PonPon EnglishOperating manual

Getting started

Owner Quick Start

How the owner reads the numbers, decides, and knows which screen to trust.

Watch the system

Owner video guides

Start with the Simple guide for a quick overview, then use the Detailed guide for the complete step-by-step process. Both are available below.

Simple guide

A quick, easy overview.

Detailed guide

The full process, step by step.

Current screens

These images use the current English interface. Student and trial-customer details are replaced with demo labels.

Accounting Dashboard: confirmed profit, CNY valuation and currency position.
Accounting Dashboard: confirmed profit, CNY valuation and currency position.
Payroll: All, Teachers and Staff filters, including LookTarn.
Payroll: All, Teachers and Staff filters, including LookTarn.
Reports: current-period revenue KPIs.
Reports: current-period revenue KPIs.

Your job in this system

Read the numbers and decide. Once a week is enough.

You do not need to enter data every day. Your staff does that. Your job is to look at a small number of screens, understand what they mean, and make the decisions only you can make.

The app opens in Chinese. To change the language, use the flag buttons at the top-left of the sidebar. English, Chinese and Thai are available.

The dashboard tiles

At the top of the dashboard there are four tiles. Each tile is a number. Each tile is clickable, and clicking it opens the list behind that number. Always click, do not guess.

TileWhat it meansWhat to do
Today lessonsLessons scheduled for today.Click to see who teaches what.
Awaiting confirmationBookings staff created that the teacher has not confirmed yet.If this number stays high, chase the teachers.
This month revenueMoney received this month.Read the warning below.
Alert countProblems the system found for you.Click and clear them.
Revenue is not profit

The tile called this month revenue is money received. It is not profit. Teacher pay, staff pay and rent still come out of it. Never judge the health of the school from this tile. Judge profit only from the profit and loss report in 会计 (accounting).

Which screen to trust

The most important section on this page.

Two screens can show different numbers for the same thing. That is normal, because each screen answers a different question. Do not argue with the screens. Use this table to decide which one is the answer.

QuestionTrust this
What did this student buy, and how many hours are left?The package card on the student profile.
How much do we owe this teacher?工资 (payroll) and the teacher ledger.
Did the school make money?Accounting Dashboard: read confirmed operating profit first, then the CNY valuation layer.
Do these three agree with each other?数据一致性 (data consistency). It compares them automatically.
One rule to remember

Hours come from the student profile. Teacher money comes from payroll. Profit comes from accounting. If they disagree, open the data consistency page instead of doing the maths yourself.

Two pages need an administrator

设置 (settings) and 数据一致性 (data consistency) need a WordPress administrator account. A normal owner or manager login does not open them. Ask for that account once, at setup, and keep it safe.

Your ten minute weekly routine

  1. Open 报表 (reports). Look at the trend, not one single day.
  2. Open Accounting Dashboard and read confirmed operating profit before the CNY valuation estimate.
  3. Open 工资 (payroll), choose All, and check the totals still unpaid to teachers and staff.
  4. Open the alert list and look for students who have used more hours than they bought.
  5. Open 数据一致性 (data consistency) and fix anything it reports.

Ten minutes, once a week, is enough to catch almost every problem while it is still small.

Decisions only you make

  • Teacher rank and hourly rate.
  • Default off-site and transport allowance.
  • Who can see what. Junior staff see students and lessons only. Teachers never see school revenue or another teacher pay.
  • Probation length for new teachers.
  • The low-hours warning level, which decides when a student appears in the alerts.
No developer needed

Values that change with your business, such as rates, allowances and warning levels, are edited on screen in the settings pages. You never need to call a developer to change a number.