Comparison
SchoolPK or Edflo? The Cheaper System, and When It's Worth Paying More
We'll start with the number most comparison pages leave out. SchoolPK is a great deal cheaper than Edflo, at every school size, and not by a small margin. If price decides it for you, you can stop reading here. If you're weighing price against what happens to your fees and your data, the rest of this page is for you. SchoolPK is made by RG Software Solutions in Islamabad, and everything we say about it comes from its own two websites as they read on 29 October 2026.
Everything this article says about SchoolPK comes from SchoolPK and RG Software Solutions’s own help pages, last checked . Sources: SchoolPK home page · yearly plans · modules and features.
What a year costs on each
SchoolPK publishes yearly prices by student count. Its cheapest plan includes the web portal, the mobile app and app SMS. Edflo publishes a flat monthly price by school size. Here is a full year on each, at four sizes:
- 120 students: SchoolPK Rs 12,000 a year. Edflo PKR 35,988 (PKR 2,999 a month).
- 250 students: SchoolPK Rs 15,000 a year. Edflo PKR 59,988 (PKR 4,999 a month).
- 700 students: SchoolPK Rs 25,000 a year. Edflo PKR 83,988 (PKR 6,999 a month).
- 1,500 students: SchoolPK Rs 40,000 a year. Edflo PKR 179,988 (PKR 14,999 a month).
What that means
Edflo costs between three and four and a half times as much. SchoolPK also sells a lifetime offline licence for Pakistani schools at Rs 3,00,000 with no yearly charges, which a large school would recover within a few years. Neither of its pages mentions a setup fee either way, so ask.
What SchoolPK's price gets you
This isn't a thin product. RG's module list is one of the longest we've seen from any Pakistani vendor, and much of it covers paperwork schools still print: leaving, character and birth certificates, admission and withdrawal registers, hostel records, library and laboratory stock registers, lesson plans, date sheets and roll number slips. If your office runs on registers, SchoolPK has most of them already.
It also covers the operational basics properly. Staff attendance on biometric machines, student attendance and fee receipts by barcode reader, salary statements and pay slips, a daily cash book, ledger and trial balance, and four different styles of progress report with position holders. Its main software is a Windows program that works over your school's local network, so the office keeps working when the internet doesn't. Alongside it are a web portal and apps for the principal, teachers, and students and parents.
- Yearly plans from Rs 12,000, and a one-time lifetime offline licence
- Desktop software over the school's LAN, so it runs without internet
- Biometric staff attendance, and barcode attendance and fee receipts
- Payroll, cash book, ledger and trial balance
- A very long list of printed registers and certificates
Where the difference is: fees and where your data lives
SchoolPK's fee section is built around printing. It prints fee bills for the bank in one to four copies, lists defaulters and texts their parents. That suits a school whose parents pay at the bank counter. But neither SchoolPK site names a bank, wallet or payment gateway it connects to, so a voucher paid at the bank still has to come back to your office and be marked paid by someone.
Edflo collects fees through 1BILL on the 1LINK network. Each student has a consumer number, and a parent can pay it from any 1LINK member bank's app, internet banking or ATM, or from EasyPaisa and JazzCash. The payment posts to that student's ledger by itself and settles into your school's own merchant account. Nobody marks anything paid.
The second difference is where the system lives. SchoolPK's core sits on a computer in your school. That is a real advantage when the internet is unreliable, and it also means someone at your school owns the backups. If that computer fails or a cupboard floods, the records go with it unless someone has been copying them off. Edflo runs in the cloud, in the browser and on iOS and Android, and a head office can see every branch from one login. We found an Android app for SchoolPK on Google Play. Neither of its sites links an iOS app.
Three questions that settle it
Do your parents pay at the bank counter, or on their phones?
If they queue at the bank with a printed voucher, SchoolPK's printed vouchers fit how your school works and Edflo's biggest advantage is worth less to you. If they're already sending you screenshots of transfers on WhatsApp, someone in your office matches every one of them by hand, and that's the job Edflo removes.
Can you count on your internet?
If your connection drops for hours at a time, a system that runs over your local network keeps your office working. A cloud system won't. That alone can make SchoolPK the right choice, whatever it costs.
Do you run more than one campus, or plan to?
A program installed in one building is built around one building. If you have a second branch, or expect to, ask SchoolPK how both campuses would share one set of records. Then compare that with logging into Edflo and seeing both.
If your answers are the counter, no and no, SchoolPK will serve you well for a fraction of our price, and we'd rather tell you that than sell you something you don't need. If they're phones, yes and yes, book a demo and ask us to take a real payment against one of your own fee challans while you watch.
Key takeaways
- SchoolPK costs between a third and a quarter of Edflo's price at every school size.
- Its main software runs over your school's local network, so it keeps working without internet.
- It covers payroll, accounts, biometric attendance and a long list of printed registers.
- Its fees run on printed bank vouchers; neither of its sites names an online payment channel.
- Edflo is worth the difference when parents pay from their phones and you want records in the cloud.
Frequently asked questions
Is SchoolPK cheaper than Edflo?
Yes, by a wide margin. SchoolPK's published yearly plan starts at Rs 12,000 for up to 150 students. Edflo is PKR 2,999 a month for the same size, or PKR 35,988 a year. At every size we checked, Edflo costs three to four and a half times as much.
Does SchoolPK work without internet?
Its main software is a Windows program that works over your school's local network, so the office can keep working offline. It also has a web portal and mobile apps, which need a connection. Edflo is cloud-only.
Can Edflo move our records out of SchoolPK?
Yes. We migrate students, staff, fee ledgers, attendance and results free of charge from any system, and train your staff on site. Most schools go live in about three days. You can export everything back out at any time; the policy is published at /data-ownership.