New TADS Payment Experience — Estimated Net Cost to School
We're excited to introduce a new TADS experience that provides schools with many benefits, including total fee control. Feel free to use this calculator to estimate how family-paid fees can offset your TADS platform costs and even create additional revenue for your school!
Your numbers
Using your VenturEd contract, input your school's student rate, estimated total enrollment count, and optionally your SaaS fee. Everything below will update automatically.
Per student, per year. Enter the rate from your VenturEd contract.
Used to estimate your costs below.
Annual subscription cost from your VenturEd contract. Enter the fee if you wish to spread the cost across your enrollment — currently $0.00 per student.
Enter other annual costs that you may wish to recover through TADS. Spread across your enrollment — currently $0.00 per student.
Total Due billed by TADS
(Student rate + ((SaaS fee + Other annual fees) ÷ # Students Enrolled)) × # Students Enrolled
$0
Choose how you'd like to offset your cost
Select one or more options. Only the sections you choose will appear below.
Fees Collected Through the Platform — offset the cost
All fields optional. Enter the fees you plan to collect; the offset builds as you type.
Select at least one option above to begin.
Student Technology Fee Suggested$ per student × # studentsTip: set this to your TADS rate to fully offset the platform cost.
Collected$0
Important: If your school would rather not use the suggested Student Technology Fee above, you can select any of the other options to model different scenarios and see what other configurations are possible.
Tuition by Grade Level Optional$ tuition × # studentsUse this section if your school plans to offset platform costs by building a small tuition increase into one or more grade levels — enter the added amount per student as the tuition figure for each grade.
Early Childhood Tuition if applicable
$0
Lower School Tuition if applicable
$0
Middle School Tuition if applicable
$0
Upper School Tuition if applicable
$0
Tuition subtotal$0
Family Fees Charged per family — other fees can be assessed per family to help the school offset platform costs.
1–2 Installment Plans Optional$ fee × # families
Collected$0
3+ Installment Plans Optional$ fee × # families
Collected$0
Late / Past Due Fees Optional$ fee × # families
Collected$0
Returned Payment Fees Optional$ fee × # families
Collected$0
Payment Fees Service fees on payment transactions
Schools are responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable state laws regarding service fees.
Credit card service fee Reference only% rate × $ transaction volume + $0.30 per transactionThe credit card transaction fee rate assessed to the school is 3.00% of the total fee amount plus a flat $0.30 for Visa, Mastercard, and Discover, and 3.50% of the total fee amount plus a flat $0.30 for American Express. To offset these costs, your school can create your own service fee to assess to families — the suggested rate for full offsetting is 3.20%.Not included in the calculation below
Estimated cost$0
ACH service fee Optional% rate × $ transaction volume
Collected$0
TADS Platform Cost
$0
($0.00 + $0.00 SaaS + $0.00 other per student) × 0 students
Total Fees Collected (Offset)
$0
Sum of the fees you selected above (credit card service fee excluded)
Estimated Net Cost to School
$0
$0.00 per student