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CDF partners with Flexischools to deliver best-in-class online payments and ordering solution for Catholic schools
CDF has partnered with Australian technology company Flexischools to provide the Catholic education community a best-in-class solution for managing school orders and cashless payments.
The new solution, CDFpay powered by Flexischools, will launch later in 2024, in time for the start of the 2025 school year.
01 August 2024: Catholic Development Fund (CDF) and Australian-based payments and ordering technology company, Flexischools, have signed a long-term partnership that will help bring innovative and convenient online payments and ordering to Catholic school communities, with the development and launch of a new CDFpay platform, powered by Flexischools.
CDFpay is managing ordering and payments at more than 130 Catholic primary and secondary schools.
Through the new partnership, CDFpay powered by Flexischools, will provide parents with a bespoke CDFpay smartphone app and website, to bring the convenience of online ordering and cashless payments for all on-campus purchases, including canteen, uniform shop, school events and donations, to the palm of parents’ hands.
CDFpay powered by Flexischools will also easily enable over the counter payments for students while they are at school.
The CDFpay powered by Flexischools application will be complete in the fourth quarter of 2024, in time for schools and families to use for start of the 2025 school year. It will be available to all Catholic schools nationally.
DELIVERING A MODERN SOLUTION
“We reached out to the market earlier this year to find a partner that could deliver a best-in-class solution, with the functionality, and user experience our customers are looking for,” explained CDF’s CEO, Matthew Cassin.
“Flexischools is the market leader in school ordering and payments, and we are looking forward to harnessing their expertise for the benefit of our Catholic community."
“CDFpay powered by Flexischools will enable parents to easily manage payments and ordering, and bring the same online functionality and convenience that they experience in other areas of their life, to school life,” Matthew continued.
Flexischools CEO, Rachel Debeck, said that the Flexischools team is excited about the opportunities the partnership presents.
“For more than 15 years, Flexischools has been delivering an innovative payments platform to schools, canteen providers and families across Australia. We are excited to partner with CDF to grow our customer base and impact in Catholic communities,” Rachel said.
BRINGING BENEFITS TO SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES
According to Flexischools, its online ordering and cashless payments solution brings enormous benefits to both schools and families.
“Flexischools seamlessly connects a range of services including canteen, events, and school shops to parents in a single app,” Rachel said.
“For busy families, the ability to take care of the ordering and payments for their child’s school day from the palm of their hand, at a time that suits them, means a significantly lightened mental load.
“For schools, the reduction in cash handling, the automated processes for order management and online sales brings efficiencies to things like staff time, and wastage,” Rachel explained.
GROWTH PLANS
CDF and Flexischools have developed a roadmap of further developments and functionality that will be delivered through the partnership that are designed to cement CDFpay powered by Flexischools as a market leading solution.
CDF and Flexischools will be working closely together to grow the number of schools using CDFpay, across the country.
Melbourne Archdiocese of Catholic Schools (MACS) is the largest Catholic school operator in Australia and has been working with CDF to ensure the solution meets the needs of their Catholic schools.
“We are looking forward to the upcoming launch of CDFpay powered by Flexischools.” said MACS GM Finance Transformation, James Young.
“Today there are multiple payment channels within schools and busy parents are juggling lunch orders, school fees and event payments. Feedback from schools and parents alike is they want a single place where they can do all these things,” James continued.
“We are excited about the opportunity this partnership presents for the Catholic school community, and the opportunities the CDFpay powered by Flexischools platform will offer to all Catholic schools across Australia,” said CDF’s GM Client Services, Brendan Hoy.
About CDFpay powered by Flexischools
CDFpay powered by Flexischools will provide Catholic schools the ability to offer parents a convenient ordering and payments platform for their school canteen, events, functions and unform shop via the CDFpay smartphone app.
Schools will also have an option to use student cards when making campus purchases, by linking the card to the parents CDFpay powered by Flexischools account.
About CDF
CDF supports the mission of the Church by helping to build Christ-centred, redemptive, and transformative communities. It does this by pooling the savings of the Catholic community to fund schools, parishes, hospitals, aged care, and social service facilities. Since 1956, CDF has put faith into action by supporting communities, continually improving an approach that allows us to provide a unique level of support across our footprint of Catholic primary and secondary schools, parishes, and more recently healthcare and social service providers.
About Flexischools
Flexischools is an Australian owned and operated technology business, that specialises in online payments and ordering systems for the education sector. Since bringing online ordering and payments to schools with the launch of its platform in 2008, Flexischools has processed more than 150 million orders for Australian school kids and helped simplify daily school services such as lunch and uniform ordering, school fundraiser events, and payments for families and schools.
Flexischools has achieved ISO27001 certification for its information and data security systems and is an authorised financial services provider (license number 471558 InLoop Pty Ltd).
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