Nexa Ed is a school management platform built for educational institutions across Africa. It handles the operational layer that schools spend the most time on — results processing, fee collection, student email accounts, enrollment, and administration — in a single system designed around how these schools actually work, not how a SaaS company in San Francisco imagines they do.
It's currently in beta. Here's what it does.
AI results processing
This is the core feature and the one that addresses the most painful part of running a school in Nigeria.
Today, results come off an exam in paper form. Someone enters them into a spreadsheet. Someone else cross-checks the spreadsheet. The spreadsheet goes to an administrator who generates a PDF. The PDF goes to a web portal behind a scratch card paywall. Students pay for the card, scratch off a PIN, and see their grades — grades the school has had for weeks.
Nexa Ed removes every manual step in that chain. Upload the existing result PDF — whatever format your school already uses — and the system uses OCR and language model processing to extract, structure, and stage every score automatically. The administrator reviews, publishes, and every student sees their results in their portal immediately. No data entry. No scratch cards. No separate payment to access information the student already paid fees to receive.
Processing streams in real time via server-sent events, so you can watch the pipeline progress rather than waiting on a background job.
Paystack payments
Fee collection runs through Paystack natively — not as an afterthought integration but as the primary payments layer. Invoice generation, payment history, automatic surcharge calculation, and webhook forwarding are all built in.
Split payments distribute collected fees across school departments automatically. Reconciliation reports match Paystack settlement records. For schools that currently chase unpaid fees across handwritten ledgers, this alone is a meaningful operational improvement.
Student email provisioning
Students at most Nigerian schools don't have institutional email addresses. That means no GitHub Student Developer Pack, no educational software discounts, no access to the infrastructure that students elsewhere take for granted.
Nexa Ed provisions school domain email accounts in bulk — up to 500 per operation. You can use a custom school domain, integrate with Google Workspace, or use a Nexa-hosted subdomain. An administrator who previously had no student email infrastructure can have it active in an afternoon.
Unified administration
Beyond the three headline features, Nexa Ed provides the operational layer that holds a school together day-to-day: online enrollment with document upload and fee payment in a single workflow, teacher dashboards for assignments and attendance, and role-based access that separates what students, teachers, and administrators can see and do.
Each school runs on its own dedicated Convex backend, meaning data isolation is architectural rather than a matter of policy. One school's data is never in the same database as another's.
For developers
Nexa Ed ships as a set of typed SDKs that integrate into existing school applications or new ones. The packages cover the full stack:
@nexa-ed/nodefor Express, Fastify, and Hono@nexa-ed/reactfor React 19+ with pre-built components@nexa-ed/convexfor Convex backends with schema fragments included@nexa-ed/sdkas a zero-dependency core for Vue, Nuxt, and SvelteKit- A REST API for any language or framework
npx create-nexaed-app scaffolds a new project with routing, authentication, a results viewer, payment integration, and email provisioning configured out of the box. A visual Stack Builder is available for teams that prefer a non-CLI setup.
The integration target is five minutes to a working results pipeline. Most of the complexity — OCR processing, Paystack webhook handling, real-time streaming, multi-tenancy — is handled by the platform.
Availability
Nexa Ed is live in beta across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa, with global deployment supported. Free account creation is available with no setup fee.
If you're building school software for the African market, or running a school that wants to move off manual systems, nexa-ed.com is where to start.