Development of a Payment System with Short Message Service Notification for Batangas State University Rosario

Abstract

The general objective of the study is to develop a Payment System with Short Message Service Notification for BatangasState University Rosario to avoid the issues regarding students’ spending of money for self-pleasures that is supposedly intended for paying their school fees. The system has SMS notification that is capable of notifying the students’ parent/guardian everytime they pay their fees at the cashier’s office. The SMS contains transaction information such as student’s name, SR Code, amount paid and the balance of the student. The developed system can create student accounts, save personal details, grant scholarship, assign subjects, print reports and is capable of processing payment transaction. The system was developed using Visual Studio, MySQL and Crystal Report. A broadband was used to enable sending of SMS to the parent of the student. The software was tested for its functionality, compatibility, accuracy, and usability. It has also undergone integration testing. The result of the integration test showed that the system can connect to the broadband with SIM and the result of the conducted system testing was excellent. The system was evaluated by IT experts and staffs of the cashier’s office according to its functionality, user-interface design, reliability, security, efficiency and compatibility. The system gained an overall mean score of 4.89 with a descriptive rating of “Excellent” signifying that the system met its objective and that the evaluators were satisfied of the capabilities of the developed Payment System with SMS Notification for Batangas State University Rosario.