KEV School Solution (SchoolCash) Alternatives

All your school finance.
All in one place.

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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.

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Don’t spread school finance across multiple systems

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.

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Manage every dollar on a single system

Bring fees, payments, expenses, accounting, and reporting into one place. No manual exports, no reconciling multiple systems, 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.

Don’t spread finance across multiple systems

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.

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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.

icon for Asset & Lifecycle Management

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.

See how we compare

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

Feature
Typical competitor
Stitched-together tools
KEV Group
Unified Platform
One unified platform
Payments and accounting are separate.
Complete fee management
No coverage for third-party systems like library fees, or transportation.
School store, activities, field trips, forms, fundraising, and more. All in one place.
Payments
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May use third-party systems or Point of Sale devices. Maintenance and disputes mean juggling multiple contacts.
Online and in-person payments, including cash, check, and electronic payments, all receipted and posted automatically.
School finance and reconciliation
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Guided reconciliation available, but General Ledger updates weekly, not real-time.
Real-time General Ledger posting, automatic updates, guided reconciliation
Secure cash management and chain of custody
Tracing a transaction requires reconciling records from two system.
Traceable, time-stamped trail for every payment, cash handoff, deposit, and GL entry.
Audits and reporting
Disconnected audit-trail, no student-level or state-level reporting, no digital audit tool
Full integrations
Missing integrations with ERPs, fee import tools, and more.
Security and compliance
Missing SOC 1+2. FERPA, and PCI compliance.
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.

Typical competitor
Stitched-together tools
KEV Group
Unified Platform
One unified platform
Payments and accounting are separate.
Complete fee management
No coverage for third-party systems like library fees, or transportation.
School store, activities, field trips, forms, and more. All in one place.
Payments
~
May use third-party systems or Point of Sale devices. Maintenance and disputes mean juggling multiple contacts.
Online and in-person payments, including cash, check, and electronic payments, all receipted and posted automatically.
School finance and reconciliation
~
Guided reconciliation available, but General Ledger updates weekly, not real-time.
Real-time General Ledger posting, automatic updates, guided reconciliation
Secure cash management and chain of custody
Tracing a transaction requires reconciling records from two system.
Traceable, time-stamped trail for every payment, cash handoff, deposit, and GL entry.
Audits and reporting
Disconnected audit-trail, no student-level or state-level reporting, no digital audit tool
Full integrations
Missing integrations with ERPs, fee import tools, and more.
Security and compliance
Missing SOC 1+2. FERPA, and PCI compliance.
Number of Systems to Manage
3+
Fundraising + Accounting + Reporting
1

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FAQ

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.

Isn’t school finance complicated enough?

Don’t add disconnected tools to your district. Go with a single platform that keeps things simple.