TrueInvoice
An internal workflow system for admissions, invoicing, payments, and student record operations.
| FILE | 04 / 05 |
|---|---|
| CATEGORY | LAB PRODUCT |
| STATUS | LIVE |
| STACK | 07 COMPONENTS |
| LIVE AT | trueinvoice.bsolpk.org |
The problem
Institutions managing hundreds of students manually via spreadsheets lose thousands in billing errors
Built in-house, shipped, and running.
TrueInvoice is Startup Lab 24's live subscription product for schools. It replaces spreadsheets, messaging threads, and manual finance processes with a single operational workflow system.
It covers the full path from admission through invoicing, payment verification, scholarship handling, and student record administration.
The product is live at Blackstone School of Law & Business in Lahore — the design-partner school where it was built — and is being made agnostic for the wider education vertical.
Feature register
06 entries
- 01
Full Departmental Workflow
5-department pipeline: Admission → Accounts → Registrar → Student Services → Management
- 02
Scholarship & Invoice Engine
Tiered scholarship application with automated invoice generation and fee calculation
- 03
Magic Link Auth
Passwordless authentication via email — no passwords, no OAuth, zero friction for staff
- 04
Document Management
12 document types, 10MB upload limit, auto-cleanup, role-gated access
- 05
Executive Dashboards
Role-based dashboards with period filters, revenue analytics, and officer performance metrics
- 06
8 Business Axioms
Core institutional rules enforced at API level — audit trail on every state change
Build stack
- Next.js 15
- Prisma 6
- SQLite
- NextAuth v5
- Tailwind CSS
- TypeScript
- Nodemailer
Startup Lab 24 builds and owns software like TrueInvoice.
Each product starts as an experiment with one design-partner business. We validate it, then make it agnostic so the whole vertical can use it.
How the lab works