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Bexley Grammar School

Learn how this Kent school achieved cashless catering success and more with ParentPay.

Holbeach Primary School

Learn why this Lewisham school chose ParentPay for managing all their school payments.

The Diamond Primary School

The Diamond Primary School were looking for a feature rich payments system that could provide the functionality needed by a busy school. Learn how adopting ParentPay as their payments system enabled them to free up teacher time, reduce waste in the school kitchen, and collect payments for a variety of school items.

Shakespeare Primary School

Shakespeare Primary goes cashless. Shakespeare Primary school is one of 8000 schools using ParentPay. Like many, they started out with a simple objective, however, they soon found the vast majority of parents and staff saw the advantages of a cashless school environment. Like many School Business Managers, Deborah Latham from Shakespeare Primary School in Lancashire, was concerned about the problems associated with the collection of cash in school.

Cheadle Hulme School

Why Cheadle Hulme went cashless. We asked Cheadle Hulme School, one of ParentPay’s leading Independent users of the system, why they made the move to cashless, and how they’ve made such a success of the conversion. Sam Jones, Fees Ledger Manager at Cheadle Hulme School outlines why they made the move to become a cashless school.

Lomond School

Lomond School were seeking an easy-to-use product that could help them manage payments. Since the school had to deal with a large number of trips, it was critical that they chose a product that could streamline the process for trips. Read on to know how Lomond School were able to achieve smoother functioning of their day-to-day tasks and find the solution to hassle-free trip management.

Berkeley Primary School

Berkeley Primary on going cashless. In 2016 North Lincolnshire Council decided to utilise ParentPay as a means for schools to collect income online from parents for school meals. Now, ParentPay is used by 30+ schools in North Lincolnshire, and is helping save time and improve processes. Sukhi Dhinsa, Administration Assistant at Berkeley Primary School shares their experience of ParentPay.

King’s School

Learn why Hampshire's King’s School decided to choose ParentPay as their online payments provider.

Barton St Lawrence Church of England Primary School

St Lawrence share their cashless experience. St Lawrence CE Primary school is one of thousands of schools across the country that has changed the way they collect payments from parents. They’re using ParentPay in partnership with BT Lancashire Services to streamline income collection as well as saving valuable time and resource. Maria Smith, School Bursar explains: “Since introducing ParentPay, we have achieved 100% activation rate amongst parents which is great. We’re really pleased to have reached the stage where all our parents are paying online.”

St Christopher’s Church of England High School

Why St Christopher's CofE High School went cashless. Joanne Nutter, School Administrator at St Christopher’s High School in Lancashire talks about why her school decided to collect payments online.Joanne outlined the challenges being faced on a daily basis with cash and cheques coming into school.

St John’s CofE Primary School – An OFSM Case Study

Southborough Primary School

Southborough Primary School wanted to introduce online payments to reduce the amount of cash and cheques coming into school, which would also save them administration time. Additionally, they were keen to have a system that allowed the payments to link into a school meal package to avoid double entries. The school was able to almost immediately notice the benefits since introducing online payments, with the School Business Manager stating, “The amount of cash and cheques our team has to count, and bank has dropped significantly, which has had a positive impact on staff due to the time this has saved.”

Our Lady Immaculate Primary School – An OFSM Case Study

Edinburgh Primary School

The Edinburgh SLT decided that removing cash from school by deploying an online payment and debt management system was the clear way forward.

St Peter and St Paul CE Primary School

Since using ParentPay to collect income for school meals, the school was able to quickly realise the benefits it brings. Being cashless meant that less time was spent on counting money/banking and rectifying errors since there is no need to write receipts or process any cash.

New Longton All Saints’ CE Primary School

St Lawrence share their cashless experience. St Lawrence CE Primary school is one of thousands of schools across the country that has changed the way they collect payments from parents. They’re using ParentPay in partnership with BT Lancashire Services to streamline income collection as well as saving valuable time and resource. Maria Smith, School Bursar explains: “Since introducing ParentPay, we have achieved 100% activation rate amongst parents which is great. We’re really pleased to have reached the stage where all our parents are paying online.”

White Mere Community Primary School

Falla Park were looking for a better way to handle and process school payments, initially in response to safety concerns brought about by the pandemic. Coming to the conclusion that online payments was the way forward for the school, they were looking for something that would “eliminate the need for staff to visit the bank whilst carrying large amounts of cash”, as well as “reduce paper-based activities in favour of more time-efficient methods”.

Falla Park Community Primary School

Falla Park were looking for a better way to handle and process school payments, initially in response to safety concerns brought about by the pandemic. Coming to the conclusion that online payments was the way forward for the school, they were looking for something that would “eliminate the need for staff to visit the bank whilst carrying large amounts of cash”, as well as “reduce paper-based activities in favour of more time-efficient methods”.

Gloucestershire County Council

Why the Trust decided to go cashless. More and more schools across the UK are joining Multi Academy Trusts. Schools are seeing the benefits of working closely together towards a shared goal. Many MATs have the shared processes and systems to gain efficiencies. This is the case for the Avocet Multi Academy Trust. Zoe Stewart, the Trust Finance Officer explains why they made the move to online payments.

Applegarth Primary School Video Success Story

Watch how Applegarth Primary School found success with ParentPay. Justin Peoples, Headteacher, and Sheila Fowler, Clerical Assistant, sit down with us to discuss the impact that ParentPay has had on their school.

Brereton Church of England Primary School Video Success Story

Harris Westminster Sixth Form Video Success Story

Watch how Harris Westminster Sixth Form have found success with ParentPay. We met Maeyen Nteyen of Harris Westminster Sixth Form to discuss the impact that ParentPay has had on her school.

Thomson House School

Thomson House School on going cashless. Cathy Tilley, School Business Manager at the school explains why they made the move to cashless: “To save time! We wanted to reduce the need to take cash and cheques to the bank and avoid having money and cheques laying around on desks. We also knew enabling online payments would make it easier for the teachers, as they would no longer have to collect cheques and envelopes full of change, when they could be using that time more effectively in the classroom.”

Billesley Primary School

Why Billesley Primary went cashless. Finance Assistant, Shazia Begum at Billesley Primary School in Birmingham, explains: “We are part of The Elliot Foundations Academies Trust (TEFAT) which wanted all of its schools to become cashless, making collections more efficient with less risk.”

St John Payne Catholic School

Going cashless with online payments. School Business Manager, Monica Morley and Senior Finance Officer, Sara Smithdale at St. John Payne Catholic School in Essex explain why their school went fully cashless and the lessons learned in the process.

Avocet Multi Academy Trust

Why the Trust decided to go cashless. More and more schools across the UK are joining Multi Academy Trusts. Schools are seeing the benefits of working closely together towards a shared goal. Many MATs have the shared processes and systems to gain efficiencies. This is the case for the Avocet Multi Academy Trust. Zoe Stewart, the Trust Finance Officer explains why they made the move to online payments.

The Cottesloe Secondary School

The Cottesloe School went cashless. We asked Sonya Amor Marshall, School Business Manager from The Cottesloe School, in Bedfordshire (Buckinghamshire LA) why they made the move to cashless, and how they’ve made such a success of the conversion. Sonya explains: “ParentPay was already in place when I joined the school, which was originally implemented by our caterers to collect the school meal income.”

Chelsea Academy

Why Chelsea Academy went cashless. Lucian Boyd Harte, Director of Finance and Operations at Chelsea Academy in London, provides an insight into his experience of becoming cashless: “Having introduced ParentPay at my previous school, I was aware of how we could use the system to our full advantage. When I joined Chelsea Academy, ParentPay was already in place, but the Academy was not using it to its full potential to maximise efficiency, not only for the school, but for our students and parents too.”

Llangynidr Community Primary School

Powys school on going cashless. More and more schools across the country are making the decision to collect payments online from parents, taking the headache out of collecting and counting all that loose change. We hear what one Powys school thinks of collecting payments online. Llangynidr Community Primary School made the move to become a cashless school, and have achieved an impressive 97% activation rate. Akemi Cuthbertson-Smith, School Secretary at Llangynidr outlines how their school has benefitted from having an online payment system.