Built because I needed it to exist, not because I spotted a market.

I'm Barlow Kasule. I'm the director of Aunt Rebecca Primary School in Misanvu, Kibinge, in Bukomansimbi District — a school of about 500 pupils. I'm also a software engineer, with years of experience building payment and data systems in Uganda. Scolara is what happens when those two jobs meet.

The problems it solves were mine first: fee money moving between the bursar's office and the bank with no clear picture, term-end reconciliation done by hand across scattered spreadsheets, and the quiet fear that one crashed laptop could take years of records with it.

In December 2025 I started building the tool I wished we had. Then I kept going until it covered the whole school — students, fees, payroll, exams, attendance, library, stores, sick bay and dormitory — because a school doesn't run one department at a time, and its software shouldn't either. Aunt Rebecca runs on it every day, and I've built it to handle schools well past 1,000 pupils.

What I believe

Your records belong to your school. They live on your own computers, not on someone else's server.

Uganda's rules should be built in — URA's PAYE bands, NSSF, LST and UNEB's grading — not left as spreadsheet formulas for the bursar to maintain.

Clear prices, and the truth told plainly — including about how young Scolara is.

Building it with the first schools

I'm looking for a few schools to grow Scolara with me. You'll deal with me directly: I'll help you set it up, listen to what your bursar and teachers need, and build it in. If what's on this site matches a problem you have, talk to me.

— Barlow Kasule, Founder