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Fees & finance

Fee structures, collections, receipts, online payments, autopay, and finance back office, including budgets, expenses, vendor bills, cash flow, and payroll runs, in one operational finance layer built for school bursars. School finance teams juggle fee collection, vendor payments, payroll, and leadership reporting at once. Schoolyi connects fee schedules, waivers, defaulter follow-up, and online payment to budgets, expenses, and vendor bills. Receipts and invoices are PDF-ready; payroll runs produce payslips and statutory exports finance can reconcile with confidence.

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Outcomes

What changes when this module is live

Practical results schools report after rolling out this area on the shared calendar and roster.

  • Fee types, structures, installments, and bulk generation

    Parents pay online and download receipts without visiting accounts

  • Collections, waivers, defaulters, and class summaries

    Defaulter and class-summary views help collections teams prioritise

  • PDF receipts with email delivery

    Budget and expense tracking gives leadership spend visibility

  • Online fee payment and autopay mandates

    Payroll and fee operations share the same staff and vendor context

Product truth

What to verify before rollout

Good school software copy should answer who owns the work, what the handoff produces, and which parts still depend on deployment decisions.

Validate for your rollout

Capability status

This page describes the supported workflow boundary. Confirm configuration, integrations, data, and policy requirements in a representative pilot before committing to production.

Teams in the workflow

  • Finance teams
  • Bursars
  • Parents paying fees

Deep dive

Decisions, handoffs, and boundaries

Use these details to turn a product page into an implementation conversation.

Why schools upgrade fees & finance

School finance teams juggle fee collection, vendor payments, payroll, and leadership reporting at once. Schoolyi connects fee schedules, waivers, defaulter follow-up, and online payment to budgets, expenses, and vendor bills. Receipts and invoices are PDF-ready; payroll runs produce payslips and statutory exports finance can reconcile with confidence.

Connected to the rest of your SMS

Fee structures, collections, receipts, online payments, autopay, and finance back office, including budgets, expenses, vendor bills, cash flow, and payroll runs, in one operational finance layer built for school bursars. Because Fees & finance shares roster and calendar data, teams stop reconciling exports between spreadsheets and the parent portal.

Evidence layer

Read the supporting product and implementation material before making a capability claim.

Key capabilities

Everything included in this module, from daily workflows to exports your team relies on.

  • Fee types, structures, installments, and bulk generation
  • Collections, waivers, defaulters, and class summaries
  • PDF receipts with email delivery
  • Online fee payment and autopay mandates
  • Tax and invoice settings with PDF receipts
  • Budgets, expenses, budget requests, and planning
  • Vendor bills with three-way match and AP aging
  • Payroll runs, payslips, statutory export, reimbursements

Who uses this

Role-scoped workspaces so each team sees only the tasks they own.

  • Finance teams
  • Bursars
  • Parents paying fees

From the blog

How schools follow up on fee defaulters without damaging trust

A practical playbook for bursars: defaulter lists, class-wise outstanding views, reminder campaigns, and online pay links - using the same ledger families see in the parent portal.

Read the guide →

Capability deep dives

Focused pages for evaluators comparing specific fees & finance workflows during an SMS rollout.

Workflow

How teams run it week to week

A typical path from setup through daily use on Schoolyi.

  1. 01

    Fee types, structures, installments, and bulk generation

    Part of the Fees & finance workflow on Schoolyi, connected to roster, calendar, and role permissions.

  2. 02

    Collections, waivers, defaulters, and class summaries

    Part of the Fees & finance workflow on Schoolyi, connected to roster, calendar, and role permissions.

  3. 03

    PDF receipts with email delivery

    Part of the Fees & finance workflow on Schoolyi, connected to roster, calendar, and role permissions.

  4. 04

    Online fee payment and autopay mandates

    Part of the Fees & finance workflow on Schoolyi, connected to roster, calendar, and role permissions.

Deep dive

Built for school operations, not generic ERP

Long-form context for evaluators comparing modules during an SMS rollout.

School bursar processing fee receipts and payments

Why schools upgrade fees & finance

School finance teams juggle fee collection, vendor payments, payroll, and leadership reporting at once. Schoolyi connects fee schedules, waivers, defaulter follow-up, and online payment to budgets, expenses, and vendor bills. Receipts and invoices are PDF-ready; payroll runs produce payslips and statutory exports finance can reconcile with confidence.

School finance manager reviewing fee records and receipts in an administration office

Connected to the rest of your SMS

Fee structures, collections, receipts, online payments, autopay, and finance back office, including budgets, expenses, vendor bills, cash flow, and payroll runs, in one operational finance layer built for school bursars. Because Fees & finance shares roster and calendar data, teams stop reconciling exports between spreadsheets and the parent portal.

Questions, answered

Straightforward answers for visitors evaluating the product.

Do online payments reconcile automatically?+

Families pay through the portal. Finance sees the same receipt PDF and ledger line without importing gateway spreadsheets.

Validate credentials, permissions, and failure handling in a non-production environment before connecting live school records. Assign an owner for monitoring the handoff after launch.

Can we bill siblings on one statement?+

Parent dashboards roll up balances per child while finance tracks fee lines per student in one ledger.

Before the first collection cycle, reconcile one paid, partially paid, and overdue student account so the family receipt and finance view agree. Keep any tax, gateway, refund, or accounting boundary as an explicit deployment decision.

How do defaulter lists work?+

Bursars filter overdue installments by class or fee head. Reminders respect publish rules before families see notices.

Before the first collection cycle, reconcile one paid, partially paid, and overdue student account so the family receipt and finance view agree. Keep any tax, gateway, refund, or accounting boundary as an explicit deployment decision.

Is payroll separate from fee collection?+

Payroll runs beside fee receipts in school finance. Payslip PDFs and statutory exports share the operational finance layer.

Before the first collection cycle, reconcile one paid, partially paid, and overdue student account so the family receipt and finance view agree. Keep any tax, gateway, refund, or accounting boundary as an explicit deployment decision.

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