Yes. Konstella offers web, mobile and paper solutions to help your organization to engage parents of all kinds. Konstella allows event organizers to print directories, signup sheets, volunteer lists, etc, so that it is easy to involve parents with no internet access.

It is recommended for all parents to register at Konstella. However, if some parents choose not to, as long as they have been invited to their schools and classrooms, they will be notified via email on school and classroom activities. Like registered parents, these parents can sign up for volunteer jobs directly from their emails without coming to Konstella.com. However, they will not be able to do things like setting up personal calendar sync, looking up the school directory, or text chatting with other parents in their classrooms.

The Konstella iPhone and Android apps are offered in English and professionally translated Spanish. The Konstella web site is integrated with Google Translator that offers 70+ languages. Your school admin can turn it on, so that parents at your school can view the website in their preferred languages.

No. Quite the contrary, Konstella is super easy to use for regular parents. For example, parents can respond to activities and sign up for volunteer opportunities directly in their emails without signing into Konstella. For parent leads, such as committee chairs and room parents, Konstella offers a comprehensive solution to satisfy many of their needs. Parent leads should expect some learning time to get themselves familiar with all the features.

Yes. By streamlining communications and allowing parent leaders to create short messages, long newsletters, signup sheets, and rsvp events for their classrooms, grades, committees, and the entire school, Konstella becomes a one-stop place for parents to stay connected.

No, it does not. While your current PTA/PTO website provide a public interface of your organization, Konstella offers a private parent community with real time information. Konstella works well with your public website by providing you with widgets (e.g. calendar, committee list, volunteer buttons) that you can embed on your public website.

Your School Admin can completely turn off the Photo Sharing feature. If your school decides to enable the feature, here's how it works on Konstella. Parents can specify if it is ok for other parents to upload photos of their children. When a parent uploads photos (school-wide or room-wide), there's always a link for her to see who opted out from photo sharing.

Photo sharing, and discussions can be turned off. Weekly digest email of upcoming activities can be turned off. If school directory is not a desired feature, School Admins can choose not to ask contact info at registration.

Konstella does not offer a place for you to write a static web page. Konstella provides parents with a single view of what’s happening at school and in their classrooms. It’s centered around users, rather than the organizations. If desired, parents can always filter to see events and announcements only at the school level, or in specific classrooms of theirs. If your parent organization still likes to have web pages, on your web page, you can link to Konstella at places like volunteer opportunities, school directory, committee openings, file/photo sharing etc...

Lots of services out there can be used in schools, sports teams, and non-profit organizations. Konstella, on the other hand, is specifically designed for school-based parent communities. It’s not a solution that fits all scenarios. We’d like to make sure your needs are met by offering different set of features for different “groups”.

Most features in Konstella are free. Konstella offers premium accounts for schools that would like to

• customize Konstella emails with school logos
• store lots of files and photos
• use advanced features such as search in archives

Please see our plans page for details.