Pricing

The platform is free. One transparent 3% at checkout.

No subscription, no per-family fee, no setup cost, and no contract. We take 3% when money moves — shown as a line item and covered by the payer, so your PTO banks the full sticker price. If nobody pays you anything, we don't get paid either.

What's included

Everything's free. Nothing moves behind a paywall.

Not a trial and not a starter plan. Every feature a PTO runs on is free and stays that way — the extras are three genuinely optional additions for schools that want to reach further.

Free, always

Roster, announcements, events, signups, forms, the directory, wish lists, treasury, reimbursements, fundraising campaigns, membership cards and the school bulletin.

  • Every board member and every family — no seat count
  • No per-family fee, no setup fee, no expiry
  • Funds settle to your PTO's own bank, not ours
  • Cash and checks tracked in the same ledger

$0 · 3% at checkout, covered by the payer

Your PTO banks the full sticker price. That's the whole business model.

Homeroom Plus

Coming soon

Three upgrades for schools that want to reach further.

  • Text messagesA reminder the morning of the event, straight to the phone. Texts get opened; some families will never read an email.
  • Every family in their languageAnnouncements translated automatically, so the message lands the same way for every household in your school.
  • Volunteer clearances, trackedSee at a glance who is cleared to help on a field trip, without chasing paperwork every fall.

$199 a year for all three

Entirely optional. Plenty of PTOs will never need it, and nothing you use today ever moves behind it.

The number that matters

Most PTOs don't buy one tool. They buy three.

A platform for dues and the store. A separate vendor for the big fundraiser. A third tool for the books. Three subscriptions, three sets of fees, and nobody adds them up. Here's the whole year in one number.

$22,000

$2,000$150,000

$12,000 (55%)

$0$22,000

One tool

Homeroom

  • Subscriptions$0
  • Fundraiser fee (3%)covered at checkout
  • Dues, store & events (3%)covered at checkout
  • Bookkeepingincluded

Lands in your bank

$22,000

Three tools

The typical stack

  • Comms + dues platform · PTBoard Premier−$130
  • Bookkeeping · MoneyMinder−$299
  • A-thon vendor · no subscription — takes a % instead
  • A-thon fee · 15%−$1,800
  • Dues, store & events · 0.7% + card−$427

Lands in your bank

$19,345

$2,655 gone to tools and fees

Same $22,000 raised. With Homeroom your PTO keeps

$2,655 more a year

Roughly $221 a month — teacher grants, field trips, the things you're actually raising it for.

How we calculated this — and where the numbers come from

The stack: PTBoard Premier ($129.99/yr, 0.7% + 20¢ on payments) for dues, store and events; a dedicated a-thon vendor at 15% for the big fundraiser (Boosterthon's MyBooster rate — Get Movin' applies a 15% donor credit, pre-checked); MoneyMinder ($299/yr) for the books. Card processing of 2.2% + 30¢ — the nonprofit Stripe rate PTBoard itself cites — applies to the non-a-thon portion. Average gift $36.67.

Homeroom: no subscription, 3% platform fee plus card processing, both shown at checkout and covered by the payer by default — so the PTO banks the sticker price. A PTO that chooses to absorb our fees instead would net about $20,522.

Swap in a different stack and the total moves, but the shape doesn't: Givebacks Pro is $499/yr and takes 7.5% on percent-model fundraisers; Membership Toolkit is $550–1,150/yr. Rates verified 22 Aug 2026 from PTBoard, Givebacks, Membership Toolkit, MoneyMinder, and Boosterthon. Pricing changes — check each vendor for current rates.

Nothing to cancel if it isn't for you.

Set your PTO up in about two minutes. There's no card to enter, so there's nothing to forget to cancel.

Not ready to switch tonight?

Most boards decide together. Leave your email and we'll send a short, forwardable intro — what Homeroom does, what it costs (nothing), and how a switch actually goes. One email, no drip campaign.

No spam, no drip. One useful email.