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My School Portal
Online school payments system. Embrace the convenience
Cashless, secure, and easy to use, our online school payments solution enables parents and guardians to have more control and visibility over school dinner payments, class trips, and other events with a cost associated to them.
From pre-ordering school meals to making seamless online payments, the days of physical cash exchange are long gone. In its place, say hello to our parent online payment solution designed specifically for state and independent schools.
School cashless payment systems for faff-free finances
Meal management
Add menus, book meals and collect school dinner payments. It couldn’t be easier with My School Portal.
Dinner money
Ease the burden and hassle of collecting, counting, reconciling and banking cash with parent online payments . Seamless integration with your MIS, all online school dinner payments have the ability to auto top-up
Easy finance
Manage stock availability, monitor FSM and UIFSM, and track debtor accounts to help guardians manage their parent online payments. Easy reporting for better financial control.
Online school payments and bookings in one place
Online payments
Collect online and seamlessly integrate your school payment system with your finance portal. Most importantly, relax knowing all payments are secure. One less thing to think about.
Bookings and offers
Streamline your bookings for trips, clubs, activities and more. All bookings automatically show up on the parent's calendar and child’s timetable to ensure nothing is missed.
Reduced admin
Flexible and secure, our cashless payment system for schools is fast, easy to administrate and provides all the reporting you need.
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Benefits of our school payment solutions
Security and safety
Our completely cashless payment solution ensures payments are secure via our online system. From ad hoc payments for school trips, events or activities to automated top-up payments for school lunches and dinners, parents can rest easy knowing their information is safe and secure.
Adhoc and automated payments
Ad hoc payments
Guardians can use our parent online payment solution to make instant, one off payments for school activities such as clubs, trips, events and much more, and can group them together into one single payment.
Top-up balance
Guardians can also use our school payment system to top-up their child’s existing credit balance for their school lunch and dinners. Guardians are able to do this both as a manual payment or as an automated top-up.
Control and visibility
Parent-friendly and easy to use, our online payment system gives parents and guardians increased visibility over the payments and transactions they make within the school, helping them to always stay informed and up to date.
In addition to increased visibility surrounding their payments, parents can also have visibility over their children’s school meals- a feature that is very helpful if a child has allergies. Guardians and pupils can pre-select and pre-order their meals in addition to viewing historic information.
Avoid insurance implications
Schools are able to save time and admin by ensuring there are no insurance implications. As a rule, schools may only keep a certain amount of cash on site and must ensure they do not exceed this amount. By going cashless, schools will no longer have those insurance implications.
Reduce waste
Streamline your school's kitchen by allowing the parents or students to pre-select and pay for their school meals in advance. Our online payment system gives your kitchen the information it needs to streamline its processes and run successfully throughout the term.
Secure, online school payments
Via our school payment system, guardians can easily make secure online payments, enabling your school to become completely cashless.
With school meals, guardians can choose to make a one-off transaction for school activities such as events, trips, after school fixtures and more in addition to making auto top-up payments to their child’s credit balance for school lunches, streamlining their user experience.
Investing in a full parent online payment portal can save you 20%
Meal planning with our cashless payment system for schools
With our school payment system, guardians are able to pre-order and pre-select their children's school meals and securely pay for them, all from the comfort of their devices.
Through either a desktop, tablet or smartphone, guardians can also review their historic transactions and previous details regarding their children’s school meals, helping them stay informed and up to date at all times.
School payment resources
What is the best online school payment system?
Read this a step-by-step guide to the best online payment solutions for schools and how to choose the right one for you.
Save 20% of more with an all-in-one platform
My School Portal, a secure and sophisticated platform, that does everything you need all in one place, freeing up admin time, reducing the number of staff needed and reducing your overall spend on multiple resources.
The best cashless catering system: MSP vs others
Check out our guide exploring how cashless catering can benefit a school or trust, some of the common barriers to implementing cashless payment systems and how to overcome them.
What is cashless catering and how can it benefit schools?
The article will discuss the different types of cashless payment systems available and the benefits you can see by investing in the right one for your school.
School payment system software FAQs
What are cashless payment systems?
A cashless payment system allows payments to be made without the use of physical cash or coins. Instead, payments are made using electronic methods, such as using debit or credit cards, or using a digital wallet through a mobile phone. Cashless payment systems also allow individuals to prepay an amount onto a card or fob for use at a later date.
What is a cashless catering system for schools
A cashless school catering system allows schools to easily take online school payment for school meals. This streamlines admin for the school and ensure students do not need to carry cash with them to school every day.
The cashless school meals system, is easy to use, giving parents and careers more control over the school lunches their child is having. The school payment system is used by both state and independent schools throughout the UK and beyond. Schools love that there’s very little admin to process online payments, freeing up their time to concentrate on other things.
Learn more about cashless catering and how it can benefit your school
How do school payment systems work?
The online school payment system works by allowing parents and careers to add funds to their child school lunch account. When their child orders a school lunch the payment is automatically take from the students’ funds.
This cashless school payment system means parents have better visibility of how much their child is spending and on what days. Online payment systems are easier for both the parent and the school for managing paying for school meals.
Explore the modules of our parent engagement software
Parent communication
A powerful, intuitive system that connects parents and teachers through a single streamlined dashboard.
Parents evening system
Guardians can ensure they come to parent’s evening prepared and knowledgeable, allowing them to make the most of their time with the teachers.
Education software created by educators, for educators
The Access Education software suite is purpose-built to address the unique needs and challenges of educational institutions. Created by education experts, it's not just another solution – it's a comprehensive approach to improving the entire educational experience.
We've collaborated closely with educators at every stage of development to ensure our software reflects their insights, needs, and goals. It goes beyond functionality, becoming a strategic ally for schools, MATs, and local authorities.
Our ultimate goal is to empower educators to focus on what truly matters: delivering exceptional learning experiences to their students.
Ready to increase efficiency and cut administrative overhead? Want more time for teaching, mentoring, and inspiring the next generation? Click on our each of our products to find out how they can improve processes within your setting.
