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Deliver accurate, compliant, and student-centered aid disbursement

Simplify the aid cycle, from eligibility to fund release. Automated validation, allocation, and disbursement ensure compliance and accuracy while freeing staff to focus on personalised guidance. Students gain clarity, speed, and confidence in accessing the aid they need to stay enroled and succeed.

Automated Disbursement

Expedite and reconcile funds across national and local programmes.

Built-In Compliance

Stay current with aid requirements, supported right out of the box.

Real-Time Integration

Sync with Student Accounts for seamless, auditable transactions.

Scholarship Management

Award More Scholarships with Ellucian’s scholarship matching tool maximizes fund use through smart student matching and a simplified process.

Scholarship Management

Unlock students’ access to awards with intelligent matching

Scholarship management automates internal and external scholarships to connect the right students with the right funds while maximising utilisation and equity. Students gain transparency and confidence, while staff gain efficiency through automated matching and reporting.

Auto-Match Engine

Match students to eligible awards automatically.

Donor & Fund Utilisation

Decrease unspent funds and improve equity.

Student-Friendly Search

Help students discover and apply effortlessly.

Document Collection

Digitise and accelerate aid process workflows

Process Automation replaces paper and manual tasks with intelligent, mobile-ready workflows that integrate directly with your SIS. AI-assisted form completion, auto-validation, and secure document handling speed processing, reduce compliance risk, and improve the student experience.

AI Form Assistant

Replace paper forms and manual data entry with secure digital workflows that speed up verification and reduce processing backlogs.

Mobile Experience

Enable students to submit from any device with 24/7 access in a single, intuitive self-service portal.

Compliance & Verification

Replace paper forms and manual data entry with secure digital workflows that speed up verification and reduce processing backlogs.

Dynamic Offer Letters

Deliver clear, actionable, and compliant award notices

Dynamic offer letters turn traditional award communications into personalised, mobile-friendly digital experiences. Send branded financial aid offer letters, automate updates, and track engagement through multichannel outreach to help students understand their costs and next steps.

Offer-Letter Experience

Show students what their offer means in real-world terms, including cost comparisons and next steps for accepting aid or making payments.

Personalise Communication

Use automation to generate and deliver customised offer letters in minutes. Each letter dynamically updates with accurate cost.

Engagement Analytics

Send and update personalised offers instantly, track engagement, and trigger reminders to support follow-up and enrollment.

AI Virtual Student Assistant

24/7 personalised student assistance via AI

The AI Virtual Student Assistant provides intelligent, real-time support for student aid inquiries. It integrates with your SIS to personalise conversations, reduce call volume, and improve satisfaction, empowering staff to focus on complex cases while students get immediate answers anytime, anywhere.

Always-On Support

Answer common questions instantly 24/7 with AI-driven chat available on web and mobile.

Personalised Conversations

Connect the virtual assistant to deliver personalised responses while receiving specific, policy-aligned answers instantly.

Staff Efficiency Boost

Integrate with other campus systems for reporting, helping leaders track engagement, and identify process improvements.

Simplify Aid Processes

Automate and streamline workflows to reduce manual work, eliminate delays, and deliver awards faster and more accurately.

Increase Student Completion

Connect timely aid to student success by removing financial barriers that impact persistence, retention, and degree completion.

Improve Affordability Perception

Provide students with clear, personalised cost and funding insights to increase confidence in the affordability of higher education.

Engage Students Proactively

Reach students through automated, personalised outreach that keeps them informed and engaged throughout the aid process.

Drive Data-Based Decisions

Use integrated analytics to monitor aid trends, assess equity, and make smarter financial and enrolment planning decisions.

"When they [students] put their information into Clear Cost, it is a 99.99% match with the financial aid offer we send out."

Brahim Bouidi

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Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid, Delaware Valley University

“Student Forms is aesthetically pleasing, it's very easy to use for the students and it made the financial aid process really work smoothly.”

Vincent Harris, Jr. MBA, FAAC®

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Executive Director of Scholarships and Financial Aid

“More students are viewing and applying for scholarships. This results in more students enrolling faster”

Chaitrali Rane

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Manager of Financial Aid, NJIT

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