Arbor Education Omdömen 

unnecessarily complicated, had much better apps.
false information shown, logs myself and others out so we cant access the app in times of need.

Not sure it's worth one star. I have children at 2 different schools and this system is unavailable more times than it works. Reset password emails never send and you are stuck days without access. Total waste of money

Just so so so awful. The kids hate it, parents hate it. Are they paying schools to use this? Could they not pay me? I have absolutely NO idea how to create an app so I'm probably more qualified to do it than the designers. It is almost as if they TRIED to make it completely inaccessible and frustrating.

Absolutely abysmal experience. Sometimes refuses to log in despite both details being correct with it always flashing an error like 'choose school' when it gives you no options. The whole system is laggy and incredibly slow. Do not use.

Honestly a truly awful app. It added a payment for one of my children to the other child so I can't book the nursery wrap around in as it put the money on my other child who does not attend nursery.

Incredibly hard to use, they clearly have done absolutely no user accessibility testing which in 2025 should be a core part of any app.

It is so hard to use, takes you forever to find the correct place to pay for things, it doesn't have any kind of calendar feature just a huge list that is really hard to decipher.

Honestly I don't think I have ever hated an App this much. School aren't keen either on it probably because they get lumbered with having to sort stuff because parents are either struggling or unable to sort their own tech issues out, it is like reception now need to be a service desk analyst for a third party. Just awful!

I now need to explain to school what Arbor has done to them to book in wraparound care and somehow transfer the already paid money across to my other child!!!

Truly terrible app!!

Terrible app you are forced to use.
if you are here because you are fed up with this pathetic excuse for a portal. welcome to the club. there is no good reason to use it, other than being forced to

Absolutely terrible user experience, is not showing as mobile compatible, I was disappointed with parent pats lack of repeat feature but this is immensely worse!

thus app is awful it does not let me log on this is a new app in my school and tells me I cant change my password I recommend not using this app

If you live outside the UK and have a child in school in the UK, which many boarding schools do, Arbor Education will not work for you, the say that the US is unsafe for allowing access.

consistently awful app. can't believe schools routinely use it? dirt cheap maybe. bugs galore, latest one prevents me from updating meal choice.

From a school’s POV I am finding Arbor the worst MIS ever (and I’ve used a few) Spending hours and hours going round and round in circles. Just about ready to pack my lovely job in, all thanks to Arbor. Some of the people helping are lovely BUT they know very little.

Loads of the wrong information was on arbor for example my child’s middle name and loads more that I am unable to edit I think parents should of more editing control on the app.

Honestly the worst ever app I have used.
Not family friendly. Confusing. Can’t even find simple things.
UC is unable to work with it, so if you have support with childcare to work-you can’t get an invoice, you can’t get money!
They mix food, outings and wraparound care together and only show the daily price. No monthly invoice.
Who on earth managed to lie through their teeth to sell it to schools goodness knows. What a waste of money.

Booking Breakfast Club through Arbor was genuinely one of the worst app experiences I've ever had. The app is utterly confusing and impossible to use effectively, and the website is just as terrible. Such awful design and frustrating user interaction for something so straightforward is simply unacceptable. Even giving this app one star feels far too generous. Hugely disappointing.

Awful app. awful
Support.
Have asked the school to stop using them. Forces to use it this year and the kids have missed out on clubs, ee’ve missed out on parents evenings, payments are restrictive, amounts owing are wrong and or confusing and there is zero support from
Arbor for parents (hide behind gdpr and add workload ONTO the school office) Don’t touch unless you they have matured (a lot) or your school lnow how to/when to use them.

Horrible App

This app is beyond awful. Arbor is the worst. As a student, I should be able to do my work from another country, right? But no — Arbor blocks you with a firewall.

Say you have one week off during half-term and you go to France. You’d expect to be able to do your homework. But nope. You get hit with this:

"This request has been blocked by Arbor's firewalls due to matching security filters. If you feel this is in error, please contact Arbor at myteam"at"arbor-education.com."

Seriously? An 11- or 12-year-old is supposed to email Arbor and wait 4–5 days for a response? By then you’ve got 2 days left to do all your work. And that’s if they even respond.

So what are your options?

Don’t do your homework and get in trouble — even if you show proof that it wasn’t your fault.

Wait days for support.

Spend money on a VPN and risk viruses, phishing, and dodgy data tracking.

All because of a broken, inflexible, poorly designed platform. If the people behind Arbor actually cared, they’d fix this. But clearly, they don’t — otherwise, they’d reply to reviews and have better ratings.

Parents, imagine your workplace app (like Slack or Teams) refused to work just because you were on holiday abroad. Would you just accept that? Or would you demand change?
Disgraceful

This app is shocking. I wish my daughters school didn't insist on us using this app. Messages are difficult to access, payments due for morning club is horrendous! Just a poor app overall

Terrible website - I really wish my son's school hadn't decided to sign us all up to it. Looking around the site it appears that there have been no updates for four years!

Every time I log in it says none of my details have been recognised but then sends me a 'reset password' link to my email address. It's frustrating and a waste of time.

Customer support is non-existant. As a parent, there is no way to contact the website - you are advised to contact the school. I'm sure the school regrets paying for this service as they are tasked with handling complaints.

Literally if I could give it zero stars, I would. It's so terrible. It has no redeeming features. Every parent I have spoken to thinks its terrible, the school are constantly apologising for it, the kids hate it.

Some of the consistent problems:

- It still lists my kids as being at their primary schools, so every time I log in, I have to select their secondary school. They are in years 8 and 10.
- Homework assigned often doesn't show up
- It is SLOW. Really slow. I've been waiting 2 mins to log in so far
- It supports biometric login, but then makes me enter my password anyway. WTF?
- When the school sends a message, it's something like 8 clicks to get to it. So much so I've often forgotten what I'm looking for by the time I get there.
- I have two kids, but the message alert doesn't mention which kid the message is for. So I have to take pot luck and select each in turn to see whether it's about them. Surely there's a better way of managing messages!

This is just the stuff I can think of of offhand. It's TERRIBLE. I mean have you ever seen an app with a 1.4 out of 5 review? I can only assume that it's cheap, and it's been foisted on the school by the local education authority as a means to save money. If not, then someone has seriously done a bad job of due diligence.