Supporting Campus Finance Teams
Payments & Student Accounts brings billing, payments, payment plans, refunds, and financial operations together in a single source of truth that integrates with the institutional systems you already run. Students and families manage it all, viewing balances, enrolling in payment plans, and making payments with confidence, whenever and wherever they need to. Here's how each piece works together.Transforming Financial Operations
We bring disconnected student payment systems into a single platform, reducing complexity, streamlining processes, and offering finance teams better visibility into financial activity, resulting in clear, actionable insights.
Payment Processing Solutions
How institutions want to handle transaction fees shouldn't be a one-size-fits-all decision. SmartPay lets you pass credit card and ACH processing fees to payers, eliminating processing costs for your institution, while CampusPay covers those fees on the institution's side for a fee-free experience for students and families. Either way, payments run through the same secure processing layer, so switching models doesn't mean switching systems.
Student Financial Services
Students and families gain a clear, connected experience for viewing balances, receiving bills, enrolling in payment plans, and making payments with confidence. ePayment, the primary student payment portal, works alongside eBill and Dynamic Bill to keep account activity current between billing cycles, while eRefunds delivers Title IV disbursements straight to a student's bank account. Each of these tools is available online, so managing a student account never has to wait for office hours.
Financial Management
Payments touch more than tuition. eMarket lets departments create their own storefronts for non-tuition revenue, from parking permits to event fees, without needing a dedicated payment team, while Cashiering handles in-person and departmental deposits for charges of every kind. Connected financial data flows into Illumia Insights and Reporting, giving administrators the visibility into trends and opportunities they need to make informed decisions.
Payment Security & Compliance
Built-in support for PCI, NACHA, accessibility, privacy, and payment security requirements helps your institution reduce risk instead of adding to it. Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) encrypts credit card data at checkout, at Cashiering, and on the Virtual Terminal, significantly reducing your PCI scope. And if you'd rather hand off the details, Managed Services pairs you with a dedicated technical account manager for eMarket setup, reporting, and end-of-day monitoring.
ERP Integration
Modernizing payments shouldn't mean disrupting the student information system your institution already runs on. Illumia maintains pre-built, certified integrations with every major higher education ERP, including Ellucian Banner and Colleague, Oracle Cloud and PeopleSoft, Anthology, and Jenzabar, plus a StarRez integration for housing. When it's time to migrate to a new ERP, our team supports a coordinated transition across payments, ID, and commerce together.
Payment Processing Solutions
How institutions want to handle transaction fees shouldn't be a one-size-fits-all decision. SmartPay lets you pass credit card and ACH processing fees to payers, eliminating processing costs for your institution, while CampusPay covers those fees on the institution's side for a fee-free experience for students and families. Either way, payments run through the same secure processing layer, so switching models doesn't mean switching systems.
Student Financial Services
Students and families gain a clear, connected experience for viewing balances, receiving bills, enrolling in payment plans, and making payments with confidence. ePayment, the primary student payment portal, works alongside eBill and Dynamic Bill to keep account activity current between billing cycles, while eRefunds delivers Title IV disbursements straight to a student's bank account. Each of these tools is available online, so managing a student account never has to wait for office hours.
Financial Management
Payments touch more than tuition. eMarket lets departments create their own storefronts for non-tuition revenue, from parking permits to event fees, without needing a dedicated payment team, while Cashiering handles in-person and departmental deposits for charges of every kind. Connected financial data flows into Illumia Insights and Reporting, giving administrators the visibility into trends and opportunities they need to make informed decisions.
Payment Security & Compliance
Built-in support for PCI, NACHA, accessibility, privacy, and payment security requirements helps your institution reduce risk instead of adding to it. Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) encrypts credit card data at checkout, at Cashiering, and on the Virtual Terminal, significantly reducing your PCI scope. And if you'd rather hand off the details, Managed Services pairs you with a dedicated technical account manager for eMarket setup, reporting, and end-of-day monitoring.
ERP Integration
Modernizing payments shouldn't mean disrupting the student information system your institution already runs on. Illumia maintains pre-built, certified integrations with every major higher education ERP, including Ellucian Banner and Colleague, Oracle Cloud and PeopleSoft, Anthology, and Jenzabar, plus a StarRez integration for housing. When it's time to migrate to a new ERP, our team supports a coordinated transition across payments, ID, and commerce together.
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