Eighteen modules. One platform.

Licence the whole suite or start with the departments that hurt most — every module writes to the same student record, so nothing has to be reconciled later.

01 — Academics

Admissions to graduation

The student lifecycle, from the first enquiry call to the sealed transcript.

Admissions & enquiry

A CRM built for admission season rather than a generic sales pipeline.

  • Multi-channel enquiry capture with source attribution
  • Counsellor assignment, call logs and follow-up reminders
  • Configurable merit, quota and reservation rules
  • Counselling rounds, waitlists and seat allotment
  • Document verification checklist with rejection reasons
  • One-click conversion to an enrolled student

Student information

The master record everything else in the platform hangs off.

  • Personal, academic, guardian and medical details
  • Document vault with expiry tracking
  • Programme, batch, section and elective assignment
  • Promotion, detention, re-admission and transfer
  • Disciplinary records and mentoring notes
  • Alumni conversion on graduation

Timetable & scheduling

Constraint-solved schedules that survive contact with a real campus.

  • Automatic generation across sections and electives
  • Faculty availability and workload limits
  • Room, lab and equipment capacity checks
  • Lab batch splitting and rotation
  • Substitution engine linked to staff leave
  • Published to faculty and student apps instantly

Attendance

Period-wise, defensible, and available to parents the same day.

  • Mobile and web marking, offline-tolerant
  • Biometric, RFID and QR-code capture
  • Subject, semester and cumulative roll-ups
  • Automatic shortage detection at your threshold
  • Leave, OD and condonation workflows
  • Correction requests with an approval trail

Curriculum & LMS

Syllabus, lesson plans and course material in the same place as the marks.

  • Programme, regulation and syllabus versioning
  • Course outcomes mapped to programme outcomes
  • Lesson plans with coverage tracking
  • Notes, videos, question banks and assignments
  • Online assignment submission and grading
  • Moodle and Google Classroom sync

Mentoring & counselling

Structured pastoral care instead of ad-hoc conversations nobody records.

  • Mentor–mentee allocation by batch
  • At-risk flags from attendance and marks
  • Session notes with confidentiality controls
  • Parent communication log
  • Intervention tracking and outcomes
02 — Examinations

The exam cell, end to end

Where most ERPs fall apart. Ours handles double valuation, moderation and revaluation without spreadsheets on the side.

Exam administration

Everything before the paper is written.

  • Exam calendar and timetable publication
  • Eligibility checks on attendance and fee dues
  • Registration, exam fees and late fees
  • Hall tickets with photograph and barcode
  • Seating plans, room allocation, invigilation duty
  • Attendance sheets and absentee statements

Valuation & results

Marks that can withstand a challenge.

  • Dummy numbering and packet tracking
  • Single, double and third valuation flows
  • Moderation rules with committee sign-off
  • Revaluation, retotalling and photocopy requests
  • Internal marks with lock-on-submit
  • Result processing, withheld cases and publication

Grades & transcripts

CBCS, credits and NEP-2020 handled natively.

  • Credit and grade-point schemes per regulation
  • SGPA, CGPA and percentage conversion
  • Backlog, supplementary and improvement handling
  • Marks cards, consolidated statements, rank lists
  • Digitally signed transcripts & DigiLocker push
  • Academic Bank of Credits reporting
03 — Finance

Money in, money out, fully auditable

Fee collection your accounts team trusts, and a books-of-accounts layer your auditor recognises.

Fee management

Structures as complicated as your fee committee makes them.

  • Heads, structures and slabs by programme and category
  • Instalment plans, due dates and automatic fines
  • Concessions, waivers and sibling discounts
  • Scholarship and government-reimbursement tracking
  • Online payment, counter collection and cheque handling
  • Refunds, adjustments and dues certificates

Accounts & budgeting

Double-entry books, not just a collection register.

  • Chart of accounts, vouchers and journal entries
  • Bank reconciliation and cash book
  • Department-wise budgets vs. actuals
  • Purchase requisitions and approval hierarchy
  • Trial balance, P&L and balance sheet
  • Tally and Zoho Books export

Payroll & HR

Teaching and non-teaching staff on one payroll run.

  • Staff master, contracts and qualification records
  • Salary structures, arrears and increments
  • PF, ESI, professional tax and TDS
  • Leave policy, biometric-linked attendance
  • Payslips, Form 16 and statutory returns
  • Appraisal, API scores and promotion tracking
04 — Campus life

Everything outside the classroom

Hostel, transport, library, placements and events — billed and tracked against the same student record.

Hostel & mess

Occupancy you can see, bills that match reality.

  • Block, floor, room and bed inventory
  • Application, allotment and vacating workflow
  • Mess menu, headcount and per-day billing
  • Gate pass, leave and in–out register
  • Warden roster and complaint tracking
  • Visitor log and emergency contacts

Transport

Routes, fees and live location for anxious parents.

  • Route, stop and vehicle master
  • Student allocation with distance-based fees
  • GPS tracking and arrival notifications
  • Driver, licence and permit records
  • Fuel, maintenance and trip logs

Library

A proper LMS, including the e-resources nobody catalogues.

  • Cataloguing with ISBN lookup and barcodes
  • Issue, return, renewal and reservation
  • Automatic fines linked to the fee ledger
  • E-books, journals and remote access
  • Stock verification and weeding
  • Usage analytics by department

Placements

The numbers your NIRF submission and your prospectus both need.

  • Recruiter database and drive scheduling
  • Eligibility filters on CGPA, backlogs and branch
  • Student registration and resume vault
  • Round-wise shortlisting and offers
  • Package analytics and department comparison
  • Internship and training records

Communication

One announcement, every channel, with delivery proof.

  • SMS, WhatsApp, email and push notifications
  • Audience targeting by batch, section or dues status
  • Circulars, notices and event calendar
  • Templates with merge fields and approval
  • Delivery and read reports

Inventory & assets

Stores, labs and the asset register your auditor asks for.

  • Item master with categories and units
  • Indent, purchase order and goods receipt
  • Issue to departments and labs
  • Asset tagging, depreciation and AMC dates
  • Stock levels, re-order alerts and audit
05 — Compliance & IQAC

Accreditation is a reporting problem. We treat it like one.

Your IQAC spends most of its year collecting evidence that already exists somewhere in the college. LightYears files that evidence against the criterion it supports the moment it is created, and computes the derived metrics continuously.

  • NAAC SSR & AQAR — criterion-wise data capture with an evidence repository and version history.
  • NBA SAR — CO–PO attainment computed from real assessment marks, not estimated afterwards.
  • AICTE, NIRF & AISHE — pre-formatted exports mapped to the current submission schema.
  • Feedback & surveys — student, parent, employer and alumni feedback with analysed action-taken reports.
  • Research records — publications, patents, funded projects and consultancy, verified and indexed.
Security & reliability

Student data deserves banking-grade handling.

You are custodian of minors' records, financial transactions and examination results. The platform is built accordingly.

Encrypted throughout

TLS 1.3 in transit, AES-256 at rest, with per-tenant key isolation and encrypted backups.

Granular access control

Role-, department- and campus-scoped permissions, with maker–checker on sensitive changes.

Immutable audit log

Every mark, fee and record change stamped with user, timestamp, old value and reason.

Backups & recovery

Daily automated backups with 30-day point-in-time recovery and documented RTO/RPO targets.

Data residency

Choose your hosting region, or deploy on-premise / private cloud where policy requires it.

Privacy by design

Consent capture, retention policies, data-subject requests and DPDP-aligned processing.

99.95% uptime

Multi-zone deployment, autoscaling for admission and result-day peaks, public status page.

You own your data

Full export in open formats on demand — during the contract and on exit. No lock-in clauses.

Implementation

Live in a semester break, not a semester.

A dedicated consultant runs the rollout with your team. Here is the standard four-phase plan for a single-campus college.

Week 1

Discovery & setup

We map your programmes, regulations, fee structures and approval hierarchy, then configure the tenant and import your existing student, staff and fee data.

Week 2

Core modules

Admissions, student records, fees and attendance go live for a pilot department while the exam and payroll configurations are validated against last year's actuals.

Week 3

Training

Role-based sessions for office staff, faculty and administrators, plus a train-the-trainer track so you are not dependent on us for every new joiner.

Week 4

Parallel run & go-live

One cycle in parallel with your old process, a reconciliation sign-off, then cut-over with on-call support through the first fee-collection and attendance cycle.

Developer platform

An open API, because your campus has other software.

Every entity you can see in the interface is available over a documented REST API with scoped tokens, pagination and webhooks. Build your own portal, connect an analytics warehouse, or push data to a state-government reporting system.

  • REST + JSON with OpenAPI specification and a sandbox tenant for testing.
  • Webhooks for admissions, payments, attendance and result-publication events.
  • SSO via SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 and Google Workspace / Microsoft 365.
  • Scheduled exports to CSV, Excel or your data warehouse.

Which modules do you actually need?

Tell us where your college hurts most and we will scope a rollout around it — you do not have to buy all eighteen on day one.