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We host Timetabling Solutions cloud applications using Microsoft Azure.

This means the applications you log in to are running on machines not located at your school but in a facility in South East Australia.

The fee you pay to use our applications incorporates the fees Microsoft charges us to use their service.

Timetabling Solutions currently provides 2 options to cater for its clients' varying needs and priorities.

Our most cost-effective plan is applied to all schools by default

  • Your data is in an environment that includes other clients.  The resources are shared, spreading the cost across many clients, under heavy usage, your access may slow
  • This plan will create queues when processing your integrations and exporting your data
  • A typical LISS integration (directly sending a timetable and daily changes to a Student Admin System) may take up to  20 minutes per send to complete.
  • We assign this plan by default, as not all schools export data or use the integration service.
  • Price is determined by the size of your school, starting from AUD1,995 pa for schools with fewer than 500 students

Our premium plan is called a Dedicated Environment, 12-month term, additional fees apply

  • Designed to provide total isolation, control and security
  • Only your data and only your users access the Management Portal and Daily Organiser applications, providing uncontested access and no queues
  • Updates and upgrades from time to time require maintenance outages, you can set preferences of the day/time for them to occur
  • Uses a subdomain to access ie your users would log in with the address https://[school abbreviated name].timetabling.education
  • Your existing users and data can be exported from the existing cloud and imported in your new dedicated environment
  • Your settings on Task 5 in the Management Portal (SSO and Email Server) would need to be re-entered
  • Any user logs (Task 8 in the Management Portal ) would not be transferable
  • Includes all our cloud apps, Course Manager, Daily Organiser, Daily Reports, Staffing, Staff Access Portal, Student Access Portal

Dedicated Environment Pricing

Microsoft Azure charges have a component based on usage, the heavier the usage, the more it costs.

Timetabling Solutions intention is to pass on the costs, not to profit from providing Dedicated Environments.

For schools with up to 2,000 students, we anticipate AUD1750 per month is a sufficient budget that will provide you with uncontested access to an environment running the Management Portal and Daily Organiser apps that will store only your data. This covers all fees from Azure and a 20% buffer to cover our support & maintenance costs.

We review your usage (from a billing perspective) after your first quarter of full use to ensure the plan you are on with Azure is suitable and will share/discuss these with you.

For schools with greater than 2,000 students, please contact us to test for an appropriate plan.

Click here to order a Dedicated Environment or contact support@timetabling.com.au to arrange a time to speak with us regarding your requirements