Manabi is a fees platform for schools and universities. Students and parents top up online, installments settle automatically, and you finally see who paid, who’s late, and why — all in one place.
Cards, mobile money, bank transfers. Money settles directly to your school’s bank account.
When a parent pays, the system applies the money to their child’s overdue installments first. No manual matching.
Not just totals. Patterns. Which classes pay on time, which families need a phone call, which fees stick.
Before we built anything, we sat in bursars’ offices and watched. These three complaints came up at every single school. The product is the answer.
We can’t tell who’s paid until we go through the receipt book.
Bursar · 420-pupil school, Accra
What Manabi doesA live wallet for every student. Bursar opens the page, sees the balance. No reconciling at month-end — the totals are always today’s totals.
Parents say they paid but we have no record.
Headteacher · 280-pupil school, Tema
What Manabi doesEvery payment leaves a receipt trail — date, amount, channel, reference. Searchable by name, phone, or reference number in under a second.
End of term, we’re hunting for thousands across hundreds of students.
School owner · 650-pupil school, Kasoa
What Manabi doesReports show overdue invoices oldest first, with the parent’s phone number ready to dial. You stop hunting and start calling.
You’re live in a morning. Most institutions import their students from a spreadsheet, generate term or semester invoices in one click, and start collecting the same week.
Bulk-import from a spreadsheet. Edit grade fees, sibling discounts, scholarships any time.
One click per class. Each invoice splits into installments. Parents are notified by SMS and email.
Cash, mobile money, bank transfer, online. All channels flow into one wallet per student.
Your parents top up from their phone. The wallet auto-pays the next installment. They get a receipt the moment money lands. No more “I sent it — did you receive it?”
Every other school fees tool stops at “list of payments.” We treat the bursar as a manager. Two reports we’re proud of:
Three buckets so you know who to chase, and who to thank.
→ Write 26 calls, not 244.
% collected against days since term start. This term overlaid on last term.
→ Predict cashflow. Catch shortfalls early.
We make money when you collect money. That’s the whole arrangement. The third line is the most important — we never hold your funds.
We’re a small team based in Accra. Built on Paystack for payments — a name your bank already knows. Real photos and pilot institutions below (placeholders here while we get permission).
We’ll only put an institution’s name on this page once they’ve been live for a term and they’ve told us they’re happy. No fake logos.
The objections we hear in the first ten minutes of every demo. Here they are answered up front.
We’ll set up a demo school for you with your grades, fees, and a few real students. Twenty minutes on a call. No slideshow.
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