An Introduction to ParentMail Online Payment System

What does ParentMail do?

• enables you to pay for school meals and other items such as trips and after school clubs

• offers a highly secure payment site

• gives you a history of all the payments you have made

• allows you to create a single account login across all your children that attend a ParentMail 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 ParentMail help you?

• gives you the freedom to make payments to school whenever and wherever you like

• stops you having to write cheques or 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, there is no waiting for cheques to clear

• payments for many of the larger trips can be made by instalments up to the due date

• you will never need miss a payment, or have insufficient credit, with automated email/SMS alerts

• ParentMail is quick and easy to use

How does ParentMail 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 joins our school and is added onto our ParentMail system, you will automatically be sent an email from ParentMail saying that Hilton Primary School invites you to register.  Registration can be done from this email and once you have registered you can download the app which makes things even easier.