Comparison
Mojo Helpdesk vs One to One Plus
Two tools districts shortlist for device tracking and IT operations, compared the way a buying committee actually reads them: what each is, what each does well, and what to check before signing. We build Chalk, a third option in this space — that context is worth knowing as you read, and it is why every claim below carries its basis.
Mojo Helpdesk
A simple, inexpensive per-agent help desk with a real K-12 following, a light asset module with check-in/check-out, and a deliberate pitch that you can go live in days because it does not depend on your SIS.
Where Mojo Helpdesk is strong
- The lowest published per-agent entry price on most K-12 help-desk shortlists, with the numbers on the page rather than behind a demo request.
- An explicit 25% education and non-profit discount, published as a percentage you can actually compute against.
- A genuine asset module included with the help desk rather than sold as a separate product: laptops, tablets, servers, and software licenses, with repairs and incidents logged against each item.
- Check-in and check-out with return due dates and automated reminders, plus a live view of what is out and what is overdue — closer to a circulation desk than most generic ticketing tools get.
- Warranty and license contract expiry tracking with renewal reminders ahead of the date.
- Broad sign-in support for districts: Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, ClassLink, Active Directory, LDAP, and other SAML providers, with staff and department import from Google Workspace or Microsoft 365.
What to check before you buy
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Hosted SaaS only — no self-hosted or on-premises edition, so the software cannot be run on district infrastructure or inspected independently.
Basis: Only cloud plans appear on the vendor's pricing page; no self-host or source distribution is published.
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Per-agent pricing with hard agent caps per plan. A district with a handful of technicians and tens of thousands of devices pays on the axis it has least of, and growing past 25 agents forces a tier change.
Basis: Vendor pricing page states $14/$24/$34 per agent per month with 25-agent and 100-agent maximums on the lower two plans.
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The education discount is narrower than it first reads: 25% applies only to Business and Enterprise yearly subscriptions, not to the entry Team plan, and the vendor states discounts do not stack.
Basis: Stated in those terms on Mojo Helpdesk's pricing page.
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No SIS or rostering connector. Mojo markets 'no SIS dependency' as a launch advantage, which is honest positioning but means students, enrollments, and mid-year transfers are not sourced from the system of record.
Basis: Mojo's education page names Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, ClassLink, AD, LDAP, and SAML for sign-in and user import, and no SIS vendor connector; the K-12 pages present rapid launch without SIS as a benefit.
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The asset module is a light inventory with custody attached, not a 1:1 program: no parent-signed device agreement, no loaner pool as a managed concept, no lost or stolen lifecycle with police report, and no attestation campaign.
Basis: Absent from Mojo's published asset management page, which covers tracking, check-out with due dates, and renewal reminders.
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No MDM ingest and no documented barcode or QR scanning. Device records are maintained inside Mojo rather than reconciled against Google Admin, Intune, or Jamf, and an August rollout or spring audit measured in thousands of devices has to be typed rather than scanned.
Basis: No Google Admin, Intune, or Jamf device-sync connector is published on the vendor site, and no scanning capability appears on the asset management page.
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No student fee assessment, no family balances, no purchase orders, no parts stock consumed by repairs, and no funding-source tracking for ESSER, Title, or E-Rate money.
Basis: None of these concepts appear in Mojo's published product documentation.
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It consumes SSO but is not an identity provider — it signs users in from Google, Microsoft, ClassLink, or a SAML source rather than issuing SAML or OIDC to your other vendors.
Basis: SSO is described throughout as sign-in into Mojo from a district's existing provider.
One to One Plus
A K-12 asset management and help desk platform focused on 1:1 device programs, sold as a single subscription with all core features included and an actively developed native mobile app on both iOS and Android.
Where One to One Plus is strong
- A genuinely strong native mobile app on both iOS and Android, using the phone camera as the scanner with no hardware sled — assignment and collection, full ticket create/update/close, photo and video damage capture, and adding or removing parts with a live availability check. It is actively developed, with Face ID login, in-ticket attachments, and mobile-only ticket forms all shipping within the last year or so.
- The only product in this comparison with native insurance program management: coverage applied to eligible incidents, claim status and coverage limits tracked, and approved claims offsetting invoice balances. Premiums are a charge type and insurance forms are an e-signature document type.
- Simple, honest packaging — one subscription, all core features, no module upsells. Among K-12 asset vendors that is genuinely uncommon and removes a whole category of procurement surprise.
- More than a dozen named integrations covering SIS (Infinite Campus, PowerSchool, Skyward, Ascender), MDM (Google Admin, Microsoft Intune, Mosyle, Jamf Pro, PDQ Deploy), identity (Active Directory plus Google and Microsoft SSO), and payments (MySchoolBucks, Rycor).
- Purpose-built end-of-year tooling: bulk turn-in for large-scale collection, cart, room, and inventory-area location granularity, and building-level audit reconciliation sheets.
- Funding source works as both a field and an audit dimension, with Title I and E-Rate named, plus e-signatures for agreements, AUPs, handbooks, and insurance forms, and scheduled report email delivery.
What to check before you buy
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No purchase order or receiving workflow. The asset record carries passive procurement metadata such as vendor details and purchase dates, but there is no PO object, approval routing, or receive-against-PO step.
Basis: verified three ways — no PO page, no site search hit, and absent from the vendor's own module overview
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No parent-facing portal. Families are reached by email — invoices are delivered with view tracking — and when a family pays, that happens on the third-party processor's site rather than in One to One Plus. A staff and student self-service ticket portal does exist; the gap is specifically family-facing.
Basis: vendor invoices and payments documentation describes email delivery plus third-party payment
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No Clever, ClassLink, or OneRoster support is listed among their published integrations — rostering runs through direct per-vendor SIS connectors instead.
Basis: vendor integrations page, which names no rostering standard or roster broker
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Payment collection is entirely third-party — MySchoolBucks and Rycor are the named processors — so the fee record and the money live in different systems.
Basis: vendor integrations and payments pages name MySchoolBucks and Rycor
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Warranty data is stored on the asset record, but no claim workflow, expiration alerting, or vendor RMA process is documented.
Basis: vendor asset management documentation treats warranty as an asset attribute
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Reporting depth is a recurring theme in reviewer feedback despite the product shipping a report builder — buyers appear to judge this area harshly.
Basis: recurring theme in public review-site feedback
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Hosted SaaS only — there is no self-hosted or on-premises option and no source availability.
Basis: vendor sells a hosted subscription with no self-host offering published
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MDM integration is ingest-oriented: device data is imported and kept in sync, with no documented reviewed write-back of OU moves, disables, or deprovisions into Google Admin.
Basis: vendor integrations page describes device data being imported, updated, and synced into the platform
The third option: Chalk
If you are weighing Mojo Helpdesk against One to One Plus, Chalk belongs on the same shortlist. It is the open-source K-12 IT stack: device inventory that fills itself in from Google Admin, Intune, and Jamf against a roster synced from your SIS, a 1:1 circulation desk with agreements and fees, repairs with parts and costs, a help desk that already knows who is asking, and a built-in SAML/OIDC identity provider.
- Self-host it free forever under AGPL-3.0 — the entire feature set, one binary, your infrastructure — or use the hosted version, priced by fleet size with no per-seat or per-student fees and the price ladder published.
- Built only for K-12: students, buildings, custody, funding sources, and ChromeOS auto-update expiration are native concepts, not custom fields.
- Writes back to Google Admin as a reviewed diff — every OU move, disable, and deprovision previewed before it executes — and serves a OneRoster 1.1 API so other district systems can pull the roster from Chalk.
- Fees are assessed and tracked without touching payment cards, keeping the asset system out of your PCI scope.
See all three on your own roster.
Chalk installs to a populated inventory in about 30 minutes. Self-host free under AGPL-3.0, or let us run it — priced by fleet size, never per seat.