Pay For Your Kid's Lunch Online at Ferguson-Florissant Schools Next Year

Milk money as many know it could be a thing of the past in the Ferguson-Florissant School District.

Starting next school year, the district will offer an online prepayment plan for students’ meals.

The new system, PayPams, will allow parents to pay for meals online or by phone for the student’s account. From there, parents can track what their child buys to eat, how much money is on the account and even set up automatic payments.

Ferguson-Florissant food service specialist Priscilla Urban said a lot of the benefit of the new program goes to parents and students, but in the schools’ cafeterias lines will move quicker and make things smoother.

Urban, who is also a parent, said she used the system in another area school district, and it worked perfectly.

The user-friendly system will also have a $1.95 service fee for each time funds are uploaded to the account. PayPams will not replace the traditional method of paying by check or cash.

Urban said that the system will be heavily promoted through schools’ open houses before the start of the school year.