Locro

For Cambridge English exam centres

Eliminate Chaos, Foster Focus and Flow on Exam Day

Deliver Flawless Cambridge English Sessions Every Time with Locro — the bespoke Event Management System that automates staff scheduling, prevents costly miscommunications, and promotes a stress-free experience.

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Before Locro

A desk buried under exam-day chaos: a colour-coded spreadsheet, a wall calendar scrawled with question marks, sticky notes reading Missing Invigilator and Chase No Shows, and a phone mid-thread asking who can cover Hall B

With Locro

The Locro dashboard: upcoming events each showing a green or red staffing indicator, beside a pending-confirmations list tracking who has been messaged over SMS, Telegram and email

Stress, Fatigue, and Human Error Are Costing You More Than You Think

Every year, 6 million candidates take Cambridge English exams. But during frenetic exam periods, even the best teams buckle under pressure. When stress sets in, errors follow:

  • No-Shows

    Staff no-shows leave candidates waiting and exams delayed

  • Missed Messages

    Lost communications result in missing invigilators and last-minute panic

  • To-and-Fro

    Manual coordination eats up time and energy — that tennis game of to-and-fro via email, WhatsApp, SMS and phone calls

  • Overtime

    Operational headaches turn into financial leaks; delays trigger overtime and eat into profit

  • Lost Clients

    One embarrassing error can cost you a client forever in a business built on repeat custom

  • Hidden Costs

    Compound loss is real — and it is usually hidden

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Gift Your Team Peace of Mind

Locro is the intuitive web application designed specifically for language exam centre administrations. We digitise the repeatable, eliminate the guesswork, and secure your entire exam session workflow.

A Traffic-Light Dashboard

Every event's staffing status at a glance — who has confirmed, who has gone quiet, who has checked in on the day. Amber turns green as your team replies.

Confirmations on Their Channel

Locro sends the invitation, chases the silence and records the reply — over SMS, email or Telegram, whichever your staff actually read.

Venue Knowledge, Stored Once

Parking, GPS pins, access notes and site contacts saved against each venue and reused every season, so staff in the field always have what they need.

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Why Exam Centres Choose Locro

Four reasons centres move to Locro and stay. Start your free trial today and experience the difference for yourself.

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Know by Thursday who’s coming on Saturday
Locro sends the invitations, chases the silences and shows you who has confirmed — so a gap in the rota is visible days out, not at 7:45 on the morning.
One dashboard, not three group chats
Every session’s staffing on a single screen: confirmed, unanswered, checked in. No scrolling back through WhatsApp to find out who said yes.
New staff arrive already briefed
Parking, the right entrance, who to ask for — saved once per venue and sent with every assignment. A first-timer turns up like a regular.
Sessions that start on time
Fewer no-shows and late arrivals mean the doors open when they should, the candidates get the calm room they paid for, and the day ends when it was meant to — without overtime.

How Much Could Locro Save You?

If errors happen in your centre, it is reasonable to expect Locro to reduce them. Locro is bespoke software created by examiners in tandem with programmers to solve the persistent issues that arise.

A conservative estimate is a 60% reduction in staff no-shows, late arrivals, delays, lost hours and wrong addresses. When logistics don’t run smoothly it costs your business in reputation and referrals — an error may even cost you an important client.

These human errors compound over time into a significant sum. The calculator below gives you an idea of how valuable Locro could be for your organisation.

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No sign-up, nothing stored — the sums happen in your browser. We’ve filled in typical figures; change anything that doesn’t match you.

Total fees from all your exam sessions in a year.

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No-shows, late arrivals, wrong venues, lost hours, overtime, the client who quietly didn’t come back. 1.5% is a cautious starting point.

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Staff and candidate wellbeing

Calm venues, staff who know where to be, candidates who can concentrate.

Priceless
Assumptions — Locro prevents 60% of errors; 10% of each year’s loss is lasting
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Some losses don’t reset in January — a client lost this year is still lost next year. The carry-forward is the share of each year’s loss treated as lasting.

Conservative estimate

Errors are costing you around — a year. Locro could recover

— a year

Over time, because lost clients stay lost

3 years
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5 years
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10 years
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Wellbeing not included — we couldn’t find a number big enough.

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An estimate built from your own figures, not a quotation. Figures are rounded down.

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Experience the Locro difference for yourself — and give your team a calm, controlled exam season.

Setting up takes an afternoon, and we do it with you: your venues, your staff list, your next session. Nothing to install, nothing to migrate.

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