Set a school fee for one student, a class, a grade, or everyone

Use Fees to charge families for things like art supplies, a field trip, or a yearbook. You pick who owes it. Each family sees it on their family page with a running balance.

Before you start

• Front office comes with the School plan ($1,999 a year per site) and the District plan.
• Students must be on your roster. See Import your student roster.
• To take cards, an owner or admin connects Stripe once. Go to Settings, then Billing, then tap Connect Stripe.

Steps

1. Go to Front office, then Fees.
2. Under Set a fee, type a Name, like Art supplies.
3. Enter the Amount per student and pick a Due date.
4. Add a note in What families should know, optional if it helps. Families see it under the fee on their family page.
5. Under Who, pick Everyone, a grade, or a class.
6. To bill just one child, pick them in Or one student, optional. One student wins over the group above.
7. To email each family who owes it right away, tick Email the families now.
8. Tap Add fee and confirm.

You land on the fee page. It lists every student on the fee and who has paid.

Good to know

• The amount can be from $0.50 to $10,000 per student.
• Only active students in the group today get the fee. A student who joins later is not billed. Add a one student fee for them.
• If you leave Email the families now unticked, nobody is emailed until you send a reminder. To tell families later, tap Remind families who owe. See Remind families who owe a fee.
• Each email uses 1 message credit.
• Families who pay by card pay the platform fee on top, so the school gets the full amount. The form shows an example before you save.
• Families can also bring cash or a check. You mark those paid by hand.

Fix or delete a fee

1. Tap the fee name to open the fee page.
2. Open Fix or delete this fee.
3. Change the Name, the Due date, or What families should know, optional.
4. Tap Save changes. Families see the change on their family page.

• The amount cannot change once set. To change it, delete the fee and set a new one.
• Delete fee shows only while nobody has paid. It takes the fee off every family page and cannot be undone.
• If a family paid by cash or check, tap Undo on that row first. A fee a family paid by card cannot be deleted.