Colleges & RTOs · From enquiry to enrolled
Most enquiries never become enrolments for want of one document.
A prospective student asks about a course, gets a brochure, and stalls at the paperwork. Admissions chases USIs, ID and prior qualifications by hand, and the intake closes with seats unfilled.
Pipeline
Enquiry
2Domestic · S. Bennett
Website formCert III Individual Support
Feb intake9mAuto · Course info + next intake sent
0491 570 184
Missed callMissed call · fees question
TBC35mAuto · Text back sent
Application
2Agent · Horizon Education
Website form2 applicants, Diploma of Business
CRICOS1dAuto · Agent portal link sent
Domestic · R. Nguyen
SMSCert IV Ageing Support
Feb intake2dAuto · USI + ID requested
Documents outstanding
1Domestic · K. Farrell
WhatsAppCert III Early Childhood
Feb intake5dAuto · 3rd chase · prior quals missing
Enrolled
1Domestic · A. Mehta
Website formDiploma of Community Services
Feb intake8dYou · Enrolment confirmed
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Where an intake quietly empties
“We get back to everyone. Usually the next morning.”
Next morning is too late
You are paying to generate leads and then handing them to whoever answers faster. The ad spend is not wasted at the click, it is wasted in the gap after it.
How we fix it“It's in my phone. Or Facebook. Or the notebook in the ute.”
Your leads live in five places and none of them talk
Enquiries do not get lost dramatically, they get lost quietly. Nobody notices the ones that never got a second call.
How we fix it“We'd hire someone for it, but the numbers don't work.”
Hiring an admin is expensive here
So the admin does not get hired, and the work lands on the owner at 9pm instead. That is the most expensive hour in the business being spent on the cheapest task in it.
How we fix itWhere the line sits
What runs itself, and what never will.
Half of buying this well is knowing what it must never do. Both columns below are the service. Anyone who only shows you the left one is selling you a risk you will carry, not them.
Runs itself
Without anyone remembering to make it.
- The course enquiry
- Answered the hour it arrives with the right course, the next intake date and the real fee, rather than a brochure and a promise to call.
- The document wall
- USI, identification and prior qualifications requested, chased on a schedule and marked off as they land. This is where most intakes actually leak.
- Domestic and international
- Split at first contact, because a CRICOS applicant and a domestic one need entirely different paths and different evidence.
- The agent channel
- Applications from education agents tracked against the agent who sent them, so you can see which agents deliver students who actually enrol and complete.
- The compliance trail
- What was sent, when, and what the student was told, captured as it happens rather than reconstructed the week before an audit.
Always reaches a person
By design, not by exception.
- Migration and visa advice
- This matters more than any other boundary on this page. Only a registered migration agent or an Australian legal practitioner may give immigration assistance. The block is built in deliberately.
- Eligibility, credit transfer and entry decisions
- It collects the evidence and chases what is missing. Whether someone gets in is an assessor's decision.
- Claims about outcomes
- It says what your approved course information says. Marketing claims about training outcomes are regulated and it will not improvise one.
- Anything a student disputes
- Appeals and complaints go to your staff with the full record of what was sent and when.
How it lands in your college
20 minutes
Step 1: Map the funnel
One call. Where enquiries arrive, what admissions sends now, exactly where applications stall, and what your compliance obligations require you to record.
Weeks 2 to 5
Step 2: Build to your courses and intakes
Your course list, entry requirements, intake dates, fee structures and document sets. Written down first, so nothing is invented at runtime.
From go-live
Step 3: Admissions keeps the decisions
Answering, sorting and chasing run themselves. Eligibility decisions, credit transfer and anything a student disputes stay with your staff.
Before you commit
Count last intake's applications that never completed.
Then work out what one enrolment is worth across the course. A short call with Ali Ishtiaq will show you where the intake leaks and what is genuinely fixable.
+61 469 759 353Ali Ishtiaq answers it himself. Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm AEST.