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Education & Tuition

Collect tuition on time, without the office chasing payments.

Pulse lets schools, tutoring centers, and childcare collect tuition and fees by text-to-pay, automate recurring tuition and payment plans, and take payments over the phone — with card data never handled by front-office staff.

The challenge

What’s slowing collection down.

Tuition and fees collected by paper invoice or check are slow and hard to reconcile.

Front-office and phone payments mean staff keying card numbers — a PCI risk.

Tuition plans and past-due balances are tracked and chased by hand.

How Pulse helps

Built for education & tuition, on one secure platform.

Tuition & fees by text

Text families a secure link to pay tuition, activity fees, and lunch balances in one tap.

Recurring tuition & plans

Bill monthly tuition and installment plans automatically on a securely vaulted method.

Secure phone payments

Take payments over the phone by keypad — front-office staff never see or key the card.

AI balance reminders

An AI text or voice agent reminds families of due and past-due balances and collects automatically.

Branded family portal

A self-service page where families view balances and manage tuition plans, under your school’s brand.

No card in the front office

PCI DSS Level 1 and tokenized — staff never key or store card numbers.

See pay-by-phone & text-to-pay, the payments product, or the PCI DSS Level 1 security model.

FAQ

Education & Tuition payments, answered.

How can a school collect tuition by text?

Pulse texts families a secure link to pay tuition or fees. They tap it and pay on a tokenized page with no login, which collects far faster than paper invoices and is easy to reconcile.

Can we automate recurring tuition and payment plans?

Yes. Monthly tuition and installment plans can be billed automatically on a securely vaulted method, with reminders for past-due balances.

Can the front office take payments over the phone securely?

Yes. Families enter card details by keypad straight into the gateway; staff never see or key the number, keeping card data out of your PCI scope.

Is family card data secure?

Payments run on PCI DSS Level 1 rails with tokenized vaulting, so raw card numbers never touch your staff or systems.

Will it work with our school-management software?

Pulse is vendor-agnostic and layers onto the systems and phones you already use.

Get started

See it on your education & tuition workflow.

Book a walkthrough and we’ll show text, phone, and portal payments on your setup.