We believe all schools should know if the MIS that is being recommended to them is paying the support team a referral fee.
The census data is in, and the new MIS market share stats are here!
Our thanks, once again, go out to our good friend Joshua Perry who analyses each set of census data and provides insights into the MIS market players, how many schools they have, the ‘winners and losers’ etc. in his blog which we urge you to read.
On the 29th November we published part 3 of a series of blogs relating to MIS referral fees, or as some people have said ‘Kickbacks’
In a supporting LinkedIn post we asked for comments, and in this final blog on the subject we thought we’d share some of these comments.
I’ve been reading an excellent but troubling series of articles in WhichMIS about referral fees, or “kickbacks” as they are sometimes known, being paid to the support teams who offer services to schools around ICT, management systems, finance and other systems.
We asked MIS providers how much they pay external support teams for providing support to their schools and how much they pay in referral fees when a school purchases their platform after being referred by a partner.
Wednesday (17th May 2023) saw the Schools & Academies Show at London’s Excel. Steve & Stuart attended, arriving mid-morning and joined a longish queue to
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