacher can check in a group together. The supervisor can see the status of the check-in and all check-ins are archived. ### 7. What a change **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryan B. | Director of Residential Life, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2020 **What do you like best about Orah?** Boardingware is a simple tool to track students in real time. Further from that though, our students have a history of locations, and we have connections with parents and hosts that otherwise wouldn't happen. With our connection to International Families, we have made more connections and communications than ever before. **What do you dislike about Orah?** It can be complicated for a new user. The barrier of learning a new program can make it difficult for anyone to jump straight in. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** Be prepared for training your staff, your students, and your parents. I underestimated the workload. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** When I arrived, we were using paper and pencil to track the locations of our students. The idea of trust but verify is important for high school students. ### 8. It lets us keep track of where the students are **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laurel Y. | Instructor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2019 ### 9. Knowledge and Peace of mind when you most need it **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Will C. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** I like the fact that Boardingware can promt you to have conversations with students and parents over their leave requests giving you the value of insight and monitoring leave. It also provides a highly convenient way for keeping you informed of your student's whereabouts when you have 101 other matters to be concerned about. In short, it help me maintain peace of mind...and not having to continuously trawl through e-mails or permission slips. **What do you dislike about Orah?** I don't like the fact that it can be complicated for parents to use and understand initially. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** Make use of the support sessions available at Startup **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing student leave during the week and at weekends. - Monitor student's leave and potential absence. - Keep an eye on and spot trends in leave patterns. - Simple (once parents have the hang of it) and effective way of approving leave and comings and goings. - Registering students at times during the day. ### 10. Great program for boarding school **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicole C. | Dance Instructor, Resident Faculty, Advisor, Performing Arts, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** This program immensely helps facilitate the boarding life at school. The program is easy to learn, aided by the offerings of online training sessions. You can keep records of students' health conditions, disciplinary occurrences, general notes, see parental permissions, and keep track of their late or timely departures and arrivals from campus. Taking roll is a quick easy process with student lists created for different situations. **What do you dislike about Orah?** On occasion, I have noticed issues of not being able to access shared roll calls or information not being saved due to internet access/connection; however, I would say I have experienced few issues with this program. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Boardingware overall has helped our residential faculty awareness of all students' whereabouts, habits, any health issues (getting sick, etc.) and noting parent permissions. This enables our community to have access to up to date information in between our regular meetings, which also facilitates our duty rotations so no information is lost. It is a great resource for us to look back and notice any conditions that might need addressing, or to reward students for their responsible behaviors and leadership. **Official Response from Paul Organ:** > Hi Nicole thanks so much for the feedback, we really appreciate it. Paul ### 11. Boardingware delivers when tasked with high volume **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mac J. | Assistant Director of Residential Life, Primary/Secondary Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** The communication and accountability boost Boardingware provides us is huge. All our residential faculty and administrators know where all our children are all the time, up to the minute. **What do you dislike about Orah?** The information shared between parents and students is not always as transparent as we'd like, especially as a junior boarding school. Specifically, if parents aren't included in the workflow of an event leave, parents they have to use a workaround to see what events students signed up for. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** We began the year with the rollout, and gradually phased in additional features/tasks within the first two months. Incrementally building this way was instrumental to our faculty buy-in. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our parent and student-initiated checkouts are much more streamlined now. In the past, the ResLife office would field emails, phone calls, and texts relating to travel information. Now, parents are able to enter all necessary information in a uniform, standardized way, and the feedback from all parties has been really positive. We've also integrated Boardingware into all our weekend activities/trips. As context, we have 100 boarders, ages 10-15, and we send 20-25 "trips" out-- both on campus and off-- every weekend. Between these faculty-led activities and students checking out to go home for the weekend, we process on average 270 checkouts per weekend. Our residential faculty are now able to pull rosters quickly and accurately for attendance, and any last minute adjustments are easy to make. Boardingware is a game changer, period. ### 12. I love it for my school! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** I love knowing where all my students are at any given time. I appreciate how easy it is to set up new leaves, sign kids in and out. We don't have hundred of students, but even if we did I do think Boardingware would be beneficial to a school of any size or caliber. **What do you dislike about Orah?** I feel like it often glitches or won't load the moments when I need it most, or need it to work faster. I do think that for some age groups of co-workers it took a long time for them to learn it simply because they are not as familiar with technology. However, I have changed some thing, which I appreciate having the ability to do, in order to make it easier for them to navigate the system. I also dislike that it is not really geared towards school who also have day students. While yes, there are ways to use it for day students it takes a lot of extra work on our part. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** It will cover almost all of your basic needs at a private school and will make your days a lot easier. I think it is great! **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Where students are at any given time. Not having to worry about a person who is specifically taking care of travel plans - it is all on Boardingware. ### 13. Review of Boardingware **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hans H. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Ease of use for student accountability & maintaining logs for retrieving student leave. **What do you dislike about Orah?** Experienced a few glitches at the outset, but these were all corrected quickly and we've not experienced any for the last couple years. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** There may be other programs, but for us Boardingware has been perfect. It not only keeps updating its product, but the staff are extremely helpful and kind. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a better method to track student whereabouts as well as process the leave requests when students left campus. Using Boardingware has made this process much faster, more time efficient, and gives the ability to access logs for a much longer history without having to keep a hard copy paper trail. ### 14. Helpful for schoolwide communication **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Boardingware has allowed our school to go away from some of the paper usage for a typical week, while increasing communication between our dorm staff and day staff. Any administrator, teacher, or dorm staff can find out where a student is quickly, or know if they are not in the right place. It allows the school to keep a record of every time a student is out due to illness, field trip, sporting event, or off campus function. **What do you dislike about Orah?** The only negative I have truly encountered is in the check out system. Any sign outs must be done over 15-20 prior to sign out or the system signs out the student automatically. Example, leaving at 3:00, if you enter the data after 2:40, they will be signed out automatically. before 2:40, the entry awaits the proper procedure. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** If you are part of a boarding school, give it a test run. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Boardingware system has allowed my office to cut down on paper usage on a daily basis by keeping everything electronic. It also keeps a accurate records of all data entry that otherwise could be misplaced, or lost. ### 15. Does everything we need for our boarding school **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** 1. Boardingware is immediate. Once we confirm information in one part - it becomes immediately available to all users so we know what’s going on in real time. 2. Boardingware is user-friendly. Our school staff and students all understand how to use the software, and it is available on multiple platforms for convenience. 3. Boardingware is customizable. Any school can adjust the categories and conditions for management of its students. **What do you dislike about Orah?** It’s hard to say what I dislike because usually when there is a problem with the system, Boardingware’s staff is quick to respond and roll out new solutions. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to make trips and other off-campus activities much more manageable by keeping everyone aware of student participation. Also for international student leaves we are now able to confirm the location of the person giving permission for the leave. This helps us be sure that emails and permissions that come to us from international parents really do originate from those locations and not from within our own school area. **Official Response from Paul Organ:** > Thank you so much for the feedback, we're glad that we make such a positive impact on your campus. Best, Paul ### 16. Handy Tool **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kimber M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** While there are some aspects I would still like to see improved, I find that Boardingware is very handy for keeping records for student location with our private school. **What do you dislike about Orah?** One of the aspects I would like to see improved is the ability to apply a filter to a live roll so that when one person creates a live roll for the while school, I can filter to the specific house or group that I am attending to. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving every faculty member the ability to find out where a student is be they on or off campus is a big benefit when there is any kind of emergency. **Official Response from Paul Organ:** > Hi Kimber, Thank you for your honest feedback, your suggestions for improvements are great and the team has been notified. Paul ### 17. Best way to track boarding students **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** I love that I can use my phone to check where students are going at any time of the day. I also love that I can see their leave histories to check who they are going out with and where they frequently go. **What do you dislike about Orah?** The thing I dislike the most is that when we have spotty wi-fi or data, it just stops working. Also there's been some issues with "Live Roll" where it would crash and I would lose the entire roll. In addition, I do not like the fact that there is no feature where students can put in a "Holiday Leave" that has multiple destinations and hosts for those destinations. Currently I have my students put in separate Holiday Leaves for each destination they go to which can be a hassle. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Accountability and security. ### 18. Great tool for keeping track of students **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amanda R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** The Boardingware program is a great tool for keeping track of where our students are and where they are going. It is intuitive and easy to use. They are always work to improve the software in order to make the experience more user-friendly. **What do you dislike about Orah?** It took many of our students and faculty to get their heads around how to use Boardingware. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for boarding school in order to track our students and check them in and out at check-in times ### 19. Boardingware - an answer to may issues **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bryan N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** The system, although a technical solution, puts student safety first. It allows for easy communication between students, home and school thus promoting a positive school culture. It also allows for efficient check in and headcount. This is particularly important in an emergency situation. The Boardingware team are also great at listening to both support and consider future improvements to the system. **What do you dislike about Orah?** That we did not think of this before 2017. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** Get onboard with a team dedicated to keeping students safe and dedicated to continuous improvement with the product. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Greater communication between students, home and school. Improved safeguarding. Improved process for overnight stays and very efficient head count checks. We now know where our students are 24/7. ### 20. Intuitive interface with responsive support team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josie R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** As the app has developed they have used our feedback to create additional capabilities that meet our growing needs. The team has been incredibly responsive with troubleshooting issues, even with a 12 hour time different between our locations. **What do you dislike about Orah?** Shockingly, [read: sarcasm] this web-based platform is dependent on wifi connection. This is sometimes an issue as our connectivity on campus can be less than reliable. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to monitor our students and communicate with parents about permissions very effectively. **Official Response from Paul Organ:** > Hi Josie, thank you for your review! It's a shame to hear about your issues with Wifi. We do have offline mode with mobile devices, have you been able to utilize this? Feel free to reach out through the application to learn more about it. Our success team is located across three continents, so that definitely helps when it comes to getting back to you in time :) Thanks again, Paul. ### 21. 3 years in, not looking back **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David W. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** User friendly for all parties and increased accountability **What do you dislike about Orah?** Needs a better interface for large TV screens. The old web app leave board allows up to have around 40 students on the screen at once but could do with some refinements / updates. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** Easy to implement, functional and will soon become an integral part of your management system **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time effective, less paper trail, more convenient for staff, students and parents, access to pertinent records/information on the go ### 22. 1 year user says... **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** My favorite thing about Boardingware is how it appeals to visual learners. **What do you dislike about Orah?** I dislike that the data for some groups has to be manually entered, as we rotate required dinner table groups and our Culinary Faculty Supervisor has to manually enter 200 names every 2-3 weeks. I also dislike how VASTLY different it looks for Apple products versus Android, making training documents VERY hard to create. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** Plan a few weeks of training and use time before it becomes live with your students. Very hard to play catch up after a few days of not requiring fac and students not to use it, so give time for getting everyone up to speed or they view it as optional and you spend whole year unteaching bad habits **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to care for and keep track of our students and their habits more effectively using Boardingware. The benefit of having information at my fingertips (Staff App) is huge as a person who is mobile throughout the day (no set classroom or office so no desktop or laptop). ### 23. Boardingware = game changer! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** I love the accessibility of boardingware. As a weekend administrator on duty who is also a dorm parent it is so convenient to be on my dorm and to be able to see where all of our other students are or to have access to contact information if we need to track them down. It is also great having the phone app for athletic travel. **What do you dislike about Orah?** I would love to be able to see groups of students signed out together so that we can bettie monitor if they sign back in together or if there are changes in the patters of their travel. This is something we were able to do on our old paper model and it was often influential in monitoring potential disciplinary issues. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've had a bunch easier time keeping track of our students. Boardingware is also very accessible to our students. ### 24. Still getting used to it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** M P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Getting easier. Easy for parents to submit passes. Less wasted paper **What do you dislike about Orah?** Parents don't call to confirm plans (need to...just in case students know their log-in). Difficult for parents to get started (different skill level with computers). Binder was easier. The Boardingware Staff App on my personal phone keeps crashing every time I try to access the requests. Co-workers aren't as good at figuring it out. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Admin has real-time information ### 25. Professional and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ian R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Boardingware is a very professional application that does the job much better than a paper-based system. It is not a difficult programme to learn to use and with the phone app you can even do it on your phone for convenience. **What do you dislike about Orah?** There is nothing I dislike about Boardingware. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** It is a programme that lets you do a lot more in a very small amount of time. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping a track on boarder whereabouts is key. You can always go back and have a look at any rolls done etc. The record is always there! Parents submit leave rather than us chasing up, which we used to. ### 26. Working with Boardingware **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Reany R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** I like the page set up.Makes it easy to see all students at a glance.Information at your fingertips(no more trawling through pages in folders etc). **What do you dislike about Orah?** 1.If the site crashes need hard copy back up.2.Changes in face page format as it takes a while to familiarise.3.A shared office computer not ideal as logging in and out important to remember especially if personal information is added under the incorrect user name.4.More time sitting at computer not healthy.5.Less personal interaction with clients. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefits : parents can see communication online instantly. Girls can sign up for leave more easily. ### 27. Versatile, thorough, easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ken W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** The software is able to handle all of the ins and outs of boarding school life. **What do you dislike about Orah?** The ios app and the iPad app and the web version all look/feel different from one another. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** We did a 3 month trial to see if it was right for us. Give it time. It takes a while to learn all of the features and implement it with your students. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** We now provide better service to our boarding families and timely notification of when their child leaves campus for an hour or for a day. ### 28. Great product, great customer service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jane R. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Our staff loves that we can use it from our computers and our phones. **What do you dislike about Orah?** I hope that someday it will integrate with our SIS. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping track of students when they come and go from campus; tracking the administration of medicare; emergency roll call for fire and other drills. ### 29. Great user friendly Boarding School Student Manangement system **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** We love boardingware as it gives great access and insight to our students movements and needs, also links our families well to keep in touch with leave requirements. **What do you dislike about Orah?** It changes wuite often the look and sometimes the functions, but once you get used to the new functions or looks they are better than previous. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Benefits of having medical patterns/histories and leave patterns etc. Really managing to get a great look at the care of our residents and if a pattern emerges with pastoral needs etc. ### 30. Boardingware offers all arounf excellence **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark V. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** An effective, accesible solution supported by motivated and friendly staff at a young, dynamic company eager to learn and grow. **What do you dislike about Orah?** It doesn't sych with PowerSchool but it does with toher whole school information systems, for example iSAMS **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** It's a no brainer **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Student travel, movement and registration **Official Response from Paul Organ:** > Hi Mark, thank you for your review! PowerSchool is not far away - unfortunately it has been hard to get in touch with PowerSchool but we're making progress. If it were up to us this would have been done long ago. Thanks again - Paul ### 31. Best New Tool We've Had for the Dorm in a Long Long Time **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Having everything in one place and being able to find whatever I need right when I need it. **What do you dislike about Orah?** Constant look-and-feel and functionality upgrades are much appreciated but occasionally lead to confusion as information moves, gestures/button presses change, etc. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** In short, we are collecting and controlling information about students to a greater degree than was ever possible before—leading to gains in efficiency, safety, and time that can be bettter used getting to know the students well rather than hounding them about this and that. ### 32. Boardingware is excellent. The system is user friendly for students, parents and staff. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Liz W. | Director of Boarding, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** All records are easily accessible. The system provides the platform for necessary information to be available to all stakeholders through clear processes **What do you dislike about Orah?** Not being able to customize fields specifically for our Boarding House **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** I highly recommend Boardingware as a very satisfactory system for managing leave and pastoral processes in a Boarding House **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Security of data history relating to student leave; accessibility of information by parents/caregivers and staff. Boardingware has provided a higher level of interactive communication between Hostel staff, boarders and their parents/caregivers ### 33. Still learning Boardingware **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Parents can view their child's whereabouts. We can see who the 'leave' went through (staff/parents). Everything in one place. **What do you dislike about Orah?** Language when building forms a little complicated. Rolls could be managed differently as could the Dining room details. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Safety is paramount, so this is helping us keep an eye on things. We can approve leave quickly without major fuss. Time saving! Not as much time looking through emails etc - everything is in one place. ### 34. Very useful and easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** I like that it is relatively easy to use, making it easy for us to account for all of our students. It’s definitely better than managing the students using paper sign in and sign out procedures. **What do you dislike about Orah?** I would like to be able to specify who my notifications are sent to and which ones I receive. I would like to just receive them for my dorm, but not the ones for all the other dorms. It would also be useful if we could message students within the app. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to account for all of our students. The benefit is, if used correctly, we always no where the students are. ### 35. The ease of use has improved significantly with the updates. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Schalk V. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** The ease of access of various rolls. The interface is much more attractive than it used to be. **What do you dislike about Orah?** Still sometimes freezes and I have to restart. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping track of where our students are. ### 36. We really like it! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Most important for me was the ease that I can maneuver through the app and how easy it is to teach others. **What do you dislike about Orah?** The program seems to send out an auto invite when I publish the event. I would like to see controls and choices before I send anything out. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** This enables us to run our school's orientation smoother and edit on the fly as needed. ### 37. Boardingware Experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Antxon I. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** The ability to have all the information of what happens in the dorm in one place. **What do you dislike about Orah?** I would like to have the ability to send push notifications to students from the app. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows all my staff to be in the loop about what it is transpiring in the dorm. Sickness, discipline notes, where students are, etc. All that information is a couple of clicks away. ### 38. Keep tabs of your Boarders **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Barry v. | Deputy Headmaster - Marketing, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Ease of use, keeps records in the cloud. Secure and security for oneself, parents and staff members **What do you dislike about Orah?** Doesn't send a reminder to parents who have not signed out. Need a "repeat" sign out box so parents don't have to do each week, unless they need to edit. Each boy parent should either sign boys out or in, but must happen. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeps records in the cloud ### 39. Responsive Customer Service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** They are very responsive to our needs in terms of working with us to develop new features that better suit our program. **What do you dislike about Orah?** Nothing comes to mind. I need 40 characters. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are a school, so it isn't so much a "business", but it is helping us keep better track of our students and make sure that they have permission to travel off campus. ### 40. Boardingware has made the management of students a streamlined and accurate process. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maxine K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** The system is easy to use and allows parents, staff and students to be fully informed particularly in regard to leave requests. **What do you dislike about Orah?** Nil Think the programme is suitable. I do not use this now that it is installed and the staff are proficient. **Recommendations to others considering Orah:** I thoroughly recommend Boardingware to other Boarding Schools looking to manage all aspects of their students on one platform. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Student Management ### 41. Using Boardingware every day **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** The interface is very easy to use and clear. Students, parents and staff use it with no problems. It is also possible to customise so that it matches our specific school requirements. **What do you dislike about Orah?** Not much. Sometimes you need some practice to find the right options. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Students signing in and out of the boarding house. Parents requesting weekend leaves. ### 42. Excellent time saving management product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** We, as a school, have used Boardingware for the last 18 months and have been very impressed with the product. The team are always looking to improve and will listen to feedback given in order to deliver a high quality piece of software. The product itself has allowed us to save time, be more efficient and make better decisions. Thoroughly impressed and pleased. Will continue to use. **What do you dislike about Orah?** Not much! A few glitches appear on the Android app with formatting and viewing. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time saving! Saves so much time and admin cost. Very easy to use. ### 43. An excellent easy to use programme **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Boys have adapted very successfully to boardingware. Excellent back up service by the staff of Boardingware Parents have quickly adapted and have commented on the ease of signing their sons out. The extra areas such as profiles, pastoral care have been brilliant in helping staff write reports **What do you dislike about Orah?** Can't say there is anything as it has made our lives much easier in regard to leave management, pastoral and accountability **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main one would be the accountability, in regard to the students where abouts at all times. Safety of the students is paramount. ### 44. This is not applicable. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** I like the ability to show the boarding parents which children are in the library after school hours because the students have to sign in online. **What do you dislike about Orah?** Nothing so far. I do not use the program extensively, so I really do not have enough experience with it to make a clear argument. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A ### 45. Good experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristian B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** I liked that it was an easy to use app. I also liked that you could see the pictures of the kids. However, if the pictures were bigger it would be more helpful. **What do you dislike about Orah?** I didn't like that you couldn't msg the students via the app. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking where students are is very helpful. ### 46. helpful staff who are always available **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zigani H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** It doesnt matter how silly the question there is always someone ready to help... without judgement! **What do you dislike about Orah?** this. questionnaire.. I am in Boarding School and a my role is a senior care giver **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Pastoral notes are really helpful to all staff particularly when not seeing each other prior to shift change ### 47. Boardingware is a Fine Company **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Customer Service --- Last year Kathleen was awesome and this year Jessica is just as awesome. Bware gets back with you quickly and helps you solve issues fast. **What do you dislike about Orah?** I wish an email notification was sent out when we make a comment to a Post. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Leaves, tracking ### 48. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brendan M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** Easy to use with great support. All users find it easy to navigate and help us only a click away **What do you dislike about Orah?** There have been a couple of improvements I've been trying to get introduced: parent approval notification and leave limit notifications **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Leave surveillance and tracking ### 49. Excellent App! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Terri F. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** The real time data ensures we provide the best possible care for students. **What do you dislike about Orah?** The delay in updates from different devices. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ensuring the safety and security of the students. Improving the workload of boarding parents and matrons. ### 50. Wonderful students management system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Orah?** I love how the company works with you. They try to find a way to do program their system to work in the way you need. **What do you dislike about Orah?** We are a smaller school, so we have some specific needs that are little bit harder to get with the system, but they are trying their best to help us. **What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to provide a more ecological system for managing our students comings and goings. - [View Orah pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/orah/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-13+19%3A06%3A11+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=5c52e4d5-2957-4f49-b35d-d1188e070c5f&secure%5Btoken%5D=dd4dbfe5c67b366747dbeabab2c08b9958aeec46b7793be87f110dc0e119e75e&format=llm_user) ## Orah 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 - Dashboard - Analytics - Registration - Atttendance **Agentic AI - K-12 Student Information Systems** - Cross-system Integration ## Top Orah 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 (223 reviews) - [SchoolStatus](https://www.g2.com/products/schoolstatus/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (805 reviews)