Payments

ParentPay can accept most major UK debit and credit cards. All transactions are carried out using the highest security and are compliant with bank and card scheme requirements.

In order to accept credit and debit cards, you will need to get an internet merchant account – a facility that allows you to accept card payments. ParentPay will organise this for you, in co-operation with our bank partner, Lloyds TSB Cardnet.

This facility doesn’t affect your existing account and it doesn’t matter who you bank with – payments will still go into your school bank account.

In order to support social inclusion, ParentPay can link with the PayPoint network. PayPoint is one of the UK's leading retail networks for convenient local cash payment with over 19,800 retailers in the UK and Ireland - newsagents, convenience stores, supermarkets and garages – most open long hours, seven days a week.

Parents without access to the internet or unable to use cards for payments, can pay cash over the counter and still support a cashless school with funds managed and banked centrally.

ParentPay allows the manual input of card details by School Administrators/Managers so that parents can telephone or visit the school with their card if they do not have access to the internet. Many schools make a computer available to parents within the school to encourage them to make payments online.

Banking

Money collected using ParentPay is credited to the school’s bank account or to multiple accounts. You can link different accounts for different services e.g. a main school account, a private funds account and maybe a caterer’s bank account for dinner money.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t operate your own school account. ParentPay can direct income into a central local authority bank account and we produce daily finance reports for them so they know what the money is for.

Transaction Charges

As with any company or organisation that takes credit or debit cards, there are transaction charges for accepting cards.

Based on our large volume of transactions, ParentPay has negotiated significantly discounted rates through our financial services partners that are available to all our customers.

To find our more Contact Us or Request a Quotation.