Cash is coming under scrutiny as a major risk. Retailers would rather their staff weren’t handling cash right now. Most importantly, we don’t yet know how long Coronavirus can remain active on different surfaces. This is an opportune time for Steelstown to implement a cashless system. This helps protect our children, parents and staff in these unique circumstances. All parents will receive an activation letter this week for our new cashless system 'ParentPay'. This will allow parents to make meal payments via the ParentPay website.

• Improves hygiene
• Minimises contact
• Is easy to implement
• Reassures users
• Reduces queues
• Ensures faster transactions
• Reassures staff

ParentPay - our new online payment service

We are pleased to announce that we will shortly be accepting payments online for items such as dinner money, school trips and uniform. Using a secure website called ParentPay you will be able to pay online using your credit or debit card. ParentPay will be our preferred method of making payments to school.

What are the benefits to parents and pupils?

• ParentPay is easy-to-use and will offer you the freedom to make online payments whenever and wherever you like, 24/7

• The technology used is of the highest internet security available ensuring that your money will reach school safely – offering you peace of mind

• Payments can be made by credit/debit card or also through PayPoint

• Full payment histories and statements are available to you securely online at anytime

• Your children will not have to worry about losing money at school

• Parents can choose to be alerted when their balances are low via email and/or SMS

• What are the benefits to our school?

• You can help us reduce workloads for all staff as no more counting cash, chasing debt and stop cash collection

• Creates more time to lend to educational support and the smooth running of the

• Help to reduce anti-social behaviour

• Using ParentPay also ensures that all financial transactions are safe and secure - helping us to remove costs associated with us having to manage cash securely on the school

• The more parents that use ParentPay, the greater the benefit is to our

How to get started with ParentPay?

We will shortly be sending you your account activation details, once you receive these:

• Visit parentpay.com
• Enter your Activation username and password in the Account Login section of the homepage. These are for one-time use only, please choose your own username and password for future access during the activation process
• Provide all the necessary information and choose your new username and password for your account - registering your email address will enable us to send you receipts and reminders
• Once activation is complete you can go to straight to Items for payment, select which item(s) you want to add to your basket and proceed to complete your payment

If you have any questions, please contact the school Finance Office.

For more information, visit www.parentpay.com/parents/what-parentpay-does