Paying school fees? Here’s how to do it without queuing

The new 2022 academic year has started. This 2022 school calendar will be the shortest, with 29 weeks, inclusive of a three-day midterm break for each term. First-term will take 10 weeks, from April 25 to July 1.

The students will then go on a one-week holiday and resume the second term from July 11 to September 16. The third term will take nine weeks from September 17 to November 25. Those in Standard 7 and Form 3 will sit their KCPE, KCSE examinations between November and December.

As is likely to happen when a new calendar year begins, long queues are being witnessed at the banks as parents battle to settle their kids’ school fees in time, or withdraw monies for books and uniforms, or apply for salary advances. In any given instance, this mode of paying school fees is bound to be a tedious and time consuming task.

But there are easier ways that parents can go around such inconveniences. For example, unlike previous years, in this 2021 Academic year, parents can settle all their school fees from the comfort of their mobile phones.

At the same time, they no longer need to queue at the bank in order to withdraw money for shopping or at the ATM. This is because shopping can now be paid for using Visa Cards.

To begin with, you need to get the MCoop Cash mobile app. This app is available for download on any app store.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE MCO-OP CASH APP

This easy-to-use app will allow you to access your account balances, transfer cash to mobile phone money platforms such as MPesa and Airtel Money, withdraw cash or make payments such as fees and bills for books and uniforms for free.

You can also pay for your child’s school fees conveniently through M-Pesa paybill 400222 and via Co-op Bank’s PesaLink.