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How to Set up and Connect a New Stripe Account for your School

Tyler
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This article & video tutorial is intended to help Texas schools understand how to create a new Stripe account and connect it to their Odyssey school account for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) Program.

Basics


1. Select your business location, the type of business, and the business structure.

2. Click [Continue]. 

Business Information

  1. Fill out the required information about your school:
    1. Legal business name-School Name
    2. DBA, if needed
    3. Employer identifcation Number (EIN) of the person who manages the finances of the school and will be managing the Stripe account. 
    4. Business address- School Address
    5. Business phone number-School Phone Number
    6. Type of industry
    7. Business website- School Website
    8. Product description- Description of the school

  2. Click [Continue].

Business Manager 

  1. Fill out the required information for the business or financial administrator of the school as they will be managing the Stripe account:
    1. Legal name
    2. Email address
    3. Job title
    4. Date of Birth
    5. Home address
    6. Phone number
    7. Last 4 digits of Social Security Number
  2. Click the checkbox if you own 25% or more of the business. If not, leave the checkbox blank.
  3. Click [Continue].

Business Owners

  1. Provide information on the business owners. Alternatively, you can opt to continue without providing this information by clicking [Continue with no owners].
     

Bank Account

  1. Search for and connect to your bank institution.
  2. Once you select the bank institution, you'll get an option to automatically and quickly connect your account. Nonetheless, you can choose to do it manually.
  3. If you do the automatic option, you'll be prompted to select the bank account.
  4. Once done, click [Connect account]. 
  5. You can save your information with Link, but you can also opt to skip this step by clicking [Not now].
  6. After this step, you'll see a Success message. You can then click [Done].

Payout

  1. If you have multiple bank accounts set up, you can select the primary one you want to receive the tuition payments at.
    1. You can always link another bank account or enter bank account details manually. 
  2. Select your payout schedule. 
  3. Click [Continue]. 

Public Details

  1. Add public details to your account. These will be visible to Odyssey-not the parents.
    1. Statement descriptor
    2. Shortened description (optional)
    3. Customer support phone number
    4. Customer support address
  2. If you don't want the customer support phone number to be visible in receipts or invoices, click the button next to "Show phone number on receipts and invoices".
  3. Click [Continue]. 

Taxes

  1. Decide if you want Stripe to monitor when and where you need to collect tax.
  2. If you choose not to partake, click [Not right now].

Review and Submit

  1. Take a moment to review the information provided.
  2. If everything is correct, click [Agree and submit].

  3. Once that's done, you'll get an information submitted message, and you'll be transferred back to the Odyssey homepage.


    You'll be seeing a checkmark next to Bank Account Setup, and your status will be changed to [Approved] to mean that you've successfully set up your account and you're enrolled as a school in the program. 

     

    Please note, if there is an orange [Under Review] icon with a grey checkmark on the left of [School Confirmation] and [Bank Account Setup], your account registration is complete, and your application is being processed by the Odyssey Team. No further action is required from you. 
     

Video Tutorial: 
Duration: 2:45 Minutes


 

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