Blackboard Transact Capabilities Brochure: Offer your students
services to help improve the campus payment transaction experience through dynamic services
2. Offer your students
services to help improve
the campus payment
transaction experience.
eBill ePayment SmartPay Payment Plans
Cashiering eMarket Mobile App eRefund
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3. Get more from eBill with
Dynamic Billing
When you combine eBill with
our Dynamic Billing functionality,
your students can view real-
time balance updates in their
personalized portal, including
financial aid.
This gives you the advantage
to customize displays to reveal
preferred information.
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Simplify Bill Presentment
We work with you to improve service to students andauthorized
payers by automating bill presentment and processing functions
performed on campus.
Additional Add-Ons
1098-T & 1098-E
Give your students the ability to view and
download their tax forms electronically.
Automates bill presentment (including
1098-T and 1098-E), delivery and
processing on the web
Eliminates labor and postage costs
associated with printing and mailing
student bills
Electronically delivers static bills with
details that include new charges and
payment history.
Benefits for your staff Key features for students
Uses secure, single sign-on compatibility with
existing campus portals
Provides a comprehensive view of all account
information, including non-tuition charges
Offers email and text alert notifications
eBill
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4. ePayment
Get more from
ePayment with
SmartPay
By adding our SmartPay
solution to ePayment, you can
minimize the cost of processing
payment transactions.
Please refer to page 8 for more information.
Additional Add-Ons
International
Payments
With this feature, you can
accept international payments
via one of our established
integration relationships.
529 Integration
Enable payers to make
payments directly from a
supported 529 account
through the Cashnet portal.
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Make Paying Easier
Give your students the ability to securely make payments over
the web, while simultaneously helping to streamline campus
operations and reduce costs.
Offers different payment options,
including credit and debit cards, ACH,
campus card, 529, and foreign currency
Accepts multiple tender types to
accommodate the needs of parents,
students, and authorized users
Offers convenient payment options
to allow students to pay in full, in
installments, automatically, or at a
later date
Leverages our User Emulation
technology to view a portal exactly
how a student does
Processes transactions securely on a
PCI DSS-validated platform designed to
help you be compliant with applicable
standards and laws
Integrates with many ERP systems,
including home grown
Benefits for your staff Key features for students
Offers different payment options including
credit and debit cards, ACH, campus card, 529,
and foreign currency
Provides hassle-free international payments
accepted with Western Union®
integration to help
ease the transition for international students
Uses secure, single sign-on function that provides
students with easy access to the portal
Enables students to set up recurring payment options
Allows FERPA-compliant parent PINs to be set up
by the student, so they remain in full control of
their own account
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5. Get more from
SmartPay with
Daily
Settlement
Combined with Daily
Settlement, our SmartPay
solution offers your campus
the option to receive a daily
distribution of funds for
easy reconciliation.
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Reduce the Cost of
Accepting Payments
Our SmartPay solution offers you a one-stop, payment-
processing feature for credit and debit card transactions.
Our intelligent SmartPay system is a multi-layered approach to security and privacy, which
helps reduce risk to your campus and house data by keeping it in a secure environment —
and not on your campus.
SmartPay also allows you to choose which credit and debit card charges will carry a
convenience fee or service fee and whether you want to pass that on to the payer.
The payer is notified several times during the transaction about the fee assessment.
Helps streamline your business office
operations while we handle credit card
reconciliation, chargebacks, refunds,
and voice authorizations
Redirects previously paid funds as
credit card fees for capital projects,
school programs, etc.
Operates independently or in conjunction
with eMarket and ePayment
Benefits for your staff
SmartPay
Offers a toll-free customer service
number for students and their
authorized third-party payers
Helps reduce your campus
PCI scope
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6. Activate In-Person
Payments
Give your entire campus the option to make an in-person
payment, either in the business office or through our
mobile solution.
Our Cashiering solution enables campus departments to process over-the-counter payments,
to offer a streamlined approach that uses a one-step, one-stop transaction with easy back-
office reconciliation.
Benefits for your staff
Key features for students
Expedited in-person payment experience, in the business office or at a campus activity
Provides students with the flexibility to use multiple tender types
Gives students fast updates to account balances
Configures easily for quick-click
payment processing
Seamlessly integrates with many
ERP systems, including home grown
Customizes to match your specific
campus business policies and procedures
Allows users to research and report
on all customer information from one
centralized platform
Reduces the cost and effort related to
PCI compliance
Simplifies end-of-day balancing
and reconciliation
Provides web-based departmental
deposit entry and receipting
Supports encrypted card swipe
capabilities for cashiering stations
with SecureMag™
Offers the SecurePad™ solution for
encrypting manual keypad entry for
card numbers
Accepts EMV, NFC, Magnetic Stripe,
and keyed cards through the
encrypted IPP320 device
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Cashiering
Turn your iPad®
device into a
mobile cash register with the
Cashnet Mobile
Payments App
This mobile app allows you to
accept electronic payments on
the go at events all over campus.
You’ll offer the convenience
payers want.
Please refer to page 16 for more information.
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7. A Unique Support Model
We provide support service
representatives for the life of
your contract. Your students will
also be given a special customer
support number with a dedicated
call center to help solve any issues.
Cost Savings
We help you save on
both administrative and
marketing costs.
High Visibility
We increase awareness of
your payment plan availability
for an increased adoption rate
through multiple channels,
using materials designed by our
campus education team.
Access to Funds
We provide immediate
access to collected funds.
Customized Payment Plans
We help you create plans with
specific services such as tuition,
housing, and meals.
Payment Options
We make it easy to choose
either credit card, ACH, debit card,
529 plans, or campus card.
Integration
Our platform seamlessly integrates
with your existing campus portal.
Administrative Access
You’ll receive detailed data
and insights, including past-due
student account history.
Payment plan software
Our Payment Plan Software is a savings solution that allows students or authorized payers to enroll in one or more payment
plans. You have the ability to design and manage the plan to meet your administrative needs.
Choose between Full-Service Payment Plans
or Payment Plan Software
Full-service payment plans
A fully comprehensive cost-savings solution for your school.
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Offer More Ways to Pay
Our technology gives you the option to offer flexible tuition
plans to help your students manage the growing costs of
higher education.
Provides online enrollment via
electronic signature
Offers different payment options including:
credit card, ACH, 529, debit card, and
campus card
Allows fixed and variable plans to help
attract and retain students
Benefits for your staff
Payment Plans
Key features for students
Offers tuition payment plans to help students
pay in monthly installments over time
Allows students to set up FERPA-compliantparent PINs
Provides an overview of each student’s payment
plan, detailing balances due and payments remaining
Provides automated recurring payments
Automatically emails or texts bills, reminders,
and receipts
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8. Set Up Online Stores
Offer your campus departments a secure, easy-to-use tool for
creating their own online storefronts — without using valuable
campus IT resources.
We created eMarket — a customizable PCI-compliant module — to help you develop, control,
and manage the growing number of online storefronts on your campus.
Your business office can use eMarket to control all transaction information in the central Cashnet
database, establishing an audit trail for reconciliation, internal audits, and inquiry — and allowing
departments to design their own storefronts.
Key features and benefits
Allows users to create, manage, and operate a
storefront with its own URL to sell only the items
they choose
Provides a simple shopping environment with
photos, descriptions, and fast and easy payment
checkout options
Offers a variety of payment tender types,
including foreign currency to help ease
international students through the transition
Easily integrates with other campus applications
to provide back-end payment processing
Allows 24/7 convenient access for your
customers via a mobile-friendly eMarket website
eMarket offers two components
which can be used independently
or together:
Storefront
With our easy-to-use template, rapidly create
online storefronts for campus departments
to accept credit card, debit card and ACH/
EFT payments.
Checkout
You can use this feature to add a shopping
cart/payment page to an existing storefront.
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eMarket
Get more from eMarket with
Assisted
Payments
The Assisted Payments
feature allows a departmental
user to accept over-the-
phone payments.
Additional Add-Ons
International
Payments
With this feature, you can
accept international payments
via one of our established
integration relationships.
Cashnet Mobile
Payments App
Put your eMarket on the move
by turning your iPad®
device into
a mobile cash register.
Please refer to page 16 for more information.
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9. Accept Payments
on the Go
We can help turn your iPad®
device into a cash register with
the Cashnet Mobile Payments app, making it easy to process
transactions all over campus.
Enables staff to conveniently offer
purchases on the go
Provides added security with an
encrypted mobile card reader
Accepts different payment options
including credit and debit cards, ACH,
and campus card
Benefits for your staff
Mobile App
Integrates with online products to
ease reconciliation
Uses convenient features to easily
find payment transactions
Increases campus brand awareness
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Use the app at
campus-sponsored
events to offer
tickets to sporting
events and theater
productions, sell
school merchandise,
and more.
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10. Make Disbursing
Refunds Effortless
Releasing your students’ financial aid and general
funds just got fast and easy with eRefund.
Benefits for your staff
Securely provides electronic processing
for financial aid refunds
Eliminates the need for paper checks and
reduces administrative costs
Allows your business office to keep track
of students who have opted in to receive
electronic refund disbursements
Provides seamless integration with your
ERP system
Key features for students
Facilitates easy fund disbursement to
a student’s designated bank account
Provides online enrollment to expedite
receiving funds as a direct deposit
Sends automatic disbursement notifications
via email and/or text
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It’s as easy as 1-2-3:
Students log in to the
Cashnet platform.
Students enter their
account information to
release funds.
Students receive a
disbursement notification
via email and/or text
when funds are available.
eRefund
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