Systems and methods for providing spending information and budgeting recommendations to students
View Patent ↗Systems and methods are provided for electronically providing spending information and budgeting recommendations to a student of an educational institution. The systems and methods comprise capturing student interaction data, wherein the student interaction data has one or more data elements. At least one of the captured one or more data elements is associated with student financial account usage. The systems and methods provide spending data based on the student financial account usage, and provide one or more spending recommendations based at least in part on the associated student financial account usage. The spending recommendations may be based at least in part on a student role (e.g., first year student, second year student, a transfer student, a non-traditional student, or a foreign student, etc.), demographic, activities attended, or academic major.
1. A method for electronically providing financial information to a student of an educational institution, comprising:
receiving an indication of a purchase event for a student, the purchase event comprising a purchase of an item or a service by the student;
capturing, for the purchase event, student interaction data for the purchased item or the purchased service, wherein the student interaction data has one or more data elements comprising an indication of a location of the purchased item or the purchased service by the student, utilization of a merchant selling the purchased item or the purchased service to the student, or transaction for the purchased item or the purchased service by the student;
associating, by a computer, the purchase event with a category of student financial account usage based on the at least one of the captured one or more data elements of the purchase event comprising the indication of the location of the purchased item or the purchased service by the student, utilization of the merchant selling the purchased item or the purchased service to the student, or transaction for the purchased item or the purchased service by the student; and
providing spending data for the purchase event to the student, the spending data categorized according to a respective category of the student financial account usage.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing one or more spending recommendations based at least in part on the associated student financial account usage.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the capturing student interaction data comprises reading a swiped card configured with student financial account data, reading a card configured with student financial account data with a proximity reader, retrieving student financial account data stored on an electronic device via a wired or wireless communication interchange, or recording an electronic transaction from a computer event using student financial account data, or any combination thereof.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the category of the student financial account usage comprises one or more budget categories.
5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the providing the one or more spending recommendations is based at least in part on a student role, demographic, activities attended, or academic major, or any combination thereof.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the student role comprises a first year student, a second year student, a transfer student, a non-traditional student, or a foreign student, or any combination thereof.
7. The method of claim 2 , wherein providing spending recommendations is based at least in part on data collected for a predefined period, from survey results, or from estimates, or any combination thereof.
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing a total amount of money associated with a student account, an amount of money in the student account at a beginning of a particular time period, information related to where the money from the student account was spent, information related to on what goods the money from the student account was spent, or information related to on what services the money from the student account was spent, or any combination thereof.
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising applying factor analysis to the captured one or more student interaction data elements.
10. A system for electronically providing financial information to a student of an educational institution, comprising:
a programmable computer configured to:
receive an indication of a purchase event for a student, the purchase event comprising a purchase of an item or a service by the student;
capture, for the purchase event, student interaction data for the purchased item or the purchased service, wherein the student interaction data has one or more data elements comprising an indication of a location of the purchased item or the purchased service by the student, utilization of a merchant selling the purchased item or the purchased service to the student, or transaction for the purchased item or the purchased service by the student;
associate the purchase event with a category of student financial account usage based on the at least one of the captured one or more data elements of the purchase event comprising the indication of the location of the purchased item or the purchased service by the student, utilization of a merchant selling the purchased item or the purchased service to the student, or transaction for the purchased item or the purchased service by the student; and
provide spending data for the purchase event categorized according to a respective category of the student financial account usage.
11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the programmable computer is further configured to provide one or more spending recommendations based at least in part on the associated student financial account usage.
12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the capturing student interaction data comprises reading a swiped card configured with student financial account data, reading a card configured with student financial account data with a proximity reader, retrieving student financial account data stored on an electronic device via a wired or wireless communication interchange, or recording an electronic transaction from a computer event using student financial account data, or any combination thereof.
13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the category of the student financial account usage comprises one or more budget categories.
14. The system of claim 11 , wherein the programmable computer configured to provide the one or more spending recommendations is based at least in part on a student role, demographic, activities attended, or academic major, or any combination thereof.
15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the student role comprises a first year student, a second year student, a transfer student, a non-traditional student, or a foreign student, or any combination thereof.
16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the programmable computer configured to provide spending recommendations is based at least in part on data collected for a predefined period, from survey results, or from estimates, or any combination thereof.
17. The system of claim 10 , wherein the programmable computer is further configured to provide the total amount of money associated with the student account, the amount of money in the student account at a beginning of a particular time period, information related to where the money from the student account was spent, information related to on what goods the money from the student account was spent, or information related to on what services the money from the student account was spent, or any combination thereof.
18. The system of claim 10 , wherein the programmable computer is further configured to apply factor analysis to the captured one or more student interaction data elements.
19. Computer readable media containing programming instructions for spending information and budgeting recommendations to a student of an educational institution, that upon execution thereof, causes one or more processors to perform the steps of:
receiving an indication of a purchase event for a student, the purchase event comprising a purchase of an item or a service by the student;
capturing, for the purchase event, student interaction data for the purchased item or the purchased service, wherein the student interaction data has one or more data elements comprising an indication of a location of the purchased item or the purchased service by the student, utilization of a merchant selling the purchased item or the purchased service to the student, or transaction for the purchased item or the purchased service by the student;
associating the purchase event with a category of student financial account usage based on the at least one of the captured one or more data elements of the purchase event comprising the indication of the location of the purchased item or the purchased service by the student, utilization of a merchant selling the purchased item or the purchased service to the student, or transaction for the purchased item or the purchased service by the student; and
providing spending data for the purchase event categorized according to a respective category of the student financial account usage.
20. The computer readable media of claim 19 , wherein the steps further comprise providing one or more spending recommendations based at least in part on the associated student financial account usage.
21. The computer readable media of claim 19 , wherein the capturing student interaction data comprises reading a swiped card configured with student financial account data, reading a card configured with student financial account data with a proximity reader, retrieving student financial account data stored on an electronic device via a wired or wireless communication interchange, or recording an electronic transaction from a computer event using student financial account data, or any combination thereof.
22. The computer readable media of claim 19 , wherein the category of the student financial account usage comprises one or more budget categories.
23. The computer readable media of claim 20 , wherein the providing the one or more spending recommendations is based at least in part on a student role, demographic, activities attended, or academic major, or any combination thereof.
24. The computer readable media of claim 23 , wherein the student role comprises a first year student, a second year student, a transfer student, a non-traditional student, or a foreign student, or any combination thereof.
25. The computer readable media of claim 20 , wherein providing spending recommendations is based at least in part on data collected for a predefined period, from survey results, or from estimates, or any combination thereof.
26. The computer readable media of claim 19 , further comprising providing the total amount of money associated with the student account, the amount of money in the student account at a beginning of a particular time period, information related to where the money from the student account was spent, information related to on what goods the money from the student account was spent, or information related to on what services the money from the student account was spent, or any combination thereof.
27. The computer readable media of claim 19 , further comprising applying factor analysis to the captured one or more student interaction data elements.
28. A method for electronically providing spending information and budgeting recommendations to a student of an educational institution, comprising:
providing one or more first student spending recommendations for a student based at least in part on a student role;
receiving an indication of a purchase event for the student, the purchase event comprising a purchase of an item or a service by the student;
capturing, for the purchase event, student interaction data for the purchased item or the purchased service, wherein the student interaction data has one or more data elements comprising an indication of a location of the purchased item or the purchased service by the student, utilization of a merchant selling the purchased item or the purchased service to the student, or transaction for the purchased item or the purchased service by the student;
associating, by a computer, the purchase event with a category of the captured one or more data elements with student financial account usage based on the at least one of the captured one or more data elements of the purchase event comprising the indication of the location of the purchased item or the purchased service by the student, utilization of a merchant selling the purchased item or the purchased service to the student, or transaction for the purchased item or the purchased service by the student;
comparing the student financial account usage with the first student spending recommendations; and
providing one or more second student spending recommendations based at least in part on the student role, the compared student financial account usage with the first student spending recommendations, and the purchase event, the one or more second student spending recommendations categorized according to a respective category of the student financial account usage.