Authors :
Duncan DodziFiawoo; Jacob Issaka; BennoAtiirimbey; Godwin KudjoBada
Volume/Issue :
Volume 6 - 2021, Issue 11 - November
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Abstract :
Educational institutions in Ghana have many
students who pay all types of fees through cash deposits,
cheques or bank drafts to their institutions’ accounts in
their respective banks. These techniques for paying fees
have not been productive enough, particularly during
assessments when many students have topay fees to meet
the prerequisites for registering for their semester
courses. Students sometimes travel significant distances to
respective bank offices to make payments; this problem is
compounded by long queues and clog at banks where
payments are made. This has consistently brought about
students missing their deadlines to enrol for their
semester courses. In default, a penalty is paid when the
system is reopened after the deadlines. The purpose of
this research is to design a system for paying fees online
by students and their sponsors. The software was
implemented by utilizing Android Studio for Android
application development, Pay Switch for payment
gateway, Application Program Interfaces (API) for
getting information from the database and Visual Studio
for creating API. Software testing was in addition to
checking the module of the structure to guarantee that
they are totally working and permitted users of the
software to connect with it using test information. The
results demonstrated that a lot of students were satisfied
with the new system of paying fees online through mobile
phones. The study recommends that institutions should
adopt new mobile technologies to facilitate payment of
fees.
Keywords :
Fees payment system, Mobile payment system, Pay Switch, traditional payment system
Educational institutions in Ghana have many
students who pay all types of fees through cash deposits,
cheques or bank drafts to their institutions’ accounts in
their respective banks. These techniques for paying fees
have not been productive enough, particularly during
assessments when many students have topay fees to meet
the prerequisites for registering for their semester
courses. Students sometimes travel significant distances to
respective bank offices to make payments; this problem is
compounded by long queues and clog at banks where
payments are made. This has consistently brought about
students missing their deadlines to enrol for their
semester courses. In default, a penalty is paid when the
system is reopened after the deadlines. The purpose of
this research is to design a system for paying fees online
by students and their sponsors. The software was
implemented by utilizing Android Studio for Android
application development, Pay Switch for payment
gateway, Application Program Interfaces (API) for
getting information from the database and Visual Studio
for creating API. Software testing was in addition to
checking the module of the structure to guarantee that
they are totally working and permitted users of the
software to connect with it using test information. The
results demonstrated that a lot of students were satisfied
with the new system of paying fees online through mobile
phones. The study recommends that institutions should
adopt new mobile technologies to facilitate payment of
fees.
Keywords :
Fees payment system, Mobile payment system, Pay Switch, traditional payment system
