Sawyer

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Class management software for kids activity providers

About Sawyer

Sawyer is an all-in-one interface that allows educators to build custom class schedules and easily manage online registration, payment processing, parent communications and more. Our dedicated and top-rated support team provides training videos, hosted webinars, and business resources for educational leaders to bring our community together.

Educators are also provided with biweekly webinars where our community comes together to learn from each other and industry experts. Past topics have included online classes, user acquisition, digital marketing, financial strategy, and more!


Key benefits of Sawyer

  • Accept all forms of payments–credit, checks, even cash.

  • Instant communication with parents right from the web app.

  • Download customized reports on attendance, payment history, and more.

  • Manage different classes and camps by age and activity.

  • Save child information such as allergies and after school pickup.

  • Access to a community of like-minded providers and resources to grow together.

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    Sawyer Software - Track against your revenue goals
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    Sawyer Software - Track against your revenue goals

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    Reviews

    Overall rating

    4.5 /5
    (313)
    Value for Money
    4.4/5
    Features
    4.1/5
    Ease of Use
    4.2/5
    Customer Support
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    Ara
    Ara
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    • Industry: Education Management
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Very easy to use and adds a professional look to my website

    Reviewed on 2019/07/18

    Pros

    1. I love that HiSawyer is specific to use for children activities and classes. I tried other booking plugins or websites that were a "one size fits all" (appointments for nail salon or doctor's office) and well... they didn't quite fit for my business.
    For instance, HiSawyer allows the possibility to see the age and birthdate of the kids, having an "older sibling discount", adding semesters or multiple locations, specially because our class doesn't have only one location... Bookings are specific for a kid's class, and it's awesome.

    2. Very easy to use! All what can be done in point #1, is very easy to set up!

    3. Professional look. Some other plugins I had tried before look very outdated and amateurish. I love HiSawyer fresh and professional design.

    It's exactly what I was looking for for months until I bumped into HiSawyer.

    Cons

    I really love everything about it. If I had to really look for perfection: it would be awesome if there was an app. It might be just me, but checking it from mobile can be a little bit frustrating sometimes. Nothing out of this world, not bugs or errors, just think about checking social media from a web browser in your phone.

    But other than that, I love this!

    Summer
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    • Industry: Primary/Secondary Education
    • Company size: Self Employed
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Couldn't do it without Sawyer

    Reviewed on 2024/04/09

    Pros

    Sawyer makes my business possible. I need a registration software that is easy for me and is easy for busy parents, and that's exactly what Sawyer provides.

    Cons

    Sawyer would be even more usable if I could sell tickets through it for events. Also, I'd love to be able to integrate Sawyer with Flodesk.

    Raiana
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    • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

    Sawyer Review November 2024

    Reviewed on 2024/11/04

    Pros

    The reporting tools we have access to and how we are able to break down different information we look at monthly.

    Cons

    When creating a new class it is difficult to go back in and edit required information and make changes in general.

    Elizabeth
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    • Industry: Education Management
    • Company size: 11–50 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

    Very poor and confusing reporting system!

    Reviewed on 2022/07/19

    Exhaustingly Bad! It has made my administrative work FAR MUCH MORE DIFFICULT than doing them...

    Exhaustingly Bad! It has made my administrative work FAR MUCH MORE DIFFICULT than doing them myself. If you client body is small like 20-40s , Sawyers is fine. If you are like us with hundreds.. I HIGHLY recommend you to look elsewhere.. I have switched to Amilia, a far more robust software.

    I was 15+ system level developer, and my partner was a Microsoft SQL expert. Looking at Sawyers report service, we both must regret to say.. it is far from prime time. It is ok for a shop with 30 some students. Not for us. We have over 200 students (still considered being pretty small).

    Pros

    calendar review for daily activities. This is very helpful for ONLY daily operation - like the front desk staff to do quick look up.. But, by far not for the administrator, me.

    Cons

    Report becomes unusable when students sign up for multiple classes!
    It puts ALL dates into a single cell in the report, in various order. Asked support to look at it.. Nothing can be done about that. So, I had to go through EVERY student who has signed up for more than one week to figure out.

    Reports with mismatched headers.
    e.g. DOB as the header, but it is actually something else like email address.
    Half of them are mismatched! To say unacceptable is an understatement. I was told it was some customization issue??? No form of customization should render such a fundamental error. This clearly indicates very sub-par software.

    No proper auditing.
    .. cannot explain why a balance showed discrepancy.. the only reason I got was " someone must have changed it." The administrator again simply insisted that made assumption it was us, or the client making the changes. No auditing info for accountability! An unacceptable excuse! This tells me this is ot an adequately built software. I would be ok with it if the administrator did recorgnize the error and committed future improvement! But they seemed to be content placing the blame on us, or the mysterious someone!!!

    Missing one of the most fundamental reporting features:
    Cannot generate a report of scheduled classes unless at least one student is already registered? But, I have to manually check one by one! It would be ok if you have 10-20 classes, not 40+ like us.

    Response from Sawyer

    Hi Elizabeth,

    We're sorry that Sawyer wasn't able to meet your reporting needs. We work with organizations of all sizes to power their registration including franchises, non-profits, and schools in addition to smaller businesses. We continue to evolve our products because of critical feedback like this and thank you for taking the time to share it with us.

    We loved getting the opportunity to work with Storming Robots and wish you all the best in your future success.

    Niesha
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    • Industry: Education Management
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Sawyer is great especially for start up

    Reviewed on 2024/04/22

    Great Experience. It is a really solid product.

    Great Experience. It is a really solid product.

    Pros

    It got me up and running fast. It is a really solid product.

    Cons

    I like the entire product; I do, however, wish they added a way to keep track of the acutallly content of class ( cirriculum ), and profile pics of students.

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    Reasons for Choosing Sawyer

    It was easier and cheaper and the customer service was GREAT!

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    Pike13

    Reasons for Switching to Sawyer

    It was easier and cheaper and the customer service was GREAT!
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    Sawyer FAQs

    Below are some frequently asked questions for Sawyer.

    Sawyer offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$129.00/month
    • Pricing model: Subscription
    • Free Trial: Available

    Sawyer offers a pricing plan to fit your business.

    Sawyer has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000

    Sawyer supports the following languages:

    English

    Sawyer supports the following devices:

    Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

    Sawyer integrates with the following applications:

    Constant Contact, Google Analytics 360, Mailchimp, Meta for Business, Squarespace, Stripe, Wix, WordPress, Zapier

    Sawyer offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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