Payments

The Goal: To enhance parental engagement by ensuring seamless integration and user experience between the SchoolMoney app and the Xpressions app. Overview: This objective focuses on enabling the new SchoolMoney app to communicate effectively with the Xpressions app. By linking these apps, we aim to provide families with real-time updates, notifications, and messages, simplifying their management of school-related communications. Key Highlights: Seamless communication between SchoolMoney and Xpressions for unified parent notifications. Simplified user experience, reducing the need for parents to switch between multiple apps. Customer Benefit(s): Parents will benefit from streamlined communication, receiving timely updates and notifications in one easily accessible location. For schools, this integration strengthens the connection with families, fostering trust and enhancing overall communication effectiveness.

The Goal: To modernise the WisePay app, ensuring a consistent design and user experience across both desktop and mobile platforms, mirroring the unified structure of SchoolMoney. Overview: This roadmap objective will focus on modernising the WisePay app to create a consistent and cohesive experience across desktop and mobile devices, much like the recent updates made to SchoolMoney. The aim is to streamline the user interface and functionality, creating a single, unified payment app structure with a similar look and feel. Key Highlights: Modernisation of the WisePay app, aligning it with the SchoolMoney design. Consistency in user experience across both desktop and mobile platforms. Improved navigation and usability for a more intuitive payment experience. Customer Benefit(s): The modernised design will make it easier for users to navigate and perform tasks efficiently, regardless of whether they are using the desktop or mobile app. By consolidating the structure and design, we ensure a more unified approach to payments, enhancing overall user satisfaction.

The Goal: To support parents in managing school payments by providing tools and reminders, specifically focused on topping up for dinners and clubs. Overview: We will introduce reminder notifications and intuitive tools within SchoolMoney to help parents stay on top of their payments for school dinners, after-school clubs, and other recurring fees. Parents will receive timely reminders when it’s time to top up their accounts, ensuring they never miss a payment. This feature will improve financial management for parents, making it easier to ensure their children have access to essential services without disruptions. Key Highlights: Introduction of automated reminders for topping up dinner and club payments. Timely notifications to ensure parents can top up their accounts before balances run low. Customer Benefit(s): Parents will benefit from receiving clear reminders, reducing the likelihood of missed payments and avoiding any disruptions in their children's services.

The Goal: To enhance the SchoolMoney cashless catering system by improving the design and user experience, making it simpler and more efficient for both students and school staff. Overview: Our aim is to modernise the cashless catering till within SchoolMoney, providing a seamless and intuitive interface for both students and school staff. By redesigning the system with a focus on user experience, we will ensure quicker, more efficient transactions, reducing waiting times and enhancing service delivery. Key Highlights: A fully redesigned interface, optimised for speed and simplicity. Enhanced user flows to reduce waiting times at tills and improve transaction efficiency. Improved accessibility and usability, ensuring a consistent experience for all users. Customer Benefit(s): With the improved cashless catering till, students will experience faster, more convenient transactions, allowing them to enjoy their meals with minimal delay. School staff will benefit from a more intuitive interface, enabling them to manage payments efficiently and focus on delivering high-quality service.

The Goal: To establish Smart-Booker as an independent, standalone product outside of WisePay, creating an agnostic booking solution tailored to the needs of VenturED Solutions' broader customer base. Overview: Currently integrated with WisePay, Smart-Booker will be transitioned into a standalone product to broaden its appeal and accessibility. By detaching it from WisePay, the product will be positioned as an agnostic solution that can serve a wider range of customers within VenturED Solutions' portfolio and beyond. Key Highlights: Separation of Smart-Booker from WisePay to create a standalone product. Long-term plan to build a dedicated Smart-Booker app for increased accessibility. Customer Benefit(s): VenturED Solutions customers will benefit from a highly adaptable and independent booking platform that meets their specific needs. The dedicated app will provide a more convenient and accessible way to manage bookings, making Smart-Booker a flexible solution for various customer bases.

The Goal: To revamp the admin interface of Smart-Booker, modernising the UI and UX to address customer feedback regarding complexity and outdated design, and creating a more intuitive and efficient booking management experience. Overview: Smart-Booker has been a valuable tool for managing bookings, but its current admin interface has been noted by customers as overly complex and outdated. This objective aims to modernise the platform by redesigning the user interface and improving the overall user experience for administrators. Key Highlights: A complete overhaul of the admin UI to modern standards, with a clean and user-friendly design. Improved UX to simplify navigation and reduce complexity in managing bookings and events. Customer Benefit(s): Admins will benefit from a more intuitive and visually appealing interface, making it easier to manage bookings and set up events. The modernised design will increase productivity, and provide a smoother, more satisfying user experience.

The Goal: Introducing Payment Links and QR Codes by Q4 2025, enhancing payment convenience for parents across SchoolMoney and WisePay platforms. Overview: We plan on expanding payment methods through mobile payments, specifically via Pay Links and QR Codes, to simplify the process for parents. By offering alternative payment options, we aim to make it easier for parents to pay directly from their mobile devices. This will be integrated into both SchoolMoney and WisePay, facilitating faster, more convenient transactions that can be accessed from anywhere, at any time. Key Highlights: Integration of Pay Links and QR Codes across SchoolMoney and WisePay platforms. Easy, mobile-friendly payment options for parents, accessible anytime, anywhere. Customer Benefit(s): Parents will benefit from a quicker, more accessible way to make payments, reducing the effort involved in completing transactions. The added convenience of paying via mobile devices, using QR codes or Pay Links, will encourage more frequent use of these payment methods.

The Goal: To integrate PayPoint as a payment method on WisePay, ensuring inclusivity and remaining competitive in the market. Overview: We will add PayPoint as a payment option within WisePay, enabling parents who prefer not to use the app or do not have a bank account to make payments conveniently with cash. This integration caters to a wider range of user preferences, ensuring that WisePay remains a flexible and inclusive payment platform. By leveraging PayPoint's extensive network, parents can complete transactions at local shops, increasing accessibility and ease of use. Key Highlights: Integration of PayPoint as a payment method in WisePay. Support for parents who prefer cash payments or lack access to a bank account. Customer Benefit(s): Parents gain an alternative, convenient way to make payments without relying on digital platforms or bank accounts. This ensures that families with varying financial preferences or circumstances can still engage with WisePay services. Schools also benefit by accommodating a broader range of payment methods, making it easier to collect monies and fostering inclusivity within their communities.

The Goal: To introduce Variable Recurring Payments (VRPs) on WisePay, enabling seamless and automated payment solutions for parents, exclusively through the Global Payments gateway. Overview: We will be implementing Variable Recurring Payments within WisePay, simplifying payment processes for parents. By automating recurring payments, parents can avoid the need for frequent manual transactions. Key Highlights: Automatic payment scheduling to reduce the need for manual interventions. Secure and seamless processing of recurring transactions. Customer Benefit(s): Parents will experience a smoother payment process, as recurring payments are handled automatically and securely. This ensures that important school-related payments are completed on time without requiring frequent action from parents.

The Goal: To modernise and enhance the design and user experience of the WisePay admin interface in batches, providing administrators with a more intuitive and efficient platform. Overview: We aim to update the WisePay admin dashboard to align with contemporary design standards and improve usability. By focusing on user-centric enhancements, the new interface will offer streamlined navigation and improved functionality. Key Highlights: Comprehensive redesign of the WisePay admin portal interface. Enhanced navigation to streamline access to key features and tools. Consistent and modernised design. Customer Benefit(s): WisePay administrators will gain access to a cleaner, more user-friendly interface that simplifies day-to-day operations.