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Sabaq: Madrasa Management Software in Bangladesh, Built in Bangla First
Sabaq is a cloud based madrasa management software in Bangladesh that runs admissions, attendance, fees and chanda (regular community contribution) collection, accounts, exams and hifz (Quran memorisation) tracking in one Bangla interface, with an Android app for parents and teachers. More than 639 madrasas in 62 districts use it today. Plans start at BDT 500 per month, and a free demo takes one phone call or WhatsApp message.
What is Sabaq?
Sabaq (the word means a student’s daily lesson) is a web application made by a team in Brahmanbaria, Bangladesh, for the way madrasas actually work. The whole interface is in Bangla, the class structure follows madrasa conventions (jamaat, meaning class level; kitab classes, meaning the textbook based levels; hifz and noorani sections), and money is counted in taka with printed receipts. Each madrasa gets its own subdomain with hosting included, so there is nothing to install on a server. You log in from a browser or the app and start entering students.
This page is the English overview. The main site is in Bangla because our users work in Bangla; you can switch to the Bangla home page at any time, and every English page here links to its Bangla counterpart at the bottom. If you are comparing vendors, we also keep an honest comparison of madrasa software options in Bangladesh.
Who is madrasa management software in Bangladesh for?
- Qawmi madrasas (the independent system affiliated with Befaq): jamaat based classes up to Daura-e-Hadith, chanda and donation ledgers, hifz departments. See Qawmi madrasa software.
- Alia madrasas (the government recognised board system): Ebtedayee to Kamil classes, board style exams, marksheets and merit lists.
- Hifz and Noorani madrasas: hifz classes kept as their own classes, with a daily lesson mark for every student and monthly counts. See hifz madrasa software.
- Islamic schools and coaching centres that mix general subjects with Quran classes and want one attendance and fee system.
Madrasa, madrasah or madrasha: which spelling?
All three spellings are in everyday use in Bangladesh, and people search all three. Some type madrasa management software, some type madrasah management software or madrasha management software, and others look for a madrasah management system or a madrasa management system. They all mean the same thing, and this page is about that one thing: the software a madrasa uses to run admission, attendance, fees, accounts, exams and parent communication from one place.
The transliteration differs because the word comes from Arabic and Bangla, not English. We write it madrasa through the site for consistency, but nothing changes if your madrasah spells it another way.
Which modules are included?
Admission and student profiles
Admission forms, guardian details, photos, class and section placement, transfer records, with searchable profiles for every student.
Attendance with biometric devices
Attendance three ways: fingerprint, face or RFID card on a ZKTeco device, or entered by hand when there is no machine. When a student is absent, an SMS can go to the guardian automatically.
Fees, chanda and donations
Monthly fees, admission fees, chanda and one time donations, each with a printed receipt, plus dues lists and collection reports.
Accounts
Income and expense ledger, teacher salary, category wise reports, so the management committee can see the month at a glance.
Exams and results
Exam setup, marks entry, marksheets, merit lists and result publication to parents through the app.
Hifz departments
Separate hifz classes and a daily lesson mark for each student, with monthly counts parents can see.
SMS
Absence alerts, due reminders, results and notices by SMS, using SMS packages bought through us.
ID cards, certificates, print designs
Student ID cards (optional RFID), certificates, admit cards and receipts printed from ready designs.
Parent and teacher app
A free Android app where parents see attendance, dues, results and notices, and teachers take attendance and enter marks. The daily lesson mark is entered and viewed on the web.
Reports, roles, shifts and branches
Role based logins for principal, accountant and teachers, plus shift and branch support for larger institutions.
The features page describes each group in more detail, and the app page covers what parents and teachers see on their phones.
What was added to Sabaq recently
Sabaq is one product on one codebase, so every madrasa on it receives the same updates. The modules below were added recently and are already running. A dated list of every change is on the software updates page.
Daily lesson evaluation
A teacher picks a class, subject, book and month, then taps each student’s cell for that date: good, average, weak or absent. Monthly and yearly totals build themselves and print with signature lines for the class teacher and the head teacher. Guardians see it on their own panel, and the madrasa can switch on a daily message at a fixed time. This one runs on the web, not in the app.
Online payment
A guardian signs in, picks the months they want to clear and pays on a secure SSLCommerz page by card, mobile banking or internet banking. The receipt is created straight away and counts as an ordinary fee receipt, so dues, the student ledger and the fund balance all update without an office entry. Your madrasa opens its own SSLCommerz merchant account and enters the store details once.
Boarding management
Residential students, seat and room records, daily meal entries, the bazar ledger and monthly boarding bills. A photo of the paper memo can be attached to a bazar entry, and the software shrinks the image when it saves.
HR and payroll
Non teaching staff: profiles, department and designation, attendance and leave, salary structure with allowances and deductions, monthly payroll, pay slips, bonuses, loans and advances.
Multi branch
Several campuses from one login. A branch switcher at the top changes students, staff, attendance and accounts to that branch, and a user can be tied to a single branch.
Online admission
Guardians apply from the madrasa website. Applications wait in a pending list with name, parents, date of birth, photo and previous institution, and become students once someone approves them.
Permissions for one person
Permissions used to follow the role only. Now a single staff member can be given extra permissions on top of their role, or a hand picked set instead of it.
Subjects per teacher
Set which teacher takes which subject in which class. After that a teacher signs in and sees only their own subjects, not the whole madrasa.
There is no charge per module. Everything on this page sits inside the plan. Sabaq does not sell features separately, so the price further down is the price with all of it switched on. If a module is not enabled for your madrasa yet, ask and we will turn it on.
Which languages does the software run in?
Bangla is the default, and English and Arabic can be switched on. The madrasa picks one and can change it later. Bangla is the default because that is the language the office actually works in. English helps when a report has to leave the building, and Arabic matters for institutions that teach in Arabic.
How much does madrasa management software in Bangladesh cost with Sabaq?
| Plan | Price | Installation (one time) |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | BDT 500 per month | BDT 2,000 for madrasas under 200 students; BDT 5,000 above 200 students |
| Yearly | BDT 5,000 per year | |
| One time | BDT 20,000 |
Every plan includes the subdomain and hosting, the Android app, software updates and support. Optional extras are RFID cards, ZKTeco devices, SMS packages and a madrasa website. Full details, the 60 day inactive licence policy and the reseller programme are on the pricing page, and the cost calculator gives you a figure for your own student count.
Is there a free madrasa management software download?
This gets searched often enough that it deserves a straight answer. Sabaq is not a file you download and install on the office computer. It runs on your own subdomain, so a teacher at home, the muhtamim on a trip and the clerk at the counter all open the same data from any browser, or from the Android app. Nothing to install, nothing to back up by hand, no licence tied to one machine that dies with the machine.
What is free is the demo. We open a working system with sample data, show you the screens you care about on a call, and answer questions with the software in front of you. Software you download for nothing usually costs more in the end, because somebody still has to host it, keep it safe, fix it, and pick up the phone at seven in the evening when a receipt will not print. That is what the monthly price pays for.
A general school system, or one built for a madrasa?
Plenty of school software is well made. It was simply written for a different institution, and the gap shows up in exactly the parts a madrasa cannot skip.
| What a madrasa needs | General school software | Sabaq |
|---|---|---|
| Bangla screens, menus and printed reports | Often English first, Bangla added later | Bangla first, with English and Arabic available |
| Chanda and donations kept apart from student fees | Usually one fee head for everything | Separate heads, separate receipts, separate reports |
| Hifz classes handled on their own terms | Rarely present | Separate classes and a daily lesson mark |
| Qawmi grade names such as mumtaz and jayyid | GPA and percentage only | Grade names and rules the madrasa sets |
| Boarding, meals and the bazar ledger | Rarely present | Included |
| Support in Bangla, on the phone | Ticket forms, often in English | Phone and WhatsApp in Bangla |
What the first month usually looks like
Madrasas ask how much work falls on them, so here is the honest shape of it.
- Week one. We set up the subdomain and put in your classes, sections, subjects and fee heads. You send the student list in a spreadsheet and we import it, or you enter students as admissions come in.
- Week two. Fees start going through the software. This is the part that changes an office the most, because dues and receipts stop living in a notebook. Training is on this.
- Week three. Attendance begins, by hand or on a device if you bought one. Guardians get the app and start seeing attendance and dues.
- After that. Exams, results, ID cards and reports as the calendar reaches them. Nobody needs all 156 features in month one, and no madrasa uses all of them.
Two things decide how smoothly this goes: whether the student list is reasonably clean before it is imported, and whether one person at the madrasa owns the software rather than five people half owning it.
How do you get started?
- Call or WhatsApp 01804-909500, or email hello@sabaaq.com, and tell us the madrasa name, district and approximate student count.
- We show you a free demo on a call or screen share and answer your questions.
- After you choose a plan, we create your subdomain, set up classes and sections, and train the people who will use it.
- You start entering students; attendance, fees and results follow from there. Support continues over phone and WhatsApp.
Why does Bangla first matter for a madrasa?
Most school ERP products sold in Bangladesh are English first, with Bangla added later as a translation, and madrasa terms like jamaat, sabaq or chanda do not exist in them at all. Teachers and accountants in madrasas work in Bangla, so a system that asks them to think in English is one that slowly stops being used. Sabaq was written in Bangla from the first screen, the receipts and marksheets print in Bangla, the tutorial videos on our YouTube channel are in Bangla, and support is in Bangla. This English site exists for committee members, overseas donors and partner organisations who want to understand the product; the daily users rarely need it.
Ready to see it working?
A free demo takes about twenty minutes. Call, WhatsApp or book it on the demo page.