Make Payment Plans Part of Your School Marketing
How to Go From “Top Three” to “Final Choice”: Tips for Working with Potential School Families Why do families send their students to private schools? Smaller class sizes with more instructor-student interaction? Improved student safety? Higher academic standards and better…
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February Tuition, Billing, and Aid Reminders
Helping Families Access Tax Documentation This is the time of year when families may be requesting records of payments made to your school for tax purposes. If you are a school using FACTS Premier Integration, you can provide these instructions…
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Assisting Spanish-Speaking Families
Families have had to make many adjustments over the last year – and navigating online learning is just one of them. Imagine being a parent managing your child’s school information online in a language in which you are not fluent….
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Building a School Software Ecosystem
Schools globally demonstrated extraordinary agility in 2020. For many, the impacts of COVID-19 highlighted that the systems and software they use to run their school is, in many senses, holding them back. School shutdowns and a move to remote learning…
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Relieving Some of the Burden of Payment Security
As business offices evaluate their processes in the wake of COVID-19 restrictions, changing school policies, and ever-evolving technology priorities, keeping payment compliance top of mind is critical. Maintaining compliance for software applications that process payments is demanding, requiring regular audits…
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Have an Idea?
Let Your Voice Be Heard Do you have an idea that would improve your experience using FACTS products? We have a place for you to make suggestions and requests! Are you a FACTS Grant & Aid, Tuition Management, or Payment…
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Incidental Billing and Payment Forms
Handling Non-Tuition Payments For payments due to your school that don’t get included with regular tuition installments, FACTS offers a number of ways for families to pay, while keeping the reconciliation simple for your school. By offering payment flexibility to…
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Becoming a Cashless Business Office
In March 2020, school business offices had their workflows and procedures well documented and communicated with families. But when COVID-19 hit, new processes had to be created and institutions needed to adapt quickly to meet student needs under a contactless…
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It’s Time to Review FACTS Payment Plan and Financial Aid Options
Although it feels like we’ve just begun the 2020-2021 school year, it’s already time to review your school’s payment plan and financial aid assessment options for the next school year. Grant & Aid Assessment Renewal Options Some of the more…
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Adjusting Payment Plans for Undecided Families
COVID-19 has created a lot of uncertainty for families. As we inch closer to the start of the fall semester, families may still be having a difficult time deciding their child’s enrollment status at your school. If you have a…
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How to Check Scheduled Payment Reports
Are family payment plans ending on schedule? In FACTS Tuition Management, the scheduled payment report allows you to see the payment amounts that are scheduled to be processed in a selected time period. You can also view the entire remaining…
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How to Create an Adjustment Report Due to COVID-19
It’s hard to comprehend all the changes COVID-19 introduced to schools’ financial strategies. It’s also hard to determine how to track those changes. If your institution has decided to issue financial aid or credits to assist with the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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