Product concepts
Guardian portal
Definition
A guardian portal is the private, per-family login area in chess academy software where each parent sees only their own child's attendance, fees, receipts, and progress reports. Records are one-to-one and permanent, unlike a shared WhatsApp group, so a family can find last term's receipt or a coach's note months later without scrolling.
In practice
Guardian portal appears wherever chess academy software gives each family a private view of their own child's records: progress reports waiting on a coach's approval, fee receipts, attendance history, and rating charts. Academy owners run into the term when comparing a portal against a WhatsApp group for parent communication, or when deciding what content is private enough to move out of a shared group. A guardian portal works alongside an approval queue, since reports reach the portal only after a coach approves the AI draft, and it is where a parent update finally lands once it is ready to send. For the criterion-by-criterion case for running a portal alongside WhatsApp, and the migration path academies use to move records over without losing families, read the linked comparison below.
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