The Perse School

The Challenge

Founded in 1615, The Perse School in Cambridge is a leading independent co‑educational day school, educating children from 3–18. Known for academic excellence and a broad curriculum, The Perse combines modern facilities with strong pastoral care.

Before esenda, the school managed high‑volume payments through PTX and Bacstel cards, which limited flexibility, especially when staff needed to work remotely, and created operational risk around access and security.

High-Volume Payments, Made Effortless

As one of the UK’s leading independent schools, The Perse processes a significant volume of parent payments each year. Before esenda, this created three major challenges:

• Heavy admin burden: high volume swamped manual processes
• Tied to the office: no flexibility for remote work
• Not secure: legacy tools weren't up to scratch

The Solution

esenda provided The Perse with a secure, cloud-native BACS platform built for scale and resilience. With no bacstel cards and no on-premise dependencies, the finance team can now approve and manage payments from anywhere, with secure access controls and full audit visibility.

Setup was quick, and the finance team now has a reliable, high-capacity system that keeps pace with their needs. With over £100m processed through esenda by The Perse in their first 18months with us, and trusting us with files in excess of £2m, esenda is proud to have them as one of our highest transactors.

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