Parental Access to Student Bills (and E-billing)
We've had a request from our accounting office to find a way to make student billing and payment information available online to parents. The catch, of course, is that they don't want parents to have access to the student's other information. Is this something that any of you have done? If so, would you be willing to share your strategies?
Many thanks,
David
We are doing this
When we migrated from Plus to Banner 6, we contracted SCT to deliver a Banner mod that would give a student access via self-service to their account detail along with payment plan options etc. To do parent guests logins, we took this mod and created new pl/sql packages so that instead of checking for valid pidm(f_valid_pidm), it called a different routine that we wrote to validate a userid and password from a custom table. We added another self-service package for students to create/edit/delete these parent id/passwords/parent enails. A/R likes using the parent emails to send notices about student bills. We are still using this with Banner 7 instead of the new e-bill.
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David McMillan
e-billing
Hello David,
I'm a Manager of the ERP Systems Analysts at the George Washington University and we are implementing e-billing in Banner 7.3. We have been asked to allow parents access to the student bills. I don't believe there is a baseline way of doing this so I'm very interested in learning more about the code you wrote to create parent logins. Would you be willing to share this code? If so, you can email me at clamont@gwu.edu. I appreciate any help you can provide me!
Thanks,
Carrie Bilko
Using Rose Hulman's Code
We implemented Rose Hulman's Web for Parent mods to SSB a few years ago and it's worked out pretty well. I know they had a session on it at the 2004 Summit, but haven't looked for one since. You'd need to contact someone there as I know we had to fax them a signed disclaimer to get the code.