For schools in Uganda
Send fees reminders, exam results and emergency alerts to thousands of parents on MTN and Airtel. Pay with Mobile Money, no monthly fees, no cards.
Used by primary, secondary and tertiary schools across Kampala, Wakiso, Mukono, Jinja, Mbarara and Gulu.
Bursars spend hours phoning parents about outstanding balances. With Wesendall, one upload sends a personalized fee reminder to every parent who owes a balance, in seconds.
Upload a CSV of parents with outstanding balances and merge tags like {{name}} and {{amount}} into the message.
Schedule reminders one week, three days and one day before the deadline.
Track delivery per parent — failed messages are flagged so the front office can call them.
Refunds on failed sends — you never pay for a message MTN or Airtel didn't deliver.
Push results to parents immediately after end of term, beating the rumor mill and reducing phone-call load on the office.
Bulk-send a per-student result line in your own format.
Optional: include a private result-portal link unique to each parent.
Send in Luganda, Runyankole, Acholi or English depending on the family.
When you need to inform 2,000 parents about an early closure or PTA meeting, SMS reaches feature phones too — not just smartphones.
Reach 98% of parents within 60 seconds on MTN and Airtel.
Optional confirmation: ask parents to reply YES — we capture the responses.
Save groups by class, dormitory or region so you target only the affected families.
Features
Organize parents by class, stream, house or region. Reuse saved groups for every send.
Queue a reminder for the morning of the deadline. Set it once, never touch it again.
See per-recipient status. Failed numbers are flagged so the bursar can call them.
Top up the wallet from the bursar's phone in 30 seconds. No bank visits.
Download a CSV of every SMS sent in a term for school audits.
Built-in opt-out handling and content guidance keeps your school on the right side of the regulator.
FAQ
Wesendall charges UGX 35 per SMS (or UGX 32 in volume). For a school with 1,000 parents, one fee reminder costs roughly UGX 35,000. There are no monthly fees and your balance never expires.
Yes. Top up your Wesendall wallet directly from the head teacher or bursar's MTN MoMo / Airtel Money line — no cards, no bank transfers, no forex. The wallet is credited within seconds.
Absolutely. The Wesendall composer supports any UTF-8 text including Luganda, Runyankole, Acholi and Lusoga. Messages over 160 characters are split into multiple SMS units and billed per unit.
Yes — import a CSV or paste a list directly. Phone numbers in +256, 256 or 07XX format are normalized automatically, and duplicates are removed.
If you have a registered sender ID with MTN and Airtel Uganda (typical fee UGX 300,000 one-off per network), we'll route your sends under that ID. Otherwise messages are sent from a default short code.
Top up with MoMo and send your first bulk SMS in under five minutes.