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Optimize Operations, Drive Success: The TADS Suite for K-12 Private Schools

The TADS suite for K-12 private schools features admissions and enrollment management, financial aid management, tuition management, and student information management in one convenient suite. Watch our video walkthrough of the TADS suite to learn more.

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What to Expect: Getting Started with a New Financial Aid Tool

Discover the ease and benefits of implementing financial aid software in your school. Join our live webinar hosted by the School and Student Services (SSS) team. Learn about the onboarding process, staff and family preparation, seamless integration, and ongoing support. Don't miss the chance to engage in a live Q&A session. Embrace change with confidence!

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Infographic: The Power of TADS K-12 Financial Aid Software

Discover how the TADS’ K-12 suite streamlines your school’s admission, enrollment, financial aid, tuition and billing management, and student information management in one system.

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K-12 Tech Trivia | TADS Software Suite

The TADS software suite is an all-in-one solution for K-12 schools featuring admissions and enrollment, tuition and billing management, financial aid, and student information software. Learn more by watching this short video!

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Level Up Your Financial Aid with TADS FA: Live Product Demo

Learn how to simplify your financial aid process while cutting costs, automating processes, and maximizing net tuition revenue.

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Marketing Your School

We're here to help you get started for a successful admission and enrollment season.

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Infographic: Get to Know the TADS K-12 Suite

Discover how the TADS’ K-12 suite streamlines your school’s admission, enrollment, financial aid, tuition and billing management, and student information management in one system.

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Demo Video: What is TADS?

Join Sam, our Director of Solution Strategy for K-12, as he shares some of the features TADS offers our clients. See firsthand, a few elements of TADS and the advanced admissions and enrollment demo screens.

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5 Reasons to Go Green with Digital School Management

There are multiple benefits to having an online tuition management solution. Watch this video to learn five ways families benefit.

Customer Stories

Lutheran School in Wisconsin

Administrators at a Lutheran School in Wisconsin noted that staff and families sought increased accessibility to manage and update their information on mobile devices and tablets. By implementing TADS software, the school significantly improved the family experience by streamlining its information system. At the same time, the school gained enhanced capabilities in admissions, enrollment, financial aid, and tuition management. TADS software has enhanced the user experience for administrators, teachers, and parents at this Lutheran School.

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5 Benefits Families Receive from Online Tuition Management

There are multiple benefits to having an online tuition management solution. Watch this video to learn five ways families benefit.

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Video – 5 Features Schools Love About our Full-Service Tuition Solution

From accessibility to personalized service, our online tuition management solution has many features your school will love.

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10 Features Your School Will Love About Online Tuition Management

You can provide greater financial flexibility to families, automate workflows to free up staff time, and so much more by using implementing an online tuition management system.

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Infographic: Tuition Management Solutions for Schools of All Sizes 

An infographic highlighting our leading tuition management offerings, including TADS, BigSIS, and TuitionPay by Diamond Mind.

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4 Myths About Digital Tuition Management

Families are starting to expect convenient bill payment options, including online tuition. But is your school equipped to take that on? This video uncovers the truth behind myths surrounding:

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How Schools Can Leverage Technology to Promote Work-Life Balance 

The right technology can enable schools to work remotely efficiently without the risk of losing work or needing to transfer work between systems. Find out more by watching our webinar.

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Optimizing Your Tech Stack to Drive Your Financial Strategy

Are you looking for ways to elevate your school’s financial strategy? We have tips to optimize your technology solutions so that you can make better-informed financial decisions and drive results. 

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Framing the K-12 Financial Picture and Prepping for Giving Tuesday

From tuition management to fundraising, your school has countless elements that influence the greater financial picture.

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4 Key Pieces of the Tuition Management Puzzle

This upcoming webinar highlights our findings from our 2022 K-12 Trends Report and how your school can transform its business office with MIP Fund Accounting.

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Common School Reporting Scenarios and How to Address Them

Experts from MIP by Community Brands share and explain how K-12 school accounting teams can benefit from the different types of reporting that an accounting software provides.

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The Private and Independent School’s Guide to Choosing School Management Software and Services

To stay relevant and viable, many school leaders are turning to technology partners to simplify administrative tasks and deliver a better experience to students and families. Download this guide to learn about the benefits different types of software provides your school today.

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Maximize Your New School Year

Learn how your school can maximize processes with a cloud-based accounting software and see MIP in action during a live demo.  

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What Have the Last Two Years of Admission and Enrollment Taught Us? 

Staying current and up to date on your technology and processes are changes worth making. Join us for more on schools’ current landscape and why the future looks bright.  

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Meet TADS: A Flexible Enrollment Solution to Complement SchoolSpeak

Join us for an innovative live demo featuring TADS. TADS is a cloud-based, full-service solution for school administrators.

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A Digital-First Business Office for K12 Schools

This upcoming webinar highlights our findings from our 2022 K-12 Trends Report and how your school can transform its business office with MIP Fund Accounting.

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2022 K-12 Research Benchmarking

Can you accurately compare your school to how other private and independent schools are doing in your region or nationwide?

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A Whole School Strategy to Sustainable Revenue Streams for K-12 Private and Independent Schools

Our A Whole School Strategy to Sustainable Revenue Streams for K-12 Private and Independent Schools eBook takes a dive into the different revenue streams your school can use to get started while providing you with the tools you need to get stakeholder buy-in and showcase your successes.

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Meet the Future of Fundraising for Schools

Join us and watch how our new platform can revolutionize your fundraising strategy through GiveSmart.

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Revenue Opportunity Calculator for K-12 Private and Independent Schools

This revenue calculator is designed to highlight your school's opportunity areas to build or improve revenue streams using 2022 private and independent school benchmarking data.

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2022 K-12 Research Study Deep Dive

Our upcoming webinar will take a deep dive into the 2022 K-12 Research Study which identifies the current and longer-term trends among independent, parochial, and boarding schools.

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Software Integration Explained

In an age of digital evolution in schools, we hear phrases like software integration, bundles, and suites all the time. But what does it mean to have integrated software and how is it beneficial to schools?

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Industry Forum: The Shift in K-12 & How Community Brands is Helping Schools Like Yours

As a partner to over 5,000 private and independent K-12 schools, we have seen seismic changes in school enrollment, operations, donor management, parent communications, payment needs, staffing, and capacity in schools across the country. How do you seize new opportunities for growth?

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Industry Panel Discussion: Conquering the New Normal

The last 24 months have forced school administrators into thinking, operating, and forecasting differently. From admission, enrollment, financial aid, tuition, billing, and student information management, schools are adapting quickly to today’s changing environment.

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Meet TADS: A Flexible Solution to Meet Your Administrative Needs

Join us for an innovative live demo featuring TADS. TADS is a cloud-based, full-service solution for school administrators.

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Meet Flex: A Simplified and Predictable Pricing Structure

What if you had a solution that could not only simplify pricing but also give your school more control and flexibility options with pricing? Our solution, Flex, offers a streamlined pricing structure like no other in the market.

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Meet Your New SIS

Join us for an innovative live demo featuring Educate. The Educate student information system (SIS) is built to meet the unique needs of small and mid-sized private and independent schools, with enhanced functionality to support districts and diocese.

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Using Your 2021 Enrollment Data to Improve Your 2022 Admissions Strategy

Your tech tools are loaded with great data, but do you know what data to use and where to find it? In this webinar, we'll explore how to harness the power and knowledge within your own data and how to segment, extract, and analyze your data to improve your overall admissions strategy.

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Track, Report, and Show Impact with MIP Fund Accounting

Comprehensive and scalable, MIP Fund Accounting grows to meet your school’s unique needs. With features like unlimited fund tracking, managing financial books with ease, and compiling net tuition, MIP is your partner in school accounting at its best. 

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Retain to Gain

This webinar will focus on how to reduce student attrition, how to understand why students are leaving, and strategies to promote re-enrollment.

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7 Key Communication Tactics

We want your school to have diverse and actionable communication strategies for attracting new families and retaining current families at your school. We’re here to help with key communication tactics to guide your school’s outreach.

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Evolving Your Marketing Strategies

Are you ready for Admissions season? Could your marketing use a refresh? Join us for this webinar on marketing tactics and strategies to help kickoff your admissions cycle.

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Benefits of Bundling: Enhancing the Family and School Experience from Financial Aid to Tuition

Learn how the software you use to manage your school plays an important role in both the family and school experience.

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FABLAB 2021 On-Demand

FABLAB 2021 was a virtual event designed to help K-12 financial aid professionals grow their knowledge and skills with education and training from industry professionals. You can get access to all the superb insight from Day 1 Thought Leadership Content on demand now! 

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How to Talk About Tuition and Financial Aid with Families

Correctly positioning how you talk about financial aid and tuition can help attract a new and more diverse student body.

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Go Contactless with Automated Online Tuition 

Streamline tuition management for schools. Simplify tuition payments for families.

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Lunch & Learn Webinar: TADS Tuition Management

See how TADS can help you move to fully online tuition agreements with customizable terms, flexible and comprehensive billing services allowing families to pay online and on time, and streamline payment tracking and reconciliations with full-service customer support dedicated to helping families.

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New UI & Dashboard Showcase

TADS has an all new look and new features! We've been working hard over the summer to bring a new modern user experience and navigation plus new Dashboard to TADS.

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Gen X vs Millennials: The Power In Using A Generational Approach to Understanding What Families Want at Your School

One of the ways to stay competitive and attract new families to your school, is to understand the differences from social media usage to household make-up to technology expectations between Gen X and Millennial parents.

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It’s Time to Shine

All your back-to-school resources to make this your brightest year yet! Training, tech tips, checklists for your admissions, enrollment and tuition management, and tips and tricks to kick off the new year.

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It’s Time to Shine: Technology Checklist for the New Year

Here’s a quick technology checklist to make sure you’re shining brightly this upcoming school year. We've got 10 tips to ensure your technology is ready to go.

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It’s Time to Shine: Your School Admin Checklist for the New Year

Here’s a quick checklist for school administrators to make sure you’re shining brightly this upcoming school year. We've got 10 tips to ensure your Admissions, Enrollment, Tuition Management, and SIS systems are ready to start the new school year.

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Gen X vs Millennials: The Generational Approach to Understanding What Families Want at Your School

Gen X and Millennial parents have different expectations and perspectives on everything from technology to household structure. Learn how you can appeal to both markets in this panel discussion. Register now.

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5 Steps to a Successful Folder Review

As you prepare to make award decisions for the coming school year, consistency and efficiency are key to successfully reviewing applicant folders. These five steps will help you cover important areas about each family’s household and financial picture.

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Emerge Stronger: Post-pandemic Retention & Growth

Discover the importance of using data to shape your diocese school improvement journey. Brought to you by the award-winning, UK-based Assembly.

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Preview the New TADS Financial Aid Platform

The new TADS Financial Aid platform officially premieres on September 1 when the 2022-23 application opens to families. Watch more in our latest webinar.

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Best Practices in Dashboards

This short guide will give you valuable tips and best practices on using a dashboard to its fullest extent. Read the guide!

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Mastering Your School’s Data for Long-term Success

Learn how future-focused schools are tapping into powerful in-house data to plan for enrollment, keep retention levels high, and ensure financial stability. Read the guide!

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Dashboards: Driving Efficiency and Value in One View

Management dashboards provide real-time visibility and oversight of your school’s key analytics. Learn the best practices in designing and using a dashboard for school administrators in our webinar!

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Best Practices for Year End

Explore key questions to answer and important tasks to complete for each stage of your year-end financial aid process. Ensure you have all the right data in all the correct places, then analyze what it all means and set an optimal stage to plan, strategize, and forecast your budget needs.

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Digital Transformation and your Student Management

In a world where schools and organizations were forced into digital transformation seemingly overnight, it’s important to see the advantages of utilizing tech for your school administrative tasks. Read the guide today!

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Ditch the Paper: Elevate Your Student Management

Manual and paper-driven student management processes are costing your school more than you think. We'll show you how.

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Maximizing Net Tuition Revenue

Private K-12 schools need effective ways to get the most out of student tuition. That requires thoughtful financial aid strategies, ensuring full enrollment and attracting more students who pay tuition.

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4 Reasons School Offices are Going Paperless

Have you considered taking your business office processes paperless? Now is the perfect time to get started - and we know just the way to kick things off!

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4 Features – When choosing your tuition management solution

Tuition management solutions were different prior to 2020. Take a look at what to look for now.

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Top challenges private schools face today

Learn how to adapt and come out on top with our latest guide!

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Navigating Forward: Working with Tight School Budgets

Learn how to find new ways to provide the value you expect during financial challenges!

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Navigating Forward: Conquering and Relieving Overwhelmed Families

Let us help you relieve some of the stress off your families!

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Navigating Forward: Conquering Education Staff Burnout

Learn how to adapt and come out on top of staff burnout with our latest guide!

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Waiting to simplify can cost you

Find out the opportunities you have to streamline your school systems, the costs of pushing it off, and how to ensure you're working smarter, not harder, through integrated software.

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Automate and manage your financial aid and tuition processes in one place

Ready to create a one-stop-shop for all things tuition and financial aid for your staff and families? Administrators have always had a long list of responsibilities and it keeps growing during the pandemic. Join TADS product experts, Ashley Jemes and Ian Scharer, as they demonstrate how an integrated TADS solution can help you.

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Tuition management from TADS solves all your tuition problems

Need some help with tuition during this pandemic? Let TADS do the heavy lifting for you. A solution that can accommodate your school and offer friendly service to your families while helping you adapt to all the changes COVID-19 has brought on. We can help! Watch our webinar now!

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Tuition Software in 2020: Scrap Everything You Knew Pre-Pandemic

Our tuition software experts and product General Managers Trish Surin and Jessica McDouall have put together a webinar to discuss the importance of the right tuition solution for both you and your families, especially in a digital world. Watch to learn more.

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2020 Back to School Check List

Schools face a growing number of challenges, from maintaining enrollment numbers to raising funds throughout the year. Each of these areas require ongoing strategy, execution, and smart decisions.

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Tuition management with options

Now more than ever, schools need a technology partner who can help ensure your financial stability. Check out our webinar to learn how TADS can be your partner and help you gain more predictability, flexibility and the option to create additional revenue streams.

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Does your technology stack up?

Are there too many pitfalls to your current technology? Find out how TADS can take school management to the next level.

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8 ways to bounce back from a pandemic

We have unraveled 8 ways to bounce back from a pandemic even quicker.

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Streamline E-learning and Student Management with Educate

Worried you might not be connecting with your students and families as much as you would like to? Educate can help!

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Automate and Integrate with TADS Admissions & Enrollment

Are you concerned about collecting in-person payments on time? Avoid payment disruptions with TADS Tuition & Billing Management!

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Tackle your financial aid priority through automation with TADS Financial Aid

Automate functions and leave the service to us with superior school and family support through TADS Financial Aid Assessment.

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Enable Simplicity and Automation with TADS Tuition & Billing Management

Are you concerned about collecting in-person payments on time? Avoid payment disruptions with TADS Tuition & Billing Management!

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Maximizing Net Tuition 2022

Schools face a growing number of challenges, from maintaining enrollment numbers to raising funds throughout the year. Each of these areas require ongoing strategy, execution, and smart decisions.

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5 roadblocks keeping schools from being data driven

Schools face a growing number of challenges, from maintaining enrollment numbers to raising funds throughout the year. Each of these areas require ongoing strategy, execution, and smart decisions.

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The State of Tuition & Enrollment in Independent Schools

At TADS, we have spent over 25 years helping schools optimize their tuition, financial aid, and enrollment programs.

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Tuition Trends & Discounting Strategies

Many finance and enrollment professionals in schools all across the country are balancing competing priorities; maintaining the discount rates and meeting aggressive enrollment goals...

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Financial Aid- The TADS advantage

Admissions, Enrollment, Financial Aid, Billing and TADS Educate SMS are available in a powerful full-service offering, giving schools and families a single resource for all their needs.

Customer Stories

Emerson Waldorf School

The Emerson Waldorf School provides students with a holistic, classical education based on the philosophy of its founder, Rudolf Steiner. Before TADS, the school performed all admissions, enrollment, and tuition management processes in-house, creating significant monetary and time constraints. The school chose TADS as its software service provider for the freedom it gained in customizing services for its unique needs. With TADS software like Admissions and Enrollment, Financial Aid Assessment, and Tuition and Billing Management, the Emerson Waldorf School has been able to save time and streamline processes for families and staff.

Customer Stories

International School of Boston

A wholly unique institution serving students from prekindergarten through 12th grade, the International School of Boston (ISB) offers a challenging curriculum in a bilingual French-American academic program. The school wanted a solution to reduce the use of paper forms while streamlining and personalizing its financial aid and tuition management processes, especially for its international families. TADS offers the perfect software for ISB to streamline its information management processes while providing personal attention and solutions.

Customer Stories

Stockdale Christian School

Stockdale Christian School used to review each student's application individually and make decisions based on the information provided. This process posed a few challenges for the school, including information security and decision-making. Stockdale Christian School implemented TADS Financial Aid to provide enhanced security for families' financial information and data. The software also streamlines the financial aid decision-making process for applicants. Another attractive element was TADS software's flexibility to accommodate school-specific policies and budgets.

Customer Stories

St. Raphael Catholic School

St. Raphael Catholic School in Crystal, Minnesota, nurtures the development of each child through a faith-based education. After relying on paper methods for all admissions, billing, financial aid, and enrollment processes for years, St. Raphael's needed to move its processes online—a daunting task for administrators. Already a customer for report card solutions, St. Raphael's turned to the TADS suite to handle all its admissions, enrollment, financial aid, tuition, and billing. Administrators and families found the new online systems easy to use and adaptable to their unique needs.

Customer Stories

Montessori Children’s House of Durham

Montessori Children’s House of Durham (MCHD) instructs young students based on the classic Montessori principles of independence and freedom of inquiry. The school had previously used another financial aid processor but had concerns about the quality of the information it was able to collect from families. MCHD has more confidence in TADS Financial Aid as its new software service provider. The school appreciates the ability to make award decisions based on its institution's guiding principles.

Customer Stories

Ben Porat Yosef

Ben Porat Yosef had a small finance office of two administrators—and then it just had one. Using Microsoft Excel to organize all billing information caused confusion and opened the school's processes up to human error. Transitioning to TADS allowed the finance office at Ben Porat Yosef to maintain its efficiency and streamline financial aid management processes. Now all departments have the same data to work with, and families enjoy payment flexibility and easy access to their information.