SchoolPay, the digital education payments platform operated by Fincom Technologies, has partnered with Stanbic Bank Uganda to launch the country’s first digital lending marketplace for schools. The new Stanbic FlexiLoan on SchoolPay allows schools to instantly view their loan limits, apply online, and receive funds within 24-48 hours — a major step toward easing long-standing financing challenges in Uganda’s education sector. For more than a decade, SchoolPay has digitised fee collection for thousands of schools. This next step in the ecosystem now connects verified financial data to real-time credit access, providing schools with timely financing for both operational and development…
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FinCom Technologies has launched the SchoolPay School Fees Savings Campaign. The initiative is designed to help parents manage school fees more efficiently and ensure that no child misses school due…
The National Secondary Schools’ Music, Dance and Drama (MDD) Festival has always been more than just a competition—it is a celebration of culture, creativity, and innovation. Each year, it brings together schools, learners, and communities in a vibrant display of talent and unity. This year’s festival finale, to be held at King’s College, Buddo, continues the tradition of blending artistic expression with national values under five powerful themes.Among these, “SchoolPay: Transforming Education Services Through Technology” stands out as a symbol of the digital revolution shaping Uganda’s education sector. Why SchoolPay? For years, SchoolPay has worked with the Ministry of Education and Sports…
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“This is a transformative synergy of the financial and education sectors,” said Denis Kizito, Director of Market Supervision at the Capital Markets Authority. Speaking at the launch of SchoolPay Savings at Fairway Hotel in Kampala, he said, “It’s a testament to the power of collaboration, bringing together Sanlam, FinCom, and Airtel.” The burden of school fees, Kizito said, remains a challenge despite education being crucial. Therefore, he noted the solution partly addresses that challenge by providing a simple and convenient way to save.” A shift from long queues to seamless payments In the early 2000s, term openings were often marked…
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In a world where Fintech is fast reshaping Africa’s economic landscape, few leaders are steering the transformation with the grace, grit, and vision of Charity Mutagamba, the CEO of FinCom…
Fincom Technologies, a subsidiary of Service Cops Limited, a Ugandan technology company with a presence in the Great African Lakes region recently announced major upgrades to its SchoolPay solution, introducing SchoolPay ERP. SchoolPay ERP is a major upgrade to SchoolPay- the Revolutionary Educational Institutions Management Solution used by thousands of schools. The new SchoolPay ERP boasts several new features and a multi-user dashboard with several functionalities for school owners, administrators, parents and learners. It makes it easier than ever, for school owners and administrators especially to smoothly manage their educational enterprises in a few clicks. SchoolPay ERP can be used…
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Service Cops, a Ugandan technology company with a presence in the Great African Lakes region has today announced major upgrades to its SchoolPay solution, introducing SchoolPay ERP. The new SchoolPay ERP boasts several new features such as a multi-user dashboard, payments reconciliation, fees payments plans interface, accounting and finance module, procurement, a parents portal, an integrated e-learning platform, an SMS gateway for communicating with stakeholders as well as a staff & payroll management and an exams, grading and report card interface, all of which make it easier than ever for school owners and administrators to smoothly manage their educational enterprises…
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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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In most parts of the country, parents must spend money, travelling long distances to the school or bank to pay school fees, PTA contributions, or other school-related fees. While travelling or waiting in lines at schools or banks, parents miss opportunities to make money at their jobs, farms, shops or market. Schools equally face difficulties and expenses trying to account for all school fee payments, follow up on missing payments, and track hundreds of paper receipts, especially where parents make multiple payments in a term. This can in extreme cases prevent children from being in the class due to misplaced…
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Can you start by telling briefly who is Service Cops? Service Cops is a regional Financial Technology and Business Processes Outsourcing solutions provider. Having been incorporated over ten years ago, Service Cops has grown to be one of the leading FinTechs in the region. Service Cops partners with over 16 commercial banks, 5 major telecoms, over 10,000 education institutions and several payment aggregators to deliver a stack of solutions in the banking and financial services, insurance and education sectors across the region. To put our solutions in context, over three million customers in the banking and financial services sector alone…
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