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We've added 3 new options for School Administrators to add payments to family billing accounts! Unlike traditional “Paid School” payments, these new options will through TADS, allowing school administrators to take payments from parents either in person or over the phone and process them in the system:

These new Direct School Online Payment options are inputted within the Payments tab of the family's billing account. The Add Payment screen includes fields for the school to indicate the payment amount, payment type, and credit card/bank account details.

The traditional "Paid School" payments are also still available for payments that have been processed outside of TADS and just need to be recorded on the account.

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TADS Classic Financial Aid can now be configured for the 2027-2028 school year and is available for schools wishing to open their application.

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Building off our previous feature update to allow for multiple Contract Templates, TADS has significantly expanded Enrollment flexibility with our new feature!

Reach out to TADS Implementation if you'd like to use this new feature or have questions. A thorough knowledge article and visual aid of the new features will be provided soon as well.

By enabling a new “Contract First” setting in Enrollment Configuration, Enrollment Contracts can be separated into their own touchpoint for families. This creates a new workflow where the Enrollment Contract (which includes only the contract and Tuition Deposit/other enrollment fees) must be completed first as a standalone form. Once the contract is completed, then the Enrollment Registration (student and household information, emergency contacts, health information, etc.) and Tuition Agreement (payment plan elections) can be completed as separate forms, now or later.

This feature offers significant value to any school who wants a lightweight initial touchpoint with families to get their enrollment commitment as quickly and easily as possible.

By eliminating friction with the initial commitment, this new workflow will help schools reduce enrollment form abandonment, get an earlier, clearer picture of the enrollment for the coming year, and accelerate their cashflow with easier and faster collection of enrollment deposits. For families, the new workflow offers a less daunting initial enrollment step with a clear picture of their progress throughout the enrollment process.

The feature can be enabled for a school within a given school year by enabling the “Contract First” setting in Enrollment. This is a sub-setting of the Enrollment Contracts feature, so both must be enabled to turn on the new workflow.

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The 2027-2028 school year in TADS is now available for configuration in Admissions, Enrollment, Tuition Management, and Billing. This means that schools wishing to open any of those TADS modules early can now do so.

If you would like to begin preparing, please reach out to your TADS Implementation Specialist (or send an email to tads-implementation@venturedsolutions.com) and they can configure the modules for you and help with next steps. Otherwise, we will reach out later in the year to get the process started. Thank you!

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Read our FAQ for more information on how support is changing to better support you.

We improved the new Charge Editing functionality recently introduced on billing accounts:

We updated the “Start New Admissions Application” card on the household user dashboard, so users without an existing school to which they can start an application will now have a notice to contact their school for more information on their admissions process, rather than a link to start a new application. This update should reduce ambiguity on the dashboard and better direct parent users to action items relevant to their school.

In the above image, you can see the two possible cards:

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Check out this great new feature! School Administrators with the Billing role can now generate payment links from billing accounts. When generating a link, the user will input an email address to which the link will be delivered. The link allows users to make online payments to the specific TADS billing account from which the link was generated and does NOT require a TADS login to submit the payment.

To learn more, read below or check out our support article on Secure Payment Links!

Links can be set to expire after 1 hour, 24 hours, or 72 hours. Once expired, the link will no longer be accessible to any user. Links can also be manually cancelled while still active and will automatically cancel if the account is deactivated. Links are one-time use and will expire once used. Payment methods allowed with the links will match the online payment option on the account from which the link was generated. When generating the link, users can optionally suggest a payment amount, which will appear as the default selection for payment amount when users access the link. This way, we can offer payment amount suggestions that do not contain sensitive account information about current balances.

The payments tab of the billing account contains an overview table for all links generated on that billing account, along with logging for who generated the link, IP address each time the link is accessed, when and why the link expired, and IP address that submitted the link when payments are made.

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Following our modernized redesign of TADS Admissions last year, we continue our improvements to the parent/guardian user experience for TADS Enrollment.

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As with Admissions, the Enrollment update features a new progress bar and collapsible section headings for a clearer, less daunting experience, particularly for schools with lengthier enrollment processes. We have also consolidated pages to reduce clicks and page loads for quicker, easier completion. All Supplemental Question sections have been moved from their own page into collapsible sections within their base pages. For example, “Student Supplemental Questions” will now appear as a collapsible section on the “Student” page of the form.

Impacted pages:

The and sections have been combined into a single page, called . This new combined page removes duplication of effort, allowing users to quickly add contacts and mark them as a Grandparent, Emergency Contact, or both. The new Contacts page will appear when either the Grandparents or Emergency Contacts section are enabled, and required information will depend on which contact type(s) are selected.

Also mirroring last year's Admissions updates, the sections at the end of Enrollment have been consolidated into a single submission page for enrollment charges, terms and conditions, billing account selection/creation, payment method selection, and payment account information entry. This offers a simpler, faster checkout with less room for error.

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School Administrators with the Billing role will now have the option to edit school charges on billing accounts without needing to remove and re-add them!

This new feature can be found by clicking the 'Edit' icon under the Charges tab ‘Summary View’ of any TADS billing account. Clicking this icon will open a new page where the user can add, edit, and remove the charge on any invoice on the account.

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Supplemental Questions configured for TADS Admissions can now be set to a “Document Upload” format. This question format will be associated to an Admissions Document Requirement and can be set as either required or optional.

This new Document Upload option will appear like any other supplemental question during the parent/guardian completion of the Admissions Application, but instead of being asked to respond to a question, the user will be asked to upload a file to fulfill the document requirement. If the question is required, the user must upload a file in order to proceed with the application. If the user is resuming an application and has previously uploaded a document, they will not be required to upload additional documents in order to complete the application.

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The TADS Home page for household users has been refreshed! Rather than the previous open‑ended module cards, Parents/Guardians will now see an action‑focused dashboard that clearly highlights any tasks requiring their attention.

Here is a where you can see the old Home page (left) compared to the new Dashboard (right).

Click here for a quick demonstration!

The and section will highlight any accounts the user has in TADS with any outstanding balance. Invoice due dates will be specifically listed unless there are multiple past-due invoices, as in the example above. If there is no past-due balance, the due date and balance of the next-due invoice will be listed instead.

For the section, we will show action prompts with a button to quickly navigate to the page requiring action (including Admissions Applications, Enrollments, Tuition Agreements, Ad Hoc Forms, and Document Requirements). Some of these modules may also appear with a “Coming Soon” status indicated if we are confident that the student will eventually have action required in that module but isn’t able to do so currently. An example would be a Streamlined Enrollment school where the student has not yet completed enrollment; in this case, Enrollment will appear with the link to complete the enrollment form while the “Agreement” bar will show the status “Coming Soon” (since the system requires that the enrollment step be completed before the family can access the agreement).

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We’ve restored several lesser‑used Admissions features that were not included in the initial rollout of the updated user experience in late 2025. We’ve also resolved a number of remaining defects.

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