ParentPay

Parent Pay is an online payment system for schools and families. It allows parents to pay quickly and securely for school meals, trips and activities. You simply top-up your Parent Pay account online by debit or credit card, or in cash through PayPoint stores.

What does ParentPay do?

• enables you to pay for dinners and trips
• offers a highly secure payment site
• gives you a history of all the payments you have made
• allows you to create a single login account across all your children that attend a ParentPay school
• shows you all items available for payment relevant to each of your children
• emails a receipt of your payment to the email address you register
• offers you the ability to set automated email/SMS payment reminders

How does ParentPay help you?

• gives you the freedom to make payments to school whenever and wherever you like
• stops you having to search for cash to send to school
• gives you peace of mind that your payment has been made safely and securely
• helps with budgeting; payments are immediate if using debit/card card
• payment for many of the larger trips can be made by installments up to the due date
• you will never need miss a payment, or have insufficient credit, with automated email/SMS alerts
• ParentPay is quick and easy to use

How does ParentPay help our school?

• reduces the administrative time spent on banking procedures
• keeps accurate records of payments made to every service for every student
• payments do not bounce
• reduces paper 'waste'
• allows for easy and quick refunds to be made back to the payment card
• improves communication between the school and parents concerning payments
• offers a more efficient payment collection process, reducing the amount of money held on school premises

How do I get started?

When your child starts at our school, you will receive an activation email containing your username and password to enable you to set up a ParentPay account.

If you have more than one child at a ParentPay school/s you can add them to a single account, providing one login for all children at ParentPay schools.

If you need any further information or support, please contact the school office on 01773 832895 or info@leys.derbyshire.sch.uk