Digital Payment Solutions for Universities
Managing payments across departments doesn’t have to be complicated. Whether you’re handling athletic per diems, NIL payments, clinical trial stipends, or research participant compensation, Rellevate gives your institution a single secure platform to send funds fast, stay compliant, and reduce administrative overhead. Say goodbye to cash management headaches and outdated check processes.
Key Features
Simplify Campus Payments
Rellevate’s platform offers university departments a secure, efficient way to distribute funds directly to students, athletes, employees, and research participants. From NIL payments to clinical trial compensation, our user-friendly solution gives recipients timely access to money for travel, meals, incidentals, and participation rewards.
Comprehensive Disbursement Management
- Per Diem: Specialized solutions for athletic programs and travel
- Research Payments: Compliant disbursements for clinical trials and study participants
- NIL Compensation: Fast, trackable payments for athlete name, image, and likeness deals
Flexible Access with Rellevate's Digital Solutions
Recipients can conveniently access and use funds for everyday needs, travel, and program-related expenses through Rellevate Digital Solutions. This makes it easier for student-athletes, students, staff, and research participants to pay for meals, transportation, lodging, and incidentals.
Reduced Administrative Workload
Eliminate the headaches of cash and manual payment management. Rellevate’s digital platform replaces physical cash handling, distribution, and reconciliation with automated, trackable payments, freeing your team to focus on higher-value tasks. Built-in approval workflows, reporting, and audit trails support institutional compliance standards while reducing the need for extra paperwork and ad hoc spreadsheets.
Rellevate Payments for Your Institution:
Athletics & NIL
Athletic departments can send travel allowances and NIL payments digitally, eliminating cash envelopes, reloadable cards, and slow check runs.
Clinical Trial & Research Participants
Research teams can pay participants quickly and securely, reducing friction, improving the experience, and helping support recruitment and retention.
Student & Faculty Stipends
Graduate assistantships, teaching and research stipends, and fellowships can all be managed and disbursed through a single digital platform.
Per Diem, Travel, & Expense Funding
Replace paper checks and manual reimbursements for travel, meals, and incidentals with fast, direct digital funding to your recipients.
Why Choose Rellevate
Rellevate provides universities with modern, digital payment tools designed to support diverse programs across athletics, research, and academic departments at scale.
Scalable Deployment
Support athletics, NIL, research incentives, stipends, and departmental programs, avoiding the need for multiple point solutions.
Administrative Efficiency
Significantly reduce the time staff spend initiating, tracking, and reconciling payments. This helps eliminate manual steps like chasing signatures, cutting checks, or maintaining offline spreadsheets.
Security and Compliance
Advanced encryption, transaction monitoring, and permissioned access help safeguard funds and sensitive data while supporting institutional compliance standards.
Transparency and Reporting
Every payment can be tracked from initiation through receipt, giving finance, compliance, and program owners clear visibility into activity.
Accessible for Recipients
Recipients can access funds through a tokenized digital card. This flexibility helps ensure students, athletes, staff, and research participants can quickly and conveniently use their money in-person or online.
Success Story
Streamlining University Disbursements at Felician University
University of Illinois System: Multi-Campus Research Payments
The University of Illinois System uses a centralized research participant payment platform that supports programs across Chicago, Springfield, and Urbana-Champaign. Administrators can request studies, manage approvals, issue payments, and generate reports through a single, secure interface with university single sign-on. By standardizing workflows and branding across campuses, the platform reduces administrative friction while supporting a gradual transition away from cash-based payments.
Tarleton State University: Streamlined Research Disbursements
Tarleton State University, part of The Texas A&M University System, began with research participant payments and has since expanded to six programs powered by Rellevate’s digital payment platform. Today, Tarleton uses Rellevate to deliver NIL payments to all student-athletes on Rellevate cards, support per diem and stipend payments for the Rodeo Team and Band, provide Upward Bound stipends to eligible high school students, issue employee travel and expense cards, and continue its original research incentive program—all on a single, controlled platform.