What the price covers

Everything on our home page is covered by one agreement, at a price agreed before you sign:

  1. Live in 2 to 4 weeks, published under your name on iPhone and Android.
  2. Integrations on request: Microsoft sign-in, timetable feeds, and links to Moodle, Canvas and Blackboard are planned, and we add others as you need them.
  3. Notices to any group, and how many read them.
  4. The assistant, which answers from your own pages, shows its sources and waits for the student to confirm before acting.
  5. Links to your students’ union and halls apps.
  6. Support in writing: 99.5% uptime, a 1-hour response to outages in term time, and a named contact.
  7. A non-exclusive contract, so you are free to use other suppliers alongside us.
  8. Your data back at the end, and a written exit plan.

During the pilot we set up and run the app, and your staff have the admin dashboard from day one, with weekly figures on sign-ups, read rates and use.

How other campus apps are priced

The other campus app vendors we looked at on 11 November 2026 (campusM, myday, ReadyCampus and Modo Labs) do not publish prices either. Public contract notices give two examples. Neither is a list price, and Cumbria’s notice says little about what its contract covers:

  • Cardiff Metropolitan University renewed campusM with Ex-Libris (UK) Ltd for 1 October 2025 to 30 September 2026 at £31,000 excluding VAT, below threshold without competition.
  • The University of Cumbria awarded Collabco Ltd, then myday’s maker, a “Student Hub Software System” contract for 9 April 2025 to 31 March 2028 at £89,827 including VAT, below threshold without competition. The notice gives Collabco’s web address as myday.collabco.com.

How Varsio compares with other campus apps sets out what each vendor says about itself.

What procurement will ask

If your university buys under the Procurement Act 2023, three points matter:

  • The threshold. From 1 January 2026 the threshold for a goods or services contract with a sub-central government authority is £207,720, including VAT, as announced in PPN 023.
  • The value counts every year. A contract’s estimated value is the most you could expect to pay under it, including any option to extend or renew.
  • Whether the Act applies to you. The Act does not list which bodies are contracting authorities. Cabinet Office guidance says each body must consider its own structure, oversight, funding and commercial circumstances against the test in section 2 of the Act. Devolved Scottish authorities are generally excluded and follow Scottish law, such as the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014, though the Act can apply to joint procurements and some frameworks.

Ask for pilot pricing when you book a demo. We reply within one working day.