What is Red Rover?
Red Rover is a human capital management platform built for K-12 school districts. Its purpose-built products share the same foundation for employee and position information, workflows, approvals, and reporting, so districts don't have to manage each HR process in a separate system.
Is Red Rover just absence management software?
No. Red Rover is a K-12 HCM platform with purpose-built products for absence management, time tracking, hiring, professional development, employee records, and more. Districts can start with the products they need and add others over time.
Does Red Rover replace our student information system (SIS)?
No. Your SIS manages students. Red Rover manages the people who work for your district. The two work together, and Red Rover pulls the staff and school data it needs, but neither one replaces the other.
Does Red Rover replace our ERP or payroll system?
No. Red Rover does not replace your ERP or payroll system, and it does not cut checks. It helps manage the K-12 HR work that happens around those systems, including absences, time, extra duty, stipends, and approvals, and works with the payroll and ERP systems your district already relies on.
What does “built for K-12” actually mean?
It means the calendar. K-12 doesn't run on a forty-hour week and a single work location. Districts have bell schedules, half-day absences, itinerant staff splitting time across three buildings, employees paid on one calendar and working on another, and a substitute pool that has to be filled before 6 a.m. Red Rover is designed around the way K-12 actually works.
What size districts use Red Rover?
Districts of every size. Red Rover supports small rural districts with a couple hundred employees and large districts with more than 18,000 employees, and thousands of districts nationwide in between. The same platform scales to fit, so a small district gets the same product as a large one, configured to its own rules.
Do you work with charter schools, education service agencies, or private schools?
Yes. Red Rover works with charter schools and charter networks, education service agencies such as ESAs, ESCs, BOCES, and intermediate school districts, and private and faith-based schools. Each one gets the same platform, configured to how that organization staffs and pays its people.
Do we have to buy every Red Rover product?
No. Districts can start with the products they need and add others over time.
What happens when we add a second product?
A new Red Rover product builds on what's already there. Employee and position information, locations, and other shared setup don't have to be rebuilt from scratch, so your district can expand the platform without starting over.
How do Red Rover products work together?
Red Rover products share the same K-12 HCM platform, so information and workflows can move from one product to the next without starting over. For example, a candidate hired in Hiring can move into Records without re-entering their information. An absence can carry into Time Tracking, keeping time tied to the absence that created it. And when an employee enrolls in professional development during the school day, Red Rover can create the absence and open it for substitute coverage when needed. Because every product is built on the same platform, adding another Red Rover product builds on what your district already has in place.
Is there one login for everything?
Yes. One account and one set of permissions, whether someone is requesting an absence, approving a timesheet, or reviewing an applicant.
How is Red Rover priced?
Red Rover is priced as an annual subscription based on the number of employees using each product your district chooses. You pay for the products and people you actually use, and each product is itemized on your invoice so you know exactly what you're paying for.
