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Finance software for schools

Finance software for schools

Many of the leading off-the-shelf finance software can bring advantages for schools including well-written available documentation, a large community of users and ease of use and navigation to name a few.

One area that many commercial finance packages can find difficulty with for independent and international schools can arise when dealing with the complexity of school billing.

Some examples of school finance complexity could be:

Debtor instalments, charges based on instalment schedules, i.e. each school debtor can be on different frequencies such as annual, half-yearly, quarterly, monthly, fortnightly & weekly.

Schools preferred billing cycles, i.e. Per year, per term etc.

Australian school finance providers advantages and disadvantages of off the shelf providers vs school finance management providers.


Australian school finance providers advantages and disadvantages of off the shelf providers vs school finance management providers.

Debtor Spilt Billing, handling splitting Debtor fees across accounts, example, one parent gets 60% of tuition fees another 40% of remaining fees including other charges.

Managing School Voluntary donations, an example of this could be School building funds.

Fundraising Recording and managing Donations, Bequeaths

Group debtor arrangements through to individual hardship agreements.

Online payments, for varies school fees, events, donations, enrolments etc.

Recording and monitoring student concessions, bursaries, sibling discounts, staff discounts etc

School Enrolment deposits, School applications, Enrolment Deposit Repayments

Class charges, Adoc charges for Uniforms, Excisions and varies school events.

When looking at just some of these example school unique Financial requirements looking at a desired school finance software can offer advantages over off the shelf commercial systems.

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