AdmissioWhatsApp + Spreadsheets

Your admissions live in chats. They deserve a record.

Enquiries arrive on a personal phone. Applications sit in a spreadsheet. Fees arrive as screenshots. It works, until a thread is lost or the phone walks away. Admissio puts the same journey on one record your whole team can see.

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Where the journey ends

WhatsApp is where applicants are. It is not where records live.

The chat-and-spreadsheet stack quietly becomes the institution’s memory: enquiries on one person’s phone, applications retyped into a sheet, fees arriving as screenshots. Nothing can be assigned, nothing is searchable by stage, and none of it survives a staff change.

Admissio keeps the conversation where applicants are and gives the institution one record: every enquiry captured from the first touch, every fee receipted, every decision attributed and traceable, all the way to the enrolled cohort.

The scorecard

The patchwork against the record.

Each piece of the patchwork does one job. The record does the whole journey.

Enquiries

WhatsApp + Spreadsheets

Threads on whoever’s phone the applicant found.

Admissio

Every enquiry captured on the record from the first touch.

Applications

WhatsApp + Spreadsheets

A spreadsheet someone retypes from chats and paper.

Admissio

Applicants apply on your branded portal; the record fills itself.

Status questions

WhatsApp + Spreadsheets

“Good evening, any update?” answered one chat at a time.

Admissio

Applicants see their own status and next steps in the portal.

Fees

WhatsApp + Spreadsheets

Transfer screenshots matched to names by hand.

Admissio

Payments your applicants already use, reconciled to the record automatically.

Handover

WhatsApp + Spreadsheets

When the officer leaves, the chats leave with them.

Admissio

The record belongs to the institution. Staff change; history stays.

Audit trail

WhatsApp + Spreadsheets

No one can say who decided what, or when.

Admissio

Every action on the record, attributed and timestamped.

Cost

WhatsApp + Spreadsheets

Free, in cash. Paid for in staff hours.

Admissio

Free for early adopters, with founding pricing for institutions that join now.

Chats hold conversations. Admissio holds the record.

The switch

What changes when you switch.

The same intake, the same conversations, none of the retyping.

Threads on whoever’s phone the applicant found.
Every enquiry captured on the record from the first touch.
A spreadsheet someone retypes from chats and paper.
Applicants apply on your branded portal; the record fills itself.
“Good evening, any update?” answered one chat at a time.
Applicants see their own status and next steps in the portal.

Questions

Life after the spreadsheet.

Do applicants need to stop using WhatsApp?

No. Applicants keep chatting the way they always have. What changes is where the institution keeps its records: applications, documents, fees and decisions move onto the record instead of living in threads.

Our team knows spreadsheets. Is this harder?

The portal is simpler than the spreadsheet it replaces, because each person sees their own work: reviewers see their queue, the registrar sees the pipeline, and nobody scrolls a thousand rows.

Can you move our existing spreadsheets in?

Yes, and we do it for you, free. Send your spreadsheets and the history arrives on Admissio, so past intakes sit beside the new ones. Exports stay available for reports and board packs.

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The other pieces of the patchwork.

Chats are usually only half the system. The form is the other half.

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Out of the chats

Move the record out of the chats.

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