multi-link.jp

What It Is

Multi Link（マルチリンク） is a home-school communication network app designed for schools and educational institutions. Its core goal is to connect schools and parents through a smartphone app. It covers a wide range of school communication scenarios, including classes, grades, club activities, and PTA activities. Its positioning is closer to a “home-school notification and administration platform” than to a general email or SMS marketing tool.

Core Features

In terms of communication channels, the main focus is on app push notifications: schools can send notices and materials to parents, with support for bulk sending to arbitrary groups, scheduled sending, attachments, templates, read confirmations, and resending to users who have not opened or responded. Its supporting features are fairly comprehensive, including surveys, schedule coordination, absence/attendance and health information reporting, event calendar reminders, and local safety information linked with prefectural police headquarters. The optional school arrival and departure time management feature also supports students tapping a FeliCa IC student ID card on a reader, with notifications pushed to parents when students arrive at or leave school.

Pricing

Its pricing model is somewhat distinctive: the page describes it as a “perpetual license product,” meaning the system can continue to be used after a one-time purchase. At the same time, the basic usage fee is charged annually per user unit, and additional users can also be added per user unit. Specific unit prices, initial costs, maintenance fees, and optional hardware/card reader costs are not disclosed in the main text and require inquiry.

Pros and Cons

Its strengths are that it closely matches real-world workflows in Japanese schools, integrating notifications, surveys, scheduling, attendance, health reporting, activity calendars, and safety information within a single app. Read confirmations and resending to unread/non-responding users also help improve parent reach and close the loop on administrative tasks. The downside is that limited technical information is publicly available: it does not specify alternative channels such as email, SMS, or LINE, nor does it disclose push delivery rates, availability, latency, concurrency capacity, or open APIs and deep integration with school administration systems. In terms of compliance, the product handles student health, attendance, and parent information, but the page does not explain data storage, access controls, or personal information protection measures.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Multi Link is better suited to local Japanese schools, educational institutions, PTAs, or organizations that need unified management of home-school notifications. If the requirement is cross-border email, SMS verification codes, or marketing outreach, it is not a good fit. Access from mainland China cannot be determined from the main text and is marked as unknown.