INTEGRATION OF PARENTAL ALERT SYSTEM INTO STUDENTS’ ONLINE PAYMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

The introduction of online payment systems for tuition and other fees in institutions across the globe is a great breakthrough of Information and Communication Technology. However, the attendant security risk has become a serious concern to Information Technology experts and the individual institution implementing the system. Of particular concern is the limited knowledge of parents and guardians about the status of their children or wards due to payment issues. This paper seeks to solve this problem by integrating payment transactions alert algorithm into an existing online payment algorithm in order to provide feedback information from the institution authority to parents or guardians by way of a Short Message Service for all payments made or not by their children or wards. By the codified SMS algorithm into the existing payment system, it is able to deliver feedback messages to parents.