Inbox Design

25/01/2026

As a Mount Maunganui based family and business, our hearts go out to those who have lost their family and friends in the Mount Maunganui tragedy. Thinking of all of those involved, and thank you to our emergency services at this awful time.

09/11/2025

As we approach that time of year again, we would like to thank all our valued customers and schools for their ongoing support.

We’ve made a vast array of changes this year to our platform to make it more stable, user friendly and visually better. Thanks to our awesome team here at Inbox Design- we couldn’t have done it without every single one of you! Shout out to our team, we value you guys so much and you’re an awesome bunch to work with!!

Just a reminder of our holiday close down dates for the end of 2025/2026:

Close for customers Friday 12th December 2025 (no trainings or demos can be held, but support as usual)

Annual closure for Inbox Design and all staff: 19th December 2025 and Return Monday 12th January 2026 (No support available - only urgent issues).

Reopen for customers on 19th January 2026 (trainings can resume).

We hope everyone has a safe and happy Christmas!

30/10/2025

Important Visual Changes for SchoolPoint 2025/2026

We have merged the main SchoolPoint settings with the SchoolBridge settings so you can now manage all your settings in one area. We are also working hard on making both of our products consistent, and the flow easier for all modules within both of our platforms. This process is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2025.

Whilst you will notice many SchoolPoint features do look different, they essentially function the same. The main reason for this transition to the “SchoolBridge” platform is that it uses more stable and more modern technology than our previous SchoolPoint platform. The platforms will remain 2 separate subscriptions, it is purely the technology and coding base underlying SchoolPoint which is changing.

This platform also allows for more improvements to be made to our products, such as being able to add new features which the previous platform was not capable of delivering, and supports better integration between your SchoolPoint and SchoolBridge data, as well as custom SchoolSite websites.

As we migrate each module to the new interface, you may also notice some redirect screens. These are temporary, and as each module is rebuilt and enhanced and they will start to go to their own areas. The overall navigation of SchoolPoint and SchoolBridge will become much easier and smoother.

Our goal is to have the whole SchoolPoint platform migrated to the new one by the end of 2025, ready for users coming in to use it for 2026. We will be updating our current help guides continuously as these changes are released, so keep an eye on these. The help guides are accessible from the logged in staff accounts, under the orange “Get Help/ Training” button down the bottom right of your screen.

We apologise for any inconvenience these changes may have caused our schools over the last 2 terms, and for the remainder of this year. It is difficult making changes to any live platform as schools do utilise various modules within SchoolPoint and SchoolBridge throughout the year. We appreciate your understanding while we work hard on this.

30/07/2025

Sheldon and Chris are at NASDAP in Wellington the next 2 days so go and say hi and ask for a demo of our products if your school hasn't subscribed to our platform yet!!
Head to https://www.inboxdesign.co.nz to see what we can do for YOUR school today.

14/04/2025

IMPORTANT CHANGES coming next week in time for Term 2!

We are making changes to the Student/Caregiver view of SchoolPoint to more closely match the SchoolBridge user experience, both visually and functionally.
These changes will happen over the April holiday break.

Areas Already Updated:
Assessment Calendar, Goal Setting, Career Planning Forms, External Interviews.

TIMELINE:
Affected Areas - Term 1
Course Selection, Career Plan Questions, Student Notes, Student Interviews, Pepehā, Student Voice (Surveys).

The Student Menu/ Navigation settings from the SchoolPoint settings area will be REMOVED, and all schools will be able to use the SchoolBridge student dashboard to serve students the links and options they need. PLEASE UPDATE THESE BY 24 APRIL!!
If you have any custom links in your current Student Menu /Navigation settings, be sure to add these to the student and/or caregiver dashboards also.

Areas Planned for Term 2:
Parent–Teacher Conferences, Voting (BoT Approved Voting Changes) Careers: Interests, Strengths & Skills.

MORE INFORMATION:
There will be minimal disruption to SchoolBridge or SchoolPoint.
Click here for more information:
https://support.bridge.school.nz/guides/student-menu-settings-in-schoolpoint-previously-student-navigation-vgp2em

28/10/2024

It's almost Christmas!!! and I've just realised it's been such a busy year I haven't posted much at all on here since this time last year! Note to self as a New Years' Resolution to post more happenings on Social Media for Inbox Design and our product updates!!

This Christmas period we will be closed to clients from 9th December 2024 and reopening 20th January 2025. We will be checking our email regularly for anything urgent over this time period however.

Our official shutdown period for ourselves and our staff's much deserved Christmas holiday will be from 20th December 2024 and returning to the office on 13th January 2025.

Thanks for your understanding with these dates and we hope you all have a lovely Christmas and New Year celebrations with your families.

01/09/2024

Last week we launched the revamp of Tahatai Coast Primary school. Great job Peter!

Welcome to the Tahatai Coast School website.

17/07/2024

SchoolPoint Course Selection;
Is your school ready for Course Selection 2025?

Important key points to remember at a glance (administrators):

*Ensure ALL login dashboards are set up with the right Course Selection icons for the appropriate audience
Sign In > Settings > Manage Dashboards

You can always make the SchoolPoint Course access icon “Inactive” until you’re ready to go live

*Set up Permission Groups if you haven’t already and ensure all relevant staff have the correct access to what they need.
Settings > Manage Staff Permissions > Search the staff or check who is in which group by clicking the “eyeballs” under each group. You can add and remove staff here also.

IMPORTANT: If a staff member has issues with access- check they are not in multiple permission groups as some permissions will override others and affect their edit access.

*Ensure Course Selection is DISABLED until you’re all set to go live
SchoolPoint Settings > Enable/ Disable Course Selection (by year level)

*Ensure you have set up all your required/ compulsory courses/ rules correct and added prerequisites to the courses that need them BEFORE students log in. The addition of the required courses after go-live is not retrospective.

*Clear out all previous selections from the past year and test selections this year, to start afresh. These will already all be in your student management system from the previous selection import.
Settings > Administration > Student Data and Selections

Don’t forget -you can login as a student / caregiver to see what they see once you have set up your course selection, or to test with a test student - either set up a fake student in your SMS or use a staff member’s student if allowed.

Please check through our large array of help guides in the first instance for more information, otherwise, our small team is here to help you via email or live chat.

Course Selection go-live help guides here:

Help Guide for Previous Course Selection Users:
https://support.inboxdesign.co.nz/en-nz/article/important-information-to-prepare-for-course-subject-selection-go-live-previous-users-f5avub/?bust=1721177652843

Help Guide for NEW Course Selection Users:
https://support.inboxdesign.co.nz/en-nz/article/setting-up-schoolpoint-course-subject-selection-and-preparation-for-go-live-new-user-guide-1m7lob1/?bust=1721180306475

We have created this guide mostly for new/ first time Full Administrators of SchoolPoint. If you still have any questions, please reach out in our live chat.

11/04/2024

Today, we have launched the new website for Papanui High School,
Working with the new Principal Robert Gilbert, we have helped them redevelop the schools branding and replaced the website we first built for them over 11 years ago...

They have a full content-managed website, linking to SchoolBridge by Inbox Design, SchoolPoint for Course Selection and they use our Adult Education booking and course management system.

Browse the new clean website at https://www.papanui.school.nz/ then contact us for a demo of our services:
🚀 School Websites
🚀 SchoolBridge
🚀 SchoolPoint
🚀 Our School App

https://www.inboxdesign.co.nz/

Phone 07 281 1600

25/03/2024

Course Selection time of year is coming up again! sign up to our FREE Webinar via our website, on getting started in SchoolPoint for 2024 now!
https://www.inboxdesign.co.nz/etickets/course-selection-getting-started-year-free-webinar

08/11/2023

Christmas office hours update!

*Friday December 8th- Closed for project work.
*Team on break from Wednesday 13th December until January 16th- office/ Support CLOSED.
*Wednesday December 20th- Server Migration (see pinned post about this)
* Monday January 16th Office and Support reopens at new location!

We are just moving down the road to Farm Street Mount Maunganui.
All Phone number and email address remain the same.

During this holiday break, we will be monitoring the support email for any URGENT requests.

We hope all our customers have a relaxing and enjoyable break and we look forward to chatting in 2024.