๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Built in Australia for Australia's residential colleges

Run your college.
Protect your students.

Tera is the security-first student management system for residential colleges โ€” admissions to alumni in one place, priced for not-for-profits, with your data hosted here at home.

  • Hosted in Azure Australia East
  • Zero standing secrets
  • Privacy Act ready
  • One app, every stage
hub.tera.au
The Tera dashboard: students in residence, pending approvals, wellbeing flags and recent enrolments at a glance

Built for colleges of 80 beds, not 8,000.

Most software in this space was built for university administrations with IT departments. Tera was built for the way small colleges actually run โ€” a Principal, a registrar and a bursar doing the work of ten. Every screen is designed to give you the answer, not another system to manage.

The platform

Everything a residential college runs on.
Nothing it doesn't.

Admissions without the paper chase

Applicants apply online from their phones โ€” guided steps, documents, referees, even their photo. You review, offer, and collect the deposit. An accepted offer becomes an enrolled resident with one click, history intact.

  • Application rounds with your dates and your fees
  • Offers, waitlists and intake dashboards
  • One live application per applicant โ€” no duplicates
yourcollege.quad.tera.au
The guided application wizard applicants complete from their phone

Know who's home tonight

The presence board answers the question every duty tutor asks. Sign-ins and outs, leave, overnight guests, curfew โ€” and when it matters most, a live muster list for your evacuation point.

  • Duty-of-care, made visible
  • Leave requests with approvals on the spot
  • Emergency muster from any phone
hub.tera.au
The presence board showing who is in residence right now

Pastoral care, handled with care

Wellbeing cases live behind their own locked door โ€” visible only to the people who must see them, with break-glass access that leaves a trace, and a consent ledger that remembers so you don't have to.

  • Role-locked case files with audit on every open
  • Watchlists that connect engagement to wellbeing
  • Consent recorded once, honoured everywhere
hub.tera.au
Pastoral case management with strict access rules

Money, the Australian way

Board and fees billed the way your bursar expects: GST-aware charges, statements families understand, and the payment rails Australians actually use โ€” PayTo, cards and bank transfer. Arrears chase themselves politely.

  • Per-semester or custom billing plans
  • Split billing for sponsors and family arrangements
  • Dunning that stays courteous
hub.tera.au
The finance dashboard: balances, arrears and reconciliations

College life, all on

Formal hall, O-Week, kitchen duty, the House Cup. Events with RSVPs, meals with allergy-aware service sheets, rosters that fill themselves. The calendar is the college's heartbeat โ€” Tera keeps it beating.

  • Five calendar views, one source of truth
  • Allergen-safe catering, fail-closed by design
  • Points, elections and community โ€” built in
hub.tera.au
The month calendar of college events

The resident portal

Their whole college life, on their phone.

Applicants, residents and alumni share one beautiful portal under your college's own web address โ€” apply, pay, book meals, request maintenance, vote, RSVP. Installable like an app, no app store required, always up to date.

yourcollege.quad.tera.au
A college's branded portal front door

Tera Shield

Security isn't a feature here.
It's the foundation.

You hold minors' data. We built like it โ€” the same architecture banks use, sized for a college.

Sign-in on our hardened domain

Every sign-in happens on shield.tera.au โ€” one address to trust, protected by Microsoft's identity cloud.

Passwordless by default

Email codes and MFA instead of passwords students reuse everywhere else.

Tenant isolation, deny by default

Your college's data is partitioned from every other college's โ€” and every request must prove it belongs, or it's refused.

Zero standing secrets

No API keys. No connection strings. Nothing for an attacker to steal โ€” identity is verified end-to-end, every time.

Everything audited

Every sensitive read and write leaves a trail โ€” including staff access to pastoral records.

Your data stays in Australia

Hosted in Azure Australia East. Personal details never appear in logs, ever โ€” and it's built to the Australian Privacy Principles.

The Tera Shield sign-in page at shield.tera.au
The actual sign-in your staff and students see.

Why Tera

Made for not-for-profits.
Priced like it, too.

๐Ÿ’ฐ An NFP budget is a design constraint

No per-bed gouging, no surprise modules, no consultants required. Flat, honest pricing โ€” have a conversation with us, not a procurement process.

๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ Australian to the bone

Student years and semesters, O-Week and formal hall, GST and PayTo, AEST support from people who answer. Built here โ€” not localised later.

๐Ÿ”‘ Your data is yours

Export everything, any time, in formats your spreadsheet opens. If we ever stop being the right fit, leaving is easy โ€” that keeps us honest.

๐Ÿš€ One system, every stage

The applicant who becomes a resident who becomes an alumna keeps one record and one login for life. No re-keying, no lost history.

See Tera on a college like yours.

A 30-minute demo with real workflows โ€” admissions, the presence board, billing โ€” and straight answers on pricing. Want hub access for your college? That's where onboarding starts.