sims agora online payments

SIMS Agoraonline paymentsHelen BrowningAccount Manager

www.payyourschool.co.uk

The new online paymentssolution from SIMS

Easy way to pay for school items

Helping the whole school community

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

Over 2 million payment transactions per month

Processing over £2.2billion payments per year

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Housing

So What?Why Agora?

Easy to use

Integrated

Safe ▪ secure ▪ resilient

Trusted

Microsoft

Making school payments simple

Balances and paymentsautomatically synchronised &updated between SIMS Agora

SIMS Agora automatically shows each pupil’s dinner money balance

Parents can pay online for their child:SIMS Dinner Money is automatically updated

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

SIMS Agora payment details include the payment card type, bill payer name, date,

amount per pupil & payment reference

SIMS Agora update

Launched at January 30th 2013

Early Adopter Scheme (field trials) startedJanuary - April 2013

Availability update – target SIMS Spring 2013 Release

Continuing developments through 2013

Annual subscription based service 1 or 3 year options Range of training options

Transaction fees:o Debit card: 30p per transaction o Credit card 1.6% per transaction o No gateway charges

Agora pricing

SIMS Agora Pricing – 1 year option

Standard Annual Subscription One-off Connection & Configuration fee

Single-site Sales:

Primary / Junior £395 per year £200

Secondary / Senior School £975 per year £200

LA/Group Sales (min of 20 or more schools committing to purchase Agora in a single purchase/group deal)

Primary / Junior £295 per year £200

Secondary / Senior School £875 per year £200

Subscriptions will be pro-rated within the year, with all contracts renewing on 1 st April.

SIMS Agora Pricing – 3 year option

Annual Subscription Introductory Offer

orders placed up to 31st August 2013

Standard Annual Subscription

One-off Connection& Configuration fee

Single-site Sales:

Primary / Junior £295 year 1 £395 per year £200

Secondary / Senior School £795 year 1 £975 per year £200

LA/Group Sales (min of 20 or more schools committing to purchase Agora in a single purchase/group deal)

Primary / Junior £235 year 1 £295 per year £200

Secondary / Senior School £635 year 1 £875 per year £200

Subscriptions will be pro-rated within the year, with all contracts renewing on 1 st April.

Prices are for a 3 year contract per school.

All customers paying the introductory price for year 1 will pay standard pricing for years 2 & 3.

Easy parent/guardian account activation

About our new online payment service

Supporting schools with parent engagement

Agora - Looking ahead

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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, Didsbury CofE Primary School, Manchester

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

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

The new online payments solution from SIMS

www.capita-sims.co.uk/onlinepayments

OR Contact Me:

Helen Browning – Account Manager

Mobile: 07584 262986

Email: helen.browning@capita.co.uk