AvadaSchool: A Smarter Way for Schools in DRC to Manage School Fee Payments

Managing school fees is one of the most important administrative responsibilities for educational institutions. Yet for many schools, institutes, universities, and training centers, the process can still be slow, manual, and difficult to track.

Payments may come through different channels, receipts may be issued manually and parents may need to follow up to confirm balances. School administrators often spend hours reconciling payments, checking student accounts, updating financial records, and preparing financial reports. As institutions grow, this can make school fee management harder to control.

AvadaPay DRC recently developed AvadaSchool, a new digital payment solution for schools to help solve this challenge.

What Is AvadaSchool?

AvadaSchool is a school fee management platform that supports the full school fee collection process, from invoicing and payment collection to tracking, reporting, and access to financial information.

By supporting mobile money, card payments, compatible banking services, digital wallets, and online payments, AvadaSchool provides schools with a more practical way to collect tuition fees while reducing the friction that often comes with manual collections, bank-only payment processes, and scattered payment records.

This is especially important in the DRC, where mobile money has become a more widely used payment channel than traditional banking. While traditional bank penetration is estimated at around 7% to 14%, mostly concentrated in urban areas, mobile money penetration stands at about 30.5% of the population, with more than 29 million active accounts. For schools, this means fee collection systems need to reflect how families are already moving money.

“By integrating mobile money and other payment channels into one platform, AvadaSchool will help improve fee collection for schools, reduce manual reconciliation, and give parents a more convenient way to pay,” says Ibrahim Omari, CEO, AvadaPay RDC.

Key Features of AvadaSchool

1. School Fee Invoicing

AvadaSchool allows educational institutions to manage invoicing digitally. This helps schools create fee requests, issue invoices, link payments to students, and reduce confusion around outstanding balances.

2. Digital Payment Collection

The platform supports electronic school fee payments through mobile money services, bank cards and compatible banking services. This gives parents and students more convenient payment options while helping schools reduce dependence on manual collection.

3. Electronic Receipts

AvadaSchool enables institutions to issue electronic receipts after payments are made. This helps improve transparency and gives parents and students proof of payment without relying only on paper-based receipts.

4. Monitoring and Reporting Dashboards

Through the monitoring dashboard, school administrators can access a clearer view of fee collection, billing, transaction activity, student balances, financial data, and overall school finances. These reports can support planning, reconciliation, decision-making, and internal financial management.

AvadaPay RDC: Strengthening Digital Payments in Central Africa

AvadaPay DRC is part of the wider AvadaPay ecosystem, built to support businesses, institutions, and communities with reliable digital payment infrastructure across the DRC and Central Africa.

Having recently acquired the Avada Money Transfer RDC SARLU license from the Central Bank of Congo, AvadaPay DRC supports digital collections via mobile money and card, disbursements, and bulk SMS solutions across various sectors.

With this growing ecosystem, a regulated operating foundation, and a strong local market focus, AvadaPay RDC is strengthening its position as one of the best payment service providers in Central Africa.

“AvadaPay’s growth in the DRC reflects the kind of market-focused innovation we want to support across the Velex Group portfolio. The opportunity is not only to digitize payments, but to build infrastructure that solves practical problems for businesses, institutions, and everyday users in high-growth African markets,” says Artur Mildov, Chief Visionary Officer at Velex Group.

For AvadaPay RDC, the priority is turning that vision into practical tools for local businesses and institutions.

“Our focus at AvadaPay RDC is to build payment solutions that respond to how people and institutions actually operate in the DRC. That means supporting Mobile Money, banks, cards, messaging, and reporting in a way that gives businesses more visibility, more control, and more confidence in their payment processes,” says Ansarry Mulumba, Chief Operating Officer at AvadaPay RDC.

Why AvadaSchool Matters for School Management

For many educational institutions, school management is not only about teaching, attendance, enrollment, and student records. It also involves managing payments and financial information across different departments.

A digital fee management platform like AvadaSchool helps schools centralize this process. Instead of relying on separate spreadsheets, paper receipts, manual follow-ups, or disconnected payment channels, administrators can manage school fees payments, receipts, and reports in one place.

This makes AvadaSchool useful alongside other school management tools, student information system workflows, and administrative systems used by educational institutions.

Better fee management gives administrators, educators, parents, and other stakeholders greater visibility into payment activity, helping schools spend more time delivering quality education.