Public Register site vs a full student information system
Schools and academies overbuy software when a public Register door would have fixed the week. They also underbuy when they pretend a brochure site is a student information system. Here is a plain split: site vs Academy OS vs full SIS.
Public Register site (CCCM working site)
Job: marketing and enrollment. Strangers learn who you are, see packages, Register, sign releases, and pay **you**.
Terms: **$149 first month, then $99/month, three-month minimum.** Checkout: https://www.getcccm.com/checkout Clubs: https://www.getcccm.com/sports
Buy this when your pain is visibility, mobile enrollment, fee clarity, or a stale DIY page — not when you need state reporting transcripts tomorrow.
Academy OS (staff desk)
Job: daily athletic / academy operations — attendance, clearance flags, roster moves, travel weekends, coach permissions. Talk-first. Quote after conversation. **No online checkout. No public OS price.** https://www.getcccm.com/academy-os
Buy this conversation when spreadsheets break and coaches need a desk — not when you only needed a Register button.
Full SIS (student information system)
Job: heavy academic records, scheduling, compliance reporting, sometimes gradebooks and transcripts across a whole school. Often expensive, slow to implement, and overkill for a microschool that mainly needed deposits online.
Buy a full SIS when regulators, accreditors, or true academic record complexity demand it — not because a salesperson bundled "portal" into a demo. CCCM is not pitching a fake mega-SIS in this article. We would rather you underscope honestly than drown in modules.
Do not overbuy — decision table
Invented sample (not a client)
"Lakeview Microschool (invented) nearly signed a multi-year SIS because admissions was messy. The real gap was a phone Register page and deposit clarity. They rented a CCCM working site first; OS conversation waited until roster ops hurt." Invented — not a live school.
How the three relate
Public site takes the seat. Academy OS runs athletic/academy staff ops after. A full SIS owns deep academic records when you truly need that layer. Most clubs and many academies never need the third. Many private schools need a serious SIS **and** still benefit from a clean public door that is not the SIS login wall.
Do not hide enrollment behind software families cannot find. Do not take attendance on the marketing homepage. Do not pay SIS prices for a brochure.
Pricing honesty
Working site rental prices are public on checkout. Academy OS is quote-after-conversation with no public OS price on a blog. Full SIS vendors have their own commercial models — compare carefully and ask about implementation labor.
Plain next step
If you need the public door: https://www.getcccm.com/checkout or https://www.getcccm.com/sports. If you need staff ops: https://www.getcccm.com/academy-os. If you need a full SIS, say so — we will not pretend our site rental is that. Email hello@getcccm.com with what you run and what hurts.
| Pain | Likely fit |
|---|---|
| No mobile Register | Working site |
| Stale brochure | Working site |
| Attendance / clearance chaos | Academy OS talk |
| Multi-gym roster fights | Academy OS talk |
| State transcripts / full academic SIS | Full SIS vendor (not a marketing site) |
| Both enroll + ops pain | Site + OS sequenced |
FAQ
- Is Academy OS a full SIS?
- No. Staff desk for academy and athletic programs — not a full student-information-system replacement.
- Can a SIS replace our public site?
- Often a terrible parent experience. Keep a public Register path.
- Where does money go on the CCCM site?
- To you.
- Should clubs buy an SIS?
- Rarely first. Start with Register; add ops if spreadsheets fail.