Middleware proxy that auto-syncs your attendance app to school legacy portals via secure file drops.
Solo operators deploying K-12 attendance tracking face high churn from integration failures with legacy government systems, blocking solo scaling.
SyncBridge acts as a hosted bridge: your app pushes data via simple API, it transforms and schedules drops into school-provided SFTP/email inboxes. No custom scripts or district approvals needed—churn drops as syncs succeed 99% first time. Solo operators embed one webhook and scale to unlimited schools.
Solo edtech entrepreneurs or developers selling attendance tracking software to K-12 schools
Fully managed SFTP/email proxy with retry logic and district-specific schedulers—handles the 'upload dance' for you.
supportive
Receive attendance data from your app via secure POST.
Add school SFTP/email creds once per district.
Map + format data to match portal requirements.
Cron jobs push files at district windows (e.g., EOD).
Real-time status, failures, retries per school.
Email/Slack on sync fails with fix suggestions.
CSV upload for multi-school setups.
Exportable logs for audits.
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | Yes | |
| created_at | timestamp | No |
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| name | text | No |
| sftp_host | text | Yes |
| email_drop | text | Yes |
| schedule_cron | text | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| school_id | uuid | No |
| status | text | No |
| payload_hash | text | Yes |
| synced_at | timestamp | Yes |
| user_id | uuid | No |
Relationships:
/api/schoolsCreate school connection
/api/webhook/attendanceIngest data for sync
/api/schools/:id/syncsList sync history
/api/connections/testTest school creds
No alerts
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 15 | 15% | $56 | $675 |
| Month 6 | 120 | 25% | $750 | $9,000 |
One webhook bridges your data to any K-12 legacy portal—managed, reliable, scalable.
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Rostering
No attendance focus, enterprise only
Attendance-specific, solo-priced
Native
Vendor lock-in
Multi-district, agnostic
School connection data compounds reliability via ML retries.
ESSER funds expiring, schools rushing digital attendance upgrades amid staff shortages.
SFTP auth changes
Multi-method (email fallback)
Data privacy compliance
FERPA audit + Supabase SOC2
Success: 80% cite as top churn reason
Success: 95% success rate
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