Meet the woman behind Way2Pay

WITH just over three weeks to go before schools re-open, a Dublin mum of three has created an innovative fee collection system for schools — allowing parents to easily pay for an activity or event using text message, email or a dashboard if they don’t have a smartphone.

Mother to three primary school children — Ryan, 10, Freya, 8, and Jody, 5 — Denise O’Grady knows full well what it’s like for parents to be caught at the school gate without cash when your child is urgently looking for money for the school trip.

“You’ve just about managed to get them out the door — they’re dressed, have had breakfast, lunches are made, hair combed and they’re reasonably well presented, and then one of them is saying ‘I can’t go on the bus for the trip because you’ve forgotten the money’.”