Stripe vs Tuition Express: Which is a better fit?

Guy: Hi, my name is Guy. I am the director of a small consulting firm. And I would give Stripe 5 out of 5. So Stripe actually was the first way that we set up to have any kind of credit card payments. So prior to Stripe, we just would invoice customers, and a lot of our customers still do just pay by bank transfer on invoice. But when we're selling smaller ticket items, tickets for events and things like that, yeah, we really needed something, and that's something with Stripe. We looked at a few different solutions. I can't honestly remember what they were because Stripe is probably the most popular in terms of what my friends and business partners would have recommended. And it is just so simple to set up and also to manage. There's lots of different options in there, but, yeah, a pretty easy implementation. So getting started with Stripe, obviously you get into financial details, so you've got to have all your bank accounts and VAT number in the UK, at least, set up. But, yeah, getting started was pretty straightforward, pretty simple. And then integrating with our other products like Xero for accounting was really important as part of that. So I would say, yeah, getting set up was fairly straightforward, but there's certainly a process you need to go through, but Stripe helped me through that. So if you're thinking of getting Stripe, I'd definitely check with the customers that you're hoping to get paid by if they understand it and are happy with it. I mean, that was one of our reasons for choosing it because we knew many people would be. But yeah, you need to be clear what options you're offering your customers. And then other than that, it's just getting onboarded with it, understanding how it works, when you are going to get paid, and setting up those terms within the software. But as I say, Stripe walk you through a lot of that stuff and there's lots of really helpful guides for it.

Jeni H.: I'm Jeni, I work at Kendal at Oberlin. We have a preschool onsite and it's called Kendal Early Learning Center, and we are a retirement community that has a preschool inside of it and we do an intergenerational program with the residents that live here on campus, and the community members that have families and children that are preschool age, and I would give Tuition Express a four out of five stars. Before Tuition Express we were using Excel sheets for each family, and it wasn't working because there wasn't a system in place to remind families to do their tuition payments. So it was just an Excel sheet and the director would go around and remind people that their tuition payment was due, and it would take a long time to collect it and then record it in the Excel sheet, so Tuition Express has really helped us with that, where it's easy to collect, we're not running around begging people for money, and it also helps us keep our records in a timely manner. We chose Tuition Express because I'd used it before in a different program and it was easy to use, so I was familiar with it and that's why we chose it. It was very easy to get started with Tuition Express, we just had to have the families fill out a form and then enter it into the system, and it was super easy and saved a lot of time. I would recommend Tuition Express because it's easy, it saves you time, and in today's day and age when you need to do things quickly and multitask quickly it's very easy to set it up and get started.