For independent schools
Basin gives your school a direct channel to every parent — smart routing, read receipts, forms that come back, and a chat parents actually use.
Free for one semester. If it doesn't reduce your front desk's workload, we delete everything — you've lost nothing.
What Basin replaces
The phone calls at 7:50am — "my kid is running late"
The emails that go to spam
The GroupMe you can't control
The paper forms that don't come back
The "I didn't get that email" excuse
See who got it
Every broadcast tracks delivery, reads, and responses in real time — not a guess based on email open rates.
Early dismissal Friday — 12:30pm
Sent to: 3rd Grade families · 5 min ago
100%
Delivered
94%
Read
87%
Acknowledged
Illustrative example — your school's actual pilot numbers will vary.
What's included
Smart-routed broadcasts
Send once. Basin routes it to the right families — by grade, classroom, or activity — and shows you who got it, who read it, and who responded.
Forms, tracked to done
Distribute permission slips and re-enrollment forms through the app parents already check. See completion in real time instead of chasing paper.
After-school, self-serve
Parents register, waitlist, and cancel themselves — capacity limits and grade eligibility enforced automatically. No more spreadsheet.
Substitute coverage
A sub gets any allergy or medical notes on file the moment they accept — nothing relayed by memory at 6am.
Conferences, self-booked
Parents pick an open slot against your defined availability. No sign-up sheet, no double-booking.
Progress notes, drafted for you
Basin drafts a plain-language note home from what you've already recorded — you review and send, instead of writing it from scratch.
Parent-owned chat, included
Every family also gets Koalie, a private parent-to-parent chat for their classroom — organized sign-ups, no group text. The school can't read it, and doesn't have to manage it.
Supply lists, no spreadsheet
Publish what each classroom needs. Parents see it in the same app they already use for everything else.
Why not ParentSquare?
Basin sits alongside your SIS (FACTS, PowerSchool, ClassReach) — it's the communication layer, not a replacement for it.
Common questions
We already use email.
And how's your open rate? Basin has push notifications with read receipts — you'll know who actually saw it.
We use ParentSquare.
ParentSquare is great for districts. Basin is built for independent schools — simpler, cheaper, and it includes parent-to-parent chat you never have to manage.
Parents won't download another app.
You tell them to. When the school says "this is how we communicate now," they download it — just like they did for FACTS or SchoolPass.
Our teachers are too busy to learn something new.
Teachers get a notification when a parent reaches out. That's it — they don't manage a dashboard. The admin does.
What about data privacy?
We don't store grades or academic records — Basin is a communication and operations layer, not a gradebook. No SSNs, no financial data, ever. Parent-to-parent chat is private by design; we're FERPA-aware and never sell data.
Pricing
Free for one semester, one grade. If your front desk fields fewer calls and parents are happier, we talk pricing. If not, we delete everything.
One flat price
$500–1,500/year
Scales with school size. Includes everything above — broadcasts, forms, after-school, substitute coverage, conferences, progress notes, parent chat, and supply lists. No per-student pricing, no add-on tiers.
What we're asking for
15-minute conversation — understand what's actually costing your front desk time.
A live demo, walked through your actual scenarios — not a generic slide deck.
One grade goes live as a free pilot — 15-20 families, zero cost.
The pilot runs. We measure calls avoided, form turnaround, and read rates together.
You decide: school-wide rollout, or we delete everything and part as friends.
Basin doesn't store grades or academic records. No SSNs, no financial data, ever. We never sell data or use it for advertising — Basin sits alongside the systems you already trust, it doesn't replace them.
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