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SIMS Agora online payments

SIMS Agora online payments. Helen Browning Account Manager. The new online payments solution from SIMS. www.payyourschool.co.uk. Easy way to pay for school items. Helping the whole school community. SIMS Agora… for schools. Secure, integrated online school payments

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SIMS Agora online payments

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  1. SIMS Agoraonline payments Helen BrowningAccount Manager

  2. The new online paymentssolution from SIMS www.payyourschool.co.uk

  3. Easy way to pay for school items

  4. Helping the whole school community

  5. SIMS Agora… for schools • Secure, integrated online school payments • Seamless automatic integration & updates with SIMS.net • Seamless automatic integration & updates SIMS Dinner Money • School manages bank account administration • Faster payment reconciliation • Allows parents to manage their own login details • Improves security & safeguarding

  6. Education Processing over £2.2billion payments per year Over 2 million payment transactions per month Housing Local Government

  7. So What? Why Agora?

  8. Making school payments simple Microsoft • Easy to use • Integrated • Safe ▪ secure ▪ resilient • Trusted

  9. SIMS Agora automatically shows each pupil’s dinner money balance Balances and paymentsautomatically synchronised &updated between SIMS Agora Parents can pay online for their child:SIMS Dinner Money is automatically updated

  10. Payments made online by parents for their children through SIMS Agora are automatically updated in your SIMS Dinner Money module for the pupil’s account Any cash or cheque payments entered into SIMS Dinner Money manually will also show in the parent’s SIMS Agora account

  11. SIMS Agora payment details include the payment card type, bill payer name, date, amount per pupil & payment reference

  12. SIMS Agora update • Launched at January 30th2013 • Early Adopter Scheme (field trials) startedJanuary - April 2013 • Availability update – target SIMS Spring 2013 Release • Continuing developments through 2013

  13. Agora pricing • Annual subscription based service • 1 or 3 year options • Range of training options • Transaction fees: • Debit card: 30p per transaction • Credit card 1.6% per transaction • No gateway charges

  14. SIMS Agora Pricing – 1 year option

  15. SIMS Agora Pricing – 3 year option

  16. Easy parent/guardian account activation About our new online payment service

  17. Supporting schools with parent engagement

  18. Agora - Looking ahead Cashless Catering SLG FMS InTouch DINNER MONEY

  19. SIMS Agora online payments – what schools using Agora have said… “Using SIMS Agora has been very easy for our school – it just works! The setup and training was all very straightforward – just a few simple steps.  After the setup all we had to do was activate the parent groups. Then we sent out letters with the easy-to-use guide for our parents that Capita provided  – it really was that easy. We find the system very intuitive to use.  SIMS Agora helps us to keep track of school finances like dinner money payments and nursery fees.  Our parents like the system too and really appreciate the convenience of being able to make payments online, whenever and wherever they wish to. Mrs Jean Robinson, Office Manager, DidsburyCofE Primary School, Manchester

  20. SIMS Agora online payments – what schools using Agora have said… As a school business manager, I also like the fact that we only have one single number to call for support. Whichever SIMS product we need a hand with we have the single point of contact to help us. This helps us to manage the school office much more efficiently. Since introducing SIMS Agora we have seen a real reduction in the amount of money we have to count each week for school meals and then pay into our school bank account. SIMS Agora is saving us so much time!” Mrs Sarah Orley, Finance and Office Manager, Newlands Spring Primary School Academy Trust, Essex

  21. SIMS Agora online payments – what schools using Agora have said… Using SIMS Agora provides our school with a cost-effective way to collect parent payments and reduces the handling of cash and cheques in the school office. This is saving time us a lot of time spent on counting money and banking administration. The integration with SIMS Dinner Money is a real plus – parents can access SIMS Agora at any time to check their child’s balance and quickly make a top-up payment.  It also serves as a record, showing a full list of any payments they have made to the school.  Payments made via SIMS Agora automatically update our SIMS Dinner Money system, which reduces the amount of time we spend on school meal administration.“Trudy Taylor, School Business Manager, Oakfield CE Primary School, Isle of Wight

  22. The new online payments solution from SIMS www.capita-sims.co.uk/onlinepayments

  23. OR Contact Me: • Helen Browning – Account Manager • Mobile: 07584 262986 • Email: helen.browning@capita.co.uk

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