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Campus Cafe Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives
Campus Cafe product overview
What is Campus Cafe?
Campus Cafe is a web based student information system that unifies admissions, student services, business office and alumni development functions. It is specifically built for the needs of small and mid-sized educational institutes and universities with up to 10,000 students. Some of its customers include Newbury College, Fisher College, Elm's College, NHIA and Wade College. Campus Cafe can be used to create a single record for the entire student lifecycle from applicant to alumni and manage workflows across various college operations.
Key benefits of using Campus Cafe
• It offers provision of restricted access by setting rules and permissions for different users such as students, faculty and advisors.
• A single database repository allows colleges to unify individual modules and avoid duplication of data.
• Campus Cafe offers financial module to manage general ledger, student billing, accounts payable/receivable, purchase and requisition integrated within the suit.
• It offers academic audits for students to ensure that they have necessary information about their academics. The reverse audit feature allows management to track back student's performance at any time of the academic year.
• The solution allows sending mass emails and text messages to a large number of students/leads at a single click.
• The dashboard offers real-time key metrics for all critical departmental functions in numeric and graphical format.
• Campus Cafe's contact management system ensures centralized repository for contacts and communications with easy to use interface across campus.
• With Campus Cafe, administrator can track students account transaction, manage budget allocations and monitor school funds.
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Campus Cafe pricing information
Value for money
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Campus Cafe features
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Campus Cafe users reviews
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Cosmetics, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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It was a one-stop shop! We had all of our information on paper and excel documents.
The learning curve, and the language of the software is not intuitive.
Anneliese S.
Higher Education, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Campus Café has been extremely responsive to questions and issues through their help desk. They are improving their Knowledge Base constantly. Users are getting comfortable with the system quickly, and with ease, and the system is allowing us to improve efficiency of our processes in many offices. Implementation in general went far better than we could have imagined (we managed it in around 12 months during the COVID chaos). My only thought is that some sort of optional change-management services that could be purchased at an additional cost to implementation could be beneficial to some institutions.
This software was appropriately targeted to schools our size (~1000 students), without the overcomplexity and technicality of more extensive software systems such as Colleague. The "Finders" (think fairly robust, saveable filters that are understandable to many users) are a huge plus to the system - they have made data available to many non-technical constituents who need it on a daily basis, without...
As a result of the willingness of the company to address individual institutions' needs, sometimes the UI lacks consistency across the pages, and there are some quirks to functionality of a few areas. Permissions are less than ideal with this system, since only one permission group can be added to each single user - layering of permission sets is not possible. This has resulted in us having to build...
Awit V.
Education Management, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Overall, compared to our homegrown system, I’d say Campus Cafe is worth it! Our work is now more streamlined and time we spend on projects and validation of record accuracy has been cut in half! I would recommend Campus Cafe for institutions that are similar to our size (population of 500 or less).
Reports are easily accessible and customizable! This is such a great feature for the Registration Department as we need accurate statistics immediately. The ability to also customize webpages, email notifications, triggers, courses as needed gave us the power to be more flexible and creative with how we focus our energy and time.
There have been a few glitches in the system even after working through setup. An example of this is syncing Campus Cafe with Canvas LMS- students who withdraw or drop would sometimes sync with Canvas and other times it would not. So there was that inconsistency.
Michael J.
Higher Education, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Overall, we are pleased with our switch to Campus Cafe. The leadership and development team are attentive too are needs and have been very aggressive in shoring up any deficiencies we've identified. There are very customer-centric and are intent on creating the best product possible.
Has many of the automation features of more expensive platforms. Integrates very well with platforms we were already using. Has the best feature-to-price ratio of any platform we looked at.
We never intended to use the GL functionality, so it was not a problem for us, but it does appear to be rather limited. The Advancement/Donor module is rudimentary for functional. Lack of a parent portal is perhaps its greatest weakness.
Lynne L.
Higher Education, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Campus Cafe Cloud service has enabled us to work in a more virtual environment and to move to a paperless student records system.
Campus Cafe modules cover major components needed for Higher Education all in one program. (Admissions, Financial Aid, Student Information System, Accounting, Development, and Alumni)
Campus Cafe is a growing software company that has improved over the 8+ years that we have used the software. Keeping up with changes and ongoing training needs is challenging at times. However, customer support is very responsive to our questions.
Campus Cafe FAQs
Campus Cafe has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $1200.00/month
Pricing model: Subscription
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