Saltracker
Real-Time Student & Teacher Attendance Tracking, EduERP V8,
and Offline Learning Management System (LMS) Integration
About Saltracker
Saltracker is a South African company specializing in the implementation of public sector educational projects across Africa, operating in close association with local governments and UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, headquartered at 7 Place de Fontenoy in Paris, France, and established in 1945 to promote global education and cooperation). Directed by CEO George Bester, the organization focuses on results-based financing and accountability-oriented education management frameworks (such as the EPforR program in Tanzania). Saltracker bridges the gap between digital management systems and low-infrastructure school environments.
To modernize public school oversight under this initiative, Saltracker partnered with SerpentCS (Serpent Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd., a leading global Odoo Gold Partner founded in 2011 and headquartered in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India) to design and implement an Odoo v8 Community Edition (EduERP) solution, integrated with a custom offline-first Android attendance application and local Learning Management Systems.
Challenges Before Odoo
Manual School & Teacher Tracking
Tracking the real-time presence of teachers and student attendance in remote African public schools was manual, slow, and highly inaccurate.
Complex Attendance-Based Payroll
Generating accurate payroll and salaries directly tied to teacher classroom presence and actual active school days was extremely difficult and error-prone.
Offline Learning Resource Deficits
Providing training and subject-related video lessons to educators in areas with poor or non-existent internet infrastructure was a major constraint.
Fragmented Management Reporting
The absence of a centralized education MIS made it impossible for public sector administrators and UNESCO to obtain unified, data-driven insights.
How SerpentCS Solved It
SerpentCS developed a customized EduERP Odoo V8 CE backend integrated with an offline-first Android application and local LMS systems to automate attendance, payroll, course streaming, and reporting.
Business Impact
Increased Student Presence
Incentivized attendance structures significantly boosted the number of students actively coming to school.
Enhanced Teacher Accountability
Monitoring and tracking teacher activities produced measurable improvements across the entire public education sector.
Hassle-Free Salary Payouts
Automated payroll generation directly linked to school attendance data eliminated calculation delays.
Offline Classroom Tutorials
Enabled remote schools to utilize the best 3rd party LMS for video courses without requiring active internet.
Data-Driven Policy Decisions
Provided African governments and UNESCO with detailed, real-time reports to optimize resource deployment.
Deploying Odoo CE (EduERP) with SerpentCS has completely modernized our education project delivery across South Africa. Having real-time attendance syncing offline, direct attendance-to-payroll calculations, and video course tracking integrated into a single platform has brought incredible efficiency to our public sector programs. "
Saltracker Operations Team
Saltracker, South Africa
