Sentral
“Can a school management SIS become the default embedded payments rail for Australian K-12 by riding Global Payments' Ezidebit infrastructure?”
Founded1998
HQSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Latest roundAcquired by Global Payments (2019)
IndustryVertical SaaS / Education
The story
Sentral was founded in 1998 as a cloud-based school management platform for Australian schools. After a strategic investment from Armitage Associates, it was acquired in 2019 by Global Payments Inc., aligning its SIS software with Global Payments' technology-enabled payments strategy. Sentral has since become the education-vertical software arm of Global Payments, distributing Ezidebit (also a Global Payments subsidiary) as its embedded payments engine for school fees and StudentPayPlus/QuickCliq for canteen and uniform payments.
Last 12 months
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Product timeline
1998
Sentral founded as a school management software provider in Australia.· founding
2019
Armitage Associates makes strategic investment; Ian Basser joins as chairman.· investment
2019
Acquired by Global Payments Inc. to expand its education vertical software portfolio.· acquisition
Acquisitions
The stack
2 layers disclosed in Sentral’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
Accounting
in the full report
Accounting gap: minor
2 more providers across 1 layer, with confidence-scored evidence and source URLs, are in the Embedded Finance Index report.