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Communications

Every parent message,
one inbox.

SMS, email, and voicedrops from a single dashboard. Segment by grade, class, family status, or campaign. Two-way conversations your whole office can see — no more "who told the Kleins about early dismissal?"

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The problem

Sound familiar?

01

Messages parents never see

Email open rates hover around 30%. Your snow day announcement can't afford that. SMS gets seen in minutes — but most schools have no SMS system.

02

Five tools, zero coordination

Remind for texts, Constant Contact for newsletters, personal cell phones for urgent calls. Nobody knows what was sent to whom.

03

No segmentation

Blasting every announcement to every family trains parents to ignore you. The 9th grade trip notice shouldn't go to kindergarten parents.

What 613OS does

Built to make this disappear

Unified inbox

Every SMS reply, email response, and form submission in one shared team inbox. Anyone in the office can see the full conversation history with any family.

Grade & class segmentation

Send to exactly who needs it: 9th grade parents, all fathers, families with outstanding balances, carpool list for Tuesday.

SMS that gets read

98% of text messages are read within minutes. Urgent dismissals, snow closures, and reminders reach parents where they actually look.

Voicedrops for the phone-first crowd

Drop a recorded message straight to voicemail — perfect for communities where a rabbi's voice carries more weight than a text.

Scheduled & recurring sends

Friday candle-lighting reminders, Monday week-ahead emails, monthly balance summaries — set once, runs forever.

Two-way conversations

Parents reply directly to texts and your team responds from the dashboard. No personal cell numbers exposed.

98%

of SMS messages are read within minutes of delivery

Works together with

Related features

School Marketing → Fundraising → Document Automation →

✦  Quick answer

What is school family communication software?

Family communication software sends school messages where parents actually read them — WhatsApp, SMS, and email — from one place, with delivery tracking and segmentation by class, grade, or program. 613OS unifies announcements, reminders, and two-way conversations on the family record.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Can we message just one class or bus route?

Yes. Segments by class, grade, program, bus route, or any list you define mean the third-grade trip reminder reaches third-grade families only — precision that ends both over-blasting and phone chains.

Do we know if parents actually received the message?

Yes. Delivery and read status track per message and per family, and undeliverable contacts surface for correction — so 'we sent it' becomes 'they got it.'

Can parents reply, and who sees it?

Replies land in a shared team inbox tied to the family record, so any authorized staff member sees the full conversation history — coverage without the personal-phone chaos.

Does it respect Shabbos and Yom Tov?

Yes. Quiet hours and the Jewish calendar are built in: scheduled messages hold automatically and resume after, so nothing goes out Friday night — a detail generic platforms simply don't have.

See family communications in action

Book a 30-minute demo and we'll show you exactly how this would run at your school.

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