Attendance in seconds
Daily check-in that auto-saves to your compliance log — and when a parent reports a sick day from their portal, it’s flagged right on your roll.
For Arkansas homeschools · microschools · private schools
The back office that runs your school.
Attendance, grades, transcripts, tuition with auto-pay, and a parent portal with real messaging — one simple system, whether you teach two kids at the kitchen table or run a full campus.
On the EFA? Homebook works alongside ClassWallet. ClassWallet handles the money — Homebook handles running the school.
Ozark Grove Learning Collective On track
Enrolled
18
Present today
16
Avg GPA
3.4
PresentAbsentNot marked
Attendance — 16 of 18 presentLogged
Q1 report cardsReady
Annual assessments6 to schedule
Attendance logged in secondsOne view of every learnerGrades, GPA & report cards in one clickRoster & enrollment in one placeCompliance deadlines never missed
One family or a full campus — you’re still running the whole school on sticky notes, spreadsheets, or a platform priced for districts.
$0
per student, per year, flowing through your school
0+
Arkansas kids now on EFA funding
$0
where the big school platforms start, per month — Homebook starts at $29
Don't take our word for it. Try it.
Run a tiny school right here: take attendance, tap in grades, then open the report card they roll into — all live, no signup.
Today’s attendance
Toggle a learner4 / 5 present
● Auto-saved to compliance log
ABAva Bennett
LCLiam Carter
SDSofia Diaz
MTMicah Thompson
EGElla Grant
Which one are you?
Same simple system — geared to the way you actually run things.
The back office your microschool never had
For microschools and co-ops running 5–50 learners.
- ✓Take attendance for the whole school in seconds — grouped by grade or by teacher.
- ✓Families enroll themselves with a link or QR code. You just click approve.
- ✓Every teacher gets their own login — grades, notes, and records in one system instead of six spreadsheets.
Everything a school needs to run. In one place.
Attendance, grades, transcripts, tuition with real online payments, and two-way family messaging. On the Arkansas EFA? The compliance work is built in too.
Grades that do their own math.
Tap in grades and Homebook computes the semester, GPA, report card, and a running transcript — printed with a QR code any college can scan to verify. Letter grades or 4·3·2·1 standards-based for K–8.
- ✓Report cards + year-over-year transcripts, automatically
- ✓QR-verified transcripts colleges can trust
Carson · English · Grade 9Semester A · 3.50
9 Weeks 1
ABCD
9 Weeks 2
ABCD
rolls into the report card + a running transcript
Tuition & auto-pay
A clean ledger of who owes what — and if you turn on payments, parents pay online or split it into monthly auto-payments that stop themselves when the balance hits zero. Funds land in your school’s own Stripe account.
Classes, subs & staff
Class rosters with assigned teachers, whole-class grading in one screen, substitutes who inherit a class for exactly the days you set, and time-off requests approved right on your dashboard.
Real family messaging, on the record.
Families message the school from their portal; the right teacher gets an email and replies in one place. Every word stays on the student's record — a paper trail, not a group text. English or Spanish.
- ✓Absence reports flag straight onto your roll
- ✓Every conversation saved to the student file
JT
Jenna ThompsonMicah’s mom
Micah will be out Thursday — dentist appointment.
Thanks for the heads up! Marked excused — it’s on his record. 👍
Logged to Micah’s file · 9:14 AM
Families & enrollment
Import your whole roster from Google Classroom or any spreadsheet in one step, let families enroll themselves with a link or QR code — and one link works for both households when parents live apart.
Assessment tracking
Log every learner’s assessments — and for EFA students, the state-required annual test is tracked with reminders so eligibility never slips.
Digests & deadlines
A Monday email puts your whole school in your inbox — attendance watch, balances, messages waiting. Families get their student’s week every Friday. Compliance deadlines tracked all year.
Support plans & accommodations
Track IEP and 504 accommodations, the services each learner receives — speech, tutoring, therapy, many of them EFA-funded — and measurable goals with progress. Every teacher follows the plan; the family sees it in their portal. The back office built for special-needs families on the EFA.
Set up once. Stay compliant all year.
Three steps to a school that runs itself — records and report cards for everyone, EFA audit prep included if you need it.
1
Add your students
Import your roster from Google Classroom or any spreadsheet — every learner, grade, and family in one place in minutes.
2
Log the day-to-day
Ten-second daily attendance, grades, and family messages — Homebook keeps the running record of your school that ClassWallet doesn’t.
3
Stay ahead of deadlines
Assessments, renewals, and enrollment — Homebook tracks the dates and details so nothing about staying eligible slips.
Great curriculum, one tap to log
We spotlight curriculum from certified teachers so it’s easy to find and log as an expense — or bring your own. Homebook works either way.
Bright Pathway Academy
A complete grades 9–12 curriculum built by an Arkansas educator — designed for microschools and homeschool families.
Visit Bright Pathway →Looking for every approved vendor? Search the official Arkansas EFA vendor finder →
Parents see everything. And love you for it.
Grades, attendance, report cards, messages, absence reporting, and tuition auto-pay — families handle it all in their own portal, in English or Spanish. That kind of transparency fills seats and keeps them full.
Works beautifully in any phone browser today — and a free Homebook iPhone app with push notifications and a Face ID lock is now in review for the App Store.
Get early accessMicah’s weekGrade 4
96%
attendance this month · 18 of 19 days
Message from Ms. Bright
Micah did wonderful on his reading assessment today! 🎉
A
Reading
B+
Math
A
Science
Tuition · $350Pay now
A fraction of the big systems
Gradelink starts at $121/mo. Sycamore runs $4 per student. For a whole school, Homebook is one flat price — no per-student fees, no setup fees, no surprise modules. Homeschool families pay per student, designed to come straight from their EFA funds. And the things the big systems sell as add-ons — parent messaging, tuition auto-pay, weekly family digests — are simply included.
🔒 Founding Arkansas schools lock this price for life
MonthlyAnnual2 months free
For homeschool families
On the EFA
🏡 Homeschool
Your own kids, on the EFA
$29 / student / mo
Per enrolled student — a family with three learners has three subscriptions, and each one is covered by that child’s EFA funds. Nothing out of pocket.
- ✓Attendance, grades & GPA
- ✓Running transcript, year after year
- ✓Records vault + support plans for every child
- ✓EFA assessment deadlines tracked
- ✓Parent portal in English or Spanish
One student’s yearly EFA allotment~$7,208
■ Homebook ≈ 5% — the whole back office, from funds already allocated to your student.
Designed to be paid from your student’s EFA funds through ClassWallet — about 5% of each child’s yearly allotment. Our Arkansas EFA vendor application is in review; join the list and we’ll tell you the day it’s approved.
For microschools & private schools
What a 30-student school pays per month
Gradelink
$121
Sycamore
$120
Homebook
$59
Gradelink from $121/mo · Sycamore $4 per student · Homebook $59 flat, no per-student fees
Most schools
🌱 Microschool
For microschools & co-ops
$59 / mo
- ✓Unlimited learners — one flat price
- ✓Attendance, grades, transcripts & records
- ✓Family self-enrollment & teacher logins
- ✓Compliance calendar & reminders
- ✓Parent messaging & absence reports
- ✓Support plans & accommodations
🏛️ Private school
For full campuses on EFA + tuition
$99 / mo
Up to 150 students · 150+ students: $149/mo ($124/mo billed annually)
- ✓Everything in Microschool
- ✓Principal, counselor & teacher roles
- ✓Classes, substitutes & staff time-off
- ✓Tuition auto-pay for families
- ✓Priority support
Founding Arkansas schools lock this pricing for life. Cancel anytime. Billing handled securely by Stripe — we never see your card number.
Optional Homebook Payments: parents pay tuition (one-time or monthly auto-pay) right in the portal, and funds go straight to your school’s own Stripe account — never ours. 1% platform fee + Stripe’s standard rates, only when you use it.
“We kept meeting microschool founders drowning in EFA spreadsheets — brilliant teachers terrified that one wrong receipt could cost them their funding. Homebook is the tool we wished we could just hand them.”
Sam Bartolotta · Founder, Homebook · Central Arkansas
And I didn’t build it alone. My co-founder Amber Bartolotta is a working high-school counselor with a master’s in school counseling and over a decade in education. The support plans, counselor roles, and student records work the way a real school runs — because someone who runs one built them with me.
No ticket queue, no support bots. When you email sam@gethomebook.com, I’m the one who answers.
Safe by design, not by promise
In 2024, the biggest name in school software was breached — 62 million students’ records. Our answer isn’t a bigger lock. It’s holding less worth stealing.
We never hold your money
Online tuition goes straight from the parent’s card to your school’s own Stripe account — never through ours. EFA dollars stay in ClassWallet. We hold no balances, and card numbers never touch our servers.
No Social Security numbers
We never ask for SSNs — the #1 thing thieves target in school breaches. Data we don’t collect is data no one can take.
Every school walled off
Isolation is enforced by the database itself, not app code. Your records are invisible to every other school on the platform — always.
Encrypted everywhere
Encrypted in transit and at rest, hashed passwords, and records served only through private, expiring links. Built on the same infrastructure trusted by thousands of companies.
The stuff you're wondering
Do we have to be on the EFA to use Homebook?+
Not at all. Attendance, grades, GPA, transcripts, report cards, tuition with online payments, and family records work for any school — EFA or not. If your students are on the EFA, the Arkansas compliance pieces (assessment deadlines, eligibility reminders) are already built in.
Do you ever touch our EFA money?+
Never. ClassWallet moves every EFA dollar, exactly as it does today. Private-pay tuition is separate: if you turn on Homebook Payments, parents pay in the portal and the money goes directly to your school’s own Stripe account — it never sits with us. Homebook still runs everything around the money: attendance, roster, assessments, deadlines.
Can parents pay tuition through Homebook?+
Yes — optionally. Turn on Homebook Payments and families can pay their balance in the portal with one click, or split it into monthly auto-payments that stop automatically when it’s paid off. Every payment records itself in your ledger, and the money goes straight to your school’s own Stripe account — we never hold it. It costs a 1% platform fee plus Stripe’s standard card rates, only when you use it. Prefer checks and cash? The ledger works great on its own.
Is there a mobile app?+
Homebook works beautifully in any phone browser today — parents can add it to their home screen in two taps. A free Homebook iPhone app with push notifications (new message, absence acknowledged, payment received) is on its way to the App Store now, included for every family at no extra cost. Android follows.
What if we don’t use the featured curriculum?+
No problem at all. The curriculum picks are just a convenience — log any expense from any vendor you like. Homebook works the same whether you use our featured partners or your own materials.
Isn’t this what ClassWallet already does?+
ClassWallet is the payment system — it moves the money and tracks spending per student. What it doesn’t do is run your school: no attendance, no roster, no assessment tracking, and no single view across all your learners. That’s exactly the gap Homebook fills, right on top of ClassWallet.
Which states do you support?+
Arkansas first — we’re going deep before we go wide. More EFA/ESA states are on the roadmap, and founding schools help us decide which one comes next.
What does it cost?+
For homeschool families it’s $29 per student a month — designed to be paid from your student’s EFA funds through ClassWallet, and our Arkansas EFA vendor application is in review. For schools it’s flat: $59/mo for microschools and co-ops, and $99/mo for private schools up to 150 students ($149/mo above 150) — never a per-student fee. (The big systems start at $121/mo and climb fast.) Founding Arkansas schools lock their pricing for life, and you can cancel anytime.
What if we need help, imports, or something custom?+
You get the founder, not a ticket queue. Send us your roster, master schedule, or old gradebook export and we’ll load it into Homebook for you — white-glove setup is free for founding Arkansas schools. Feature requests go straight to the person who builds them, usually within days, not quarters.
How safe is our data? Could it be hacked?+
We take a different approach than the big platforms: hold less worth stealing. Homebook never holds money — online tuition goes straight to your school’s own Stripe account and ClassWallet moves all EFA dollars — and we never collect Social Security numbers. Every school’s records are isolated at the database level — no other school can ever see yours — and everything is encrypted in transit and at rest, with records shared only through private, expiring links. Subscription billing runs through Stripe — the same processor used by Amazon and Target — so card details never touch our servers. You can export your data as CSV anytime; it’s yours.
Be a founding Arkansas school
We’re onboarding our first Arkansas schools now — homeschools, microschools, and private schools. Get early access, help shape it, and lock founding pricing before we open the doors.
Born in Central Arkansas — built because the tools schools were stuck with cost too much and did too little, and someone needed to do it better. When you need help, an import, or something custom, you email me and I answer.
Arkansas microschools first. More EFA states coming.