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The General Pre-payment Account can be used to store pupil funds onto a pupil's account to pay for future purchases of items such as trips, uniform, etc.
The pre-payment account can also be used to hold any refunds for re-allocation at a later date.
The funds are held in a dedicated cost centre - called School bank.
To use this the pre-payment account option online, ensure the School bank is in a bank account that has been configured for online payments.

Configure Pre-Payment Accounts for Online Payments

Click on the Configuration tab
Select Banking configuration
Select Pre-payment accounts
Click on General pre-payment account

Select from the following options:

Set Account Codes/VAT

Select the relevant codes for Pupils and Staff

meals

(this is mandatory for schools using a Local Authority Payment Gateway)
Available online	Tick Available online to activate

Dinners on SCOPay

General pre-payment account on http://scopay.com immediately for parents to

pay for school meals

top up Untick Available online to take the General pre-payment account offline from http://scopay.com immediately
Minimum online top-up	Enter a Minimum online top-up (the minimum amount the parent can pay on checkout). Schools sometimes set a minimum amount to help reduce the cost of transaction charges. Leave as 0.00 if no minimum is required.

5. Click on Done, Close

We recommend logging on to your SCOPay account to your http://scopay.com account to check the settings selected above for Dinners for General pre-payment account prior to notifying parents.

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