SchoolBench Pro is a cross-platform mobile application built with React Native and Expo, designed as the mobile companion to the SchoolBench Pro school management platform. It serves K-12 and higher education institutions with a multi-tenant, multi-school architecture — allowing users to switch between organizations and schools seamlessly within a single app.

Role-Based Experience

The app delivers tailored experiences for five user roles: Students, Instructors, Parents, Staff, and Administrators. After authenticating, users select their organization and school, then land in a role-specific portal with its own navigation, dashboard, and feature set. Role detection is handled via JWT token classifiers, ensuring each user sees only what they're authorized to access.

Core Features

Academics & Learning: Students can view and submit assignments, take exams and quizzes, track grades and progress, register for courses (add/drop), access timetables, and manage attendance — including QR code scanning. A built-in study planner, flashcard system, and study groups support self-directed learning.

Communication: A full messaging center, announcements, forums, and virtual classrooms keep students, parents, and instructors connected. The communication center includes templates and analytics for administrators.

Finance & Administration: The app supports fee collection, payroll, invoicing, journal entries, and a full chart of accounts. Inventory management includes QR scanning and maintenance logs. Admins get analytics and performance dashboards.

Content & Resources: A library module supports both physical books and e-books. Students and instructors can access documents, notes, lesson plans, and curriculum resources. The LMS module provides course content and module editors.

HR & Operations: Clocking and time-attendance with QR support, employment management, admission portals for prospective students, and role-based access management round out the administrative toolkit.

Offline-First Architecture

The app is designed to work without a constant internet connection. An offline service backed by SQLite caches critical data locally, while a background sync service queues actions (attendance, grades, timetable changes, fee payments, notifications) and syncs them every 15 minutes when connectivity is restored.

Real-Time & Notifications

WebSocket integration enables real-time data updates across the app. Push notifications via Expo are categorized by type — academic, fee, library, attendance — with configurable priority levels, ensuring users stay informed without being overwhelmed.

Security

Authentication uses JWT tokens with automatic refresh. Sessions auto-expire after 15 minutes of inactivity, wiping both auth and tenant state. All API calls are permission-gated using a client-side permission calculator that mirrors the server's RBAC system, supporting school-scoped and resource-level granularity. Unauthorized API responses (401) trigger immediate logout and state cleanup.

Technical Stack

Built on React Native with Expo, the app uses React Query for server state caching, React Context for global state (auth, tenant, theme, permissions, toasts), and React Navigation for role-based routing with stack and drawer navigators. Services follow a singleton pattern for app-wide consistency. The app supports iOS, Android, and Web, with dark and light theming.

In short, SchoolBench Pro Mobile brings the full power of an enterprise school management system to users' pockets — enabling students to learn, parents to stay informed, instructors to teach, and administrators to manage operations from anywhere.