The companion app that travels with every Fernway journey — quietly making distance feel smaller for parents, students, homestays and schools alike.
The companion app that quietly connects everyone in the journey — students, parents, homestays and schools — in a single, translated space.
Every user sees Fernway Connect in the shape they need it. Same app, four experiences — choose an audience to see how.
Sending your child overseas asks a lot of you. Fernway Connect gives back what email and Sunday phone calls never quite could — daily visibility, in real time, in your own language.
Built for young people who want to find their own way around — but want to know help is one tap away. Everything they need for the day, with nothing they don't.
Homestay families are the heart of every Fernway journey. The app makes hosting easier — clearer schedules, translated chat, and a direct line to the coordinator if anything ever feels uncertain.
Hosting international students well takes coordination. Fernway Connect consolidates broadcast updates, attendance flags, incident reports and parent communication into a single, easy-to-audit channel.
Every message in the app translates between English, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin, Spanish and Vietnamese in real time. Languages are added based on the programmes we run, not what's easy.
Children's photos and locations are never visible outside the family, homestay and school circle. No public feeds. No "shareable" links. Data hosted in New Zealand under the Privacy Act 2020.
Notifications respect the time zone of the recipient. Parents in Korea aren't pinged at 3am because a buddy posted a photo at lunch in Auckland. The app waits.
The emergency button isn't decorative. It connects to a duty phone carried by a real Fernway staff member — not a call centre — with a documented response time and a printed protocol behind it.
Some families prefer phone calls. Some homestays prefer paper. Fernway Connect is built to enhance the programme — not to be the programme. Nothing critical lives only in the app.
Fernway Connect is available as a white-label platform for New Zealand organisations running inbound international student programmes — schools, agencies, sports academies, universities and cultural exchange operators.
Everything you've just seen — translated messaging, live itineraries, homestay coordination, pastoral escalation, school broadcast, parent visibility — is available under your brand, configured for your programme.
Full white-label treatment: your logo, your palette, your app name in the App Store and Google Play. Families see your organisation, not ours.
Turn features on or off. Rename roles. Reorder the workflow to match how your programme actually runs — not how a generic platform assumes it should.
The translation engine that powers Fernway Connect powers yours. Add or remove supported languages based on the countries you actually work with.
Data hosted in New Zealand. Privacy-designed for minors. Compliance documentation available to share with your board, your accreditors, or your parents.
We've built this from a decade of running international programmes ourselves. When you licence Fernway Connect, you get the platform — and the operational know-how that shaped it.