Set up a new term's fees

import { Steps, Aside } from ‘@astrojs/starlight/components’;

For Directors and bursars. Every term starts the same way: create the term, then set its fee structure.

1. Create the term (Director). Open Academic → Periods and add the term with a start and end date. Dates decide which term is current, protect mid-term joiners from old-term billing, and power term-to-term report comparisons.
2. Set the fee structure. Open Finance → Fee structure, pick the new term — then add items one by one (tuition, lunch, transport…) with amount and scope, or Copy from previous to pull every item forward and adjust amounts.
3. Check the books. Open Finance → Balances and confirm the new term’s items appear as billed for the right students.

Closed terms lock: the fee structure cannot change, but you can still record payments against a closed term when collecting arrears. Copying only works into a term that is not closed. Editing an amount never rewrites payments already recorded.

See also

• Fee structure
• Key concepts
• Record a fee payment