Guarantee your scholarships reach the right students
Streamline scholarship distribution with automated processing, electronic invoicing, and complete payment tracking – from single awards to bulk distributions.
Backpack makes it simple to use your 529 savings account for multiple students.
Used by local and global companies for their scholarship needs.
Used by local and global companies for their scholarship needs.
Used by local and global companies for their scholarship needs.
Used by local and global companies for their scholarship needs.
Flexible tooling with reliable results
Automated document processing
Upload PDFs and authorizations – our AI extracts student data and creates payment records automatically. No manual data entry required.
Flexible electronic invoicing
Create single invoices or bulk distributions with one click. Pay for individual students or all authorized scholarships at once.
Payment guarantee
Track every dollar from authorization to student account. Never wonder if your scholarship reached the intended recipient.
Stop wrestling with paper processes
Traditional scholarship distribution is broken. Universities can't reconcile partial payments, students don't know when funds are coming, and you're left wondering if your money reached the right person.
Universities often can't identify which students a partial payment was meant for
Paper checks get lost in mail, sent to the wrong building, or take weeks to process
Complex vendor setup processes prevent universities from sending refunds back to you
There's no visibility into whether your scholarship actually reached the student's account
Everything you need to distribute scholarships efficiently
Secure digital payments
Backpack's payment infrastructure provides you direct access to ACH payments to universities. We maintain a database of university banking information and use a 256-bit encryption to ensure your payment is secure.
Workflows that just work
Backpack's embedded approval workflows allow your organization to programmatically approve and complete funding requests.
With Backpack you can trade the emails and paper approval processes for systematic and auditable security.
Modern reporting and audit support for compliance
Backpack's payments dashboard and interactive reporting make reconciliation and inquiry support as efficient as possible.
Download audit support packages for specific payments, providing an audit trail of payment timelines and approvals to ensure you're compliant.
Everything you need to distribute scholarships efficiently
Secure digital payments
Backpack's payment infrastructure provides you direct access to ACH payments to universities. We maintain a database of university banking information and use a 256-bit encryption to ensure your payment is secure.
Workflows that just work
Backpack's embedded approval workflows allow your organization to programmatically approve and complete funding requests.
With Backpack you can trade the emails and paper approval processes for systematic and auditable security.
Modern reporting and audit support for compliance
Backpack's payments dashboard and interactive reporting make reconciliation and inquiry support as efficient as possible.
Download audit support packages for specific payments, providing an audit trail of payment timelines and approvals to ensure you're compliant.
Everything you need to distribute scholarships efficiently
Secure digital payments
Backpack's payment infrastructure provides you direct access to ACH payments to universities. We maintain a database of university banking information and use a 256-bit encryption to ensure your payment is secure.
Workflows that just work
Backpack's embedded approval workflows allow your organization to programmatically approve and complete funding requests.
With Backpack you can trade the emails and paper approval processes for systematic and auditable security.
Modern reporting and audit support for compliance
Backpack's payments dashboard and interactive reporting make reconciliation and inquiry support as efficient as possible.
Download audit support packages for specific payments, providing an audit trail of payment timelines and approvals to ensure you're compliant.
Everything you need to distribute scholarships efficiently
Secure digital payments
Backpack's payment infrastructure provides you direct access to ACH payments to universities. We maintain a database of university banking information and use a 256-bit encryption to ensure your payment is secure.
Workflows that just work
Backpack's embedded approval workflows allow your organization to programmatically approve and complete funding requests.
With Backpack you can trade the emails and paper approval processes for systematic and auditable security.
Modern reporting and audit support for compliance
Backpack's payments dashboard and interactive reporting make reconciliation and inquiry support as efficient as possible.
Download audit support packages for specific payments, providing an audit trail of payment timelines and approvals to ensure you're compliant.
You ask. We answer.
What is Backpack?
Backpack is the first digital payments platform built specifically for higher education. We provide scholarship providers the first purpose-built suite of banking and payment capabilities to modernize and simplify payments to universities.
How do you help scholarship providers?
We eliminate paper checks, automate reconciliation, and simplify audits and compliance. Once set up, you will no longer have to send paper checks, print award letters, and manually look up or store university payment information.
Do you provide payment tracking capabilities?
Yes! Whether you are a full-service office or a one-person band, we give you visibility into when a payment is created, approved, funded and paid to the university.
Do you provide communications to relevant stakeholders?
Yes, we do. We know that one of the biggest challenges is keeping everyone informed. Our email-based communications platform ensures that every stakeholder knows exactly where each payment is in the process. Think of us as the Domino’s Pizza Tracker for scholarship payments — transparent, timely, and reassuring for everyone involved.
You ask. We answer.
What is Backpack?
Backpack is the first digital payments platform built specifically for higher education. We provide scholarship providers the first purpose-built suite of banking and payment capabilities to modernize and simplify payments to universities.
How do you help scholarship providers?
We eliminate paper checks, automate reconciliation, and simplify audits and compliance. Once set up, you will no longer have to send paper checks, print award letters, and manually look up or store university payment information.
Do you provide payment tracking capabilities?
Yes! Whether you are a full-service office or a one-person band, we give you visibility into when a payment is created, approved, funded and paid to the university.
Do you provide communications to relevant stakeholders?
Yes, we do. We know that one of the biggest challenges is keeping everyone informed. Our email-based communications platform ensures that every stakeholder knows exactly where each payment is in the process. Think of us as the Domino’s Pizza Tracker for scholarship payments — transparent, timely, and reassuring for everyone involved.
You ask. We answer.
What is Backpack?
Backpack is the first digital payments platform built specifically for higher education. We provide scholarship providers the first purpose-built suite of banking and payment capabilities to modernize and simplify payments to universities.
How do you help scholarship providers?
We eliminate paper checks, automate reconciliation, and simplify audits and compliance. Once set up, you will no longer have to send paper checks, print award letters, and manually look up or store university payment information.
Do you provide payment tracking capabilities?
Yes! Whether you are a full-service office or a one-person band, we give you visibility into when a payment is created, approved, funded and paid to the university.
Do you provide communications to relevant stakeholders?
Yes, we do. We know that one of the biggest challenges is keeping everyone informed. Our email-based communications platform ensures that every stakeholder knows exactly where each payment is in the process. Think of us as the Domino’s Pizza Tracker for scholarship payments — transparent, timely, and reassuring for everyone involved.
You ask. We answer.
What is Backpack?
Backpack is the first digital payments platform built specifically for higher education. We provide scholarship providers the first purpose-built suite of banking and payment capabilities to modernize and simplify payments to universities.
How do you help scholarship providers?
We eliminate paper checks, automate reconciliation, and simplify audits and compliance. Once set up, you will no longer have to send paper checks, print award letters, and manually look up or store university payment information.
Do you provide payment tracking capabilities?
Yes! Whether you are a full-service office or a one-person band, we give you visibility into when a payment is created, approved, funded and paid to the university.
Do you provide communications to relevant stakeholders?
Yes, we do. We know that one of the biggest challenges is keeping everyone informed. Our email-based communications platform ensures that every stakeholder knows exactly where each payment is in the process. Think of us as the Domino’s Pizza Tracker for scholarship payments — transparent, timely, and reassuring for everyone involved.
1-click refunds
3rd party scholarships
Auto tracking
529 Payments
Students
Compliance
Families
Get started with Backpack
1-click refunds
3rd party scholarships
Auto tracking
529 Payments
Students
Compliance
Families
Get started with Backpack
1-click refunds
3rd party scholarships
Auto tracking
529 Payments
Students
Compliance
Families