Online UTM student financial system

Abstract

The online student finance system is widely used in this knowledge century. It is one of the web-based systems that used in university for any financial transactions among staffs and students. Various types of university online financial systems are able to set the tuition fees, financial statement, invoices and make payment. The UTM online finance system is one of the financial portals that promise a new, convenient and safe finance environment. It attends to financing needs, along with providing a simple online system for Invoice, balance and payment. The current UTM online finance system has some drawbacks such as the system is not able to send any email notification to the student when a new invoice is issued, students are not able to check their financial statements, refund, payment, student financial status and invoices in details, the staff issues manual receipt of the payment that the student made and if the students have a problem they need to go manually to the finance department to solve their problem. Furthermore, the current system does not have online payment by visa card. The methodology used in this project is a waterfall model methodology which is a series of phases which are planning, requirements analysis, system design implementation and testing. According to the explained drawbacks for the current system, this project proposes new features solve the problems in current online UTM student finance system such as making online payments, sending an email to the student whenever a new invoice is issued. Furthermore, issuing electronic receipts for the payments that are made by the students, communicating with staff by sending messages, uploading student’s payment transfer fund or payment receipt and keeping and tracing the receipt . Future work can be done by redesigning the online UTM student financial system to be additionally incorporated with extra features such as sending phone SMS when the new invoice is issued.