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Offer students and customers an education payment solution that works for them

Designing courses, creating course materials, enrolling students—these are your specialties. Our specialty is making education payment processing as simple and straightforward as possible. If you've had enough of complex, inflexible, or inefficient payment systems, take a look at Authorize.net. Our dependable, easy-to-use payment platform can:

  • Let you give students choice about how they pay for courses, tuition, learning materials, and more
  • Help payments and donations process quicker and more reliably
  • Inspire trust around security and fraud prevention
  • Offer simple set up and has you covered with always-on support
     

Authorize.net is a well-known platform, and for good reason. They streamline payments and enable us to do what we do best…

-Karen Bromley, Founder and Principal, The Bromley Group

Authorize.net is built on 20+ years of innovation with the strength of Visa. Our education payment solution empowers you to accept payments online, on mobile devices, in person, or over the phone. Your students can pay using payment cards, contactless payments, and eChecks, and all the same options are available to donors and fundraisers. Our solution scores highly on recurring billing and payments, making acceptance of repeat fees, subscription payments, and regular donations a breeze.

We can provide you with a one-stop shop education payments solution, or you can maintain connections to your existing shopping cart, gateway, bank, or eCommerce platform, and simply integrate Authorize.net with them. Authorize.net also makes it easy to connect payments to other parts of your business, like your accounting system or calendar, and to add more connections later as your needs evolve.

The benefits of our education payment solution

We simplify payments without dumbing things down. With Authorize.net, you can get more solutions, more support, and more strength to stand on.

Let students pay how they want

You want to ensure you get paid, so provide students options on how they want to pay. With Authorize.net, you can accept payment cards, eChecks, and digital payments like Apple Pay and PayPal.

Manage ongoing and recurring billing

As your education payment solution, Authorize.net can meet your recurring billing and payment needs for termly fees, subscriptions, payment plans, regular donations, and more. When you use our billing options—including Automated Recurring Billing (ARB)—to enable recurring or installment payments via card, eCheck, or direct from their bank account, billing becomes more efficient and secure. And you don't have to re-enter billing and payment details for every transaction.

With Authorize.net we cut down on the client invoicing. We are also able to capture the ticket and table sales, and sponsorship immediately… It also gives the client flexibility on how they want to pay.

-Karen Bromley, Founder and Principal, The Bromley Group

Easy recurring billing

You can streamline checkout for returning students, donors, and others so they don't have to re-enter their payment details. Add our Customer Information Management solution to store their payment information securely on our servers (which also simplifies your PCI DSS compliance scope).

Effortlessly update cardholder information

When expired, lost or stolen cards get replaced, there's a risk that payment information won't get updated. Account Updater is a great way to automatically update cardholder information and help keep fees and donations flowing.1 No need for students to enter new card details, and no risk of missing a payment for a vital educational service.

Convenient paperless e-billing

Mailing printed invoices is a hassle—for you and your students. Keep everything digital to save paper and simplify storage. With Authorize.net, you can send digital invoices to anyone with an email address. Digital invoices can even speed up payment by allowing recipients to pay anytime on their computer or mobile device by card or eCheck.

Defend against fraudsters

You can't afford to lose money to fraudsters, and you need to meet students' and donors' expectations for secure payments. Our Advanced Fraud Detection Suite helps you keep the bad transactions out and let the good ones through. Reduce the potential costs and losses associated with fraudulent transactions and protect your revenues by accepting more legitimate ones.2

Get the financial reporting you need

Our comprehensive reporting—covering areas like transactions and settlement—gives you the transparency you need.

Connect payments to other parts of your business

We offer a one-stop shop payments solution, but Authorize.net also integrates with many popular shopping carts and eCommerce solutions and with other applications like accounting software and calendars. It's also easy to swap elements out at a later date or add more connections as you go.

The add-ons are fantastic and go far beyond what most payment gateways provide, and most of them are at no additional cost to our monthly gateway fee.

-Karen Bromley, Founder and Principal, The Bromley Group

Get real support from real people

When you have questions or need help, we're here

Our team of real humans is ready to support you by phone, email, or live chat. We also have online resources to guide you, including videos, webinars, demos, and blog posts, plus an active online community of Authorize.net users who share knowledge and best practices. Our dedicated team of experts have over 25 years of experience working with educational institutions.3

1 Currently, Visa and Mastercard cards are updated.
2 May incur additional fees.
3 Authorize.net was founded in 1996.

Let's start a conversation about our education payment processing solution

We'd love to hear about your payment acceptance needs and challenges and discuss how Authorize.net can meet them. Call us on 1-888-323-4289.