Undergraduate fees can be paid at whichever banks and channels the college has enabled, using the consumer number on the fee voucher. EDUBase supports HBL, Bank Alfalah, Meezan Bank, PayPro, KuickPay and 1Bill/1LINK channels.
Which banks can students use to pay undergraduate fees?
The answer depends on which banks your college has set up for collection. Students do not choose a bank freely. They pay through the banks and channels the college has activated, and the voucher tells them how.
EDUBase Cloud supports bank fee collection through the partners below. Colleges are one of the institution types it serves, so UG programmes use the same fee vouchers as any other class.
- HBL
- Bank Alfalah
- Meezan Bank
- PayPro and KuickPay, which are payment aggregators rather than banks
- 1Bill and 1LINK channels, reached through those partners
How does a consumer number let a student pay at any of these channels?
Each fee challan prints a bank-ready consumer number. The student or parent gives this number at a branch, or enters it at an ATM, in a mobile banking app or on a 1Bill/1LINK channel. The bank or aggregator looks up the voucher with that number and shows what is due.
This is the general idea behind most bank collection in Pakistan. The number identifies one voucher, so nobody has to type the student's name or roll number, and nobody has to carry the payment slip back to the college.
- The college generates the challans.
- The consumer number prints on each voucher.
- The student pays through a bank channel.
- The bank calls EDUBase and the challan is marked paid.
What happens at the college after a student pays?
Bank inquiry and payment calls are answered in real time. The payment appears in Paid Challans and Payment History straight away, and the finance ledger is updated, so the accounts office does not enter anything by hand.
Bank payments also show in Payment History and the Day Wise Paid Challans report like any other payment. That gives you one cash-up view for the counter and the bank.
A challan that is already paid answers as paid to any later inquiry. A student cannot be charged twice for the same voucher.
Can the college still take cash at the counter?
Yes. Bank collection is enabled per school and per bank, and the school keeps counter payments alongside it. Finance staff can still take full or partial payment, collect for siblings together by family, and print consolidated receipts when a family pays several months at once.
This matters for UG programmes, where some students pay in instalments and others settle a semester at once. Installment challans put each part on a separate voucher with its own consumer number.
How does a college get bank collection switched on?
EDUBase provides a bank integration setup service. The team configures the routing with the school's bank, shares test vouchers and confirms the bank's inquiry and payment tests before vouchers go live.
Before that, check that your fee plans and student data are right. Old dues and past payments can be loaded during onboarding so the first challan is correct. To ask about a particular bank, contact sales on +92 300 0148829 or write to [email protected].
Ways a student can pay a UG fee voucher
| Channel | What the student does | How the college sees it |
|---|---|---|
| Bank branch | Gives the consumer number from the voucher at the counter | Challan marked paid; appears in Payment History |
| ATM or mobile banking app | Enters the consumer number and confirms payment | Real-time posting to Paid Challans |
| Kiosk | Looks up the voucher by consumer number and pays | Real-time posting to Paid Challans |
| 1Bill / 1LINK channel | Pays the voucher through a participating channel | Posted through the partner; shown in Day Wise Paid Challans |
| College counter | Pays cash to fee staff, fully or in part | Recorded in Paid Challans and Day Wise Paid Challans |
Related modules
- Bank Fee Collection — Parents pay at the bank, in their banking app or at a kiosk; EDUBase posts it automatically.
- Fee Management & Challans — Fee plans, monthly challans, discounts, family payments and receipts, without spreadsheets.
- Fee Reports & Defaulters — Know what was billed, what was collected and who still owes, per class, family or month.
- Finance & Accounting — Chart of accounts, journals, ledgers, trial balance, P&L and balance sheet, fed by fees and payroll.
- Fee Automation — Let the system generate challans, apply late fees and chase defaulters on schedule.