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SchoolCash brings fee management, payments, and real-time visibility to your entire district. No more disconnected payment systems and spreadsheets. Just the security and visibility CFOs and auditors need to manage every dollar.

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School finance done right. Here’s what it looks like.

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Manage every dollar on a single system

Bring fees, payments, disbursements, accounting, and reporting onto one system. No manual exports, no lengthy reconciliations, and no gaps.

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Real-time visibility, not last week's numbers

Get data you can trust, with real-time updates to school-level fund balances, transactions, and reconciliation status. No waiting on syncs, reports, or phone calls.

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De-risk finance and stay out of the news

Eliminate fraud risk with digital audit trails from the classroom to the bank. When it’s time for an audit, answers and records are already available.

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30 years, 26,000+ schools, 
over 98% retention

Try it, trust it, and then wonder how you ever lived without it. That’s the path taken by thousands of parents, bookkeepers, auditors, and district finance teams.

School finance done right. Here’s what it looks like.

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Manage every dollar on a single system

Bring fees, payments, disbursements, accounting, and reporting onto one system. No manual exports, no lengthy reconciliations, and no gaps.

icon for Safety & Compliance Tracking

Real-time visibility, not last week's numbers

Get data you can trust, with real-time updates to school-level fund balances, transactions, and reconciliation status. No waiting on syncs, reports, or phone calls.

icon for Staffing & Resource Management

De-risk finance and stay out of the news

Eliminate fraud risk with digital audit trails from the classroom to the bank. When it’s time for an audit, answers and records are already available.

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30 years, 26,000+ schools, 
over 98% retention

Try it, trust it, and then wonder how you ever lived without it. That’s the path taken by thousands of parents, bookkeepers, auditors, and district finance teams.

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More than 1 in 4 districts already use KEV. Here’s why.

Feature
Status quo
How many districts still operate
KEV Group
Unified Platform
Fee management
Fees tracked on disconnected papers and spreadsheets. No strong way to track fees and notify parents.
School store, activities, field trips, forms, and more. All in one place.
Payments
Manual cash handling and record keeping, high risk, less convenient for parents.
Online, POS, and cash + check, all receipted and posted automatically.
School finance and reconciliation
Slow and manual accounting and reconciliation, often managed through third-party tools and spreadsheets.
Automatic General Ledger posting, real-time visibility and tracking, guided reconciliation.
Secure cash management and chain of custody
Paper receipt books, verbal handoffs, limited security.
Fully time-stamped digital audit trail.
Disbursements and vendor payments
Petty cash and checks are disconnected from overall balances, high fraud and error risks.
Approved vendor lists, full security, automatic payments, check-writing, and tracking.
Refund and chargeback management
No structured process. Every dispute must be handled ad hoc.
Built-in tracking, group refunds, and automatic General Ledger reversal.
Real-time budget tracking
Visibility depends on bookkeepers producing reports on request.
District-wide dashboard for cash, balances, and reconciliation status. Always current.
Audit management & reporting
Manual assembly of records. Takes days or weeks.
Built-in audit tool, read-only auditor access, state-level compliance reports. Takes minutes or hours.
Number of Systems to Manage
3+
Fundraising + Accounting + Reporting
1

See how we compare

More than 1 in 4 districts already use KEV. Here’s why.

Status quo
How many districts still operate
KEV Group
Unified Platform
Fee management
Fees tracked on disconnected papers and spreadsheets. No strong way to track fees and notify parents.
School store, activities, field trips, forms, and more. All in one place.
Payments
Manual cash handling and record keeping, high risk, less convenient for parents.
Online, POS, and cash + check, all receipted and posted automatically.
School finance and reconciliation
Slow and manual accounting and reconciliation, often managed through third-party tools and spreadsheets.
Automatic General Ledger posting, real-time visibility and tracking, guided reconciliation.
Secure cash management and chain of custody
Paper receipt books, verbal handoffs, limited security.
Fully time-stamped digital audit trail.
Disbursements and vendor payments
Petty cash and checks are disconnected from overall balances, high fraud and error risks.
Approved vendor lists, full security, automatic payments, check-writing, and tracking.
Refund and chargeback management
No structured process. Every dispute must be handled ad hoc.
Built-in tracking, group refunds, and automatic General Ledger reversal.
Real-time budget tracking
Visibility depends on bookkeepers producing reports on request.
District-wide dashboard for cash, balances, and reconciliation status. Always current.
Audit management & reporting
Manual assembly of records. Takes days or weeks.
Built-in audit tool, read-only auditor access, state-level compliance reports. Takes minutes or hours.
Number of Systems to Manage
3+
Fundraising + Accounting + Reporting
1

Funds, data, and community trust.
All protected with bank-grade security.

Trusted by 1 in 4 schools across North America — managing nearly $8 billion in student activity fees annually.

FAQ

The best school accounting software for K-12 isn’t one that handles a single piece of the puzzle. It’s the one that brings fee management, payments, disbursements, and reporting onto a single system. Most districts today are stitching together a fundraising tool, a payment processor, and an accounting system, then reconciling between them by hand. A purpose-built K-12 school finance platform like KEV Group’s SchoolCash eliminates that gap, giving CFOs district-wide visibility and bookkeepers their time back.

Today, many school finance systems rely on school-specific spreadsheets and disconnected tools. This creates gaps that show up later as missing receipts, reconciliation backlogs, or audit findings. A unified activity fund system gives you a digital audit trail from the moment money comes in to the moment it posts to the General Ledger — no manual exports, no late-night reconciliation, no surprises.

Both. SchoolCash is a school fee management software and an accounting platform in one. You can manage school store sales, field trips, athletics, forms, and nutrition fees alongside General Ledger posting and bank reconciliation. That’s the difference between a payment tool bolted onto accounting and a true K-12 finance system.

Audit prep is one of the biggest reasons districts switch to SchoolCash. Because every transaction carries a time-stamped digital audit trail, your auditor can see the full chain of custody from the classroom to the bank. We provide read-only auditor access and state-level compliance reports instantly, so what used to take weeks of manual record assembly takes minutes. That’s what “audit-proof financial management” actually looks like in practice.

Yes. This is one of the most common reasons districts replace their existing setup. Cash-handling controls, approved vendor lists, and automatic General Ledger posting eliminate the gaps where school activity fund fraud typically happens. When every dollar is tracked digitally from collection through deposit, the opportunities for fraud effectively disappear.

That’s exactly what our product is built for. Over 20,000 schools use KEV, including some of the largest districts in Canada and the US. You get a centralized financial management system with school-level fund balances rolling up to district-wide reporting, all in real time. You’ll never need to email individual schools to get a snapshot or report.

The math changes by district size, but the pain points are remarkably similar. Smaller districts often feel the stress of manual workloads even more than larger ones because one bookkeeper might be handling what a team handles elsewhere. Regardless of size, districts that switch save hours of manual work and save money overall, such as by reducing the costs of handling and processing cash and checks.

School financial software implementation can vary by district size and scope, but you can go live much faster than you expect – often just a few months. Our team handles onboarding, school cash management support, and activity fund tracking setup so your team isn’t doing it alone. And once you switch, you’ll wonder how you ever worked without it.

Your team's been making it work. Let's make it easy.

Schools using KEV Group save an average of 15 hours per month on manual reconciliation and reduce software costs by 40%.