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Our online school payment software just keeps on getting better. For the latest cashless school news, features and case studies read on.
Our online school payment software just keeps on getting better. For the latest cashless school news, features and case studies read on.
22 October 2020 Comments Off on Principals Today: “Contactless payments & trouble-free food” Case Studies, News, School Donations, School Fundraisers, School Lunch
Principals Today magazine featured Kindo and ezlunch in this feature on school payments online, featuring Vauxhall School and Paparoa Street School, who followed different paths to taking all school payments on Kindo. Hear what they have to say…
Gary Lawrence from Vauxhall School commented: “We’re pleased that we’ve gone down the path of having all payments and fees in one place. Kindo makes it easy to raise funds through community events — this means we can reinvest those funds back into the classroom, providing more learning assistant hours.”
Camille Lamond, office administrator at Paparoa Primary found Kindo ‘relatively straightforward’: “I was a little nervous at first, but we’ve already got most of our parents using Kindo. Kindo Payables is easy. You can send out invoice items to an individual class or year and set up groups for particular payments like sports team transport. It has really cut down the fiddly admin side of my work.”
When asked what she would say to other schools, Shannon McNaughton [office administrator] does not hesitate: “Just get it – from a paperwork and admin perspective Kindo takes away all the pressure.”
21 April 2020 Comments Off on Kindo during COVID-19 – helping gather attendance intentions News, Uncategorized
Do you need to know which students are returning to school under Level 3?
Kindo works with schools and families to simplify school life. So we’ve put together a Quick Guide for Kindo schools with exactly how to gather that information, using the myKindo application already used and loved by families.
With Kindo your caregivers can ‘book in’ the days their children will be attending… and you can simply view the student list.
• Caregivers can select one or more dates and ‘book ahead’ easily
• Caregivers can cancel dates if things change
• You can offer time slots that make sense for your school (eg. “9am-3pm Full Day” or a half day option)
• Set up cut off times for each day (eg. 4pm the day prior)
• Provide information on screen and emailed (such as the expectations under Level 3, how it will work)
• Link to an update page for updating Emergency Contacts on your website
• Access a daily list of students and look forward to future dates also
Of course, taking your shop orders and school payments online is all part of Kindo too, so if your Canteen or Uniform Shop needs to get online fast, we can help with that as well. Let us help you quickly establish appropriate distancing during COVID-19 with Kindo.
Get in touch if you’d like to know more.
Tel. 09-869 5200 or tollfree 0508 454 636 enquiry@kindo.co.nz
3 March 2020 Comments Off on Principals Today: “User-friendly finances” Case Studies
The term 1 2020 issue of Principals Today (125) features Island Bay School and their experience with with our online school payments portal, Kindo. Executive Officer, Theresa Meredith, and Principal Deborah Fenton talk about how processes have changed over the years. Since working with Kindo, payments, permission notices, teacher and board-level reporting has all been simplified. “We pull in more money than we used to, and our parents have the flexibility to pay when and how they prefer, in the amounts that suit them”. From the days of ice-cream containers of cash to the now streamlined online parent payments portal – “Kindo Payables has been a real win for us.”
Read the full article here on pg 20 of Principals Today
27 February 2020 Comments Off on Fantastic school fundraisers made easy with Kindo News, School Fundraisers
Kindo schools find that fundraising is less about admin and more about funds – and the money always ends up in the right bank account. When everything from event tickets to sausage sizzles can be booked online and paid for immediately, school families respond more quickly and more people get involved.
From a PTA perspective, Kindo means less time input per event, vastly reduced cash handling and no headaches matching payments to student names and classes. All this adds up to easier fundraisers all round. Check out West Rolleston Primary’s Great Cheese Roll fundraiser – PTA member, Jo Burnett shares her experience.
Kindo even offers some ready-made fundraising options to add to your usual favourites with a range of appealing products and supplier already loaded on the platform and ready to go. Scroll down to take a look at a few of our favourites…
Kindo has also developed a fantastic ‘take to PTA meeting’ planner. Download it here.
Continue reading Fantastic school fundraisers made easy with Kindo
20 February 2020 Comments Off on The Great Cheese Roll Fundraiser Case Studies, News, School Fundraisers
West Rolleston Primary PTA thought that raising $12,000 with their cheese roll fundraiser in 2018 was great — until they hit $20,000 in 2019. And by running the second fundraiser through online school payments portal, Kindo, admin time was cut tenfold.
Two years ago, Jo Burnett, a parent on the PTA (GROW) committee, saw a need to raise funds to support families in the run up to school camp. “We had some families with multiple children struggling with camp fees and I wanted to do something to help.” The community got behind Jo’s idea and students were challenged to sell cheese rolls to friends, neighbours and family, with a fish and chip lunch awarded to the most successful class. Continue reading The Great Cheese Roll Fundraiser
24 April 2018 Comments Off on Tax Donation Receipts now provided by Kindo News, School Donation, School Donations, Software Features
In line with the Kindo aim of making administration easier for parents and schools, Kindo has just released automated Tax Donation Receipts for parent donations.
Parents simply pay their school donation online through Kindo, and Kindo will email a donation receipt directly to the caregiver. The receipt is designed to meet full IRD requirements, removing the need for school administrators to issue donation receipts manually. School finance managers have full control over which items are valid for donation receipts through a simple online Kindo interface.
This is the latest of many features released for Kindo, the #1 leading provider of online payment services for New Zealand schools. Previously Kindo was the first to integrate directly with leading School Management System eTAP, enabling parents to view and pay for eTAP invoices and receipting the payments directly into eTAP. They also offer ezlunch healthy lunch services on their platform, along with fundraising options, support for uniform and canteen online ordering, sports registrations, permission forms and payment, and many features designed in response to their 250 school customers’ needs.
To discuss your school or club requirements, please get in touch.
5 March 2018 Comments Off on Principals Today: “Less stress, more donations with online payments” Case Studies, News, School Donation, School Donations
Raumati Beach School tell the story of how Kindo has reduced office staff demands, cut down admin for teachers and created an upturn in donation payments in the latest issue of Principals Today magazine, Term 1 2018.
“I knew Kindo had the potential to be good for us – and that’s become a reality. The system is easy to set up and it works for everyone.”
Continue reading Principals Today: “Less stress, more donations with online payments”
8 June 2017 Comments Off on Principals Today: “Digital Dollars: how taking payments online ‘more than pays for itself'” Case Studies, News, School Donations, Student Management System
The term 2 2017 issue of Principals Today (114) features Ellerslie School and its experience over the last 12 months with our online school payments portal, Kindo. Finance Manager Dawn Findlay reports some major gains in revenue and time-saving. “We were really surprised at the uptake and number of donations we received through Kindo… I’m a complete convert.” In brief:
6 March 2017 Comments Off on SchoolNews: “Review your e-commerce system to save time and money” Case Studies, News, School Donation, School Donations, Software Features, Student Management System
E-commerce for efficiency and improved finances is well covered in this Term 1 2017 issue of SchoolNews magazine. Ellerslie School is profiled on page 12 “Revenue up at Ellerslie School with Kindo” featuring how the school cashless payments system, Kindo, has increased donation collection 20% and also improved funds earned through fundraising on the e-commerce platform. Kindo “more than pays for itself”.
The e-commerce feature on page 24 features more information on e-commerce and how schools are using technology to improve their efficiency, reduce forms and paperwork, and improve finances. Articles are shown below… Continue reading SchoolNews: “Review your e-commerce system to save time and money”
1 November 2016 Comments Off on Gazette Focus: “Digital Transformation a win-win” at St Thomas’s School Case Studies, News, School Donation, Student Management System
Kindo is featured 
as the online school payments system that has been described as ‘transformative’ for the school administrative team and the school community at Auckland’s St Thomas’s School, in this article published by the Education Gazette Focus, October 2016. Integrated with ETAP student management system and used for PTA fundraising, paperless show tickets as well as instantly updating ETAP with payments, Kindo’s saved the office hours in payment processing and reduced foot traffic in the office, cut down on volunteer time and made it easier for parents. St Thomas’s School note that they’re seeing payments come in more quickly too. View the full article. Continue reading Gazette Focus: “Digital Transformation a win-win” at St Thomas’s School