Payment Planner

Payment Planner is Overture’s web-based, self-service financial aid solution that guides students through the process of funding their education.  By using an easily accessible web portal, institutions can make students and their parents aware of their funding options, guide them through the process of funding an education, and communicate the institution’s case for affordability.

Top Features

 

Award Notice
Offers a customizable page targeted specifically to different student populations, rendering individualized award letters.  Presents official awards electronically to students with clickable explanations of all financial aid terms, reducing mailing costs.  Enables students to accept/decline awards with a single click.

 

 

 

Planning Worksheet
Provides an interactive worksheet for students and parents to determine the exact amount of unmet need.  Helps new and returning students proactively plan on how to fund their education.  Affords effective and secure communicate with students via our integrated messaging system.

 

 

Financing Options
Empowers students and parents with a full understanding of financing options and budgeting tools to fulfill unmet need.  Allows students to customize and determine the perfect payment option.  Generates estimates of monthly payments.

 

Task List
Presents a personalized list of required loan and award fulfillment tasks and steps with statuses.  Provides self-service transactions to accept awards and complete critical follow-on tasks such as loan application and loan certification.  Facilitates links to existing loan fulfillment systems like ELM.

 

Customizable Content Management
Enables schools to customize the look and feel of the student portal without assistance from programmers.  Renders content specific and workflow to student populations.  Affords online help and links to other relevant web content.

 

Payment Planner allows institutions to reach out to all who have applied for aid, offering awards to those who have been determined to have need and alternative financing options for others. This suite delivers financial aid packages and provides alternative funding resources through the Web, permitting a paperless hands-off and around-the-clock service and communication venue.  

Wide-reaching communication and service don’t have to be difficult to achieve.  Payment Planner makes it easy!