Pricing

Every feature. Priced by school size.

Try every feature free, then pick the plan that fits your school. Every plan includes everything, plus email support and onboarding assistance. Only actively enrolled students count.

Small

Up to 75 students

$89 /mo

$890 billed once a year

Month-to-month, cancel anytime

  • Every feature included
  • Email support & onboarding assistance
  • Done-for-you data import & portal setup

Growing

76–150 students

$169 /mo

$1,690 billed once a year

Month-to-month, cancel anytime

  • Every feature included
  • Email support & onboarding assistance
  • Done-for-you data import & portal setup

Established

151–300 students

$279 /mo

$2,790 billed once a year

Month-to-month, cancel anytime

  • Every feature included
  • Email support & onboarding assistance
  • Done-for-you data import & portal setup

Scale

300+ students

Custom

Annual pricing built for your school

  • Every feature included
  • Email support & onboarding assistance
  • Done-for-you data import & portal setup
  • Text Alerts written into your contract
  • Lower processing rates

Founding school plan

Your first year at $29 a month.

We're looking for schools to build alongside. Apply, tell us about your school, and we'll reply by email. Approved schools get every feature for their first year at $29/mo, then choose the plan that fits.

Only actively enrolled students count toward your plan — alumni, applicants, and inactive records never inflate your bill. No credit card to start your trial.

Payments powered by Stripe Student data privacy Your data stays yours — export anytime

One platform, not seven

What TeachHero replaces

Replaces your SIS, tuition billing, Google Forms, Mailchimp, SignUpGenius, website host, and gradebook. One login, one set of family records, and one bill instead of seven.

The usual stack

Student information system Gradelink, Sycamore
~$120/mo
Tuition billing TUIO, FACTS
~$40/mo
Online forms & applications Jotform, Google Forms
~$39/mo
Family email Mailchimp
~$45/mo
Volunteer & event sign-ups SignUpGenius
~$20/mo
Website host Squarespace, Wix
~$25/mo
Gradebook & classwork A standalone gradebook or LMS
~$40/mo
Roughly, every month
~$329/mo

TeachHero

$89 /month

Small, up to 75 students. Every feature included.

That's about $240 a month back in your budget, and no more copying families from one tool to the next.

Try it free

Done-for-you onboarding

Skip the setup weekend. We move you in.

Send us your spreadsheets and exports. Our team imports your students, families, and classes, then sets up your parent portal, so families can sign in the day you're ready. Free with every plan.

Free

$499 value

  • Students, families & classes imported
  • Parent portal set up and ready
  • Go live mid-year, no new school year needed

Rough monthly list prices for a school of about 75 students. Google Forms is free; the forms figure is Jotform's entry paid plan, which can take payments. Your own stack will vary.

Included in every plan

The whole school, whatever your size

Small, Growing and Established differ only in how many students they cover. Nothing is held back for a bigger plan, and every plan comes with email support and onboarding assistance.

School records

  • Student roster & profiles
  • Family & contact management
  • CSV import & export
  • Financial reports
  • Class attendance

Website & portal

  • School website builder
  • Parent & student portal
  • Event calendar
  • Custom forms

Enrollment & admissions

  • Enrollment forms & applications
  • Self-serve family enrollment
  • Waitlists
  • Event sign-ups & registration

Billing & payments

  • Invoices, payment plans, discounts & credits
  • Online card & ACH payments with autopay
  • Offline payment recording
  • QuickBooks sync

Communication

  • Unlimited bulk email to families
  • Secure messaging

Teaching & volunteers

  • Teacher accounts
  • LMS: lessons, gradebook & homework
  • Google Classroom sync
  • Volunteer management: projects, shifts, timesheets & attendance

Tuition payments

What it costs to take payments

Transparent processing — one published rate, no hidden fees.

Families pay by card or bank transfer through your school's own Stripe account. The rate is Stripe's standard rate plus a small TeachHero platform fee, and it's the same rate we publish here. Recording checks and cash is always free.

Card

3.2% + 30¢

Stripe's 2.9% + 30¢, plus TeachHero's 0.3%

ACH bank transfer

0.8% + $1, capped at $6

Stripe's 0.8% capped at $5, plus TeachHero's flat $1 per payment

Lower processing rates on Scale. Scale schools pay TeachHero 0.15% on cards and $0.50 per ACH payment, so 3.05% + 30¢ and 0.8% + 50¢ (capped at $5.50) all in.

Want families to cover the processing fee? Where local rules allow, you can pass it on at checkout — or absorb it. Your call, school by school.

Add-on

One optional extra

Everything else, classwork included, is in every plan. Turn Text Alerts on from inside the app. On Scale, it's written into your contract.

Text Alerts

SMS text alerts to families, plus sign-in by text.

$15/mo

Flat, for your whole school. Monthly billing only

Frequently asked questions

Everything about how TeachHero pricing and billing work.

Three plans by school size, and every feature is in every plan. Small is $89/month (or $890/year) for up to 75 actively enrolled students. Growing is $169/month (or $1,690/year) for 76–150 students. Established is $279/month (or $2,790/year) for 151–300 students. Schools with more than 300 students get Scale, a custom annual plan. Annual billing saves you two months.

Everything: enrollment, tuition billing, the parent portal, your school website, secure messaging, unlimited email to families, attendance, classwork with lessons, homework, and a gradebook, volunteer management, teacher accounts, and QuickBooks and Google Classroom sync. Every plan also comes with email support and onboarding assistance. Text Alerts is the only optional add-on.

Yes. Request a free trial and we'll set up your school and email you an invitation. Your trial includes every feature, Text Alerts too, and there's no credit card to start your trial. When you're ready, choose a plan from inside the app.

It's a first-year offer for schools we'd like to build alongside. Apply with the form on this page, and we'll reply by email. Approved schools pay $29/month for their first year with every feature included, then move to the plan that fits their school.

Only actively enrolled students count toward your plan. Inactive students, alumni, applicants, and prospects do not — there is no limit on those, so your historical records never inflate your bill.

Each plan covers a range of actively enrolled students. At the top of your range, new enrollments pause until you move up a plan, which you can do anytime under Settings → Subscription. Schools above 300 students move to Scale.

Yes, from Settings → Subscription. Moving up takes effect right away. Moving down needs your actively enrolled students to fit the smaller plan. Stripe prorates the difference.

Monthly plans are month-to-month — no contract and no cancellation fees, cancel anytime from inside the app. Annual plans are billed once a year, and Scale is a fixed annual plan.

Families pay through your school's own Stripe account. Cards cost 3.2% + 30¢ and ACH bank transfers cost 0.8% + $1, capped at $6. That is Stripe's standard rate (2.9% + 30¢ for cards, 0.8% capped at $5 for ACH) plus a small TeachHero platform fee (0.3% on cards, a flat $1 per ACH payment). One published rate, no hidden fees. Scale schools get lower rates: 0.15% on cards and $0.50 per ACH payment. Where local rules allow, you can pass the processing fee on to families at checkout, or absorb it. Recording checks and cash is always free.

There is one optional add-on: Text Alerts (SMS), a flat $15/month, billed monthly only. Classwork — lessons, gradebook, and homework — is included in every plan at no extra charge. On Scale, Text Alerts can be written into your contract.

Families can pay online by card or ACH bank transfer, and your office can record checks, cash, and Venmo in the same ledger — so every payment lands in one place. That works the same on every plan.

Every plan includes email support and done-for-you onboarding: our team imports your school's data and sets up your parent portal, free (a $499 value). Scale schools also get priority support.

Your data remains yours. You can export it before cancelling, and after an account deletion request data is retained for 30 days and then securely removed from our systems.

Yes. Our team imports your existing students, families, and classes and sets up your parent portal for you, free with every plan, so you can move over without waiting for a new school year.

Start your school on TeachHero.

Try every feature free, then pick the plan that fits. No credit card to start your trial. Most schools build over the break and go live before enrollment opens.