Continuous enrollment allows families to sign a contract once, with the option to opt-out each year, rather than having them complete and sign a full contract year over year.
In the business world, this is often known as an evergreen, perpetual, or auto-renewing contract. To learn how to enable the ability to bulk submit contracts for continuous enrollment, click here.
Continuous Enrollment FAQs
You can do both. The most common use case for this is new vs returning students. However, you could also have international / day student differences or any other groupings.
You can enable continuous enrollment at any time. However, you can only bulk-submit contracts after the parents have signed their first-year contract.
Pro tip: Our Rollover for Continuous Enrollment Schools article offers outlines for managing contracts after rollover. For more details and options on workflows, please refer to that article.
Tips & Best Practices
Engage your legal team. Always talk with your legal team before updating your contract and processes. State laws vary so what works for your school may not work for another.
Review your goals and identify areas where your process can be streamlined to reduce work. In other words, you should consider the following: Where do parents get stuck in the process? Are there easier, smaller changes that could eliminate many issues? Click to expand each of the items below and learn more.
Registration forms like sports sign-ups and field trip waivers should be independent of your contract. These can be created as custom enrollment forms instead and moved to their own checklist items.
Finalsite Enrollment supports a powerful set of dynamic checklist items or dynamic content, forms, and fields so that only the necessary information is collected.
If so, talk through the implications of a perpetual process and how you will communicate changes to policy and collect consent to new addenda, if needed.
What happens if the parent disputes the tuition and fees because they need to see or approve the amount in future years; for example, if the financial aid amount changes after the renewal deadline date?
For example, what kind of notice of the renewal period will you provide? Will you notify parents 30 or 60 days in advance of the annual deadline? How will you handle a situation when a parent does not notify you that they do not wish to return? How will you collect and verify notice from parents that they are not returning? What happens in the case of split households?
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