Collect students’ payments directly from their bank accounts. And skip the struggle with standing orders, cash or annoying spreadsheets. Plus, make every transaction count with 0% fees for 90 days.
Instantly collect one-off payments for courses and avoid high card fees. Take the hassle out of recurring tuition fees by automating with Direct Debit.
No more chasing late payments
You don’t have to rely on your students remembering to pay invoices on time. Save your hours chasing late fees, so you can spend them on teaching.
Connect to your existing software
You can reduce your manual tasks and manage your payments in one place by choosing from over 350+ integrations.
Your students will love us too
They can pay in a few taps or clicks, on any device. Or set up convenient, automated payments. And we're secure.
“The greater level of control offered by GoCardless has closed the gap between when fees go up but standing orders don’t, and we immediately went from turning over around £14k a month to £17k a month. That’s a 21% increase in revenue.”
Jo Deakins, Business Development Manager, City of Coventry Swimming Club
Easily collect tuition fees and more
Payment failure rates as low as 0.5%
Reduce your failed payments. Successfully collect 99% of instant, one-off payments – and 97.3% of automated, recurring payments – on the first try.
Source: GoCardless Payment Success Rates, 2025
We can take part payment from members that join halfway through the month and we’ve only had two failed payments in a year. Annual fee changes are now just a case of updating the cost in the database, which automatically updates all future payments.
Estimated monthly saving compared to card payment fees
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Cost saving based on 2021 market research for card payments.
Estimated time saving per month not chasing late payments
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Time saving based on 2024 market research by Xero.
How it works
Get started without any obligations. Just tell us a few details about your business for security purposes, verify your account, and start collecting cardless payments, hassle-free.
Manage everything in our easy-to-use online dashboard. Or seamlessly connect to 350+ partner systems to manage everything there.
Add GoCardless to your invoices, website, or anywhere else, for your customers to make instant, one-off payments. Or to automate payments for a customer, direct them to an online form to complete a quick, one-time setup.
Our award-winning support team is here to help, whenever you need. Reach out by email or phone. Or check out our handy guides in our Customer Hub.
Partner search
Plays well with 350+ popular platforms
You can connect GoCardless with one of 350+ software platforms popular with teachers around the UK – like EdAid, eyworks, Learning Tree Software Solutions, PTA events, Tutor Cruncher.
Whether it’s recurring payment for tuition or course fees, or one-off payments for exams and workshops, our flexible platform is built for educational services like yours. Join now to pay no fees for 90 days. T&Cs apply
To welcome you to GoCardless, we are giving you 90 days without transaction fees (the “Promotion”)! You will not be charged any GoCardless transaction fees for transactions successfully collected by GoCardless during the Promotion Period*.
*Up to a total transaction volume limit for the region you are located in:
United States: $10,000 USD
United Kingdom: ÂŁ5,000 GBP
Eurozone: €5,000 EUR
Australia and New Zealand: $10,000 AUD/NZD
Canada: $10,000 CAD
Denmark: 50,000 DKK
Sweden: 70,000 SEK
To qualify for the Promotion, you must be an Eligible Merchant and click on the “Claim Now” button in your GoCardless account.
To qualify for the Promotion, you must be an Eligible Merchant.
3.1. The promotion period commences when an Eligible Merchant signs up for a GoCardless account (“Start Date”) and automatically ends at 23.59 GMT on the 90th day after the Start Date (“Promotion Period”).
3.2 GoCardless’ normal transaction fees will automatically apply after the Promotion Period. This means that if a transaction is created by an Eligible Merchant during the Promotion Period, but not successfully collected by GoCardless until after the Promotion Period, transaction fees will apply. Visit our pricing page for more information.
