Finance staff replaced manual fee books with structured invoices, mobile-money reconciliation and automatic reminders.
Combined school · Arusha, Tanzania · 1,800
“Fee collection used to mean chasing envelopes. Families pay by mobile money, we see it live, and receipts go out the same day.”
The bursar team tracked balances in notebooks and SMS threads. Reconciling M-Pesa deposits against student accounts took days each week.
Dshule fee structures generate term invoices automatically. Payments from mobile money, bank and cash land on one ledger with an audit trail.
Gentle reminders reduced overdue balances without constant office visits — and parents get instant receipts in the app.
