The platform for residential college life.
One home for the menu, events, communities, academics and wellbeing, under your college's name, beside the housing system you already run.
“battling for airtime with our students”
“five different points of communication”
Today · Monday
Event
Formal dinner · Thu 6:30
RSVPContacts
Duty RA tonight · Sam, Level 2
Announcement
Fire drill, Friday 10am Push sent
Pinned for RAs
RA handbook, kept from last year
Live at a residential college in Perth · 648 residents · about 25,000 opens a month · two months from sign-off to launch
These screens show an example college. The figures above, from a residential college in Perth, are the only measured ones.
A patchwork of channels, and things still slip through.
Colleges tell us the same three things: communication is scattered, the channels belong to someone else, and what the college knows walks out each year.
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Email isn't how 18-year-olds read.
Dining-hall notices, formal sign-ups, the RA check-in: quietly missed.
“battling for airtime with our students”
“said it maybe eight times at formal dinner”
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Chats fragment the community.
WhatsApp, Messenger, a fun chat and a serious one, a chat per floor. Conversation everywhere, staff see none of it, and quieter residents fall out of view.
“a fun Snapchat … and then a serious messenger group”
“where things happen that we don't want them to”
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Knowledge walks out each year.
When RAs and house coordinators rotate, the playbook in their heads and the group-chat history go with them.
“we want our new students to believe it already is”
The problem isn't a shortage of channels. None of them is designed for college life.
StarRez keeps the records. Your college keeps the conversation.
One side is records, billing and logistics. The other is how you reach residents and build community. The College Platform layers on top of your housing system: no rip-and-replace.
StarRez · the housing system of record
Built for the back office of housing.
- Applications and contracts
- Room and roommate selection
- Billing and payments
- Occupancy and move-in logistics
- Maintenance and inspections
- Conduct, duty rounds and packages
- Who opens it
- Housing staff, daily. Residents a few times a year: to apply, pick a room, pay or report.
- Measured in
- Admin hours saved, beds filled, fees collected.
Your College · on the College Platform
Built to reach every resident.
- Today's menu
- Events and RSVPs
- Clubs and communities
- Academic unit chats
- Places and recommendations
- Contacts and wellbeing
- Who opens it
- Every resident. At the Perth college, about 38 times a month each: to see what's on, what's for dinner and who's posting.
- Measured in
- Reach, engagement and belonging. Notices that land.
StarRez keeps the records; the College Platform carries the conversation. One runs the logistics of living here; the other is how you reach residents and build community.
One front page for college life.
Menu, events, announcements, clubs, sport, wellbeing, the duty RA and the campus map, under one roof and under your college's name.
“our students are really visual”
Hi, Alex
Today 4:00–9:00pm
Inter-college dodgeball
GoingAcademics
ECON1101 · 14 from college
Places · added by residents
Quiet study spots near campus
- A reason to open it every day.Today's menu, what's on tonight, who's posting. It becomes the default check, not another channel to manage.
- Group chats, but organised.RA floors, houses, clubs, sport, wellbeing and the student club, at three privacy tiers: public, all-college and secret.
- A way in for the quieter ones.Reactions, RSVPs and reads are all visible. Peer-to-peer rather than top-down broadcast, so quieter residents stay on the radar.
Self-service. No tech background needed.
Layered admin permissions are built in. The platform adapts to how your college runs today, and changes with it.
“our kitchen staff will be able to … edit the menu”
New event
Title
Formal dinnerWhen · capacity
Thursday 6:30pm · 260 seats · RSVP by Wed 5pmWho can post
Kitchen: the menu · RAs: their floors · Captains: their clubs
- From idea to live in under a minute.Drafts, scheduling, expiry dates, RSVPs, capacity caps and push notifications, all in the app, with no tickets to anyone.
- Student leaders run their own clubs.Permissions per community. Sport captains, club chairs and RAs each moderate their own space without breaking anything else.
- Knowledge stays when cohorts rotate.Content, community structure and how-to stay in place year on year. Nothing walks out with each RA cohort.
The whole of college life, in one app.
Six things residents reach for every day, each one configurable to how your college actually runs. Tap a question to see where it lives.
Daily menu
Breakfast, lunch and dinner with serving times and dietary options. The reason residents open the app each morning.
Events and calendar
Month and week views, RSVPs with a "maybe", capacity caps and reminders. Turnout you can measure.
Communities
Clubs, sport, wellbeing and the student club, with public, all-college and secret invite-only tiers and per-tile feature toggles.
Academics
A chat for every unit, so residents in the same classes can ask questions, organise study and see who else is enrolled.
Campus map
Libraries, cafes and study spots on campus and around the city, crowdsourced by residents.
Contacts and support
Emergency numbers, campus security around the clock, the duty RA and student services, one tap from anywhere.
“it is quite simple. Sometimes things can be overcomplicated.”
Everything
Events
Trivia night · moved inside
RSVPCommunities
Netball
PublicAcademics
CHEM1003 · 21 from college
Places
Coffee near the library · 9 picks
Contacts
Campus security · 24 hours
CallA residential college in Perth: what engagement looks like on a working deployment
648 residents at a residential college in Perth open their app about 25,000 times a month.
- About 38 opens per resident a month
- 466 units with at least one user
- 55.9% of residents linked to their unit
- Measured November 2025
A daily routine, not install-and-forget.
Past the threshold where a notification, an event reminder or a survey actually lands: the precondition for moving anything else.
Branded as the college's, not Meta's.
Every push, event and menu reaches residents under the college's own name and emblem, not a third-party platform's.
It survives the handover.
When RAs rotate at year's end, content, community structure and how-to stay in place. Nothing walks out with each cohort.
Three outcomes, in plain language.
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Engagement and belonging
- Residents see what's on, any time.
- Clubs, events and services get discovered.
- A low-friction way in for quieter residents.
- Peer-to-peer, not top-down broadcast.
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A digital home of the college's own
- A dedicated space, not social media.
- Where residents' attention already is.
- Built in Flutter for iOS, Android and web.
- Configured to your houses, floors and clubs.
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Knowledge and measurement
- How-to knowledge captured, not lost.
- Less lost to RA and staff turnover.
- Real data on attendance and engagement.
- Notices that arrive, and can be measured.
Live for O-Week.
Colleges decide in the budget round, usually October to December, for the year ahead. Two months from sign-off, residents are on the app.
The things leadership asks first.
Do we have to replace StarRez, or our housing system?
No. Your housing system keeps the records: applications, rooms, billing, maintenance. The College Platform sits on top of it and carries the conversation with residents. Nothing to rip out, nothing to migrate.
How long does it take to launch?
Two months from sign-off to your residents on the app. To have residents on the platform for O-Week, the decision usually sits in the budget round before it.
Is the app branded as ours, or as Zizo's?
Yours. Every push notification, event and menu reaches residents under your college's name and emblem, not Meta's, not a generic platform's. Residents experience it as your college's app, because it is.
Do staff need a technical background to run it?
No. Publishing is self-service: drafts, scheduling, expiry dates, RSVPs, capacity caps and push notifications are all in the app, with no tickets to anyone. Layered permissions let student leaders moderate their own communities without breaking anything else.
What happens when RA cohorts rotate each year?
Content, community structure and how-to knowledge stay in place year on year. Nothing walks out with each cohort the way a group-chat history does.
Is there a live deployment we can reference?
Yes: a residential college in Perth. As of November 2025 the app sees about 25,000 opens a month across 648 residents, about 38 opens per resident every month, with 55.9% of residents linked to their academic unit.
How does it adapt to how our college already works?
It adapts to your pastoral model, your RA structure and your branding rather than forcing a template. Communities, permissions and feature toggles are all configurable.
Can we see it in our own colours first?
Yes. After a walkthrough we can build a preview of the app in your college's colours and crest, for you to show your residents and your council or board.
See it on a live app, then on yours.
A short walkthrough of the working deployment and a conversation about how your college runs. We come back with a proposal scoped to your residents, your RA model and your branding, and a preview in your college's colours if you'd like one.
From a Perth software studio.
Built by a founder who lived in a residential college, and built first for one in Perth.