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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
EducationLocal Government
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
DINNER MONEY
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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
