Turn on autopay

This article helps you save a bank account or card so your monthly tuition invoices are paid automatically.

Plan: Grow and Thrive.

Before you start

• Your co-op must be on a plan with monthly tuition and take payments online. If you don't see an Autopay card on your Payments page, your co-op doesn't offer it.
• You must be the main parent on the account.

Steps

1. Go to Payments. (Or go to Settings → Payment method & autopay, which opens the same page.)
2. On the Autopay card, click Set up autopay.
3. On the secure Stripe page, add a bank account or a card and save it.
4. Back on Payments, a message confirms your method is saved, and the card reads Autopay: On.

Turn autopay off or change your method

• Click Autopay: On to switch it off. You see Autopay turned off.
• Click Update payment method to save a different bank or card.

What happens next

• Each monthly invoice shows Scheduled with the date it Charges automatically on.
• You can still pay a scheduled invoice yourself with Pay early instead.
• Autopay pays monthly tuition invoices. Other bills, like a registration fee or a one-time invoice from your director, still need you to click Pay now.
• Card charges clear right away. Bank charges take 3 to 5 business days to clear and show Clearing until then.
• You pay exactly the invoice total. No fees are added.

Common problems

• A charge didn't go through? The invoice shows Charge failed, and we email you. Autopay does not try that invoice again, so pay it from Payments and update your method.
• Your card expired? Click Update payment method before the next charge date.
• Autopay won't turn on? Save a payment method first with Set up autopay.

Related articles

• Fix a failed or declined payment
• Read your invoice: monthly tuition, discounts and credits
• Pay an invoice by bank or card