There’s a paradox in K-12 finance
See the surprising new research from a survey of nearly 1000 district finance leaders, school staff, and parents.
When payments and accounting happen in separate systems, your team is always a step behind. Keep it simple and stay secure with the school finance platform that does everything. No gaps, no strings.
Other vendors might offer fundraising, payments, and accounting. But those features are never truly connected. KEV gives districts everything they need in a single system. It’s easier to use, easier to manage, and much more secure.
Bring fees, payments, expenses, accounting, and reporting into one place. No manual exports, no reconciling multiple systems, and no gaps.
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.
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.
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.
Other vendors integrate separate fundraising and payments platforms with an accounting tool. But they’re never truly connected. KEV gives districts everything they need in a single system. It’s easier to use, easier to manage, and much more secure.
Bring fees, payments, disbursements, accounting, and reporting onto one system. No manual exports, no lengthy reconciliations, and no gaps.
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.
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.
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.
More than 1 in 4 districts already use KEV. Here’s why.
More than 1 in 4 districts already use KEV. Here’s why.
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Givebacks is primarily an online fundraising platform for schools and PTAs. TrackYourFunds is an activity fund accounting tool. Districts sometimes run both — fundraising in one system, accounting in another — and then reconciling between them manually. KEV brings fundraising, payments, fee management, and accounting onto a single platform, which is why districts evaluating the two-vendor approach increasingly land on a unified alternative instead.
Because the integration between fundraising software and school accounting tools is usually surface-level. Money moves between systems, but the audit trail breaks, reconciliation lags, and reporting requires manual exports. With a unified school finance platform, every fundraiser, fee, and refund posts automatically to the General Ledger, with no manual handoff between products.
Yes. KEV supports fundraising programs for schools alongside everyday fee collection like school stores, field trips, athletics, classroom supplies, and club dues. You get the fundraising functionality (and the parent-facing experience) without needing a separate online fundraising platform for schools.
Both. That’s the point. Most fundraising apps for schools stop at “collect the money.” KEV picks up where they stop: automatic General Ledger posting, real-time fund balance visibility, guided reconciliation, and audit-ready reporting. So you’re not buying a fundraising tool and a fund accounting tool — you’re buying one platform that does both correctly.
Every dollar raised — whether it’s an online donation, a cash event, a POS sale at a game, or a check from a sponsor — is recorded against the right activity fund, time-stamped, and posted to the GL automatically. That eliminates the reconciliation gap that exists when fundraising lives in one system and the accounting books live in another.
Elementary fundraising tends to involve smaller, more frequent collections like book fairs, fun runs, and classroom funds. This is exactly where manual tracking falls apart. KEV handles small and recurring transactions with the same audit trail and reporting rigor as district-level finance, so elementary bookkeepers aren’t stuck reconciling envelopes of cash against a spreadsheet.
Most don’t. The fundraising software market and the fund accounting software market grew up separately, which is why districts end up with a disconnected stack. KEV was built specifically for K-12 to close that gap, so reconciliation in schools stops being a monthly fire drill.
Our onboarding team handles activity fund tracking setup and historical data migration. The longer-term cost or running two disconnected systems is almost always bigger than the month or two is takes to switch to a unified platform.