The FSSU recommends the use of an electronic payments solutions package. This will facilitate the handling of payments from parents to schools electronically (including internet, mobile phone app and chip and pin), while continuing to allow parents that wish to make payments by cash, cheque, etc.
The payments solutions are intended to fulfil the following objectives:
• To facilitate flexibility in receiving payments to and in schools;
• To remove cash payments for school activities from the schools themselves, but without removing the cash payment option for parents; and
• To align school payments with the National Payments Plan – the main goal of which is to ‘deliver a significant increase in the use of secure and efficient electronic payment methods leading to a reduction in the reliance on cash and paper-based payment instruments’
More information can be found on the School Procurement Unit website