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Used in thousands of schools across 160 local authorities in the UK, ParentPay is the UK’s leading provider of online cashless payment, income collection and dinner money administration for schools, local authorities and caterers.

ParentPay’s web application allows schools to collect online payments for anything from dinner money to uniform, school trips to after-school clubs. Parents can either pay online with a debit or credit card or pay in cash at any one of 22,000 PayPoint stores across the UK; ensuring a socially inclusive service.

Schools can record and manage cash and cheque payments received in school, ensuring that ParentPay is the single solution for income collection and management. Comprehensive income management and reporting tools deliver a complete audit trail for all income received ensuring full FMSiS compliance.

Dinner money collection and management

ParentPay has solutions for primary and secondary school dinner money collection and management. Using either ParentPay Dinner Money the dinner money management and administration module or ParentPay Data Capture for cashless catering integration, ParentPay delivers solutions for caterers in single sites or authority wide contracts.

ParentPay’s seamless integration with every major cashless catering system ensures parents can top up children's meal accounts in real-time and view accurate balance information.

Parents can view their children’s meal choices and nutritional data online.

ParentPay Dinner Money: collection, administration and management

ParentPay Dinner Money provides a solution for collecting, recording and managing all income for school meals, both locally in the school and centrally for the caterer.

The solution provides a way to collect and record income, produce meal numbers, track FSM, manage pupil debt and produce real time reports for both schools and caterers.

Dynamic links to the schools’ MIS provide fully automated data refresh, ensuring pupil data is correct at all times. Using meal patterns and attendance data ParentPay automatically bills pupil accounts for meals taken, maintaining the account balance for each pupil or staff member.

ParentPay Dinner Money highlights any pupil debt to school and can automatically produce reminder emails, printed letters or SMS text messages for parents. Caterers benefit from real-time reporting allowing them to access all meal service data across their schools: income, meal numbers, FSM uptake, pupil debt – ensuring contract-wide control of the service and full reconciliation of income received.

Proven solution, real benefits ParentPay is proven to deliver real benefits to schools, local authorities and caterers, whilst reducing risks for pupils and giving parents a more convenient way to pay. ParentPay is helping schools and caterers to:
• increase take up of free and paid meals
• significantly reduce administration time – up to 80% time saving
• improve sustainability through efficiency savings
• remove cash and cheques from the meals service
• improve pupil safety and social inclusion
• reduce errors with a full electronic audit trail
• increase parental engagement

ParentPay delivers an unrivalled income management and collection service to schools, local authorities and caterers throughout the UK.