GA Promise payments, matched automatically.

No. The Stripe connection for GA Promise is a dedicated, auxiliary account used only to receive scholarship disbursements — it sits alongside your existing primary payment processor (Square, Nuvei, or whichever you already use for parent payments) and doesn't replace it. Parent tuition, fees, and autopay continue to flow through your primary processor exactly as they do today; GA Promise payouts arrive separately in the Stripe account you connect and are automatically matched and applied to the right student.

Incoming payments auto-match to the right student using the tuition ID the provider sends and any Scholarship Links you've set up for that student. If a payment arrives with a student ID we haven't seen (new student, typo, or a sibling that wasn't linked yet), it lands in the Scholarship Payments Inbox with a "Received" status. Your admin searches for the right student, matches in one click, and applies — the system remembers that link so future payments for that student auto-match. Auto-matching gets smarter the more you use it.

Yes. Applying a scholarship payment creates a real payment record on the student's account, reduces the invoice balance, and marks the invoice paid (or partially paid) just like a parent payment would. The student's paid-to-date increments, autopay knows to draft less next cycle, and the payment shows up in your standard reports and reconciliation views — no special scholarship-only ledger, no parallel accounting to maintain.

Georgia Promise is the first program live on the platform and the one we've tuned the automation around. The underlying system is generic — any external scholarship that disburses via Stripe with student-identifying metadata can be wired in, and a school can run multiple programs side by side on the same account. If you participate in another scholarship program and want it integrated, let us know in the demo; adding a new program is a configuration change on our side, not a custom build.

The GA Promise integration is included at our standard launch price of $1 per student per month. No separate setup fee, no per-transaction charge on scholarship payments, no add-on subscription. One flat rate covers GA Promise automation plus the rest of Acadesync — SIS, billing, gradebook, attendance, enrollment, and every portal.

Yes — our autopay is scholarship-aware. When a family has a GA Promise or other external scholarship award, the monthly autopay draft is automatically reduced by the expected scholarship amount for that period. Parents are charged only for their portion, scholarship funds flow in as disbursements arrive, and the student's balance reconciles on its own. Fewer refund requests, fewer confused parents, fewer support tickets for your staff. Parents remain liable for the full tuition if the scholarship program doesn't disburse — autopay defers the expected amount, it doesn't forgive it.