Electronic payment solution for educational institutions

A system for providing an electronic education payment solution for users of products and services of an educational institution, the system comprising:

• a set of application programs representing service and product offerings of the educational institution that are available for purchase by users that have established an account;
• a universal checkout program that processes selections made by a user from the offerings represented by the set of application programs and obtains payment information and authorization from the user for an electronic payment transaction;
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• a switchboard for communicating with users of products or services of the educational institution and for communicating by an application program interface with each of the application programs and with the universal checkout program to facilitate navigation by users to allow users to view offerings and make selections based on the offerings, the switchboard providing access to users based upon each user providing a single authentication and user identity.

A system for providing an electronic education payment solution for users of products and services of an educational institution, the system comprising:

• a set of application programs representing offerings of the educational institution that are available for purchase, the offerings representing at least one of different products, different services, different vendors, or different vendors;
• a universal checkout program that processes selections made by a user from the offerings represented by the set of application programs and obtains payment information and authorization from the user for an electronic payment transaction in which all of the selections are purchased with a single payment experience;
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• a switchboard for communicating with users of products or services of the educational institution and for communicating by an application program interface with each of the application programs and with the universal checkout program to facilitate navigation by users to allow users to view offerings and make selections based on the offerings, the switchboard providing access to users based upon a user authentication and user identity.