Introduction Overview

Synergetic is a comprehensive management system for schools. It incorporates and integrates all the administrative functions that you use to run a school or similar organisation.

You can manage all the day-to-day activities as well as managing future students, appeals and fundraising activities, and all aspects of student, staff and community. For more information, see Overview of major functions.

Synergetic revolves around a database of information, called the Community. The database contains the details of all the people and entities such as companies involved with your organisation in any capacity, students, staff, parents, debtors, creditors and so on. For more information, see Introduction to the community.

To help you get the most from using Synergetic, you should be familiar with the following concepts:

• Conventions used in this documentation
• Using the custom help
• Finding additional information from Synergetic Management Systems
• Navigating around Synergetic
• Searching
• Launching another program
• Running a standalone program
• Common buttons
• Sorting and filtering grids
• Spell check and spelling options
• Overview of security
• Updating and deleting records
• File types
• Multitasking
• Tag lists
• Managing tasks
• Setting field values in bulk
• Action Centre.

Synergetic also interfaces to other applications, such as email, SMS (Short Message Service), Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Word and Crystal Reports. See:

• Exporting information to other applications
• Monitoring Synergetic data using Power BI Dashboards
• Communicating with community members
• Running reports.

You can store documents from other applications, such as photos, Microsoft Word documents, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, PDF (Portable Document Format) documents. See:

• Using documentation management.