Benefits
Statistics show us that 60% to 70% of parents, pay their Utility bills online ... so many parents are ready to embrace a 'Cashless School' initiative.
Collecting payments is one of the most important parts of your school activity funds success. If you are looking for an efficient, economical, safe and reliable method; our Cashless Schools System is what you need.
To get the most from Electronic Payment processing you need to partner with a company that understands school districts as well as school and parent needs. We have helped 3,500 schools across 112 Districts for over 12 years and we are confident we can help your District work towards becoming Cashless.
Our research shows the biggest advantages we have over the other companies are:
- We allow for electronic transfers to a 'Parent Center' (no high costs of $1.00 Electronic checks or high credit card fees).
- We track more than just lunches.
- We offer a School Center that allows for parent notification of any upcoming School Activity Events and fee payments that are required.
- We have been able to transform student ID cards into a SMART Cards or we can work with existing finger print technology terminals that are being utilized in school cafeterias.
- We realize that it will take schools 3 - 5 years to receive a high parent adoption rate..so we have also built an automated Cash Handling Solution that will cut the task time in half for counting and processing cash & checks.
- We can integrate our parent notification system right into a school's website URL.
- We also offer a fully web-based School Activity Funds solution where all Cashless transactions post to the ledger and provides for easy reconciling.
BENEFITS to Parents:
- CONVENIENT: Parents can make purchases 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- CONTROL: Eliminate lost checks or cash
- TIMELY: Payments are reflected online immediately
- USER-FRIENDLY: Easy to use and research Parent Center
- SECURE: Ensures private and secure transmissions
- ACCESSIBLE: View historical purchases and payments online
- VISIBILITY: View your child's spending
BENEFITS to Schools:
- Schools are paid quickly and more reliably using electronic payments
- Schools are able to update school events to the parent center in seconds
- Schools create an excellent connection & communication vehicle to parents
- Schools will to reduce the number of NSF checks and the total loss
- Schools will reduce their payment processing labour costs by 80% or more
- Improves Cashflow
- Quick and Easy setup for items available for sale
- Access a variety of sales reports online
- Increase traffic to the school's website
BENEFITS for Districts
- Makes life easier for school administrators
- Create office efficiency and improve internal controls throughout your district
- Better visibility
- There's no computer server to buy and no software to load or maintain
- Less processing, less handling of cash and fewer bounced checks
- No up-front costs, monthly minimums, or bounced checks
- Increases the volume of sales
- Funds automatically transferred into school's designated bank account(s)
- Access a variety of sales reports online
- Utilizes the convenience of technology
- Integration with other software programs
- Provide a flexible and convenient service to the parents in your community