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Secure payment processing for Kiwi schools

Managing school fees, donations, and event costs can create a mountain of paperwork for your front office. Paystation gives you the tools to accept credit card payments securely online, freeing up your administrative staff to focus on more important tasks.

As a Trade Me subsidiary, we provide a reliable payment gateway nz infrastructure built specifically for the local education sector. We give you the exact tools you need to get your money sorted fast, without the headache.

Seamless integration with student management systems

We integrate directly with major student management systems like KAMAR and MUSAC. This means parents can easily make an online payment for school expenses, and your administrative staff save hours of manual reconciliation.

A secure, low-friction checkout experience

We highly recommend a fully hosted (3-party) setup for our school integrations. When a parent is ready to pay an account, we redirect them to a secure Paystation page to enter their credit card details.

This hosted model offers several key advantages:

  • it keeps your PCI compliance scope low and minimises your administrative burden
  • it ensures card data never touches your school’s local servers
  • it includes built-in 3DS security (Verified by Visa and Mastercard SecureCode), which shifts the liability for fraudulent chargebacks over to the card issuer.

Back-office tools for the front desk

If your front desk needs to take payments over the phone or via email, our manual tools are built to streamline your admin tasks.

  • PayMe: Generate unique payment URLs to email directly to parents. It is a straight up way to send a digital invoice for remote payment.
  • Manual card transactions (MOTO): Easily process a moto payment over the phone by entering card details directly into our secure web portal.

Unmatched security and local support

When dealing with your community’s financial data, we don’t mess around. Paystation is a Level 1 PCI DSS Service Provider, meaning we meet the absolute highest global standards for payment security. We protect your school with robust fraud mitigation tools and SHA 256-bit SSL encryption.

If your admin team ever needs a hand with a payment or a reconciliation query, our customer support team is based right here in New Zealand. We operate in your time zone, so you can always get hold of a friendly, local expert during school hours.

Three simple steps to go live

We support all major New Zealand banks, including ANZ, ASB, BNZ, Kiwibank, and Westpac. We work with your bank to ensure you get fast, daily settlements.

Getting your school set up to take payments is easy:

  1. Apply: Fill out an online application to trigger your development account immediately.
  2. Provide your Merchant ID: Get your ‘Linked Gateway’ Merchant ID from your local bank.
  3. Integrate and go: Run through our rigorous go-live checklist, test your setup, and start taking secure payments.

If your admin team ever needs a hand with a payment or a reconciliation query, our customer support team is based right here in New Zealand. We operate in your time zone, so you can always get hold of a friendly, local expert during school hours.