Payments Plus

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What is Payments Plus?

The end-to-end payments system within Arbor.

Manage meal choices, create your school shop and take payments the way you want to - all from within Arbor. Payments Plus removes the need to log in to multiple places to complete different payment tasks. You can make payments self-service, and ultimately become a cashless school.

Payments Plus is an extension to our current payments module and fits seamlessly into Arbor, a system your parents know and love.

 

What's included?

School Shop

The new School Shop lets you sell anything you want - from school uniform to calculators to end-of-term show tickets - from within Arbor.

  • Create products for sale
  • Buy directly from the Parent Portal
  • Track orders and fulfilment

Advanced Meals

The new meals features let you create rotating meal menus and give parents the choice to choose their child’s meals in advance.

  • Rotate meal menus
  • Choose meal choices directly from the Parent Portal

Payment Methods

More payment method choices for parents - giving them the flexibility to pay the way that suits them.

  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay

Why Payments Plus?

  • End-to-end payments within your MIS: Removes the need to log in to multiple places to complete different payment tasks.

  • Become a fully cashless school: Digitally manage and sell all items within your school.

  • Self-service made simple: Parents login to just one place for all tasks.
  • Built to work as an extension to Arbor Payments Core: Extend Arbor’s payments features with new tools like school shop, advanced meal choices and new payment options.
  • Works seamlessly with your student data: No need to import data into a third party tool.
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Make Payments a Piece of Cake webinar series

One easy system for parents 

On-demand webinar

Hear from Arbor users Joanne Golding and Alison Hardy from Brookvale Groby Learning Campus about how they’re using Payments Plus to make life easier for parents with an all-in-one self-service platform offering flexible payment methods. They talk about how they setup their school shop for ease of use, provide different payment options and share some tips for success.

Plus, they're joined by Lead Product Manager at Arbor, Dan Searle, for a quick demonstration of the system so that you can see how Payments Plus works in action. 

Watch the recording

Reduce admin and empower school staff

On-demand webinar

This session focuses on easing the admin burden for finance staff and empowering other teams to take more ownership over their payments.

Arbor users Gemma Fuge and Dan Sainsbury, from HISP Multi Academy Trust, talk about how they’re using Payments Plus to make life easier for staff across their trust. They talk about their setup at two of the four schools in the trust and share their plans for implementing Payments Plus at their other schools in the near future.                                                                                

Watch the recording

Next steps

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New to Arbor

Not yet using Arbor MIS? No problem, book on to one of our up coming webinars to discover more.

Arbor customers

Contact your Account Manager for more information on Payments Plus and how you can upgrade to get access.

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FAQs

Can I only buy Payments Plus if I already have Payments through Arbor?
Yes. Payments Plus is an extension of our Payments offering.

How do I get access to the features in Payments Plus?
Speak to your Account Manager and they will be able to help you upgrade to Payments Plus.

When will all the new features be available?
We are launching the features in stages when they are ready.
- School Shop: launched May 2022
- Advanced Meals: launched September 2022
- Apple Pay and Google Pay: launched Autumn 2022

 

Why do schools and MATs love Arbor?

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