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Making life smarter. Still here. Still shipping.

Ratelsoft Nigeria Limited is a CAC-registered company. We build software for schools, exam bodies and the students who face them — and this page is for the administrator wondering whether we will still pick up the phone in three years. Here is the record.

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9,356 registered customers — counted from our own licensing records, not rounded up.

Ratelsoft · release log still being written
maintained
  1. 2014 SmartLearn JAMB 2014 — then the 2015, 2016 and 2018 editions
  2. 2018 SmartLearn adds the bring-your-own-device network exam
  3. 2025 SmartLearn JAMB 2025 (10.0.0)
  4. 2026 SmartLearn JAMB 2026 (11.0.0) — Windows, Android and iOS
  5. now SmartExaminer 4.0.0 and SmartSkool Suite 3 are the current builds
  6. 2027 SmartLearn WAEC, for the 2027 WASSCE — Windows, Mac, Android and iOS

Every SmartExaminer release from version 2 is still downloadable. Nothing here is a roadmap slide.

Dated from the products themselves — the builds on the downloads page, and the editions still activating in the field.
Runs in halls we can name
  • Starfield College
  • Doveland High School
  • Spring Leaders Secondary School
  • Computer Training School, NNS Quorra
  • Edge Lane School
  • BrookStone School
  • Federal College of Education (Technical)
  • Matrix International Academy
  • Evange Ultimate Premium School
  • Divine British Ray School
  • Nigerian Navy Centre of Education and Training Technology (NNCETT)
  • Harmetage Private Schools
  • Federal College of Lands and Resources Technology (FECOLART)
  • Federal Polytechnic, Bali

Where it started

School administration was being done twice.

Once on paper, and once again — badly — on a computer that was really a typewriter. The gap was never ambition. It was that almost no software sold here was designed for a building where the power goes out and the internet is a sometimes thing.

So we built for the building as it is. Our products install on machines in your own office and your own hall, hold their own data, and sync when there is something to sync to. That ordering is deliberate. It is the single biggest reason the software works here, and it has not changed since the first release.

The three things below are not a values poster. They are the decisions we make every time a feature is designed, and the reasons a school that stopped paying us can still open its own records.

  1. Trust and transparency

    Our software holds results, fee records and examination data — that is somebody's admission, somebody's salary and somebody's future. We say what a product does and does not do, we quote what it costs, and we do not hold data hostage.

  2. Offline is not a fallback

    Plenty of products treat a lost connection as an error state. For most of the schools we serve it is a normal Tuesday afternoon. A sitting, a results run or a fee receipt never waits on a line that is not there.

  3. The data is yours

    Records live on your server, export in formats other software can read, and remain readable if you stop being our customer. We would rather earn the renewal than trap it.

The three-year question

Will these people still exist when the renewal comes round?

A fair question to ask any software company in Nigeria, and the one this page exists to answer. We would rather show you the record than promise. These numbers are ours to count, so we counted them.

Counted from our own download and activation records. Not projections, not rounded up.

More than 112,923 completed installer downloads
21,148 product activations
9,356 registered customers
  • The same products, kept current Not a new product every year: SmartExaminer, SmartLearn and SmartSkool, maintained release after release. SmartExaminer is on version 4; SmartLearn JAMB is on its 2026 edition.
  • Old versions stay downloadable Every SmartExaminer release from version 2 onwards is still on the downloads page. A school on an older build is not abandoned to make it upgrade.
  • A subscription includes every future version On a SmartExaminer subscription, new versions come at no extra cost — the renewal is the whole relationship, so the software has to keep earning it.
  • A registered company at a street address Ratelsoft Nigeria Limited, RC 1094064, at No. 4 Crush Close in Port Harcourt. Not a brand name over a mailbox.

What we build

Four products, one temperament.

All products
And the work that usually starts the conversation

Alongside the products: web and mobile applications built to order, biometric attendance, and the ICT consultancy that is usually how a school first talks to us. The same rule applies to custom work as to everything else — it has to keep working on the day the line drops.

The name

A ratel is a honey badger.

Small, unbothered, and famously difficult to discourage. It seemed the right animal for a company writing software that has to keep running when the grid does not.

The flower in the mark is the softer half of the same idea: something that grows where it is planted. We build for Nigerian schools first — for the classroom and the hall as they are, not as a brochure imagines them.

Where we are

Ratelsoft Nigeria Limited RC 1094064
registered
  • company Ratelsoft Nigeria Limited, registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission
  • office No. 4 Crush Close, next to ADC Road, off Ada-George Road
  • city Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
  • reach Write to us, or ask for a visit

The name on the register is the name on your licence and on your invoice.

The registry entry, as it stands.

Proof, not promises

Ask us the hard questions.
Then ask the schools.

Tell us the size of your hall or the shape of your term and we will answer from the software, not from a slide. Or download an installer and judge the thing itself.

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Schools: ask about the free full term of SmartSkool. Exam halls: SmartExaminer is free to download and try.