Aura-Rich Consult and Technologies Elevates School Payments with Hubtel’s Receive & Send Money API

Running a school has never been just about teaching. Administrators juggle student records, ensure student safety, and keep operations running smoothly, all while collecting fees that keep the lights on. For years, fee collection has been one of the biggest pain points for Ghanaian schools: high transfer charges, misplaced cash, and endless hours spent on reconciliation. 

That’s where Aura-Rich Consult and Technologies stepped in. For almost a decade, the IT and educational solutions provider has been helping schools digitize operations through its flagship SchoolRobot platform. But as adoption grew, one stubborn problem kept slowing everything down — payments. 

“We knew from the beginning that fees collection was where most schools struggled,” recalls Richard Torsu, Founder and CEO of Aura-Rich Consult and Technologies. “Cash handling, high charges, and reconciliation issues made it difficult for schools to run smoothly.” 

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When Payments Slow Down Innovation

As more schools adopted Aura-Rich’s solutions, the challenges with payments became clearer. High charges on transfers were eating into revenue. Reconciliation required manual effort, sometimes stretching for hours. And parents paying fees in cash risked errors, misplaced funds, or delays in confirmation. 

“Time we could have spent innovating was being used to reconciling transactions,” Richard explains. “And when parents lose confidence in how their money is handled, schools lose trust too.” 

For Aura-Rich Consult and Technologies, payments weren’t just a background process. They were central to the reputation of its schools and, by extension, its own credibility. Something had to change. 

The Transformation: Hubtel’s API as the Missing Link 

That better way came with Hubtel’s Receive & Send Money API. The team was already familiar with Hubtel as a trusted name in Ghana’s digital ecosystem, so the decision was easy. 

“When we came across the Receive & Send Money API, it felt like the right fit,” Richard says. “Integration was smooth, and instantly we could see payments more clearly. Everything was visible and automated.” 

With Hubtel, Aura-Rich Consult and Technologies could: 

• Collect school fees securely into a Hubtel merchant account, linked directly to each school. 

• Automate reconciliation, cutting manual checks by about 80%. 

• Lower costs significantly — parents now save an estimated 20–30% on transfer charges compared to their previous systems. 

The Results: Growth and More Control 

Since integrating Hubtel’s Receive & Send Money API, the difference has been visible and measurable. Today, more than 70% of all school fees on Aura-Rich’s platform flow securely through Hubtel, giving both parents and schools confidence that payments will go through without a hitch. 

Monthly revenues have grown steadily, no longer held back by leakages or long delays. Transfer costs have dropped by nearly a third, putting money back into the hands of schools that would have otherwise gone into charges. And reconciliation — once a headache that stretched for hours is now automated, cutting the workload by over 80% and freeing up the finance team to focus on more strategic work. 

“It’s not just about saving money,” Richard emphasises. “It’s about saving time, building trust, and giving schools confidence that every cedi is accounted for.” 

Scaling Trust Across Education

With payments simplified, Aura-Rich is doubling down on growth. The company plans to expand SchoolRobot and its ERP solutions to more schools across Ghana and beyond, with Hubtel as its payment’s backbone. 

“Hubtel has taken the headache out of payments,” Richard concludes. “That gives us room to keep innovating for the future of education.” 

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About Aura-Rich Consult and Technologies  

Founded in 2016, Aura-Rich Consult has become one of Ghana’s leading IT and educational solutions providers. Beyond building ERP platforms, mobile apps, and ICT infrastructure, its SchoolRobot solution is redefining how schools operate, from attendance management to payments. 

The mission has always been simple: make technology work seamlessly in education. But for that vision to hold, the payment layer had to be just as efficient as the software behind it.