School Fees 2020 - New Arrangements
The Catholic Education Office and its system of Schools are in the process of a business transformation. Part of this transformation involves a new administration and accounting package being rolled out to schools. As you would be aware our school has been introducing Compass as our administration system over a period of time. It is now fully functioning together with a new web based accounting system called Technology One.
This will allow for School Fees in 2020 to be invoiced centrally by the Catholic Education Office under advice from schools. Additionally, families will still be offered the opportunity of paying their school fees by regular payments over the school year as is the existing practice. However, the new system also allows for instalments to be calculated and advised to families with a Schedule of Payments and the date that they are due. This replaces our current process of School Fee Agreements and the necessity for families to calculate their own payments.
With the introduction of the new system, we now have the ability to generate system reminders for late payments. Should you default in your payments, reminders will be issued for each payment missed and they will continue to be issued until your account is brought up to date.
You will also have the opportunity to contact the school, if necessary in these circumstances, to provide explanation and make a further arrangement for payment.
Please note that fees can be paid weekly, fortnightly, monthly or quarterly. If payments commence on 30 January 2020 the weekly payments will be made over 44 weeks; the fortnightly payments will be over 22 fortnights and the monthly payments will be over 11 months. This will ensure that fees are finalised by 4 December 2020.
If you are paying by CDF Direct Debit or BPay please ensure that the amount you are currently paying will be sufficient to cover your commitment for 2020.
If you need to alter your Direct Debit please contact the school office to have a CDF Direct Debit Alteration form sent home for completion.
DIOCESAN REQUEST TO PAY SCHOOL FEES BY INSTALMENT FORM
A copy of the Diocesan Request to Pay School Fees by Instalment form for 2020 is attached for your reference.
If you wish to pay your 2020 Fees by instalments please complete this form and email it to: instalments@dow.catholic.edu.au for processing by the Finance Team at CEDoW.