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SMS - Kindo roll flow including pre-enrol students
Access: Payable Administrators What are pre-enrol students? Kindo uses the term pre-enrol students to refer to those students who are enrolled with the school, but haven't yet reached their start date in the school SMS. Examples might be new entrants ...
Get Paid Before They Go Webinar (September 2026)
Everything from our live session on tidying your Payable catalogue and getting paid before your leavers go — the recording, email templates for leavers at primary, intermediate and high school, and answers to the questions asked on the day. Watch the ...
Macrons (tohutō) in Kindo
Macrons (tohutō) are supported across Kindo, so names and te reo Māori appear accurately and consistently wherever they’re used. Where macrons appear Macrons are supported in: School names Supplier names Student names Caregiver names Room names Item ...
Xero reconciliation and troubleshooting
Xero questions come up quite often, particularly for new users, so we've gathered the common ones and their answers here, covering setup, invoicing, GL codes and reconciliation — to help you find what you need quickly. Getting access to the Xero ...
Setting your School's Brand Colour
Give your school's shop its own look by setting a brand colour. The colour carries through to your school's hub in the Kindo app, so families see a header and school notice styled in your colour. If you don't set one, your shop uses the default Kindo ...
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Overview of Roles & Kindo Shop
ORGANISATION AND SUPPLIERS When you first register your school, you are setting your school up as the Organisation. Every organisation has Suppliers, which provide items to the organisation. Suppliers can be internal (e.g. your school office), or ...
Key Differences between a Kindo Shop item and a Payables item
We’ve created this summary to help highlight the major differences between loading an item through Kindo Shop and loading an item with Kindo Payables for those administrators just starting their Payable journey. You either apply an item through Kindo ...
Creating a new home page service
Access: Service Administrators 1. On the partner site, select service manager. 2. Click on the Add new button. 3. Enter the Service Name in the pop-up box, e.g. "School Production", and click done. 4. The 'choose icon' pop-up box will appear. You can ...
Creating your Kindo Community Shop
We appreciate schools often have events and items, such as school productions, fundraising quiz nights and calendar art, that the wider community may want to support. Kindo Community Shop allows those without a student at the school to shop for ...
Kindo and/or Ezlunch - Coming Soon!
Below are some suggestions to communicate with your school families, club members or staff prior to going live with Kindo and/or Ezlunch. Use (or adapt) the suggested wording given below. Then add the image provided. Simply right click on the image. ...