Collections and Check Processing Information
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Payment Processing
The district accepts several methods of payment:
1) Pay online in PushCoin (Preferred)
More PushCoin information here.
- E-Check (FREE)
- Please note that PushCoin will immediately deposit the funds into your student’s PushCoin account. Funding confirmation (settled funds) takes 5 business days after the date of payment. If your e-Check is linked to a bank account with insufficient funds, PushCoin will automatically delete the deposit from your student’s PushCoin account. Any purchases made with these funds will show as unpaid in PushCoin.
If more than three e-Check deposits are returned as unfunded, your e-Check privileges may be revoked.
- Debit/Credit Card (Visa, MasterCard, Discover)
- The additional finance fee of 2.9% + $0.25 per transaction fee is not refundable
- The funding time for debit/credit cards can take 2-3 business days after the date of payment.
- The schools are not allowed to accept/process credit card transactions. Parents must initiate the credit card payment in PushCoin.
HELPFUL HINTS:
- Do not Fund the Wallet before you pay fees. Just click on the Pay Fees button and walk thru the payment processing screens.
- Fund Wallet is only needed for your student’s lunch accounts. Fund each student’s Wallet separately to avoid being blocked by unsettled funds.
- Only settled funds (received by district) can be transferred between student/sponsor accounts.
- Funds that have not settled cannot be transferred for 5 business days (eChecks); 1-2 days (debit/credit)
- Do not fund one student all the funds and then try to transfer before the 5 business days.
- Each student’s fees must be paid separately. You cannot group all the fees together and pay at one time. If paying with debit/credit card 2.9% of each student’s fees is the same amount as 2.9% of the total all students fees combined
2) Paying with Cash or Checks (as needed basis only; PushCoin is preferred)
- Cash Payments: Please make sure you receive a receipt from district personnel. Monitor your PushCoin account to ensure your payment is posted to your account. Any inquiries regarding cash payments must be within 30 days of payment.
- Check Payments: The Indian Prairie School District 204 Board of Education requires that you make sure the following information is on all checks written:
- Full Name
- Street Address (current)
- Home Phone Number
- Student Name and/or ID number
Please check with your school's secretary for more information about what to include on the check. School phone numbers can be found on this page.
In consideration of merchant accepting customer’s payment by check, and other good and valuable consideration, Customer agrees that if any check is returned unpaid for any reason, customer expressly authorizes merchant or its processing agent or assignee to electronically collect or create a demand draft to collect the face amount of the check, and a $30 return check service fee as well as any applicable bank fees and sales tax. Customer’s payment by check is customer’s express acceptance of the terms and shall serve as customer’s authorization for the electronic collection and /or demand draft on customer’s account. These charges will be added to your student’s PushCoin account.
Collections
The district uses PushCoin system as our formal demand for payment. We are not obligated to distribute formal demand for payment letters, as PushCoin provides parents with 24/7 access to their student’s fee and lunch account balances.
PushCoin generates courtesy invoices monthly if there is a fee balance due. We cannot guarantee your email provider will deliver these emails. You may have to allow-list the address support@pushcoin.com in your email account settings to ensure the emails are not blocked by your email provider. If you are a Yahoo! User, then select a PushCoin email and click “Not Spam” button. See https://knowhow.pushcoin.com/2015/10/03/why-am-i-not-getting-email-receipts-anymore/
Parents/guardians are responsible for all fees assessed to the student’s account, even if a parent account has not been established in PushCoin. Your student(s) PushCoin account should be monitored on a regular basis.
Any balances not resolved and/or paid in full by the end of each school year, will be placed in the hands of our outside collection agency, Centurion Service Corporation.
All active students with past due fees, who do not have a payment plan established, will be sent to collections.
Any inactive students with an outstanding balance are automatically placed in collections with Centurion Service Corporation.
If your account is placed in collections, you may still pay your balance in PushCoin. The collection agency is notified weekly when account balances reach $0.00.
If Centurion Service Corporation is unable to resolve the debt with you, we will recommend all qualifying balances be placed in the hands of local attorneys, where a claim can be entered against you, which is usually the first item to appear on a credit report.
Centurion Service Corporation can be contacted at 847-776-3500.
Payment Plans
Parents may setup a payment plan in PushCoin by clicking on Pay Fees button under a student. The minimum monthly payment is $60.00, and the payment date options are the 1st, 10th, and 20th.
https://knowhow.pushcoin.com/2022/12/29/families-to-enroll-in-payment-plans/
If you need to cancel/modify a payment plan you must contact the Business Office 630-375-3064 or email pushcoin-help@ipsd.org
Payliance
Payliance, Inc. was responsible for the collection of all returned checks issued to all District locations prior to 2019. Any checks returned by our bank after first presentation were transferred to Payliance for collection services.
If you have a question regarding any outstanding balances reported on your credit report for Payliance, please contact Payliance directly at 1-866-945-8964.