An introduction to our online payment service
What does ParentPay do? |
How does ParentPay help our school? |
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| • | enables you to pay for lunch and other items such as trips and 200 club | • | reduces the administrative time spent on banking procedures | |
| • | offers a highly secure payment site | • | keeps accurate records of payments made to every service for every student | |
| • | gives you a history of all the payments you have made | • | payments do not bounce | |
| • | allows the merging of accounts if you have more than one child at school | • | reduces paper ‘waste’ | |
| • | shows you all items available for payment relevant to each of your children | • | allows for easy and quick refunds to be made back to the payment card | |
| • | emails a receipt of your payment to the email address you register | • | improves communication between the school and parents concerning payments | |
| • | offers you the ability to set automated email/SMS payment reminders | • | offers a more efficient payment collection process, reducing the amount of money held on school premises | |
| • | helps us improve school-home communication with its integrated email/SMS messaging centre | |||
How does ParentPay help you? |
How do I get started? |
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| • | gives you the freedom to make payments to school whenever and wherever you like | You have been given an activation letter containing your temporary username and password to enable you to setup your ParentPay account. During the activation process you will be guided through changing your username and password to something more memorable; you can also merge your accounts if you have more than one child at Carmel. Please do not log onto your account prior to 1 September 2013 as the Year 6 group will not be fully uploaded onto the College system until that date. | ||
| • | gives you the freedom to make payments to school whenever and wherever you like | |||
| • | stops you having to write cheques or search for cash to send to school | |||
| • | gives you peace of mind that your payment has been made safely and securely | |||
| • | helps with budgeting; payments are immediate, there is no waiting for cheques to clear | |||
| • | payments for many of the larger trips can be made by instalments up to the due date | |||
| • | you never need miss a payment or have insufficient credit with automated email/SMS alerts | |||
| • | ParentPay is quick and easy to use | |||
