Remove payment complexity - unlock new revenue streams and increase your platform stickiness.
Streamlining payments and Tax-Free Childcare for educational platforms
Managing tuition, fees, and payments, while protecting student privacy, adds a great deal of complexity to running an educational platform. Unipaas provides school and nursery management platforms with an embedded solution to handle all payments, including Tax-Free Childcare entitlement, directly within their existing software - streamlining financial transactions and reducing administrative overhead.
Customer quotes
“It was high on the list of requirements: ‘Can you provide go-to-market assistance?’ ‘Will you help us with getting the message right?’ Some of the tools that Unipaas had, I thought were really, really useful”
Chris Reid CEO
“Our previous payment provider struggled with understanding the transportation sector. Unipaas fully understood our needs and was able to make our product sticky, seamless, and reliable. And that’s what it’s all about at the end of the day: creating payments journeys people are happy with.”
Dominic Kalantary Co-Founder
"Thanks to our partnership with Unipaas, IRIS Pay has become a game-changer for SMEs and accountants alike. With automated payments, accelerated cash flow, reduced processing costs, and increased bookkeepers' efficiency, businesses and accountants are reaping the benefits. IRIS Pay ensures secure and seamless transactions, providing peace of mind to SMEs and accountants throughout the process."
Winston Poyton Head of Product
"Unipaas added exceptional value to our customers by integrating their cutting-edge embedded finance technology into our platform. This partnership enabled us to streamline payment processes, improve accuracy, and deliver an even better customer experience."
Tushir Patel Co-Founder
"We selected UNIPaaS Payment Infrastructure because it was simple to embed within our operational systems. The UNIPaaS Support Team are true professionals and helped us meet the unique project requirements to deliver on time"
David Ben-Avi CTO & Founder
Accept all payment methods, including Tax-Free Childcare, directly on your platform
Unipaas enables your users to accept all essential payment methods - Cards, Wallets, Direct Debit, Bank Transfers, and Tax-Free Childcare - for both recurring and one-time payments.
Everything is managed through a single, user-friendly solution, natively embedded in your platform, including support for payment links to accelerate collections.
Tax-Free Childcare payments -Unified checkout experience and effortless reconciliation
Unipaas enables nursery and childcare platforms to offer parents seamless access to UK Tax-Free Childcare (TFC) funds.
Parents can easily pay using their TFC funds or split payments with Cards, Wallets, Direct Debit, or Bank Transfers through a unified checkout process.
TFC payments are then automatically matched and reconciled within one dashboard as all other transactions - eliminating the need for operators to perform manual processes or switch systems.
Implement quickly, and create value for the long term
Fast setup minimises downtime and ensures quick payment collection.
Unipaas is easy to implement, enabling you to start processing payments quickly, and we support you with the transition of your users to our platform. As your platform grows, the system scales to handle increasing transaction volumes without adding complexity.
Offer an optimised user experience
Making sure your users' experience is as smooth as possible increases engagement.
A self-service portal enables educational businesses to manage their payments independently, and automated reminders reduce delays by notifying payers of upcoming payments, enhancing the overall experience.
Help users make smart decisions with analytics and reporting
Improving payments conversion is a win for you and your users.
Real-time dashboards provide visibility into payments and outstanding balances, and the ability to track key metrics. This helps you to help your users manage finances and optimise cash flow.
Benefit from dedicated support and compliance
Supporting payments should not come with extra work.
Unipaas provides hands-on support and ensures full compliance with payments schemes' rules and regulations. Payments are processed securely, protecting your platform and users from potential risks. Further, dedicated account managers offer personalised support, and secure payments are ensured with PCI DSS compliance.
Protect sensitive student data
Education providers have a particularly critical obligation to protect the sensitive financial details of their students.
Unipaas is compliant with card scheme regulations, which means that every transaction is handled with the highest level of security.
FAQ
Question section
Can Unipaas help my platform accept Tax‑Free Childcare (TFC) payments from parents?
Absolutely. Unipaas natively provides a “Pay with TFC” option at checkout, giving parents easy access to their HMRC funds directly within your platform.
Each TFC payment is automatically matched against the nursery’s bank account to confirm receipt and the status is displayed in a single dashboard - eliminating the need for operators to manually reconcile payments or switch between systems.
Unipaas also supports split payments, allowing parents to use their TFC balance first (with a desired amount), then pay the remaining amount by card, wallet, bank transfer, or Direct Debit - all in one go. It’s simpler for parents and significantly reduces admin for your team.
If we already have a referral model for payments, why should we switch to Unipaas embedded payment offering now?
Most referral models redirect software users to a third-party payment provider, negatively impacting their experience and resulting in low adoption rates. With Unipaas embedded payments solution, your users will enjoy a fully native experience directly into your interface. In addition, Unipaas enables you to tailor your payment services to your industry and business model. This means smoother onboarding, adapted payment journeys, customized reporting, and flexible pricing. Unipaas enable you to fully capitalise on your payment services. Our pricing is composed of a fixed monthly platform fee, plus processing fees, above which you can set your own margins. Platform fees cover the full management and automation of our white label services, supporting you from designing to launching and scaling your own branded payments offering.
When will we start seeing ROI from this integration?
Most of our customers typically see ROI as soon as they complete the integration and go live. Thanks to Unipaas UI components and a dedicated implementation team, implementation is fast with minimal resources needed on your side. Unipaas also supports you in the acquisition and activation of your users, supporting you at each step of the way to increase the number of users, the volume of transactions, and the average revenue per user (ARPU). In addition, we give you the flexibility to set up your own margin on your payment offering, so you can maximise your revenue and adapt pricing to different categories of your software.
What if we don’t have any resources to allocate toward this project?
We offer a fully managed solution. That means it won't take a lot of people, time, or money to embed payments. Our risk team handles KYC, KYB, and AML, and we take care of PCI-DSS compliance. Our marketing and Success teams are working with you to market your payment offering. So with Unipaas, you get your own branded payment solution with none of the hassle.
Our team isn’t trained to sell payments - do you provide any help with that?
If your team isn’t comfortable with selling payments, we have many ways to help you increase adoption. Educational content, sales calls, promotions, campaigns, tutorials, and in-app messaging - we can provide you with the tailored assistance you need to ensure your customers love using your payments.
We currently offer cards, but we want to add more payment options. Which payment options do you support?
We support all major payment options needed in the market today. Cards, wallet, open banking, and direct debit. Our unified solution lets you enjoy all these payment methods with a single integration, a single contract, and a single partnership.
Our users are very price-sensitive. How can I be sure they will adopt payments?
We help you market your payments and position the transition in a way that shows your users that adopting your payment solution will eventually bring them more revenue. Our personalised promotions will increase their payment volume, and our technology is designed to increase conversion rates. Our automated reconciliation also reduces costly manual errors. All this adds up to a seamless user experience that shows ROI in no time.
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Our payment experts and pre-sales work with you to design the ideal payment journey, ensuring seamless integration and a smooth experience for your users.
Unipaas Financial Services Limited is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as an Authorised Payment Institution (No. 929994). Unipaas is certified as PCI DSS service provider Level 1.
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