Manage maintenance requests, track progress, and streamline operations with a custom work order solution tailored to your school's needs


Build a work order system for your school that matches your exact workflow. Add only the features you need, and adapt it as requirements change.
Connect spreadsheets, maintenance systems, and ticketing tools with real-time sync—or manage everything in Softr Databases. Create one source of truth for your school operations.
Let staff, administrators, and maintenance teams manage work orders with the right access in a secure, branded portal. Set up roles and permissions in minutes.
Connect with your school’s tools to automate notifications, task assignments, and status updates for work orders.
Connect with your school’s tools to automate notifications, task assignments, and status updates for work orders.
Assign roles for teachers, administrators, and maintenance—each sees only the work orders and updates relevant to their role.
Control who can create, approve, or close work orders—set detailed permissions for each school role.
Keep school and facility data secure. Softr is compliant with SOC2 and GDPR standards for education settings.
Capture maintenance requests, approvals, or follow-ups with flexible form blocks tailored for school work orders.
Staff can ask AI about work orders or status updates—getting quick answers right inside your school’s work order platform.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.
Set up your school’s work order system in minutes with drag-and-drop blocks and ready-made templates.
Add features like maintenance tracking or approval flows as your school’s needs evolve—no rebuild needed.
Manage requests, track progress, and add forms—all in one place, without extra tools or logins.
Integrate with your spreadsheets and databases, including Airtable, SQL, Hubspot, Google Sheets, Supabase, BigQuery, and more—in just a few clicks. Your data is always secure and in sync.
Drag and drop customizable building blocks with various views and functionalities. Granular permissions allow you to control what data each user can access, and which actions they can take.
Ship applications that your team will love in minutes or hours, instead of days or weeks. Deploy on both desktop and mobile.












A work order system for schools is a secure online platform where staff and faculty can submit, track, and manage maintenance or facility requests. It centralizes all work orders—like repair needs, custodial tasks, or IT issues—so everything stays organized. This means less back-and-forth emails and fewer lost requests, making it easier for school administrators and maintenance teams to keep the campus running smoothly.
Softr makes it easy to create a work order system that fits your school's specific needs. You can integrate your existing data—like maintenance logs from Airtable, staff info from Notion, or schedules from other platforms—and set up a portal where faculty and staff can log in, submit work orders, check status updates, and communicate with the facilities team, all in one place.
You don’t need to write any code. You can start from a template or build your system from scratch, customize the design, set permissions, and apply your school's branding. It’s fast to launch, simple to update, and flexible enough to adapt as your school's needs change.
You can build a range of features tailored to your school's workflow. Some common options include:
\- User logins – so each teacher or staff member can submit and track their own requests
\- Custom dashboards – to show pending, in-progress, or completed work orders
\- Forms – for submitting new maintenance, cleaning, or IT requests
\- File uploads – to attach photos or documents to a request
\- Search and filters – to quickly find specific work orders
\- Tables, lists, and detail views – to organize requests by status, location, or priority
\- Comments or status updates – to keep communication between staff and maintenance in one place
\- Calendar view – for scheduling routine maintenance or updates
\- Permissions and roles – so different staff access the right information
All these features can be created using Softr’s drag-and-drop blocks, so you don’t need to code. Plus, you can easily update your system as your processes evolve.
No coding is required. You can build your school's work order system entirely using Softr’s visual editor. Everything from the layout to who can see what can be customized without any programming knowledge.
Yes. You can manage multiple schools or departments within a single work order system. Each user will only see the tickets and maintenance requests assigned to their school or department, based on their login and role. This is especially helpful for district administrators or facilities managers overseeing several schools or teams.
Softr supports a variety of data sources, making it easy to manage your school’s work orders wherever your data lives. You can connect to Airtable, Google Sheets, Notion, Coda, monday.com, HubSpot, Clickup, Xano, Supabase, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MariaDB, BigQuery, and more. You can also connect to other systems using the REST API.
You aren’t limited to just one. You can pull in data from multiple sources and display it together—so your school’s work order dashboard can show information from both Airtable and Google Sheets, for example. Most sources support real-time, two-way sync, so updates in your app or data source are always current.
Yes, Softr gives you full control over how users interact with your school’s work order system. You can adjust the layout, navigation, and content to match your school’s needs and workflows. Each page or section can be shown or hidden depending on who’s logged in, so staff and faculty only see what’s relevant to them.
You can also set up different user roles, such as admin, facility manager, or teacher, and define exactly what each role can view or update. For example, teachers can submit and view their own maintenance requests, while administrators can oversee all work orders across multiple schools. You can even create personalized views based on the logged-in user.
This level of customization is especially useful if you’re managing maintenance for multiple schools or departments, keeping the interface clear, secure, and tailored to each user’s needs.
Yes, you can. You don’t need to bring in existing data to get started with Softr for your school’s work order system. If you’re starting fresh, you can use Softr Databases, which is included with the platform and works seamlessly for organizing maintenance requests and school facilities data.
If your school already tracks work orders in tools like Airtable, Google Sheets, or other platforms, you can connect those as well. You can also use the REST API connector to bring in work order data from other systems. Either way, you have full control over how maintenance requests and status updates are structured and displayed for your school.
Yes, you can fully white-label your work order system for schools in Softr. You can upload your school or district logo, select your institution’s colors and fonts, and even set up a custom domain to make the system feel like a seamless extension of your school’s digital presence. You also have the option to remove all Softr branding, so staff, faculty, and students see only your school’s identity throughout the platform.
Yes, absolutely. Softr gives you the flexibility to control both the design and layout of your work order system for schools. You can adjust colors, fonts, spacing, and page organization to match your school’s branding. You also get to decide how each page is structured, arrange which blocks appear where, and set what different types of users see when they log in.
To display your data, you can choose from a variety of block types depending on your needs:
\- Table blocks – to show structured data like maintenance requests or completed jobs
\- List or Card blocks – to showcase items like staff profiles or available resources
\- Detail View – to display individual work orders or project details
\- Forms – for submitting new requests or reporting issues
\- Charts – to visualize trends or completion rates
\- Calendar blocks – to track scheduled maintenance or deadlines
And if your needs change, it’s easy to update the design right in the visual builder.
Softr is built with security as a top priority. All data in your school’s work order system is encrypted both in transit (TLS) and at rest, and all apps run on secure, reliable infrastructure. You have full control over who can access and manage different parts of your system through role-based permissions, user management within your data source, visibility rules, and global restrictions—helping you protect sensitive information across your entire school district.
When you connect to external data sources like Airtable, Notion, or SQL, Softr simply displays the data in real time based on your permissions; it doesn’t store your school’s data. You always have control over who can view or edit information.
Softr also follows industry best practices for authentication, access control, and monitoring to help keep your school’s data secure.
You can get started for free. Softr’s Free plan lets you publish one app with up to 10 users and 2 user groups, and includes support for all standard data sources like Softr Databases, Airtable, Google Sheets, and more.
If your school or district needs to support more users or access advanced features, there are paid plans available. You can compare options and find the right fit here: <https://softr.io/pricing>
Softr is designed to make it easy to build fully functional, user-facing systems—like work order platforms for schools—without writing code or needing developers. What makes it stand out is how quickly you can go from idea to a live system, and how easily it connects with your existing school data.
Unlike some no-code tools that are focused on mobile apps (like Glide) or are more developer-oriented (like Retool), Softr is made for non-technical teams who want control over layout, user experience, and permissions. You can build on top of real-time data from platforms like Airtable, Google Sheets, Softr Databases, or SQL, and create secure, branded systems that school staff or maintenance teams can log into.
You can visually customize everything—from content and design to who sees what. And because Softr includes user roles, forms, conditional logic, and API support out of the box, you don’t need to stitch together multiple tools to launch a polished solution.
Yes. Softr supports a wide range of integrations, so you can connect your work order system for schools with the rest of your tools and processes. You can automate notifications or actions using Zapier, Make, and N8N, or connect with tools like Google Drive, email, or your school’s calendar. Softr also supports REST API and webhooks for more advanced automation.
Whether you need to send updates to your facilities team, trigger alerts based on new requests, or display information from other school systems, you can set this up without writing code.