How Service Cops’ tech platform, SchoolPay is digitising parents’ and school owners’ back-to-school pain away SchoolPay, a digital school management and payments platform, is a brainchild of Service Cops, a Ugandan technology company with a presence in the Great African Lakes region. The service premiered in 2016 with just one school but has since grown to serve nearly 11,000 schools and over Six million students in Uganda alone, with over 20 partners that include banks, telecoms and other non-bank fintechs. The SchoolPay service can now be accessed through over 33 payment touchpoints. The developers are now upgrading the platform with more enriched functions for schools, teachers, parents and students.

Muhereza KyamuteteraSeptember 28, 2023September 29, 2023

Mathias Kamugasho (right) and George Mutekanga, the Assistant Commissioner In Charge Of Private Schools And Institutions at the Ministry of Education and Sports.

The just-ended back-to-school season is one of those tough days for most parents; for different reasons. The usual hustle and bustle of parents and learners all over the country mad dashing, with shopping lists, trying to get ready for the crucial third term. Above and beyond this pandemonium, there are also unspoken and often unseen endeavours and struggles by parents to make sure they raise all the necessary financial resources to be able to pay tuition fees and all the other associated costs of sending a child to school. Perhaps the only beautiful and relieving part of this story is…

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