Paying school fees online is about to become much easier. The national digital education platform eMaktab, together with Uzum Bank, has launched an online payment service for tuition and additional school services. The platform brings together more than 10,900 schools in Uzbekistan.

What the service offers

Parents can pay for tuition, meals, extra classes and other school services by bank card through the eMaktab website or app, instead of using several different payment channels.

The system also provides:

• information on payment status;
• reminders about upcoming payment deadlines;
• a history of transactions;
• electronic receipts.

Who can connect

Connecting to the service is free for educational institutions. At the first stage, it is available to private schools already linked to eMaktab. The platform plans to gradually expand its payment options and widen its circle of partners.

Why it matters

eMaktab CEO Aleksandr Potapkin says that a large share of school resources is still spent on manual accounting, reconciling payments and handling administrative matters with parents. According to him, the new service should reduce this workload, make calculations more transparent and simplify communication.

Uzum Fintech CEO Roman Lavrentyev said the service uses a single payment gateway and additional mechanisms to protect financial transactions.

Source: Daryo.uz