40+ years
of behind-the-scenes support helping educational teams thrive.
Pay
Make everything from clubs to dinner money seamless
Make managing payments simple, secure, and flexible. The Pay package brings everything together—from meals and clubs to wraparound care and donations—all built around your school’s needs.
20,000+ schools
trust our tailored solutions, from single-site schools to large MATs & institutions.
9 million+ users
Supporting educators, suppliers, parents, students daily.
A-rated security
Best-in-class data protection—safeguarding millions of records daily.
Flexible, simplified, and built around you
Build a solution that fits your school perfectly—with tools to help your school run well and your team work smarter, save time, and stay in control of data, insights, and performance. And soon, you’ll be able to access all ParentPay Group products with one login. No more juggling logins or switching between systems—just one simple, connected experience.
Pay package
Make everything from clubs to dinner money seamless
Menu selection
Clubs and trips
Wraparound care
Shops and donations pages
Single basket checkout
Automatic top up
Reporting & insights
MIS and catering integration
Settle to multiple accounts
SIMS Dinner Money
Group management application
Payments you can trust
ParentPay Group is the largest, most secure payments provider for schools, handling 3.6m+ transactions daily with 24/7 cybersecurity to protect your data.
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.
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
Easily track unpaid trips and view reconciled transactions. MATs get full payment visibility and detailed financial reports across their schools with our Group Manager app.
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Discover more Adaptive packages from ParentPay Group—built to work together and tailored to your needs.
Engage
Communicate and collaborate quickly and easily
Includes:
- SMS/email messaging
- In app notifications
- Parent & student app
- Data collection
- Attendance insights
- Conduct insights
- Assessment insights
- Clubs & activities
- Timetable
- Reports
- School calendar
- Homework *H2 2026
- Parents' evening booking *H2 2026
- Google & Apple single sign-on *H2 2026
- Class management (Class View and Seating Plans)
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Finance
Budgeting, resource allocation, and reporting simplified
Includes:
- Suppliers and supplier payments
- Income and debtors
- Budgets and staffing including personnel links
- Chart of accounts
- Financial tasks
- Data exchange with a local authority
- Statutory reporting
- Users and permissions
- Period and year end
- Equipment / asset management and loans
- Transactional reporting and audits
- Hosting
- Support and FMS extra database (optional)
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Optimise
Tools and insights to help your school thrive
Includes:
- Attendance and unexplained absence messaging
- Assessment, performance, and exams
- Census and statutory returns
- Conduct management
- Class management (Class View and Seating Plans until March 2027)
- Reporting, data, and insights
- Timetabling, options, and cover
- Pupil and staff data
- SEND management
- Interventions
- SIMS Next Generation
- Trust centralised performance management (Group Hub until March 2027)
- Hosting and support (optional)
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Secure
Education-focused data protection and cyber security
Includes:
- Complete data protection compliance platform
- Attack surface management
- Managed awareness training and phishing
- Threat intelligence updates
- DPO support service
- ICO-registered DPO contact
- Office 365 / Google security review
- Cloud endpoint security review
- Cloud data governance review
- Cloud audit log review
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