What is Blackbaud? 

Blackbaud is a K-12 school administration software, designed to improve interconnectedness between parents, students, and faculty online at high-impact, private schools. This cloud-based solution gives schools the tools to do everything from financial management to marketing and engagement, and everything in between. 

Features 

Some of the features that make Blackbaud so powerful and unique include: 

• Student Information: Easily organize and manage attendance, academics, schedules, grading, and health records, all in one conveniently located place. 
• Learning Management: Give teachers everything they need to organize classroom collaboration, assignments, grades, and parent communication.
• Enrollment Management: A single tool to streamline the application and re-enrollment process. 
• School Website: Design an integrated and complete school website with all the necessary components: admissions, academics, athletics, and development pages 
• Tuition Management: Speed-up bill payment, reduce administrative work and provide financial flexibility for families who need it. 
• Fundraising: Raise money and grow your school with the top cloud-based fundraising and alumni management solution. 
• Fund Accounting: Give transparency and be compliant while saving time managing transactions. 
• Merchant Services: An easy and convenient credit card processing solution with no additional hidden fees. 
• Financial Aid Management: Never doubt your financial aid awards decisions again by simplifying the entire process for both parents and the administration. 

Pricing

Every school is unique in its own way, each one has a different set of challenges and specificities they'd like to focus on. That's why the price of Blackbaud is customized and fitted to every school. To get a personalized quote, you can contact Blackbaud's sales team directly from their website. 

Reviews 

Blackbaud has an average user rating of 4.0/5.0, users really appreciate the wide scope of features the interface has to offer. However, some users have reported problems like random outages, and a difficult implementation process. Although, it should be noted that Blackbaud is a relatively unique system with not many other competitors. 

What We Think 

As stated before, Blackbaud is a unique product, not many other programs offer such a wide range of features specifically designed for private school management. If you're currently looking for a powerful tool to run critical processes in your school, you might have just found the right system for you.