Category Archives: Parents Portal
📇 NeatSchool Online Directory
If the sense of Community is something important to your program, you probably want to take advantage of the NeatSchool Online Directory Settings.
NeatSchool has an online Directory where all the Parents and Guardians can be optionally listed. In addition to the name and picture, NeatSchool can share a parent’s home phone, mobile phone, e-mail address and/or home address. A parent can navigate to the Online Directory on her mobile phone, click the phone or text message icon and place a call to another parent, that simple…
We realize that each program has different contact information sharing policies. NeatSchool is flexible to accommodate any privacy setting that is appropriate for your program. First of all, you can completely turn off the Directory if this is not important to you. If the Directory is enabled, an administrator can set reasonable defaults on which fields the parents can share.
Finally, each parent can overwrite the settings for his or her entry from the Parents Directory.
Using the Online Directory? Drop us a line on what you like and what else you would like to see improved.
More Payments Automation
NeatSchool has been providing support for online payments for quite some time now. We make it possible for our customers to provide both bank-to-bank and credit card payments. Bank to bank transactions are free, while credit card transactions incur a fee, typical of what you find in the industry. Many of our customers already use that functionality to streamline their tuition collection and save time from dealing with checks and cash.
In our most recent upgrade we included two new features that many of you have been asking for some time now. Your customers can now store their credit card as part of their profile. As with all our other sensitive information, the data is stored encrypted in physically secure certified for security and PCI compliance data centers.
When you want or automatically once a day the system will use that information to charge the card on file for all the customers who have a balance. The customer’s register is automatically updated with the transaction. All that and more options are controlled from the settings page. Please try the payments automation and send us your comments.
Our New Design goes Live
After several months in Beta, yesterday we made our new design the default interface for the Parents & Students portal in all devices. Our new design is modern and has a fresh look. But what we really like about it is that it works on all devices, from mobile phones to high end computer with gigantic screens. And, it is not a different app in each device, it is the same an one app.
Try it and send us your feedback!!
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