Split billing across payers

When a child's tuition is shared between two households (most often separated or divorced parents), you can split a billing enrollment across payers. You enter each payer and the percentage of tuition they cover, and Clear Day shows the dollar split for the billing period. This lives on the enrollment's billing record alongside the plan and tuition.

This is an admin surface.

Read Enroll families in billing plans first: the split is allocated on top of an existing enrollment, and it uses that enrollment's tuition (the custom tuition if you set one, otherwise the plan's base tuition).

What the split does today

Important: this is allocation and record-keeping. Saving a split records who owes what percentage of the tuition and previews the dollar amount each payer is responsible for. It does not yet charge each payer separately on their own card: per-payer autopay subscriptions are a planned follow-up and aren't created when you save a split. Until that ships, collect each payer's share the way you already collect tuition; the split tells you the exact amount to collect from each person.

Because of that, a split and live autopay can't both be active on the same enrollment. If autopay is already running, Clear Day blocks the split and asks you to end the current autopay first.

Allocate the shares

Open the family's billing record and find the enrollment you want to split. The panel is headed Split billing.

1. For each payer, enter their Parent account ID and their Share %. The account ID is on the payer's profile, under Account ID. A new split starts seeded as a 50/50 split between two payers.
2. Add more payers with Add payer, or Remove a row you don't need. You can have between 1 and 6 payers, and each must be a different person.
3. Watch the Total readout. It turns green only when the shares add up to exactly 100%.
4. Click Save split. The button stays disabled until every row has an account ID and a positive percentage, the payers are distinct, and the total is exactly 100%.

Every payer you list must be a parent of this child's family. If an account ID isn't a parent of the family, the save is rejected and Clear Day names the ID that didn't match.

Read the dollar split

Under Dollar split (per billing period), Clear Day lists each payer with their percentage and their share of the tuition in dollars, plus the tuition total it's splitting from. The math is deterministic: each payer gets their percentage of the total, and the rounding remainder goes to the first payer so the cents always add up exactly to the tuition.

If you change the enrollment's custom tuition later, reopen the panel: the dollar split recalculates from the current tuition total.

Re-allocate or collapse to one payer

Saving again replaces the whole set of shares. To change percentages, edit the rows and save; to drop a payer, remove their row, rebalance the rest to 100%, and save. You can collapse all the way down to a single payer at 100% when only one household is paying.

Ended enrollments are read-only

When an enrollment has ended, no further invoices generate, so its split is read-only. You can still see who the payers were and the percentages on record, but the account ID and percentage fields are locked and there's no Add payer or Save split: there's nothing left to bill. Allocate or adjust the split while the enrollment is still active.