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ScholaRise Fees

Fees & fee collection

Fees.

From the fee head to the receipt — concessions, late fees, cash and online, one ledger behind every rupee — because we collect our own school's fees on this exact module.

  • Fee heads
  • Terms
  • Concessions
  • Late fees
  • Receipts
  • Ledger
I At the counter

Collect a term in one screen.

Collected today ₹2.4L Concessions ₹3.8L this term Defaulters 44

Rendered in the ScholaRise app palette · figures illustrative — the structure and computed fields are real.

From the same counter →

Collections · Today · 31 receipts

₹2.4L
Student Mode Amount Receipt

Aarav Kapoor

VIII-A

Cash ₹33,850 TSH/26/4821

Diya Sharma

VI-B

Online ₹28,400 TSH/26/4822

Kabir Nair

X-C

UPI ₹41,900 TSH/26/4823

Myra Bansal

IV-A

Cash ₹19,200 TSH/26/4824
II The argument

Fees are where a school's trust is kept or lost — so the maths has to be one maths.

At the fee counter

Most schools run fees across a counter register, a spreadsheet of concessions, a separate list of defaulters and whatever the bank statement says — four tallies that never quite agree, so every month ends in reconciliation. A sibling discount is applied on one page and forgotten on another; a late fee is charged that should have been waived; a parent pays online and the receipt is cut twice. ScholaRise collapses all of it into one ledger: the head, the concession, the late fee, the payment and the receipt are the same record, scoped to one branch and one session — and these are our school's fees, every term, so we feel the off-by-a-rupee before you do.

What it does
  • Fee heads & terms

    Define the heads a school charges — tuition, transport, term charges — and the terms they fall in, then map heads to terms once so every class inherits the same structure.

  • Classwise & per-student fees

    Set the amount once per class — or per section where two sections diverge — then override a single student's line where a case genuinely needs it, without disturbing the class scale.

  • Concessions with approval

    Percentage or fixed concessions — including automatic sibling and staff-ward discounts — routed through a one- or two-person approval workflow, with auto-approval below a configurable threshold and a full history trail.

  • Late-fee rules & waivers

    Fixed, per-day, per-week, percentage or slab-based late fees with grace days and rounding — applied automatically past the due date, and waivable per term or as a full fee waiver when the situation calls for it.

  • Collection — cash & online

    Collect a whole term or a single head, with custom and partial amounts, in any mode — cash, UPI, card, cheque, DD, bank transfer — and reconcile online payments into the same screen.

  • Dual payment gateways

    Take card and UPI online through two configured gateways — Easebuzz and HDFC via Juspay — with the right one dispatched per branch, transactions tracked and webhooks reconciled back to the receipt.

  • Receipts & PDF

    Every collection mints a unique receipt number and a print-ready PDF — fetched over a signed, expiring public link the WhatsApp invoice attaches, so a parent gets the document, not a screenshot.

  • Student fee ledger

    An append-only ledger — charges, payments, concessions, waivers, adjustments, refunds and reversals — with a running balance per head and term, so a student's history is auditable, not reconstructed.

How it fits
  • 01 / 04

    Scoped to one branch and one academic session. Every head, term, concession and collection belongs to a campus and a year — so a multi-campus trust keeps each campus's fees its own, and last year's numbers never bleed into this year's books.

  • 02 / 04

    One ledger behind every number. Defaulters, reminders and the automatic WhatsApp invoices read the same append-only ledger the counter writes to — there is no second tally to reconcile, because there is only one.

  • 03 / 04

    On the same web, iOS and Android apps. The accountant collects at the desk; a parent pays online from a phone; both land in the same receipt and the same balance. No separate fees login, no exported spreadsheet in between.

  • 04 / 04

    Within reach of Sol, the AI agent. The assistant that answers questions across the school sits over fees too — a quiet way to ask who is outstanding this term, not a fourth tool to learn.

Where this comes from

We cut our own school's receipts on this module, every term. That is a claim no vendor can borrow.

Honestly compared vs a payment gateway + Tally

A gateway takes the money. It doesn't run your fees.

Razorpay or PayU collect a payment beautifully — but a payment is the last step of fee management, not the whole of it.

Gateway + spreadsheet / Tally

  • Knows an amount — not your heads, terms or concession rules.
  • Reconciliation to the student ledger is a manual evening in Tally.
  • Defaulters, reminders and receipts are yours to chase.
  • One gateway, bolted on, with its own dashboard.

ScholaRise Fees

  • Heads, terms, classwise fees and concessions, applied per student.
  • Every rupee lands on the student's ledger automatically.
  • Session-aware defaulters, WhatsApp reminders and receipts, built in.
  • Dual gateways and cash collection, all on one ledger across campuses.

Keep the gateway — we use one too. The difference is everything around it.

Book a demo Available across India
The next step

See ScholaRise in your school.

A real walkthrough with someone who actually runs a school — we'll map what fits your campus today and what's worth phasing in over the next year.

The walkthrough

Length
30 minutes, no slides
Run by
Someone who runs a school
Available
Across India · web, iOS & Android
Module
Fees & collection
Platforms
Web · iOS · Android
Scope
Branch + session
Gateways
Easebuzz · HDFC/Juspay