Mobile phone technology has continued to grow in terms of computation power, memory sizes and efficiency power utilization. The emergency of Smartphone has facilitated many applications for different activities to be developed. Smartphone are mobile phone with an advanced operating system and capable of running third-party applications. Industry analysts estimate that there are more than 250,000 applications available through the various stores and marketplaces, some of which are available for multiple types of device. This paper presents requirement specifications and system design for RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) and mobile application based attendance management that can be useful in the author ordinary schools and hence substitute the manual method of attendance management which is tedious and error prone.