Setting Up Fee Classes

You charge fees to students for everything from application to graduation. You define each of those fees and establish rules for how they will be applied and to whom. Tuition groups enable you to assess fees to large groups of students who share attributes.

Fees may or may not support ITEM_SF installments. Fees that support ITEM_SF installments are: administrative, term, transaction, class, course, course list, and optional. Fees that do not support ITEM_SF installments are: application, deposit, and ANZ fees within tuition calculation. While application fees use the same billing and due date calendar as the tuition calculation process, application fees are not processed by tuition calculation. Deposit fees have their own due date calendar and are not processed by tuition calculation. The ANZ per credit charge fee is used by NZQA processing, and HECS fees are used by AUS. If any one of the ANZ flags, SCC_AUS_DEST or SCC_NZL_NZQA, on the INSTITUTION table is enabled, all fees from tuition calculation will not create ITEM_SF installments.

To set up fee classes, use the Fee Classes component (FEE_CLASS).

You use fee classes for reporting purposes and grouping fees. For example, you might have a variety of item types that you want to organize under the fee class of Mandatory Tuition and Fees. That way, you can produce a report that shows all mandatory fee item types. Fee class codes are required for term fee setup.