About

Built in New Zealand, with the people who run international programmes.

Harbor started because international offices were carrying a statutory duty of care on a spreadsheet, an inbox and one person's memory, with tooling that was never built bespoke for international. Harbor is one system for the whole programme, and the evidence for the Code is left behind by the work. 30+ schools have joined since the first six months.

What the office carries todayA spreadsheet of host familiesAn inbox of agent emailsTooling not built bespoke for internationalOne person's memory

In HarborOne record per studentEntered once, by the person who knows it: the agent, the family, the host, your team.

What comes out of itEvidence for the Code, already on fileA pay run that is already trueAgents and families doing their own partOne screen for where the programme stands

How Harbor is built.

Plain English first

One to three sentences a tired person can act on.

The consequence before the action

"A concern opens a case." "Pay starts from the arrival date." You always know what a button will do.

Accessibility is the floor

WCAG 2.2 AA everywhere. Nothing important is hover only. Every colour on text passes.

The audit log is never rewritten

Every change is logged with who made it and when, and the log cannot be edited or deleted. An auditor sees what you saw.

Families never make an account

Parents and students work from secure links, often on a phone. Host families get a login, and the school can manage it for them.

The school owns the workspace

Your logo, your name, your policies. Harbor stays in the background, and Harry answers in your voice.

Andy Harris

Founder

Ten years building software for international education, with a team behind Harbor in engineering, onboarding and support. Questions: [email protected] or LinkedIn.

The sector

Built with the people who run international.

International education in New Zealand and Australia runs on small offices: a director, a coordinator, a homestay manager, and in many schools one person doing most of it. They answer for the wellbeing of teenagers a long way from home, and once a year for the Code, with software that was built for something else.

Harbor is built with the schools that use it. Directors, coordinators and homestay managers ask for things, and most of what they ask for is in Harbor within the week. Harbor is a New Zealand company; the person who sets up your school is the person who answers when you call.

Company: Harbor Tech Limited, New Zealand
Status: Live status page
Contact: [email protected]