Built for international schools, or built for yours.
OpenApply is the established choice for well-funded international schools, with quote-based pricing billed per enrolled student. Admissio brings dedicated admissions software to every institution: self-serve setup, local payment methods and pricing that does not require a sales call.
Self-serve · Free for early adopters
The difference
Built for one kind of school, or built for yours.
OpenApply, part of the Faria Education Group, was built for international and independent K-12 schools, and it is shaped like its market: quote-based pricing billed per enrolled student, with the demos, contracts and onboarding that procurement expects.
Admissio starts from a different place: any institution, nursery to university, should be able to register this morning, draw its process and collect fees with the payment methods its applicants actually use. No quote, no per-enrolled-student bill, no sales cycle.
The scorecard
Two dedicated platforms, two different markets.
This is the closest comparison on this site. The differences are about who each product is for.
OpenApplyAdmissioAdmissions pipeline
Mature enquiry-to-enrolment pipeline and CRM.
The full journey on one record, drawn on a visual process builder.
Built for
International and independent K-12 schools worldwide.
Institutions anywhere, nursery to university, single campus or many.
Payments
Global gateways aimed at international school fees.
Local methods across Africa and beyond, reconciled to the record.
Getting started
Quote-based: demos, contracts, onboarding.
Self-serve registration; publish your first process the same day.
Pricing model
Quote-based, billed annually per enrolled student.
Free for early adopters, with founding pricing for institutions that join now.
Higher education
K-12 focus.
Universities, polytechnics and colleges run the same record.
Languages
Multilingual, with a strong international footprint.
Every language you publish, applicant-facing throughout.
Admissions this serious should not need a sales call.
The switch
What changes when you switch.
The same seriousness about admissions, without the procurement cycle.
Questions
Comparing dedicated platforms.
Is Admissio a lighter product than OpenApply?
It has a different centre of gravity. The admissions record, stages, documents, review, offers and fees, is complete. What it deliberately does not have is a sales cycle: everything is self-serve.
We are an international school in Africa. Why Admissio?
Because it was built for exactly this ground: your applicants pay with the methods they already use, the portal speaks their languages, and admissions is live this term without a procurement cycle or a per-enrolled-student bill.
Can Admissio handle enquiry capture like a CRM?
Yes. The record starts at first enquiry, not at application: capture interest, nurture applicants and watch conversion through the same pipeline that runs the rest of the journey.
Can you move our OpenApply data across?
Yes, and we do it for you, free. Your applicant history moves onto Admissio, so switching never means starting from an empty pipeline.
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The record underneath
Stages · Rules · Capacity
Process builder
Lay out your stages on a visual builder, with conditional questions, scoring rules and capacity, and change them mid-cycle without breaking a running application.
ExploreOffers · Waitlists · Fees
Offers & payments
Qualifying scores become offers issued against live capacity, with waitlists for the rest, and every fee reconciles to the record in the currency you charge in.
ExplorePortal · Forms · Emails
Multilingual admissions
The portal, forms and every email run in the applicant’s language, and AI translates the questions and templates you write, with your team approving every word.
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