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Your institution sets the rules.
Room categories, eligibility, fee structures and approval routes are configured around your policies.
Different hostels can have different responsibilities within the same operation.
Hostel operationsWhy universities choose Fretbox
Your hostel operations.Run your way.
Your university carries the responsibility for every resident, every decision and every shift. Fretbox connects the people running your hostels around your institution’s rules.
Control for leadership. Clarity for teams. A better campus day for students.
A personalised 30-minute walkthrough with your team.
- campuses
- 55+
- residents
- 100K+
- states/UTs
- 16
- annual campus renewal
- 99%
The institutional fit
Built around how universities actually work.
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Every team has a part to play.
Chief wardens, wardens, caretakers, security, mess, cafeteria, maintenance and finance connect with students and parents.
Registrars, administration and student welfare leadership can review the work across teams.
The connected platform03
Your ERP stays part of the picture.
Connect hostel operations with your university ERP, payment gateways and access infrastructure.
Integration scope is agreed with your IT team around the systems and access you already have.
Systems & integrations04
Decisions leave a record.
Requests, approvals and staff action give your institution records to return to for oversight and handover.
Relevant operational evidence can support quality, accreditation and ranking preparation.
Reporting & governanceWhere the difference becomes visible
A student’s moment. An institutional responsibility.
See how a request or update reaches the people who need to act.
At 9:30 pm, know who actually needs follow-up.
An approved absence and an unexplained absence need different responses.
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Student
Requests leave or late entry through the app.
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Parent & warden
Review the request through the configured approval route.
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Warden & security
See approved leave and late entry separately from students who have not reported.
Your team can focus its follow-up on unexplained absence.
Explore this workflowIllustrative workflows. Approval routes and schedules are agreed with your institution.
Built with universities
Campus experience. Built into the product.
Conversations with wardens, administrators and university leadership have shaped Fretbox’s allotment, approval and governance workflows.
Ashish Gupta · FounderDeveloped Fretbox around the complexity of India’s residential campus operations.
Satya Vir Singh · Former University Registrar & Fretbox PartnerBrings institutional governance experience to approval responsibilities and reporting.
Customer context · KIIT University
Residential operations at university scale.
- residents
- 26,000
- hostels
- 67
Room allotment cycle3 weeks 2 days
Fretbox connects with KIIT’s SAP ERP and existing biometric infrastructure.
View KIIT’s customer profileCustomer-specific outcome. Your rollout and results depend on scope and readiness.
A supported transition
Go-live is a milestone. Adoption is the outcome.
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Agree the scope
Confirm workflows, approval owners and integration requirements.
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Prepare & configure
Review resident data, room inventory, fees and university rules.
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Practise with teams
Train the people who will run each workflow; review readiness together.
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Launch & support
Begin the agreed rollout and review adoption through the academic cycle.
Fretbox works with you on
Data templates and review, workflow configuration, role-specific training, and a named account manager through go-live.
Your university brings
An internal project owner, resident and room records, fee structures, policy decisions, and staff time for training and sign-off.
24×7 support · Named account manager · Operational reviewsSupport continues through semester starts, fee cycles and team handovers.
Timing is agreed around data readiness, integration scope and staff availability.
Explore implementationConfidence for your buying committee
Institutional oversight. An informed IT review.
Review role-based access, operational records and data responsibilities with the people accountable for your university’s systems.
Explore the trust centreGive IT the detail it needs.
ISO 27001:2022 · ISO 9001:2015 · VAPT tested
- Access permissions and approval ownership
- Data handling, retention and export requirements
- Integration scope and security documentation
Before you decide
The practical questions.
Bring hostel operations, administration, finance and IT into the same conversation.
Share the university briefDoes Fretbox replace our university ERP?
Your ERP can remain the institutional system of record. Fretbox connects the hostel workflows around it. Integration depends on the systems, interfaces and access available; the scope is confirmed with your IT team.
Can we begin with our immediate priority?
Use the scoping discussion to agree the first workflows, hostels and teams, then plan the wider rollout. Module scope, dependencies and commercial terms are confirmed in the proposal.
How long should we plan for implementation?
Standard deployment is typically about one week after data preparation. ERP, biometric or multi-campus requirements may follow an indicative eight-week track. Timing is confirmed after reviewing data readiness, integration scope and staff availability.
What should we bring to an evaluation?
Bring your hostel and resident counts, the workflows causing the most follow-up, your current systems and the people responsible for them. The university brief helps administration, hostel operations, finance and IT prepare together.
Make the evaluation specific to your campus
Bring your most demanding hostel workflow.
We’ll walk through the people, rules and systems involved—and discuss how Fretbox could fit.