Run your madrasa with barakah, not spreadsheets.
Hidayah is the all-in-one management platform for Islamic schools, Quran academies, and madaris. Track students, mark attendance, collect fees, and keep parents informed — all from one place.
Trusted by madrasas, weekend schools & Quran academies
Your madrasa should run on teaching, not paperwork.
Most madaris are held together by one tired volunteer, a few spreadsheets and a parents' group chat. This is what changes.
- Paper registers that never get typed up
- Chasing fees family by family over text
- "Which class is my son in?" every new term
- Hifz progress known only to the teacher
- Rebuilding last year's numbers for every committee meeting
- Register marked on a phone in seconds
- Invoices go out by themselves and Direct Debit collects them
- Parents apply online and you approve in one click
- Hifz, Qaida and Tajweed progress visible to families
- Every report downloads ready for the committee
Click through the parts you'd use every week.
Simplified versions of the real screens. No signup needed to look.
Today's classes
Teachers tap Present, Late or Absent on a phone or tablet. Late minutes are recorded too.
Attendance this term
The Ahmed family
Two children, one balance. Direct Debit collects each month without anyone chasing.
Collected this month
92% of families paid
Yusuf · Maryam
Parents switch between their children. No app to install, it opens in the phone's browser.
Notice board
Post once and every family sees it in their portal.
Yusuf Ahmed · Hifz A
Teachers log each lesson by juz, surah and ayah, with a note. Parents see it straight away.
Qaida and Tajweed notes
Short notes for early readers, kept on each child's record.
Reports
Ready for the committee. Download as CSV or PDF.
Exams and report cards
Enter marks per subject. Grades are worked out for you.
See it working with your own madrasa.
Sign up — 2 minutes
Pick your madrasa's web address and you're in. Your school portal is live straight away.
We set it up with you
Send us your register — paper, Excel, anything — and we'll import your students and classes for you, free.
Decide after 14 days
Nothing is charged before then — and we email you before your trial ends, so there are no surprises.
Less admin. More tarbiyah.
Stop juggling WhatsApp groups, paper registers, and bank transfers. Hidayah brings every part of running a madrasa into a single, simple system that your imams, teachers, and parents will actually use.
Student & guardian records
Keep every student's profile, guardian contacts, medical notes, and class history in one tidy place. No more lost paper forms.
Attendance in seconds
Teachers mark the register on a phone or tablet in seconds. Late minutes are recorded, and the absentee report shows you who to follow up with.
Online fee collection
Parents pay fees by card or BACS Direct Debit via Stripe through a secure portal. Automatic reminders and receipts on every payment.
Parent portal
Each family gets a clean, branded portal at your-school.hidayah.me to view fees, attendance, and progress.
Hifz & Qaida tracking
Log Quran memorisation by Surah and Ayah, plus Qaida and Tajweed progress notes per student. Visible to parents in their portal.
Reports for trustees
Fee collection, attendance, and revenue reports — ready to download as PDF for board meetings or charity audits.
Online enrolment applications
Parents apply through your school's own website. Approve, waitlist, or decline from your dashboard — approval creates the student, parent login, and fees in one step.
Announcements & notice board
Post a notice once and every parent sees it in their portal — term dates, events, closures. Nothing lost in WhatsApp groups.
Easy switch from spreadsheets
Bring your whole register over from Excel, paper, or another system — or send it to us and we'll import it for you, free.
Prayer times on your masjid TV, set up in minutes.
Type one link into any smart TV or Fire Stick. Prayer times, Jumu'ah, notices and duas go on the wall and keep themselves right. No password on the TV and nothing to install.
- ISNA, Muslim World League, Umm al-Qura, Karachi or Egyptian, with Hanafi or standard Asr
- As many Jumu'ah sittings as you run, with khutbah and jama'ah times
- Notices that take themselves down, duas with translations, Ramadan suhoor and iftar countdown
- The dashboard tells you in plain words if a screen stops working
The masjid side of Hidayah is given, not sold. A screen in the lobby is sadaqah jariyah. We earn our keep on the madrasa side.
See the screen workingShown in your masjid's own colours.
One place for fees, classes, and reporting.
You shouldn't need three apps and a stack of A4 to know how your madrasa is doing. Hidayah pulls everything into one dashboard, with the numbers you actually care about.
- Direct Debit collects fees automatically — most madaris recover more in missed fees than Hidayah costs
- Track outstanding fees in real time and send reminders with one click
- Record cash, bank transfer, and online payments in one ledger
- Role-based access for head teacher, accountant, office staff, and trustees
- Export everything for charity commission and bank reporting
"From paper registers to a real system."
"We used to chase parents over WhatsApp every month. Now fees come in automatically and I can see at a glance who's behind. Seeing attendance per child has changed the conversations we have with parents."
"My Lord, increase me in knowledge." — Qur'an 20:114
Designed by people who've taught a class.
Mark attendance from your phone in under a minute. Log Hifz progress between students. Send a quick note to a parent without leaving the app.
- Teachers log in only from their school's subdomain — secure by default
- Auto-attendance for teachers — clock in just by signing in
- Mark a whole class register in seconds with bulk actions
- Per-student notes for memorisation, Tajweed, and behaviour
Their own portal at your subdomain.
Parents sign in to your-school.hidayah.me to see attendance, pay fees, view homework, and track their child's progress in Hifz and Qaida — without you sending a single screenshot.
"And say: My Lord, have mercy on them..." — Qur'an 17:24
Spreadsheets, group chats, or Hidayah
| Task | Spreadsheets | Group chats | Hidayah |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attendance history for every student | By hand | No | |
| Online fees collection | No | No | |
| Automatic reminders and receipts | No | By hand | |
| Parents check their own balance | No | Ask the admin | |
| Hifz progress families can see | No | No | |
| Volunteers see only their own classes | All or nothing | No | |
| Committee reports in one click | Hours of work | No |
Pricing that fits your madrasa.
Every plan includes every feature. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. Pick the one that matches your size and change any time as your madrasa grows.
Small madrasa
For maktabs and weekend madaris with up to 99 students. Every feature included — nothing held back.
per month · up to 99 students
- Every feature, every report
- Unlimited classes and staff accounts
- Online payments, parent portal, free support
- Move up to Standard any time as you grow
Standard
For madrasas, Quran academies, and Islamic schools running weekend, weekday, or both.
per month · up to 300 students
- Every feature, every report
- Unlimited classes and staff accounts
- Online card & BACS Direct Debit payments via Stripe
- Online card payments via Stripe, in NZ dollars
- ACH bank debit & card payments via Stripe
- BECS Direct Debit & card payments via Stripe
- Pre-authorized debit (PAD) & card payments via Stripe
- SEPA Direct Debit & card payments via Stripe
- Parent portal at your subdomain
- Free support
Custom
For organisations running multiple madrasas, or those needing custom integrations and bespoke setup.
tailored quote · multi‑branch & bespoke
- Everything in Standard
- Multiple madrasas or branches under one account
- Custom integrations and data migration
- Dedicated onboarding and training
- Priority support
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Why we ask for a card at signup. It keeps trial places for genuine madaris. Your card is not charged during the trial — we place a temporary 1.00 verification hold and release it straight away. Your subscription starts automatically when the trial ends; we email you a few days before, and you can cancel any time before then and pay nothing.
What's included with online payments. Hidayah handles the full payment infrastructure on your behalf — automatic retries on failed payments, refund and chargeback handling, fraud monitoring, and daily reconciliation.
Stripe's standard processor fees apply per rail:
- UK BACS Direct Debit — 1%, capped at £4 per transaction (most schools' first choice — by far the cheapest)
- Card payments — 1.5% + 20p per transaction for standard UK consumer cards (premium/business and international cards carry Stripe's higher rates)
- ACH bank debit — 0.8%, capped at $5 per transaction (the cheapest way to collect)
- Card payments — Stripe's standard domestic rate (about 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction)
- Pre-authorized debit (PAD) — 1% + C$0.40, capped at C$5 per transaction (the cheapest way to collect)
- Card payments — Stripe's standard domestic rate (about 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction)
- BECS Direct Debit — 1% + A$0.30, capped at A$3.50 per transaction (the cheapest way to collect)
- Card payments — Stripe's standard domestic rate (about 1.7% + A$0.30 per transaction)
- SEPA Direct Debit — 0.8%, capped at €6 per transaction (the cheapest way to collect)
- Card payments — Stripe's standard European rate (about 1.5% + €0.25 per transaction)
- Card payments — Stripe's standard domestic rate (about 2.7% + NZ$0.30 per transaction), confirmed on your demo
Hidayah adds a 0.3% platform fee on top, applied to both card and BACS Direct Debit payments. Offline payments (cash, bank transfer) recorded in Hidayah carry no Hidayah fee.
Frequently asked.
Do parents need to download an app?
No. Parents sign in via a web link to your school's subdomain (e.g. your-school.hidayah.me) on any phone or computer. We may release a mobile app later, but the web portal is fully optimised for phones today.
How does fee collection actually work?
Online payments are processed by Stripe — the same payments provider used by hundreds of thousands of UK businesses. Parents pay by card or BACS Direct Debit; funds settle directly into your school's bank account. You can also record cash and bank-transfer payments collected offline.
Are there any fees on top of the subscription?
Yes — transparently. Stripe charges its standard processor fees per rail: 1% capped at £4 for UK BACS Direct Debit (the cheapest option, and what most schools choose) and 1.5% + 20p for standard UK consumer card payments (premium/business and international cards carry Stripe's higher rates). Hidayah adds a 0.3% platform fee on top of both, which covers the payment infrastructure: automatic retries on failed payments, refund and chargeback handling, fraud monitoring, and daily reconciliation. Most UK madrasa software takes 1–2% commission on every payment — we take 0.3%, just enough to keep this infrastructure running. Cash and bank-transfer payments recorded in Hidayah carry no Hidayah fee.
What happens when the free trial ends?
We email you a few days before your trial ends. If Hidayah is working for your madrasa, you do nothing — your subscription starts automatically on the card you verified, and we email you the invoice. Not for you? Cancel any time before the trial ends and you pay nothing — your data stays safe if you ever come back.
Why do you ask for a card if the trial is free?
It keeps trial places for genuine madaris and stops abuse. Your card is not charged during the trial — we place a temporary 1.00 verification hold and release it immediately. Nothing is taken unless you decide to continue after your 14 days, and we email you before the trial ends.
Can you move our students over from paper or Excel?
Yes — and it's free. Send us your register in whatever form it exists (a spreadsheet, a photo of the paper register, an export from another system) and we'll import your students, classes, and parents for you during your trial. You don't need to type anything in yourself.
Is the data of our students kept private?
Yes. We treat student and family data as strictly confidential and design the platform with UK GDPR principles in mind. Each madrasa's data is fully isolated from other organisations using the platform. Read our privacy policy for full detail.
Can we use it for a weekend-only madrasa?
Absolutely. Many of our schools run only on Saturdays and Sundays. You can configure class schedules to match — there's no expectation that students attend every day.
Do you support Hifz tracking with Surah / Ayah?
Yes. Teachers can log Hifz progress per student down to the Surah and Ayah level, alongside Qaida and Tajweed progress notes. Parents see this in their portal.
What if we already collect fees on paper or by bank transfer?
That's fine — Hidayah supports recording offline cash and bank transfer payments alongside online ones. Many schools start by tracking offline fees in Hidayah and gradually invite parents to pay online when they're ready.
Who owns the data?
You do. The madrasa is the data controller; Hidayah is the data processor. You can export your data at any time, and we will return or delete it on request if you stop using the service.