Fee collection and payments
Telr
Online fee collection through the Telr hosted payment page, used by schools in the Gulf where Telr is the established acquirer.
Available, configured at deployment
Telr is the gateway for schools in the UAE and the wider Gulf, where it is frequently the acquirer a school already banks with. Fee checkout creates a Telr order, the family pays on Telr’s hosted page, and the return journey confirms the payment before a receipt is issued.
Confirmation is by order-status verification on return rather than by webhook, because Telr’s model is redirect-based. The verification polls order status server-side, so a payment is only recorded once Telr reports it as completed.
Test mode is a configuration flag, which means a school can run a full fee-collection rehearsal before going live without touching production credentials.
How it works
- A Telr order is created server-side for the instalment being paid and the family is redirected to Telr’s hosted payment page.
- On return, order status is verified against Telr before the receipt is written.
- Test mode is a deployment flag, so an end-to-end rehearsal does not require live credentials.
Who configures it
Store ID, auth key, currency, and test-mode flag are deployment environment variables.
What it does not do
Worth reading before a procurement decision rather than after.
- There is no Telr webhook route. Confirmation depends on the return journey and server-side status verification, so a family that abandons the browser at exactly the wrong moment may need the payment confirmed on the next check rather than instantly.
- One store per deployment.
- Refunds are recorded in Schoolyi but initiated in the Telr dashboard.
Related
Telr: common questions
Including the questions where the answer is no.
Why does Telr work differently from the other two gateways?+
Telr’s integration model is redirect-and-verify rather than webhook-driven, so confirmation happens by checking order status server-side after the family returns. Functionally the outcome is the same receipt against the same ledger; the mechanics differ and we would rather say so than imply parity that is not there.
Can we test before collecting real fees?+
Yes. Test mode is a configuration flag, so you can run a complete fee-collection rehearsal — invoice, checkout, receipt, reconciliation — before any family is asked to pay.
Is Telr the right choice for a UAE school?+
Often, because it is frequently the acquirer the school already has a relationship with, which removes a separate merchant onboarding. Stripe is also widely used in the region. The deciding factor is usually your existing banking relationship rather than the software.
Everything else
Other integrations, and the ones we do not have
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