White paper

Build, Buy or Partner

Four routes to embedded payments for edtech platforms, and what each one asks of your team.

Download the white paper Free, 12 pages.
£1.5bn+ Direct Debit volume with WCBS 1,000+ schools reached through SchoolGrid

For anywhere money moves between families and schools.

Written for product and engineering leaders at MIS, booking, catering and co-curricular platforms. An honest look at every route, including when building is the right answer.

  • Why payments rarely belong on your roadmap
  • Four routes, compared side by side
  • What to look for in an education specialist
  • A better experience, in your brand or ours
  • How payments can become a revenue stream

Four routes. One honest comparison.

01

Build it yourself

It makes payments your problem. It doesn't make them your expertise.

02

Add providers as you go

Five methods shouldn't mean five providers.

03

A generalist provider

Solid infrastructure. But you're a small fish in a very big sea.

04

An education payments partner

Payments expertise and education expertise, in the same team.

esenda's entire business is payments in education. Yours doesn't have to be.

You built your platform because you're exceptional at something. Payments almost certainly wasn't the reason you started.

This paper sets out where your engineering effort creates the most value, and whether payments is genuinely part of that answer.

The full picture, in 12 pages.

Every route, compared honestly. If you only read one page, make it page 10.

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