A designer that matches the report card your school already issues, instead of a fixed template that makes you adopt someone else's. Parents recognise the format; that is not a small thing in a school's first year on new software.
The page as the school prints it
Page size, orientation and margins are set on the template, so a card designed for A4 portrait prints as A4 portrait on the school's own stationery.
Fields, not retyping
The template places merge fields — student details, marks, grades, attendance, school header — drawn from the records already held. Producing the cards for a class is a run, not an evening of copying.
More than report cards
The same designer produces the other documents a school issues on its own letterhead, so a transfer certificate does not need a different tool and a different template.