Primary & Secondary Education
Cashless payments are becoming widely used within the education sector. Providing a perfect alternative to cash, students simply pay for lunch and snacks using the card. For students who have subsidised meals the stigma of using tokens or vouchers is removed.   

The GiroVend cashless payment solution gives parents back the control. Using the GiroVend SmartPay solution, parents can load funds on to the card as required and set daily spending allowances. Parents can load a weekly payment setting daily spend allowance or load funds daily as required. Specific food groups can also be banned from purchase, allowing parents to control healthy eating, food allergies or medical conditions.

Keeping students on-site during break and lunchtimes is also an incentive as the card can only be used to purchase food and beverages from school facilities, staff and parents are able to better control student activity through the use of the card.

The comprehensive reporting options also allow catering staff to view purchasing patterns, identifying popular meals choices and catering for all allergy and dietary requirements. The comprehensive range of simple reports also assists with stock control and help with menu planning etc.

Higher Education
The complex campus environments that make up University and College facilities are the perfect environment for a cashless payment card for both students and staff. The multipurpose card and be incorporated with the on-site identification and access control system, providing a single card solution.

Staff can use the GiroVend card for accessing specific areas, photocopy log on and food purchases. Students can have their union card doubling as a cashless payment card to encourage on-site spending. The single card solution can be used across campus as ID, access control, library authorisation, union card and to pay for services such as laundry, meals and goods at University shops.