A continuous multi-year programme of customer driven innovation, designed to add-value to your investment in SIMS. Discover the next generation of school MIS.

Make everything from clubs to dinner money seamless

All your payments needs wrapped up in one package. Our Pay package has two core options – ParentPay Payments and Schoolcomms Payments. If you currently use you one of them, you’ll keep this, but modules you’d previously pay more for like Clubs and Shops are now included in the package at no extra cost. If you’re a SIMS customer, you’ll also get SIMS Dinner Money and Attendance – Meal Registration included as well.

Current Core

What is included in typical current contracts

ParentPay Payments

ParentPay Clubs & Trips

ParentPay Shops

ParentPay Donation Pages

Or

Schoolcomms Payments

Schoolcomms Clubs & Trips

Schoolcomms Dinner Money

SIMS Payments

SIMS Dinner Money**

Attendance – Meal Registration**

Included in the plan

  • ParentPay Data Capture & Integration
  • ParentPay Dinner Money
  • Cypad Meal Manager*
  • Schoolcomms Data Capture & Integration
  • Cypad Meal Manager*

Pay Package

Powerful new functionality and added value

ParentPay Payments

Or

Schoolcomms Payments

SIMS Payments

Included in the plan

  • ParentPay Clubs & Trips
  • ParentPay Data Capture & Integration
  • ParentPay Dinner Money
  • ParentPay Shops
  • ParentPay Donation Pages
  • Cypad Meal Manager*
  • Schoolcomms Clubs & Trips
  • Schoolcomms Data Capture & Integration
  • Schoolcomms Dinner Money
  • Cypad Meal Manager*
  • SIMS Dinner Money**
  • Attendance – Meal Registration**

Current Core

What is included in typical current contracts

Pay Package

Powerful new functionality and added value

ParentPay Payments

Or

Schoolcomms Payments

SIMS Payments

*For existing customers only

**For SIMS customers only

Payments you can trust

ParentPay Group is the largest, most secure, and trusted payments provider – in the last year alone we handled 65.2m transactions. Our team of cyber security experts work round the clock, maintaining our market-leading security standards so you can be sure your data is protected.

14,000 schools and 4 million parents trust us with their payments

Get more hours in the day

We take the complexity out of payments – streamlined processes, no more manual admin, and everything you need in one package. From Clubs and Trips to PTFA donations, you’re covered.

Diamond Primary School saved an hour every week, per teacher on meal choice selections

Manage clubs and trips with ease

User-friendly, paperwork-free, and completely cashless. Our trip and club management solutions take the pressure off your school office with hassle-free management for trips and wraparound care.

Flexible payments options

Flexible, parent-friendly payment options including card, bank transfer, or PayPoint, so you can take payments however works for you.

Reporting simplified

Managing payments can be a headache. Want to know who hasn’t paid for that skiing trip? No problem. Need to see a reconciled transaction list? We can do that too. If you're a MAT, our Group Manager Application gives you everything you need to manage spending across your group. You'll have complete visibility of the payments collected by school as well as detailed financial reconciliation reports.

“There are so many advantages to becoming cashless, and it’s really convenient for parents.”

 

Sonya Amor Marshall, School Business Manager, The Cottesloe School

All your ParentPay products, in one place

From Summer 2025, you’ll be able to log into all your ParentPay Group products in one place, with one password.

Payments + MIS, whoever you use

Our payments solutions integrate with all market-leading MIS, finance, and cashless catering solutions so whoever you choose to use, everything will work together seamlessly.