DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SCHOOL PAYMENT SYSTEM A CASE STUDY OF (GOVERNMENT GIRLS COLLEGE DALA, KANO STATE.)

The extensive developments in Information and Communication Technologies have made impact in all sectors of the society, including institutional payments management. This has seen the proliferation of numerous web applications bearing various functionalities such as health records management, business records management, registration operations, payment for services and much more are done using the web. It is now mandatory for learning institutions across the globe to declare their payments for services offered at each needed moment to for the purposes of enhanced decision making based on factual payment patterns. However, this when done manually as it is at the present moment is associated with multiple fallacies inherent in manual systems. This unpleasant trend prompted the researcher to seek to design and develop a computerized secondary school payment to present an automated way to keep track of school payments to reduce the extant pen and paper based manual method of declaring school payments. Replacing the tedious old method this system will save time, reduce the amount of work the administrators have to do and will replace the stationery material with a computer based system. Keywords— local area network, information technology, information system, information and communication technology, government of the republic of Zambia, electronic payment system, consumer to consumer, business to business, business to consumer. . In this project, the implementation of the computer-based system was carried out using PHP(CodeIgniter Framework), CSS, JAVASCRIPT, Ajax, jQuery, APACHE and MYSQL for the database. In conclusion, the work met all the objectives intended. It is, however, recommended for use by all secondary schools. PHP programming language and MYSQL was used in the creation of a data warehouse for student’s information and data mining tool for the retrieval of such information when needed.