I've started a blog about the reconciliation topic where I'm going to post some additional tips and tricks about the process. We've (Katie has) also posted the materials and the video recording of the past session on the FAQ page for Student Billing if you missed it. On the blog I'm also...

Greetings faithful blog readers! We recently held a customer round table regarding the fabulous topic of reconciling Student Billing to General Ledger. This was the first of many sessions we hope to hold discussing popular topics in Student Billing. Our support team is working hard to develop these sessions...

This is a guest post by Chuck Hays. Chuck is a Senior Educational Consultant for Blackbaud. Did you know we have an even easier way to correctly accrue payments for the next school year? First, let's touch on the accounting requirements. If you take money now that will be applied to next year's...

You should definitely check out The Book Bag which is Blackbaud's blog about Student Billing and The Education Edge. You can get some really good information out of it. There are new articles on integration changes, end-of-year billing, advance deposits tips, promoting students, keyboard shortcuts...

Hi everyone! I know some of you might be familiar with me already; I'm Sean, a Customer Support Analyst who handles our Education Solutions products (Registrar's Office, Student Billing, Admissions Office, NetClassroom, and Faculty Access for the Web). I talk to a lot of you regularly, and I...

Read the blog. Get a quick preview of some Advance Deposit improvements and lets get the conversation going on some best practices around this process! http://forums.blackbaud.com/blogs/schoolsoftware/archive/2009/02/02/tis-the-season-for-advance-deposits.aspx

We are making advance deposit data entry simpler. Yes, I said it. In our next release, version 7.78 which is due out this quarter, we have made some relatively simple, but very effective changes that will ease confusion around this cyclical process. In my 3 years of experience with Student Billing 7...

Hey Melissa! So the billing process is exactly the same as it was in version 6 with one exception. If you grade based bill AND have Registrar's Office, you will need to run the mark for reenrollment wizard (Done in Registrar's Office) to show what grade the student will be in next year. Then...

How would you like to ensure credits generated from Financial Aid schedules can only apply to tuition or specific charges? Beginning in version 7.75, you can set application restrictions to control the application of advance deposit credits and financial aid credits. Follow these steps to restrict applications...

Good Afternoon, If any other school is using the Advanced Deposit function, I would be interested to know when the registration/down payment charge is applied to the student activity tab. My understanding is that when a registration fee payment (due March 17) is received, I am to add the payment to the...