Split billing across payers

When a child's tuition is shared between two households, you can split it across payers. You list each payer and the percentage they cover, and Clear Day shows the dollar split for the billing period. This is for directors and school admins, on the web and in the app.

Read Put a family on a billing plan first. The split sits on top of an existing plan and uses its tuition: the custom amount if you set one, otherwise the plan's base tuition.

What a split does today

A split is a record of who owes what. It doesn't yet charge each payer separately on their own card. Until that's built, collect each person's share the way you already collect tuition. The split tells you the exact amount.

For that reason, a split and autopay can't both be on for the same plan. If autopay is running, Clear Day blocks the split and asks you to end autopay first.

Set up a split

On the web, open the family's Family billing page and find Split billing on the plan. In the app, open Family billing and tap Split billing on the plan.

1. For each payer, enter their Parent account ID and their Share %. The ID is on the parent's profile. A new split starts as two payers at 50 and 50.
2. Choose Add payer for more, up to six, or Remove a row. Each payer must be a different person, and each must be a parent of this child's family.
3. Watch the Total. It turns green only at exactly 100%.
4. Choose Save split. It stays off until every row is filled in, every payer is different and the total is 100%.

Clear Day may ask you to Verify it's you when you save.

Read the dollar split

Dollar split (per billing period) lists each payer with their percentage and their share in dollars. Any rounding cent goes to the first payer, so the amounts always add up to the tuition. If you change the plan's custom tuition later, reopen the panel and the dollars recalculate.

Change it later

Saving again replaces all the shares. To change percentages, edit the rows and save. To drop a payer, remove the row, rebalance the rest to 100% and save. You can go back down to one payer at 100%.

When a plan has ended, its split is read-only, because no more invoices are coming.