# Hostel & boarding — Academium SMS

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> Hostels with capacity and wardens, boarding fee plans with optional late fees, and term-by-term allocations that join the student’s invoice.

Hostel & boarding

## Every boarder, in the right hostel.

Put students into a hostel on a fee plan each term. The boarding fee joins their school invoice.

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Example hostels filled against their capacity.

Hostels

## Capacity and a warden for each.

Record each hostel with its capacity and warden.

-   **Safe to tidy up.** A hostel with students allocated to it cannot be removed.
    

Fictional hostels and wardens.

Fee plans

## Boarding fees with an optional late fee.

A plan has a name and a fee. A late fee can be fixed or a percentage, charged once or repeating while unpaid.

-   **On the same invoice.** Hostel charges appear with school fees, with their own payments and balances.
    

An example boarding plan with a one-off late fee.

Allocation

## One bed per student, each term.

Choose a term and class, tick the students, then pick the hostel and fee plan. Only students without a hostel for the term are listed, so nobody is booked twice.

-   **Honest about a part-done batch.** Each student is placed on their own. If some could not be, SMS says the batch only partly worked rather than reporting success.
    
-   **Visible on the student.** A student’s hostel and warden for the term appear on their profile, and search offers a shortcut to it.
    

Fictional students given a hostel and fee plan for the term.

Hostel report

## Who sleeps where, and what they owe.

For any term, list who is in which hostel with their class, fee plan, amount and balance, filtered by class, section and hostel. Earlier sessions can be looked at too.

-   **Print or export.** Print the list, or export it to Excel or CSV with amounts a spreadsheet can total.
    
-   **Paid places stay put.** Remove allocations one at a time or in bulk, except where hostel fees have already been paid against them.
    

Fictional boarders with their balances.

FAQs

## Hostel & boarding questions

Boarding in SMS.

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### Can families pay boarding fees from their wallet?

Yes. Family wallet payments can reach hostel fee lines on the invoice.

## Manage boarding in Academium SMS.

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