What is the Service Fee?
EZSchoolPay.com is provided as a service, to allow online credit card
payments into your child’s school meal account. It’s more convenient
than driving to your school, quicker and more reliable than mailing or
sending a check, and cheaper than many ATM or wire transfer fees.
How much is the Service Fee?
At present, this is 6% added to the total credit amount. For instance,
to pay $10 on your child’s meal account, the fee is only sixty cents.
Because the service fee isn’t deducted from the payment, you can be
sure your entire credit amount is available for use.
Why pay online?
Reliability. Have you ever sent
a check, only to have it lost in the mail? Or lost in your child’s
backpack for a week? By paying online, your credit isn’t lost.
Speed. If your child needs lunch money today, you can ensure the
payment arrives quickly by paying online. The credit may arrive in your
child’s meal account within an hour – sometimes within minutes.
Convenience. Why write a check at all, or make a special trip to
your school just to pay your child’s meal account? Why make a trip to
the ATM for cash? Nothing is more convenient than paying online.
Why pay the fee?
Because paying online is quick, convenient, and reliable.
Because ATM fees and other forms of electronic transfers can be
expensive. If you usually pay by cash, do you sometimes pay fees for
using other ATMs? For example, $1.75 fee for withdrawing $10 from an
ATM is far more than you pay by using EZSchoolPay.com instead.
Because it costs your school nothing to accept EZSchoolPay.com payments.
Without the service fee, many schools would be unable to justify an
online credit system within their budgets; the option of paying online
wouldn’t be possible.
Because it’s a service. EZSchoolPay.com is dedicated to providing a
secure, fast method of payment for your child’s meal account. The fee
pays for server and bandwidth usage, the technology behind the site,
and the fees we are charged by Visa and Mastercard. The service fee
ensures that we can continue to offer this service to schools and
parents.